The Old Folks Home

[Cynthia12]

The Pita Pintas are 5 weeks old now. The Golden one is an EO Marraduna Basque Cockerel.

Ron, these are beautiful. You will have a lot of beautiful mottled chickens. I am wanting a mottled Cochin right now. Looking forward to the changing of looks photos.

 

[ronott1]

AWESOME READ!!! I am guilty on the whole grains. I love them.


My garden is producing I will show you my harvest from today! And while I am at it I might as well show off my chickens to. The Bantams are usually free roaming but, We have a wild cat that has shown up and ate one yesterday and ate some quail. So until that problem is gone we can not let them free roam. And we have a family of foxes so my big chickens can't roam either till we fix that problem. Luckily their cage and coop are Fox proof. This is the little guy we found in our garage. Luckily he wasnt hurt

This is our produce from this morning. we will pick more tonight.

This is one of the two quail I have left.

This is my garden. Corn is fixing to make.

This is our peaches. Almost ready

My watermelon plant!

My chickens. They are not very happy.

my rooster.

My ducks, you can see my little hurt ying back there.

My bantams. I know they are not happy but that will change soon.

here they are again.

My blackberry bush. We have picked two gallons so far.

I think it is time to pick again. LOL!

Ok enough with the picture overload.

I loved all of the pictures! Stuck in an office today, but there is a nice garden courtyard outside of my office.

 

[ronott1]

Ron, these are beautiful. You will have a lot of beautiful mottled chickens. I am wanting a mottled Cochin right now. Looking forward to the changing of looks photos.

Thanks!

My middle daughter asked by how I was going to catch them. I told her to not worry--they are the biggest pets you have ever seen!

One of the little pullets followed me back to the brooder when I picked up a couple of them. They do not run or squack, which is a big difference compared to the Penedesencas....

 

[chickensnewtome]

Thanks Ronott!

 

[gryeyes]

Found another massacred cockerel this morning. Not sure about skunk, now, as his body was taken a bit further away and there wasnt as much of it left as the previous kills. This is a cockerel which roosted on the deck railing at night. He was gorgeous, all flame gold, white and burnished copper feathers. But, again, a cockerel .... So that saves me getting to love him more only to have to send him to my friend's Freezer Camp. He was one of the five turkey poult "tutor" chicks.

Kevin the Freen Peacock has taken to roosting on top of the utility light pole on my property operated by PG&E. Waaay up there, and a great view even at night, I bet, as the light illuminates half of my circular driveway. During the day, he is all over the property. He responds to his name with little clucky sounds.

Sister 1, a lavender Orp, and Monica, a bantam dark brahma mix, which are co-raising a chick and a Cayuga duckling have allowed both babies to come to the people door for the coop during the day, but NOT outside. The duckling is now as tall as Monica. Both Moms AND the chick now roost on the ladder roost, with their odd child sleeping on the coop floor below them. (Out of the line of falling poop. Smart ducky.)

I harvested the last of the eight blackberries on my very young blackberry vine. The geese harvested the single apricot growing on the tree I planted last year.

Penelope came into the office (off the deck) with a few of her chicks and now she and one of them sleep inside. Two of her nine chicks have been killed by The Predator; I think it's a very smart move on her part, as the formerly safe garden and deck just aren't any more. I do wish she would move into the COOP though. I guess I'll have to start carrying them into it every night.

The youngsters which used to roost on the porch steps are now roosting where they should, with the exception of one cockerel. I carry him to a better spot every night. Last night he perused where his brood-mates were appropriately settled, but still chose to settle down on the top step to the covered porch. I carried him to the right spot, where he stayed.

On a totally different tack, I am vibrating with excitement over a pie-in-the-sky plan I am not willing
to share with anyone yet. It would be such a fizzle if I shared and it didn't come to fruition; but if it DOES, I will be shouting all over the place with the news.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Gosh-- didn't realize you could have honey already.

Blueberries-- I remember picking on the heath with my mother for hours, at 1 qt per hour. Our best season was 50 dry qts in the freezer. Pancakes with blueberry sauce after church. yum. Here the birds usually beat me.

Blackberries are my favs. DO you freeze or make jams?

Sorry you our getting our storm, still cloudy here, and spotty drizzle. Good working outside weather. MOving chicks out to barn.

Quote: I'm craving blackberries!!!!!

Lots of produce!! All fresh eating or do you put up any? Okra--I never could figure out how to cook okra so I would eat it. LOL I really need to as my kids ask for it at the grocery.

I'm going out to pick black berries and get them into the freezer!

 

[Arielle]

Oh LInda-- another one gone? Looks like a deterent is in order. With all your creatures, how about a dog??

Mmmmm, fresh apricots. Peaches are getting there, another month . . . then they mold and rot!! lol Had a dog that loved to eat them, knew which was the ripest and would chow on the sweet fruit ( he liked tomatos too.)

Oh the view Kevin the peacock has!! and safe, too.

 

[chickadoodles]

X2 I agree with Arielle Linda. You should probably get a dog. Mine just bark and what ever is out there takes off now that we have run lights to the coop!

 

[gryeyes]

I have two dogs, but one is elderly and both sleep with me. Dooley makes a property check when I go to bed, then he joins me. Whatever the predator may be, it doesn't make noise enough to awaken us, and it's always happened well after midnight.

I am now suspecting the owl.

 

[chickensnewtome]

Gosh-- didn't realize you could have honey already.

Blueberries-- I remember picking on the heath with my mother for hours, at 1 qt per hour. Our best season was 50 dry qts in the freezer. Pancakes with blueberry sauce after church. yum. Here the birds usually beat me.

Blackberries are my favs. DO you freeze or make jams?

Sorry you our getting our storm, still cloudy here, and spotty drizzle. Good working outside weather. MOving chicks out to barn.




I'm craving blackberries!!!!!

Lots of produce!! All fresh eating or do you put up any? Okra--I never could figure out how to cook okra so I would eat it. LOL I really need to as my kids ask for it at the grocery.

I'm going out to pick black berries and get them into the freezer!

We put alot of produce up. I will only eat Okra covered in cornmeal and fried, or in a gumbo/soup. We have a ton of black berries froze. We can, freeze, dry, and eat fresh. I prefer my produce over any stores so the more I grow and freeze/can the better. My kids love okra and squash. The crook neck squash are great fried and my butter nut squash are great cut into chunks, boiled, and then drained, put back in the pan with lots of butter, salt, and garlic and quickly heated up and stirred! YUMMY!