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[CSolis]

You need to get some pictures and movies of Baby Jay. your stories are amazing. What a character he is.

You are probably right about him clashing with another bird. I think blue jays are territorial also. At least they act that way at my feeders. They are always pecking at one another and chasing off the other birds. Maybe his wing got hurt that way or maybe he had a run in with a cat? Got his wing grabbed and wrenched.

That might make him decide that in the house is better than outside.

Unless it's a wild cat, which I haven't seen, no one nearby has cats here. They don't want to come on my property anyway,

Oh, I remembered something now.... no more egg hatching, no more egg hatching, no more egg hatching.. I must resist, I must resist. Bandit's ladies are laying the most beautiful little brown eggs ever. If indeed he has the blue gene, then the offspring could very well be olive eggers... but NO MORE HATCHING! At least this year.

 

[microchick]

I think feral cats are pretty much a given anywhere. Wouldn't discount their presence.

Now you are starting to sound like me. I looked at my little bantam girls today. The oldest are now 4. Still laying some but not a lot. I want to eventually have bantams and my Fayoumis but really need my flock numbers down a bit.

I'd love to hatch my own eggs but I'll probably wind up buying chicks from either MMcM or Cackle. I just DO NOT NEED MORE ROOSTERS! the last five words being my mantra.

 

[CSolis]

Morning OF. A bit more rain last night. Brought us up to 8.45 inches for the month. Pens are a soggy mess still. Nearly 11 inches last month, I'll never get caught up with mowing the area across the drainage ditch. And there's more rain in our future (sad face). At least we have sandy loam and all it takes is a day of sunshine for things to start drying out.

 

[Sally PB]

Our best friends are dealing with a health crisis. He's in the ICU with a bad kidney infection caused by a 10x16mm stone, and his BP keeps fluctuating. She's on her way to go visit, so I hope there will be some (ANY!) positive news soon.

We just get to worry about them.

 

[silverhair67]

Morning

 

[CSolis]

Phew! Got the balance of the right of way cut down with the blade attachment on the cub cadet weed eater. More that 100 feet that was 4' tall. Some of those weeds have thick woody stalks to them. Tomorrow morning I can start on the area on the other side of the rain ditch that I cleared last year. Thennnnnnnnn, I can start all over in the yard and areas I've been able to keep down.

 

[sourland]

A belated good morning.
@CSolis, Baby Jay is preparing for winter. Does he/she know something that we don't. About the incubation - just one more batch.

 

[CSolis]

A belated good morning.
@CSolis, Baby Jay is preparing for winter. Does he/she know something that we don't. About the incubation - just one more batch.

Apparently Baby Jay doesn't know that human ears and shirts are not good stash holes. Maybe just instinct kicking in. Wish his desire to find food would. He comes inside every couple of hours fluttering his wings, mouth open wide and demands food. I have several areas in the house where bird seed and meal worms are available, but mommy giving wet cat food is so much faster when filling the tummy.

About the incubation - NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! At least not until I get the large turn out pen emptied. Those loverly gals go in with either Bruce or Prince. Several of Charlette's daughters (Charlette is Prince's full sister) go in with Prince. Prince's daughter and the Two black pullets go in with Bruce. Just have to keep those boys busy.

Today the 11 week old pullets were out and about when I let the older pullets out of the big turn out pen. I was amazed that there wasn't a bit of fussing but none. Unless you count one of the older hens chasing the little one's back into the free range area. They were being bad and crossed through the hotwire to see what was on the other side. I've scolded Margaret about the very same thing more than once, now she's telling the young ones it is a no no.

 

[CSolis]

Go ahead @sourland snicker all you want. I've more than doubled my flock this year, and that's a lot of feeding. Although, I love hatching eggs just to see what each pair is producing. EEPS!

 

[sourland]

Well, you just have to see what color eggs the next generation will lay.