The Front Porch Swing

Yesterday was 97 and I was sweating rivers. During the night the wind began to blow which means dust storms so youcant opsn windows. Its 82 today with breezes and feels much better but still humid. In Colorado we had everything, im so glad I dont have that anymore. Im taller than the palms so unless it hits my car im good. Last year during the heavy spring rains they got a freak storm. My son went out to pray at the mosque across the street. A man from Syria was coming down the narrow street we live on and palms fell blocking his way. He started to back up and a palm fell hitting the front of his car. My son ran to help him get the frightened kids from the car and into the mosque. They waited out the storm and men helped remove the tree from his car. I was laughing telling the kids Mother Nature was making us feel at home here. Im about 10 minutes walking to the sea and tomorrow my daughter turns 21. Going to try to go down to the sea and spend some time, last year we got a sandstorm. She was like Mom why is it I can never have birthdays outside? Rain, snow, tornadoes, now sand! Keep safe all.
 
hello from MI. still cold and rainy here. trying desperately to get our coop finished and the chicks (12) and ducks (2) out of our basement. mother nature is not being nice to us.
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I'll take some hot chocolate please with those little marshmallows.
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Glad to have you on the porch. Not cold in NW La. but still very rainy. Got to go out and feed the chickies. They don't like the rain either. Can't keep the coop dry. I do have plans to make a swale around the coop because it's sitting on a slight slope and it just keeps coming.
Ok, ladies and gents, I got my incubator in yesterday. Now to practice.
I found a neat article on vent prolapse that y'll might be interested in:

http://www.fresh-eggs-daily.com/201...ed:+fresh-eggs-daily/IdDy+(Fresh+Eggs+Daily®)
 
Welcome to the Porch, Getreal. Don't be afraid of the critters! They're all harmless and the turtle is invisible. Got a story to share? A favorite goodie you can pass around? (Actually, I'm not a sweet eater and I don't like chocolate - unless it's chocolate pudding - so if you have a spare pork chop that would be fine for me.)

I'm gonna be running across the street to Jenny's as soon as Kendra's speech therapist gets over there. Want to get that video of her walking in her gait trainer, which I didn't do yesterday. Yesterday we got the nest boxes installed in the coop, and this afternoon we're putting another window in the coop, West side, I think.

Just thought I'd mention that my chickens don't like raspberries. You should see the bottom of my coop shoes. Looks like I walked in on a massacre!
 
Hello
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So right now I have 2 broody hens! Which is cool but I don't have a roo -_- So I put some duck eggs under them. Hopefully they will hatch.

Also my trap I made worked!!
 
This is a rotten photo ... taken in low light with moving targets ... but there is one of the Freedom Mutts I think is painfully cute. He has a white face/body and black back. He is the Blackest/Whitest chick I've ever seen, and when he turns toward you that white face looks huge a cuddly. It's the one looking at the hen.



Meanwhile, over in the Delaware coop, we have a few more chicks hatching. This won't be a great hatch, and I already found one squashed (dead), but I'm just trying to hatch out as many Delawares as possible right now, and anything helps with that.

This photo was taken yesterday, I think there were only 5 living chicks total, and there were still unhatched eggs. I hope more have hatched. I think we started with about 8 eggs each, so this hatch really isn't great.



There had been some excitement in the early morning with a couple of the older chicks getting into this broody cage, and one of the hens was quite upset, so that might have been when the one fresh chick got squashed. Then in the afternoon, some of the older chicks got out of the run. We found 3 right away (PEEP PEEP PEEP) and put them back with their hen, but 4 were missing for a while, and strangely quiet. We thought for sure they were gone forever. They were hiding in the tall grass and eventually came back up to the fence so I could see them (and acted like I was trying to murder them when I was catching them). These kinds of things are why I'm so impressed with the Freedom Mutts.
 
