Welcome. Tell us about your brooder. How many are you getting?
They grow up fast so be ready.
Do you ever see the pullets flirting with the rooster lawn ornament?Hmm, not that big I expect...I do have to carry just him when I set them out each spring...concrete will flake and the paint won't last if I leave them out...also can you imagine the damage catching one of these chooks in the snow blower might do? No squawk, just a lot of flying ROCK!
These are two Chantecler pullets...5.5 pounds a piece...that concrete roo don't look too big...hafta get one or three of the Chanti boys to stand for a piccy some time next to the concrete one.
...I asked if it was OK (you know us Canucks...always the polite ones)
Another BIG thing is the burl log Rick put up at the back gates..
Unfortunately, I laugh at them stealing presents (you should SO put a lump of coal in each one but I would expect them not to get it and come back because it was FREE HEAT!) but know too well this to be true. Had such a hard time when we first moved here ... really ... to put the lawn ornaments Rick had made me out and about...at a distance from the house. Had the space just could not wrap my brain around having the wishing well he made me way out in the new orchard...I mean it looks great but it took some real doing... Worried about vandals, worried someone might steal it (not likely, that would take effort and energy and usually thieves lack in both departments).
This is the four dogs in 2001 standing on the yoke before we put it up and my wishing well is on the top far left in the orchard.
Love your statues...very elegant..."Hem hem...royalty must live there!"
Yes, please, DO post photos sans the snow...would love to see more details. My son does archery as a hobby and it would be kewl for him to see statues like these...I wanna see the dog...hee hee...
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Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
You Canucks are the nice polite Americans. How do you manage that with the cabin fever and all?
I'll get a picture of the dog just for you.
The snow melted a bit today. Not because it was that warm but the sun was really strong.
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Not a lot of news from my daughter other than she seems to be having a blast and keeping busy. I do think the heat is getting to her a little. She said she was planning 3 days in Siem Reap but was having so much fun she stayed 5. She posted this a couple days ago while there-
"Just got a pineapple/papaya scrub facial. ~ I feel amazing!"
Now she's in Battambang. Sounds like a busy itinerary for her. Among the sites, she's visiting the killing caves from the Khmer Rouge period.
"Bats in Bat-tambang. Ha. Ha"
"My bamboo railroad driver. I'm obsessed with everyone in Cambodia."
(essentially a bamboo flatbed on wheels powered by a small motorcycle engine - the rail line runs from Battambang to the capital of Phnom Penh but is in such disrepair that only the bamboo carts can ride it and only to a nearby village and back)
"~Busy day with my tuk tuk driver, Lim. Saw how rice wine is made (and drank a bit), how rice paper is made (and had spring rolls yum!), how sticky rice is made (ate that too, see a pattern?), saw temples and a village and waved to about 300 little kids. I am also a proud owner of 8 new bracelets made by said kids. Such a sucker
