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

[robhuncor]

Mary, your Dad was an animal lover too!

 

[speckledhen]

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Love the Avatar, you look like a film star! Mine is my Dad, the only pic I happened to have handy for yesterday.

Gee whiz, Mary, you need glasses (or new ones)!
Nice pic of your Dad.

 

[1muttsfan]

Animals loved my dad at first sight. They would just gaze in awe, waiting to do his bidding. That is Sherry, their spaniel.

 

[speckledhen]

Animals loved my dad at first sight. They would just gaze in awe, waiting to do his bidding. That is Sherry, their spaniel.

Sounds like Tom. Animals love him, which makes him a great guy automatically. They know!

 

[speckledhen]

Guess what I got from the Old Hens #2 pen first thing this a.m.? FOUR eggs! Maretta and three brown layers gave us eggs today already. By process of elimination, that would be Wendy, Atlas's same age sister, plus Athena, his almost 3 year old daughter and of all the hens in there, Alice, who will be 9 years old in the spring. Zara, Athena's sister, is still recovering from her molt, very thin, shrunken comb so it could not be hers and it definitely did not belong to Georgie, Neela or June (she's a "greenie"). So, wow, just wow. They're putting the younger crowds to shame at this point.

 

[kitkat5505]

So glad your son was able to get insurance through work, what a relief for him.

Wow, your older girls are showing off! Of my 10 layers I’m now getting just 1 egg every other day. Dang molts and cold weather.

 

[speckledhen]

So glad your son was able to get insurance through work, what a relief for him.

Wow, your older girls are showing off! Of my 10 layers I’m now getting just 1 egg every other day. Dang molts and cold weather.

Oh, Kara, these molts were terrible, on both young and old alike. Actually, the very old did better than the middle ones or the younger ones, but still, when they are skeletal, that's insane. A molt is a natural process and shouldn't almost kill a fairly young hen. Gee whiz.

 

[1muttsfan]

Our high today was 23 degrees. With the sharp North wind blowing snow down the road it looked just like January. Poor molting hens must be just about popsicles.

 

[speckledhen]

Our high today was 23 degrees. With the sharp North wind blowing snow down the road it looked just like January. Poor molting hens must be just about popsicles.

I know, poor things. Most of my pens have a heat spot since most of my birds are old and/or arthritic, but not the Brahmas. And Cora is a tiny shadow of her former self, though her feathers are finally coming in nicely.

Oh, my son's almost-ex wife's fantasy world is crashing. Now, if she can just stay away two more weeks until the divorce is final. He somehow got into her phone and sent me the conversation.
Gist of it is that she’s PO'd that he hasn’t delivered on the home for her nor some other stuff she was expecting. She told him she doesn’t like it there anymore and she’s over all of it. She only has $300 to her name. He just sent her 1000 last week, her share from the sale of her SUV (that he shouldn't have sent). She’s already tired of being cramped in his parents' duplex.... and it goes on and on with some personal stuff she's very unhappy about. Yeah, we all called it, didn't we?

 

[getaclue]

He's spending way too much of his time being concerned about what's going on with her. He needs to stop. I hope things go better for her, at least for now, until the divorce is final, and he has some time to heal, and get over her.