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[Chickielady]

anyone else here today having issues motivating

did the normal cleaning collecting
figuring out solving little things treating the girls to their favorite cabbage just cant seem to
get much else done tired of the rain

ready for summer here ends my whine

I am ticked that it is LIGHT at so early I have to close the drapes to sleep to 8 AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Wishing for calmness and a hubby who doesn't feel the need to be out in town all the time dragging me with him.I told him there are plenty of chores here to burn off energy.

I need to set eggs as one of my very reliable EE hens went broody. She's very good with chicks.

It takes dynamite to blast Gary out of that $#@! recliner...soon I will have to chew his food for him !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hinotori]

Well I have four broody silkies as well. I don't have the broody pens set up right now so eggs are going in incubator for safety. Wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucana and partridge silkies.

we need wheaten ams...I thought you parted them out!!
Reminds me, I have to send you a prize !

I only have a few of them, I need more. It wasn't me who got rid of them.

 

[Chickielady]

My surgery has been postponed yet again due to a skin rash. It needs to heal completely before the surgeon will schedule my surgery. I have been off my feet for a couple weeks already and I will be off my feet for three weeks following surgery. I tore the tendon nearly eight months ago and kept walking on it by using ibuprofen for pain and swelling but now on pain killer I can no longer bear weight on my ankle.

Our Silkies decided to hatch chicks so we have our first batch today. One did not make it so my husband took the rest inside to raise. Since four are splash, which is my favorite color, we want to be able to keep pullets to make more splash Silkies. These babies are just in time for Easter.

I am tempted to start hatching ducklings but they would hatch before I am on my feet with some weight bearing. My hope is that the hens will hatch their own ducklings but the crows get to the eggs if we do not collect them from the yard. I have someone hatching a batch of eggs and she may hatch some more but she lives too far to pick them up on a regular basis. I am considering selling the eggs but I have no control over whether or not they will hatch in someone else's incubator if they are not experienced at hatching duck eggs. I love hatching but I need to stay off my feet for awhile.

get manuka honey, or any fresh unpasturized honey, dab it on the rash area, and stay off it...I know how it is to keep pushing yourself...but you must stay put & heal

 

[Hinotori]

Such bad girls. Playing in the mud, then they tried to sleep on the feed cans outside the pen.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Such bad girls. Playing in the mud, then they tried to sleep on the feed cans outside the pen.

Sure looks like they had a good time

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am ticked that it is LIGHT at so early I have to close the drapes to sleep to 8 AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know I am getting up at 7 each morning to let the girls out they love longer days
We worked on chicken wire again today tying it to the field wire to keep
our little dog Ticha in... The sun felt so good on our backs it was actually
t-shirt weather here and light past 7 pm??????

 

[chickenmomma16]

Din Din !! LOL

You called it! So what did he get for dinner this time?

 

[chickenmomma16]

I need to set eggs as one of my very reliable EE hens went broody. She's very good with chicks.

I love broody hens! The best set it and forget it incubators. What are you going to set?

Well I have four broody silkies as well. I don't have the broody pens set up right now so eggs are going in incubator for safety. Wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucana and partridge silkies.

Well I have four broody silkies as well. I don't have the broody pens set up right now so eggs are going in incubator for safety. Wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucana and partridge silkies.

we need wheaten ams...I thought you parted them out!!
Reminds me, I have to send you a prize !

@Hinotori I was hoping you were doing more Wheatens!

 

[Hinotori]

Bator has been warming up. I'll load it tonight. Then I have three weeks to get the pens arranged. With hubby's help it should go quick. It's so much easier to put the roof on with two people.