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She is!! I wonder when she will let them goooo haha they're nice chicks though. There are a couple cockerels and not sure we will keep those, maybe one -- to have a fully 'raised in the flock' Cockerel -- that sounds kinda neat.
So today we had another new layer OR Ayu laid two -- I highly doubt that, though Ayu did spend a LONG time in the nest today, longer than usual.
Duck egg in there amongst the chicken as well, I should have taken a pic of the nest. They LOVE the back corner.
I was trying to get pics of the Welsummer chicks... I cannot count all the chicks we have. I cannot recall how many successfully hatched from the Hatching Eggs I bought, I blended those chicks in with the 6 I got from McMurray Hatchery -- and I THINK there was 20 chicks in there --- so 14 hatched from the incubator. Only 1 correct Ameraucana. 3 Ermine Ameraucanas (they are still trying to get recognized) and 3 other RANDOM chipmunk AmerIcanas... without even chubby cheeks.... but they all hatched from the same speckly green eggs. WEIRD
Then, I had 12 Welsummer eggs and 4 were unfertile and 1 quit so 7 hatched.
I potentially put out 9 chicks earlier this week from the tall brooder bc it was filthy but I cannot.. count...because there are already 17 chicks running around... That'd be 20-something chicks.
THEY ARE TOO FAST lol anway, its doing my brain in. I cannot wait til Thursday.
Scarlett, a Lollipop, 8 weeks old and a beauty. Thank you Chuck, for your Splash heritage, you throw beautiful babies.
Hunter and Ruby - lollipops, 8 weeks old. Hunter has grey in her cheeks and more demarcated coloring than Scarlett.
Ruby is the friendliest girl, always has been and still will accept cuddles and love
This is Misserschmidt - named after the German WW2 plane - this is what happens when you let your husband name chickens. The hilarious thing is; she's a flier! She flies out every morning with Custard. She's an EE we got from TSC and she has a seriously bad cross beak -- she is VERY small for her age.
But her plumage.... I think she's the prettiest chicken I've ever seen. Look at that gradient of color on her back. She's gorgeous. She is quiet and friendly and follows me around when I go to the hen house to do chores. She never forages out with anyone -- she's of the oldest hen group -- she's 17 weeks old, but she's the size of a 9 week old. She CAN forage, she just sticks near the hen house and does it in the evenings.
I make a pound of mash for her in the mornings, but of course everyone gets some. She always does, too
One day while tractoring in the fields we found this lady. My husband built her an enclosure - it's predator proof! She's been with us almost two years.
looking over to the sheep fields over our leech field meadow
The brown eyed susans are looking a bit rough for wear but when I moved here I wanted the leech field to be a flower meadow and it took 3 years but it finally is.
I think it's awesome and hilarious that only the native seeds really took. Like knows like.
I should weed out the dog fennel but omg, my poor back. Ain't happening... even with the footie-weed-thing I have. Still too hard!
