The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[1muttsfan]

Thanks GJ, I will watch for that.

 

[1muttsfan]

Took a picture of them yesterday - you can see the green bottoms on them

 

[crazyhen]

Yep, looks just like mine before they began to get ripe. The green part on the bottom turns an orange red when ripe. I think they are pretty.

 

[speckledhen]

Little son of Atlas and Ida with broody mama, Aimee. He's 10 days old today. Even though I'll most likely have to sell this one, I may name him anyway. It's rarely my practice to name birds I'm sure will be leaving here, but I use their names in training and I don't know how long he'll be with us before Aimee is sick of being tied down.







And what we encountered when we were playing the "rock-turning-over" game looking for crickets. Aimee must have walked on top of the poor thing five or six times before she finally saw it. The little cockerel noticed it way before Aimee did. Good baby rooster.

 

[Peanutsmomma]

Be still my rooster lovin' heart.

 

[speckledhen]

Gardens full of Rio Grande tomatoes not red yet. Falling over, tangled, good grief. Salsa galore! The big tomatoes are turning and I can use those for spaghetti sauce or just stewed tomatoes, but I don't want sweet tomatoes for the salsa.






Contender beans are up! And we have a few melons for the first time ever. Only one plant grew from the old seed, though.






And one giant sunflower that was masquerading as corn, or thought it was. The deer have chomped on it from over the fence, but they can't reach most of it! I guess it was dropped by some bird or came from the scratch mix since I did not plant sunflowers in this garden.

 

[speckledhen]

And Atlas and his crew, including Lizzie. Gloria Jean, the splash Rock, is still with us, but she is still bloated, sits on a nest almost daily, no egg. Not sure how long she'll go on this way, but for now, she is still energetic.










Druscilla below, eating a wild plum.

 

[1muttsfan]

that's so funny to see Lizzy giving Atlas the stink eye

 

[speckledhen]

Mark showed up late today, removed some stumps that refused to burn ( he was supposed to bring a blower to force air into the pit, but never did) and put them on the lower lot to burn later when he clears that one. He leveled the huge pile out, removed some cut trees and placed them on our main property for us to cut into firewood then left. No idea when he'll be back, what he'll do prior to seeding, if he'll use another piece of equipment to make the ground more prepped for seed. There are lots of lying branches without limbs, just pieces that are just broken off, perfect kindling, but I suspect he'll just seed over those and eventually, they'll rot further and become part of the soil. Not sure you can tell much but here is part of the future pasture after his few minutes of work today. The first photo shows what I call the meadow, the most clear of all the 1.4 acre lot.

 

[drumstick diva]

Did they eat they toad