Yesterday was 97 and I was sweating rivers. During the night the wind began to blow which means dust storms so youcant opsn windows. Its 82 today with breezes and feels much better but still humid. In Colorado we had everything, im so glad I dont have that anymore. Im taller than the palms so unless it hits my car im good. Last year during the heavy spring rains they got a freak storm. My son went out to pray at the mosque across the street. A man from Syria was coming down the narrow street we live on and palms fell blocking his way. He started to back up and a palm fell hitting the front of his car. My son ran to help him get the frightened kids from the car and into the mosque. They waited out the storm and men helped remove the tree from his car. I was laughing telling the kids Mother Nature was making us feel at home here. Im about 10 minutes walking to the sea and tomorrow my daughter turns 21. Going to try to go down to the sea and spend some time, last year we got a sandstorm. She was like Mom why is it I can never have birthdays outside? Rain, snow, tornadoes, now sand! Keep safe all.
Tell your daughter happy birthday! I predict a beautiful day for you both to enjoy!
 
This is a rotten photo ... taken in low light with moving targets ... but there is one of the Freedom Mutts I think is painfully cute. He has a white face/body and black back. He is the Blackest/Whitest chick I've ever seen, and when he turns toward you that white face looks huge a cuddly. It's the one looking at the hen.



Meanwhile, over in the Delaware coop, we have a few more chicks hatching. This won't be a great hatch, and I already found one squashed (dead), but I'm just trying to hatch out as many Delawares as possible right now, and anything helps with that.

This photo was taken yesterday, I think there were only 5 living chicks total, and there were still unhatched eggs. I hope more have hatched. I think we started with about 8 eggs each, so this hatch really isn't great.



There had been some excitement in the early morning with a couple of the older chicks getting into this broody cage, and one of the hens was quite upset, so that might have been when the one fresh chick got squashed. Then in the afternoon, some of the older chicks got out of the run. We found 3 right away (PEEP PEEP PEEP) and put them back with their hen, but 4 were missing for a while, and strangely quiet. We thought for sure they were gone forever. They were hiding in the tall grass and eventually came back up to the fence so I could see them (and acted like I was trying to murder them when I was catching them). These kinds of things are why I'm so impressed with the Freedom Mutts.
Ooh, look at all the babies! So cute. When you get a chance I'd love to see a picture of the little black and white chick!
 
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So right now I have 2 broody hens! Which is cool but I don't have a roo -_- So I put some duck eggs under them. Hopefully they will hatch.

Also my trap I made worked!!


Cool!

When I wen to Outdoor School, they taught us to make a raccoon trap, but they didn't let us test them. We drilled a hole in a log, then hammered nails into it so the sharp ends stuck into the hole at a downward angle, then dropped a ball of tinfoil down into the hole, the raccoon would reach in to grab the tinfoil and wouldn't let go ... so he'd be trapped by the nails grabbing his fist.

I always wondered ... What then? What do you do with a very ****** off raccoon?

"Answers on postcards," as they say.

ETA: Oopsies! I typed a naughty word and got stars. Shameful.
 
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Ooh, look at all the babies! So cute. When you get a chance I'd love to see a picture of the little black and white chick!

That's his face looking at the hen in the top photo. I'll try to get a better photo today. As you can imagine, they aren't the easiest subject to photograph. They prefer to run away or hide than pose. And I don't see very well, so getting photos is a challenge.
 
Cool!

When I wen to Outdoor School, they taught us to make a raccoon trap, but they didn't let us test them. We drilled a hole in a log, then hammered nails into it so the sharp ends stuck into the hole at a downward angle, then dropped a ball of tinfoil down into the hole, the raccoon would reach in to grab the tinfoil and wouldn't let go ... so he'd be trapped by the nails grabbing his fist.

I always wondered ... What then? What do you do with a very ****** off raccoon?

"Answers on postcards," as they say.

ETA: Oopsies! I typed a naughty word and got stars. Shameful.
Yeah.

Oh okay that sound cool! I might just have to try that out.

Well you shoot it I guess.
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