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

[speckledhen]

It's getting better as they get older. The boys show theirs so much sooner than the girls. But, golly, Atlas produces some fine progeny. Too bad they all potentially carry the dwarf gene, a real shame.

 

[LukeyLux]

my friend Faith and I learned something interesting. If you cross a male Silver Polish with a female RIR, you get this little monstrosity that pops out large creme colored eggs daily! And yes this lil girl is now a member of my layer flock. Her name is A.J.

 

[speckledhen]

my friend Faith and I learned something interesting. If you cross a male Silver Polish with a female RIR, you get this little monstrosity that pops out large creme colored eggs daily! And yes this lil girl is now a member of my layer flock. Her name is A.J.

Aw, what a cute little poufy head!

 

[speckledhen]

We had some drama last night, actually twice. Good grief, no one can sleep around here!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...th-videos-dec-31.935794/page-91#post-19661338

 

[speckledhen]

I originally posted the wrong link above, wrong drama, LOL.

 

[getaclue]

A.J. is a cutie pie. Love the poufy head too. I like the name A.J. better for her than monstrosity, but Monstrosity would be a great rooster name.

 

[speckledhen]

I had a rooster named C.J. Stood for "Cracker Jack Surprise", which he was.

 

[getaclue]

Cats can be very territorial. I've had several that would not tolerate other cats on my property. Yes, they're noisy.

 

[speckledhen]

Cats can be very territorial. I've had several that would not tolerate other cats on my property. Yes, they're noisy.

Finn allows a few cats that he must know well to run around here, but this one may have been recently dumped. He reacted violently to it, that's all I know.

Mark Kephart, the man who owns our bottom lot now is a contractor by trade (in addition to being a farmer). He is coming this week to give us his professional opinion if a handicapped ramp is even feasible here or if a lift is the better choice. Using the rise/run formula dictated by the ADA, it seems we'd need over 1100 feet of decking! ACK! But, maybe we're wrong. If not, a lift makes much more sense, MUCH more! And maybe Mark could help with that, too. He's a good guy, also military.

I'm quilting a twin quilt today. The spring quilt is next, but I wanted to "limber up" on this one first. It's fatiguing on the shoulders/neck/arms/back so I have to take frequent breaks. I did the center by hand, but I may go back and add some hand quilting to that because the edges are turning out more densely quilted than the center is, which is par for the course with hand quilting vs machine quilting, at least for me. I'm no expert at machine quilting yet, but I'm getting much, much better with it and feel more confident.

This will be a great summer quilt because it has 100% cotton batting, which breathes better, but it also lays very flat because of the fiber and the quilting flattens it even more. It will be very flat, not a puffy quilt. The gold reminds me of sunshine anyway.

 

[1muttsfan]

Do you use a quilting foot? I have not tried one out yet, maybe when I have more time (just like everything else around here )