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

Good morning, Atlas friends. It's a foggy one to start, sun's trying to break through, going to be another hot one, sigh. Amazing how we are surrounded by higher mountains, but fog can hide a giant completely. This has been a very hot summer, but I fear it will be a very cold, wet winter. We have started our wood supply. We buy wood to get started but we do cut and gather wood from the property. It's just that it's harder and harder for Tom to put away all our wood with his back, knee and other issues.
I'll second that!! It's where my name on here came from, before we started calling our farm Sycamore Springs. I should probably change it. It seemed like every morning was foggy, our mountain views seemingly gone completely. This fall has been DRY. We need rain desperately. It has been weeks now.

Our stack of wood from pasture clearing is calling our name, too. It needs to be split and stacked. We heat with wood alone in the winter, and go through about 6 +/- cords depending on the severity of the winter. We've got two young boys willing to help (and earn a dollar or two) stack the wood, it's just a matter of finding the cooler temps to do so. Cooler temps both for the comfort of working and so that the threat of copperheads and timber rattlers is decreased. Wish I could lend you a couple little workers!! When my Sister and family visited, my oldest (8) sat down next to my BIL, sighed, and said "Yep. I do a lot of work around here for very little money." Hah!! That's one for the quote book. He wasn't complaining, just commenting that he does a lot of work here (with pride) and gets a little money. Hearing that the way it was said, though, it was taken the other way around, and will be an ongoing joke from now on.
 
"Yep. I do a lot of work around here for very little money."


Well, join the club, little man, LOL! I resemble that remark!



Still, no one interested in buying sweet, handsome Apollo. He's really looking studly now, getting braver and braver with the older hens. He likes his cousin, Wendy, who is Xander's hen. Wendy and Atlas's dad is Apollo's grandfather.
 
That could be the Farmer's Motto
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"Yep. I do a lot of work around here for very little money."


Well, join the club, little man, LOL! I resemble that remark!



Still, no one interested in buying sweet, handsome Apollo. He's really looking studly now, getting braver and braver with the older hens. He likes his cousin, Wendy, who is Xander's hen. Wendy and Atlas's dad is Apollo's grandfather.


He is a beauty.
 
"Yep. I do a lot of work around here for very little money."

He's a very observant, intelligent, young man, but the way he said it is downright funny. A classic.
 
speckled, those pictures are so pretty, and peaceful.

Misty, thank you!
Thank you. More below!

He is a beauty.
Thanks. I got pics of both Hector and Apollo this morning. Poor Apollo was beat up a tad by little Xander this a.m. He grabbed Wendy, had her down, when Xander literally took flight across the pen, knocked him off and chased him around for awhile. Funny watching little bantam Cochin bedroom-slipper-footed Xander chase big Apollo. After Xander quit, Hector took over.




below is Zara, who I do think has sharper barring than Athena.












And Athena says no way to Hector.





The Tiny Terrorist almost bit the dust this morning. When DH leaned over to scrape the roost, she began attacking, pecking close to his eye. Since his usual bodyguards, Panda and Becca, were busy with their morning scratch, they didn't see it. He whacked her with the plastic pooper scooper, which made her fall off the roost (not very high). Later when I went to give her scratch in her little metal feeder that is on the wall a for her. When I went in to put her on her bar to eat, she acted like she couldn't see-she already has terrible eyesight, which is why the special arrangements for her. She was just out of it. She acted like she'd lost the rest of her sight or had a stroke. DH was feeling guilty, yet again, but I said to give her a little while in the wall cage, that she was probably just a bit dazed. Yep, she came around and began eating out of a bowl and tried to peck DH's hand. Yeah, back to normal. Crazy hen. Amazing Tiny made it to 6 years old, really.
 
Hector just looks like he is all put together with spare parts right now. Love Zara's barring. And isn't Athena a lovely girl!

Spare parts, bwahahahaha!
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That's one way to put it.

Athena is nice and she's slightly larger than Zara but as they mature more, I see that Zara has the better barring and tail angle on her, at least at this point. You ought to see Zara put her head down and zoom right into the middle of the Brahma group to watch them scatter. It's her favorite thing in the world. Actually, when I put Hector back inside, Zara went with them so Hector has a 4th girl in his group at the moment and poor Apollo has only Athena. I'll probably put her back with Apollo later.

A guy who already took three of Apollo's older brothers says he's interested in Apollo, but I have seen zero evidence that he's gotten hens for them, plus I saw him answer someone's ad for an EE rooster about a week ago (FB yard sale and another FB chicken swap group). I'm leery of letting him take Apollo to a situation that may not be in his best interest so going to put him off. I want Apollo to have his own girls, not be thrown in with other males he doesn't know to be beaten up.
 

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