Texas

[Jungleexplorer]

Weighed my JS roo today. He is 5 1/2 months old and weighs, 8 pounds!


Here is a smarphone pic of him on the scale. He is so huge!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Found a Spiny Lizard in my bathroom sink this weekend.

 

[TexasLisa]

Something brilliant just happened.

Well, I told you all that I'd bought some better feed for the flock and I was just expecting some better egg production. Well, we haven't had any eggs, but that might be because you have to wait a week or so to see how it's working. So there's that.

But something else has been changing, too. I've always had two chickens, Cutie and Sir Cutie (I haven't actually come up with a name for him yet) who love to hop up on my shoulders or my head. They also like to sit in my lap and sleep while I pet them. That's been cool. But all of my other roosters and most of our hens don't like being near--or caught-- by me unless I have food.

Suddenly, after only three days of feeding them the new mix, they are coming up to me on their own accord. My kinda spazzy frizzle chicks are hopping up on my lap for a nap and some petting. One of my flighty game hens tried hopping on my lap. A little cockerel--that I haven't held since he was just a chick--jumped up on my shoulder and nuzzled my hair.

And finally, today took the cake. A big black Australorp roosters that normally hates to be touched at all hopped up on my arm. He sat there and let me pet him on his right side! (He's blind on his left eye, so if you touch him on the left he doesn't do anything except jump away. Normally, if you try to pet him on the right, he'll run away and screech.)

What a treat! I pet him and just enjoyed him being near me because I don't know if it will happen again. I'm just so happy to have them coming up to me. I'm pretty sure it's the feed because there haven't been any other changes lately. The feed seems to be the only catalyst. Eeek! I'm so happy!

Don't you love interacting with your flock? I love it when my 4 Musketeers jump up on my back and head. They are definitely a stress-reducer!!

Weighed my JS roo today. He is 5 1/2 months old and weighs, 8 pounds!


Here is a smarphone pic of him on the scale. He is so huge!

Found a Spiny Lizard in my bathroom sink this weekend.

Jungleexplorer, absolutely beautiful pictures!!

Lisa

 

[txnative]

Yes they do and it makes me crazy. Everything is video these days, and a lot of high quality video too and that just sucks up the bandwidth like crazy. Most of my friends and family can't understand why I do not play around on youtube and other sites since they don't have bandwidth limits.

I have family that won't visit me because I won't let them play their online games and watch youtube on my computer. Oh well, it's their loss!

 

[Italia]

I just want to point out that BYC isn't selecting those ads. BYC has an area where a 3rd party advertiser (seems to be AdChoices) throws up content. BYC loads the main page and that section is filled in totally outside of BYC's immediate control.

Now AdChoices may have ratings for ads and BYC may/may not specify which content ratings can be displayed at their site but BYC hosts the 3rd party ads to get revenue to keep the site up. Hopefully they'll get AdChoices to remove the offensive ads (I'm not seeing them today myself). The ads are often based on the cookies in your browsing history. Today I'm actually seeing some for network domain registrars because that's what I was working on yesterday. Go search for something unique like "Nissan Leaf" on Google and click a couple of those pages. Then in the next day or two many of the ads you encounter will be advertising the Nissan Leaf! So be honest, who was looking on the web for ...

That makes sense. I was wondering if it was a package deal kinda thing. I do not see it today either so maybe they saw this and took care of it. I personally do not look at online smutt, so it was not my cookies. If that were the case it would be showing chickens and tropical plant growers

When I got married three years ago was the first time I observed the spying. On all my yahoo adds everything was about wedding stuff. After I got married it changed to baby clothing adds. I guess the spys and spiders don't always get you right!

 

[Italia]

I hope so. I'm sick and tired of standing around holding a hose for them. I'm hoping next year I can get away with watering deeply every two weeks or less. My 2 acre property is mostly covered in big live oak and I find that very, very boring. No one in my neighborhood--all acreages out in the Hill Country--has anything other than live oak, cedar and occasionally Texas oak and crape myrtle. No color anywhere. I've tried to plant things that will have spring and fall color but are also natives--flame sumac, red buds, Mexican buckeye, bigtooth maple, Mexican plum, Texas ash, cedar elm. Each one of those 100 or so trees and shrubs also has a deer fence around them, too, except for the mountain laurels and oleander. It was a major undertaking to put them in last winter and spring.

I'm going to again plant wild flowers inside the deer fences and use them as a guide for watering. When do I plant wild flowers? Texas bluebonnets? I planted some bluebonnets from seed last year but they were a failure. I think I planted them too late.

http://www.wildseedfarms.com
These guys have some wonderful packages and have had very good germination rates that have reseeded freely. Buy now and sow as soon as you get them.
Be sure to splurge on the Laura Bush petunias and the scarlett flax...... sooooo pretty and hardy and the poppies are nice too. Heck they are all cool. I thought my plant addiction was a problem and now I have chickens, the insanity with me is never ending it seems.

Serious though, the package deals they have are pricey but will give you the color you are looking for years of water hose free enjoyment almost all year round.

 

[LBejaran]

Don't you love interacting with your flock? I love it when my 4 Musketeers jump up on my back and head. They are definitely a stress-reducer!!

It's great that they are finally being so calm! Of course, come butchering time things might get a bit difficult if they don't starting being little buggers again, haha! In the meantime, I'll definitely enjoy being used as a perch for them to rest on, hehe!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Don't you wish you were eating lunch at our house? My wife makes a supreme Caldo de Hueco to Puerco! (Pork bone soup).

 

[LBejaran]

Don't you wish you were eating lunch at our house? My wife makes a supreme Caldo de Hueco to Puerco! (Pork bone soup).

Oh my....I think I'm going to cry.

It looks delicious! I bet you'll be thanking her for hours, hehe! I need to find someone to make me some caldo. I've been getting a cold and, unfortunately, no one wants to make soup. Yet whenever anyone else is sick (which is all the time because my family seems to prefer office and school buildings to the great outdoors), I make plenty of caldo or fideo. Freeloading punks. They better remember who nurses them back to health soon or they'll be going through the winter sniffles all alone. Hmph.

 

[TexasLisa]

Okay don't faint, but I have not heard of this soup. It looks delicious. I don't suppose you would give out the recipe?

Lisa