The Old Folks Home

[Wisher1000]

Don't worry, Linda, she is just giving them the once over to make sure they are healthy. I'm sure she is thinking they sure are ugly (not being silkies) but that she will love and care for them any way, like a good mommy should.

 

[gryeyes]

Punkin is a BO. Sparkle is the Silkie, and she's a wonderful mother to the four chicks she hatched earlier. She hatched hers in the office brooder bin; I didn't see any of that process.

I just checked chick #2, appears to be fine. Chick #1 is tucked waaaaaay up under one of Punkin's wings.

Egg #3 has a live chick in it but the shell is cracked all over, as if Punkin has rolled it around beneath her after it started to pip or zip.

She's gone back into broody trance now.

 

[Wisher1000]

Punkin is a BO. Sparkle is the Silkie.....

I know, but now that she has seen Sparkle, she is hoping for fluffy babies like that.



I actually did know that Punkin was a BO, I just wasn't thinking when I posted. I was still thinking about that cockeral discussion we were having earlier and it had me a bit distracted......

 

[gryeyes]

Punkin is a BO. Sparkle is the Silkie.....

[COLOR=800000]I know, but now that she has seen Sparkle, she is hoping for fluffy babies like that.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=800000]I actually did know that Punkin was a BO, I just wasn't thinking when I posted.  I was still thinking about that cockeral discussion we were having earlier and it had me a bit distracted......[/COLOR]

Oh...yeah...good save there.

The "Milkie" pullet who hatched 9 checks a couple of days ago has taken them out yesterday and today. Yesterday evening, a neighbor came over to buy eggs and was delighted with the scene. He said, "8 brown and one yellow with stripes. Looks like the postman got in there..."

 

[ducklucky]

Sounds like Punkin knows exactly what to do. Love it when they tuck those babies way up under their wings like that. Have picked up a hen here and there only to have a babe come out from under. How in the world they don't suffocate in there is beyond me.

To all of the clumsy ones out there, it must come with aging. Have always been a klutz, but do you find you are more so the more years you put on? A few years back Hub had his kayak on the incline next to the garage, and coming back from the barn, the bow line managed to jump up and wrap itself around my ankle and down I went. While recovering from sprained tendons and so forth. walking to front door, uneven ground came right up at me and down I went. Thank goodness the wooden walkway was there to break my fall, landed on my face and the edge of the walkway bit me right above my right eyebrow. Bled for days, should have sewed it up, but now have three eyebrows. That's what bangs are for.

 

[gryeyes]

Well, the third, wet chick is out. The first hatched has come out twice and Punkin shoves it back under her each time. She is clucking very, very quietly, almost constantly, as she tucks her head under to check on the chicks.

Then she closes her eyes for about ten, fifteen seconds for really quick naps. Each time I hear a cheep, her eyes fly open.

In the excitement of watching Punkin, I forgot to check for Beth until after dark. She wasn't at the French doors to the utility room, or at either porch screen door. Or on the deck at the door into the office, which I closed earlier. Bad me!

I found Beth perched on the wobbly pea 'fence' in the garden. She brrk-brrked at me in the dark. I brought her inside and and she immediately roosted on the TV table above Punkin's dog bed. She is sound asleep there. Sparkle and her chicks are in their brooder bin in the office. The Easter chicks are in their brooder bin in the office, too.

Outside, the duck pond project is nearly two-thirds complete. I am counting the pump and Skippy bio-filter build as the final third, planned for the beginning of next month as there are supplies for that I have yet to purchase.) Tomorrow the drain ditch will be dug, the drain pipe attached to the drain and the liner stapled into place. We will fill the pond as soon as we can, maybe late tomorrow or on Friday. It will just be a huge tub o' water for a couple of weeks, but easy to clean.

It will hold 2,244 gallons.

 

[insanity]

congrats on the new babies

 

[superchemicalgirl]

To all of the clumsy ones out there, it must come with aging. Have always been a klutz, but do you find you are more so the more years you put on? A few years back Hub had his kayak on the incline next to the garage, and coming back from the barn, the bow line managed to jump up and wrap itself around my ankle and down I went. While recovering from sprained tendons and so forth. walking to front door, uneven ground came right up at me and down I went. Thank goodness the wooden walkway was there to break my fall, landed on my face and the edge of the walkway bit me right above my right eyebrow. Bled for days, should have sewed it up, but now have three eyebrows. That's what bangs are for.

I almost knocked myself out at Hannaford last night on one of the produce scales. Did the same thing in my office earlier in the day, too, on the elevated shelf above my computer.

We're special.

 

[Cynthia12]

I just tripped over the ottoman in our bedroom the other night, but it was dark. I got a really nice bruise out of it. Had to share don't ya know. I'm thinking clumsy comes with age. Has anyone noticed how they walk in the snow and ice in the winters now? Small baby steps with our heads down watching.
I just don't want to take a fall outside, my biggest fear. I stepped on a chickens foot last week because they are right under me as I head for the shed where the food is. You would think they would learn, but they keep on following tooo close. Little stinks. Some will squat right in front of me..you know how it goes. I just have to keep watch. There is no snow for a soft landing now.

gryeyes, I have chicks hatching too..only in an incubator. I'm trying the egg carton hatch this time/first time. I am hatching Australorps today. Then I have some Ameraucana/Silkie mixes going into lock down on Sunday. Along with a couple of Serama eggs that are doing ok so far. I think I'm liking this egg carton thing. They hatch, walk on the eggs, and the eggs stay put. Nice.

 

[refamat]

I just tripped over the ottoman in our bedroom the other night, but it was dark. I got a really nice bruise out of it. Had to share don't ya know. I'm thinking clumsy comes with age. Has anyone noticed how they walk in the snow and ice in the winters now? Small baby steps with our heads down watching.
I just don't want to take a fall outside, my biggest fear. I stepped on a chickens foot last week because they are right under me as I head for the shed where the food is. You would think they would learn, but they keep on following tooo close. Little stinks. Some will squat right in front of me..you know how it goes. I just have to keep watch. There is no snow for a soft landing now.

gryeyes, I have chicks hatching too..only in an incubator. I'm trying the egg carton hatch this time/first time. I am hatching Australorps today. Then I have some Ameraucana/Silkie mixes going into lock down on Sunday. Along with a couple of Serama eggs that are doing ok so far. I think I'm liking this egg carton thing. They hatch, walk on the eggs, and the eggs stay put. Nice.

It's the eyes Cynthia. Because you don't have the great depth perception of your younger years, you miss the little changes in where you are walking and the sub-conscious adjustment from same. Best to wear shoes that help you feel your walking path..shoes and boots which mask your feel, also help you trip..of course, there is little you can do about obstacles like ottomans and coffee tables.....

if you cut blocks of wood which tilt the cartons (side to side at 40-45 degrees) you can easily do this in the shorter head spaced little giant 9200's