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[chickadoodles]

Peep show your pears and apples look so good! Enjoy!

 

[bamadude]

X2 on pears and apples. Vehve my hangover is gone. I feel good and refreshed.

 

[getaclue]

X3 on the pears and apples.

 

[Dragonfly216]

Please excuse the late responses, I keep trying to catch up and read for awhile and never get beyond three days behind, lol!

Felix, I love your coop and backyard! That plum trees is going to look great there.

I've always said peanut butter and jelly but I use preserves since I like the big chunks.

Subhanalah, I'm so sorry to hear about your babies!

Good luck with sweet Maddy, tnspursfan!

Congratulations on your first grandbaby DiDi! How cool to have a photo already!

That three-legged chick is so weird! I don't even know what would go on in my mind!

Great photos everyone! Your kids are just adorable Oz!

Arrgghh! So you guys will understand my frustration more than most, I had ANOTHER of my "sexed" rare egg layers crow a few days ago :-\ so much for being an egg layer.....And it's a polish, so was pretty useless to begin with and now REALLY IS!

On a better note, last night I sneaked my only two hens from my first batch of chicks, fifteen total, in with my second batch if chicks that are growing up. I went out at sunrise to check on them, and my braver hen was just about growling at everyone. I was worried that the little rooster would be mean to gee, but she attacked him and ran him off, lol! That's supposed to be her mate eventually! Well my little Golden Campine rooster was doing this weird walk with his wing down, almost like he was tripping over his wing. I had never seen it before and thought he was being aggressive towards her. Well I kept watching, and I'm sure you guys know what he was doing! It was his little itty bitty, ten week old, mating dance, and she was quite receptive! I knew she was close to laying eggs, but I guess that really decides it huh? I can't wait for my first egg!

Welcome back home, Bama! No pictures to make us jealous of mudbugs and beaches?

 

[vehve]

@Dragonfly216 Thank you

Yeah, that mating dance is a funny thing to watch.

We have been getting rooster sound complaints. Not in the way most people do though. Since we culled Topi a week and a half ago, there has been no more crowing. The neighbor told me yesterday, that other neighbors are complaining that it's too quiet. Looks like Eemeli (almost 20 weeks) better mature soon and start crowing to fill the void. He's not doing the dance, not trying to mate anyone, not sounding the treat sound, not crowing, not anything. Karin said she once saw him sound some pathetic attempt of an alarm when a seagull flew our our yard, but that's the only roosterlike behavior out of him so far. He's really clumsy too, and honestly, pretty boring. He's starting to grow a bit of a tail though, maybe he'll turn into a handsome boy. His sister is just as slow at developing, and is only now starting to get proper tail feathers.

 

[bamadude]

Dragonfly: thanks for the welcome back. I took 1 pic while i was at the beach. My dw took several but our only internet is on my phone. We didnt get a mess of crawfish but i did get a crawfish poboy sandwich.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A report on our broody Alhos again: It seems they no longer want to sit on the nests. However, Veera has not laid in 2 weeks, and Virpi took her fourth day off of laying today. Anyone have any memories of how quickly your girls resumed production after being broody for a week?

They'll stop laying for quite some time when they're broody and coming out of it. The hormonal effect of broodiness also stops ovulation for good reason.

Sorry. I was discussing the garter snake fangs. European vipers are an entirely different matter.

When I think of fangs on a snake, I think of that pair of long things up front that inject venom. Garter snakes have long teeth in the back of their mouth but not fangs.

 

[vehve]

Guess I'll have to feed them some estrogen then

 

[subhanalah]

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