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

[speckledhen]

And it extremely ruffled my feathers how he was addressing Cynthia. A bit of respect towards people, especially those your senior, and senior members, can go a long way in life. He thought she needed to earn her respect. I couldn't believe it, but he has been disrespectful to others, so it wasn't totally surprising.

Such a simple thing, respect, but so hard to find especially on line.

I agree, Lisa. You respect someone as a person until and unless they lose your respect, not the other way around.

Some game cam pics, this time on the driveway, right behind our SUVs. This is right next to the house. I'll spare you the close-up pics of the doe who is always there, but I think I see a fox in one, though it's blurring because he's running about 1:35 a.m.
....and Hector found the other game camera. That boy, good grief.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Hector is such a show boat. He should of been named Fabio. He sure loves the cameras. Of course he's gorgeous.

I would not want to see a Fox. Finn looks huge.

 

[getaclue]

You'll have to keep an eye out in case it's a fox, and returns. Hopefully, it was just passing through.

Hector does seem to know where the cameras are, and struts his stuff. He has reason to. He's a very handsome fellow.

 

[seminolewind]

I gotta love this place. Green hills everywhere. Grass grows like a stinkweed! My horse really tore up her paddock during the mud season and still the grass came back. So I dragged the whole thing with my utv mule breaking up all the manure into "garden quality" and threw down 5 lbs of blue grass mix (fescue) and clover. Yippee! Now it rained on and off for 3 days. Now i'm also able to put my horse on a strip 25ft x 110ft of overgrown pasture grass. So I can swap her back and forth . They say you can't keep a horse on an acre. But I can keep her happy and she gets hay on the side.

Today was chicken day. I moved the temp fence and hubs mowed their whole area nice. I had started the pen and I think starting a project is the hardest thing to do. The pen will be 16 x 25 ish. The roof will be cattle fence. These fence are 5 x 16 of solid impermeable penfence/ roof. I am doing everything I can to have things straight and level. (My daughter who lives in a tight deed restricted neighborhood) keeps saying "mom don't make it look ghetto!" My daughter the chicken snob!

I'm starting to feel like things are coming along!

 

[seminolewind]

You'll have to keep an eye out in case it's a fox, and returns. Hopefully, it was just passing through.

Hector does seem to know where the cameras are, and struts his stuff. He has reason to. He's a very handsome fellow.

Some chickens only give you but pictures, and others just love striking a pose!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I gotta love this place. Green hills everywhere. Grass grows like a stinkweed! My horse really tore up her paddock during the mud season and still the grass came back. So I dragged the whole thing with my utv mule breaking up all the manure into "garden quality" and threw down 5 lbs of blue grass mix (fescue) and clover. Yippee! Now it rained on and off for 3 days. Now i'm also able to put my horse on a strip 25ft x 110ft of overgrown pasture grass. So I can swap her back and forth . They say you can't keep a horse on an acre. But I can keep her happy and she gets hay on the side.

Today was chicken day. I moved the temp fence and hubs mowed their whole area nice. I had started the pen and I think starting a project is the hardest thing to do. The pen will be 16 x 25 ish. The roof will be cattle fence. These fence are 5 x 16 of solid impermeable penfence/ roof. I am doing everything I can to have things straight and level. (My daughter who lives in a tight deed restricted neighborhood) keeps saying "mom don't make it look ghetto!" My daughter the chicken snob!

I'm starting to feel like things are coming along!

It was a nice day here. We are starting to get some stuff done too. It has been a slow warm up here, but stuff is starting to grow and dry out finally.

 

[seminolewind]

Oldhenlikesdogs, I think k someone living in Wisconsin is so interesting! I would not know how to deal with the cold. I did have a rude awakening moving from Florida to Indiana. That to me was quite interesting- on how to keep the horse and chickens warm. Okay, I cheated. The chickens had a heater. They've gone from pens-no coop to all in the coop at night!

I must be really naive thinking the rats will never find me. But being in the middle of farm land, I dug out my bait stations and what do you know......bait is now on the menu!

 

[speckledhen]

Hector is such a show boat. He should of been named Fabio. He sure loves the cameras. Of course he's gorgeous.

I would not want to see a Fox. Finn looks huge.

I hear their alarm barks when the coyotes are around so I know they're here and I've caught one on the pasture cam quite a while back, but not on the one next to the house. That is not good at all.

Finn is a big guy now. Someone must be feeding him besides us. He barely gets any food here and it's good quality stuff, the kind where meat is the main ingredient, not corn (who thinks cats' normal diet is corn?), but he's gaining weight, more than him just eating a mouse here and there. I think he is going across the road to Ann Bryan's house and I know she'll buy the cheapest food possible for her wild cat and leave it outside. I'm sure Finn is eating some of her cat's food. Now, Finn has to stay inside from around 9 p.m. to as close to 5 a.m. as Tom can make him. If he yowls too much, he'll get tossed outside. That helps him avoid most of the night drama, but nothing is a sure thing. He'd better be careful out there.

 

[speckledhen]

Karen, adjusting to a snowy midwest state from Florida can be interesting, I'm sure. I lived in Ohio for almost 12 years and I'm not going back to that weather.

 

[getaclue]

My parents moved from Florida to W. Paducah, KY. when my dad semi-retired. I lived down here in Florida, but spent a good deal of time up there. Of course it got cold there in the winter, and my girls experienced their first snow up there.

Dh is from Indiana. We had been together a couple years, and we flew to Indiana to visit his family, then Dh was coming home, and I was going to KY to visit my family, before returning to Florida. It was cold, miserable, and nasty in Indiana. I didn't like the way the cold felt there. When I got to KY, I noticed a difference. It was just as cold, but it didn't seem to feel as nasty out, as it did in Indiana. We went back the following year, first going to the tractor pulls in KY, then I stayed with my family, while Dh went on up to Indiana. I joined him in Indiana a week later. Again, temperatures were similar in both places. It snowed in both places, but the cold in Indiana does not feel the same as the cold in KY. I don't like the way the cold feels in Indiana. That may sound crazy, but I do notice a difference. I guess it's like comparing 95 degrees in Arizona, and 95 degrees in Florida. It's the same temperature, but the heat feels different.