Texas

[jockeyeba]

 

[lovingmyhens]

Happy new year Texas!!

 

[henless]

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

 

[showbarnmom]

Merry Christmas too meeeeee

 

[ronniewayne]

wow you must have been really good

 

[showbarnmom]

Yup! Husband only bought it so I would quit whining at him lol

 

[TexasLisa]

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

I wish everyone a prosperous productive year!!

Lisa

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Good morning! Boy is it windy today!!!

I started my new year off with a 'bang'. I decided to make apple chips, using my new mandolin that my son gave me. I should have used the guard earlier.... Ceramic blades are really, really sharp!

I put New Skin on it which made it hurt like the blazes and bleed more. I cleaned that off and put 3M skin crack repair on it. It didn't hurt but it did bleed more. It's stopped now I think.

Here are the apple chips ready for the oven. They smell good.


I think my idea to use a chain saw to cut my ice damaged ligustrums down today probably isn't a good idea.

 

[Ms Jellybean]

As we near the end of the Year of the Snake (and we enter the year 2014), I have been gifted with a lucky little fellow.



This lucky little guy survived three days in an aquarium with two hungry snakes. He's malnourished (having only eaten small seeds from some cockatiel food) but he's unharmed and he's got a whole lot of spunk. I hope he is a good representation of the year 2014.

I wish you all a very happy New Year!

Poor little guy. Glad you were able to rescue him. He looks so relieved to be safe. I rescued a kitten over the summer and he had that same look to him when he realized he was safe inside the house. Fell asleep eating just like that. Hope he does well.

 

[hensfortherapy]

A few things that can interfere with starting to lay/decrease laying in birds that already lay (not an all-inclusive list):

Stress (which can be caused by all kinds of things)
Bugs/germs - lice, mites, worms, other illnesses
Decreased daylight during the winter
Crazy weather patterns stressing birds
Too much fat in the abdomen

I find that there are times that some of my birds lay start laying once they are with a male and get mated.  For some a few have needed that sex stimulus to get going.  Other things that people swear can get laying going is feeding peppers, including cayenne pepper in food, and feeding sprouted oats.

How do you sprout oats?