The Old Folks Home

[Dragonfly216]

join the old fols on a chicken mission

Oh that's what we need to do! Everyone meet at one central airport, then I'm sure we can get a group discount! We'll all pitch in and help get another coop built or whatever is next on the list. It'll be much faster with a bunch of hands to help! And then sunset on the beach.....oh yeah....who's in?

 

[ozexpat]

Oh that's what we need to do! Everyone meet at one central airport, then I'm sure we can get a group discount! We'll all pitch in and help get another coop built or whatever is next on the list. It'll be much faster with a bunch of hands to help! And then sunset on the beach.....oh yeah....who's in?

THE LINK IS in my signature but here it is as well


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/817033/the-chicken-mission-a-philanthropic-chicken-adventure/0_50

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG I love the pics with the kids. It must have been so nice to get outside with nice weather. I know I have been climbing the walls with cabin fever waiting for the warmer temps although we have been warming up sooner than you up in Maine. I swear if I can take enough time off this fall when DD has her wedding, I want to meet up with you and hit the Maine coastline. It has been years since I was in Maine and would love to see places I grew up again with my camera.

Today we didn't have as good of luck. We went "hiking" today, but the trail was still covered in ice and snow. All of us dumped it at least once. The kids started crying halfway down the trail because they were cold, wet and muddy.

 

[chickisoup]

Wow, Oz.

A HUGE X2!!! makes me aware of just how much of the world out there I have never seen.

 

[chickisoup]

I don't have anything as awesome to share as you guys, or as fun as chicken processing day, but... we had an absolutely lovely 64 degree day in Portland yesterday, made it all the way out to the lighthouse (jumping from rock to rock on the breakwater) plus the baby chicks hatched, and are a huge hit. The kids have already named them. Apparently PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD!!! is a huge hit for a name.

I love your pics! The girls look so serious!!! and I can almost smell the water ! Can't wait till we lose the "lumps" in our small water (aka the Great Lakes)

 

[gryeyes]

Just wanted to share an experience far less grand and glorious than recent photo shoots, hikes, safaris, or even kids/grandkids/chicks. It just makes me giggle when I think about it.

John The Contractor has sensitive hearing. He wears earplugs AND headset style ear protectors when he uses power equipment. He also plays music pretty loud at work sites. When I am present, he turns the music down so we can talk when he's not running saws or nail guns.

He had just pulled off the ear protection to tell me something, standing next to the first coop. Several of the roosters chose that moment to crow in unison. He clapped his hands over his ears and kinda, sorta swore from the unexpected barrage of sound. Then he leaned around the corner to peer into the closest coop window. He "bokked" loudly through the screen.

Of course, all roosters stopped mid-crow, subsiding into smatterings of much quieter clucks.

John turned back to me to say, matter of factly, "Yeah, they understand 'bokka bokka.'"




Okay, guess y'all hadda been there. Guy in construction coveralls, communicating with my noisy roosters...... speaking Bokka.

 

[ozexpat]

A bilingual contractor. How handy!!!!

 

[Bunnylady]

Hey, when the Boss Bird speaks, all others assume a respectful silence.

 

[dsqard]

Linda your story reminds me of when they were building the house next to ours last fall. I would be out on the patio doing homework and could not be seen from the work site. The chickens would be out free ranging so they would be making their usual noises. If the roosters or the egg song got going, the workmen next door would make similar noises back at the chickens. Pretty funny to hear grown men making chicken noises. I agree funny stories!

 

[Pozees]

Linda your story reminds me of when they were building the house next to ours last fall. I would be out on the patio doing homework and could not be seen from the work site. The chickens would be out free ranging so they would be making their usual noises. If the roosters or the egg song got going, the workmen next door would make similar noises back at the chickens. Pretty funny to hear grown men making chicken noises. I agree funny stories!

LOL

Maybe it's a male thing? Bob loves to speak chicken to the chickens. How about it, fellas, do you all speak chicken to your chickens?