Texas

[jockeyeba]

Howdy! I'm in San Antonio... I have two Brabanters, one Blue Cochin and one Partridge Cochin... all 26 week old pullets. Anxiously awaiting eggs!

from Selma

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: where did you get that? how cute

 

[jockeyeba]

Howdy! I'm in San Antonio... I have two Brabanters, one Blue Cochin and one Partridge Cochin... all 26 week old pullets. Anxiously awaiting eggs!

from Selma

where did you get that? how cute

I "borrowed" it from one of the 1st threads I was subscribed to before I even knew about the Texas thread

 

[tesaba]

Howdy! I'm in San Antonio... I have two Brabanters, one Blue Cochin and one Partridge Cochin... all 26 week old pullets. Anxiously awaiting eggs!

Welcome!!!!!!!!! Im patiently awaiting the to pick up my babies that will make me patiently await eggs

 

[LBejaran]

Hello, everyone! I've been doing preparations all day, washing laundry and cleaning the coops. I need to have everything ready for tomorrow afternoon because I'm going to Fredericksburg for a wine-tasting!

I'm kind of worried, since I've never actually drank wine without cooking it into a meal, but it's sure to be fun! Getting to spend time with the ladies of my family will be really great.

 

[hungnguyen]

I am not sure how we can judge a wine taste contest or a chili cook off or a bbq contest. After a few sips for wine ... i am not sure if I can remember anything. For cook off, after a few dishes, a few bites, they all taste about the same to me. Can't tell the difference or can't remember how sample 1 or 2 tasted like. Maybe I can be best judging Miss America since it is easy to look at them altogerther side by side.

Good luck with your wine tasting event.

 

[LBejaran]

I am not sure how we can judge a wine taste contest or a chili cook off or a bbq contest. After a few sips for wine ... i am not sure if I can remember anything. For cook off, after a few dishes, a few bites, they all taste about the same to me. Can't tell the difference or can't remember how sample 1 or 2 tasted like. Maybe I can be best judging Miss America since it is easy to look at them altogerther side by side.

Good luck with your wine tasting event.

It's just for fun, but there is a way that people are supposed to taste wine. You are supposed to smell and taste it, but you don't drink it. Instead, you spit it out. It prevents losing your inhibitions while still enjoying multiple wines.

 

[Teri Metcalf]

Howdy! I'm in San Antonio... I have two Brabanters, one Blue Cochin and one Partridge Cochin... all 26 week old pullets. Anxiously awaiting eggs!

Welcome from College Station! We share a motley assortment of 14 free-range hens and one rooster with our neighbors. Yesterday I collected 5 eggs in our henhouse, and today only one. You never know.

 

[Teri Metcalf]

Yes! Winter eggs from my Doms, Cubas, Games, EEs, RRs SLWs and JGs. Just waiting for my Marans.

Beautiful assortment of eggs!

 

[Teri Metcalf]

Interesting drama in our backyard this morning. From inside the house I heard a loud thwack against our window. When I went to check I saw a beautiful coopers hawk flying away, and a dead mourning dove on the patio. My husband came in a few minutes later and I told him that I thought the dove had crashed into the window in trying to escape the hawk. He said, that the hawk won't be back. And he went out and picked up the dove, and carried it over to the fence and dropped it into the brush on the other side. About 10 minutes later, the hawk was sitting on the back of a chair on our deck, looking around for the dove. Then he went up to low branch on our old cedar tree to get a better view of the yard, clearly trying to locate the dead dove. Meanwhile, the chickens hiding all under cover in the shrubs.

After another 10 or 15 minutes of watching the hawk, I persuaded Bob to go back out and retrieve the dove. He laid it on the bench of our deck, and then went off to run some errands. When I looked again about a half hour later the dove was gone. And soon the chickens were out and about on their daily foraging. I had no idea that a hawk was so smart and so focused to continue looking for a dead animal for easily 30 minutes after the chase.