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[Sudsy Chick]

Quote: No room for a tree at our house, either. Well - at least no large trees

Here is our tree this year!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Also - wanted to post a photo of our Black Marans - this is from the egg that came from cflemings and hatched last June

She should give me an egg any day now!

Her name is Dark Knight (named by DS - of course!)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

i has a sad this morning- something is wrong with Blossom, and I fear it is that Dearie, who is twice her weight, dropped down on her from a high perch and broke her pelvis. Trying to figure out how to house her separately for a bit and having 100% lack of success.


Phooey.


Also sleep deprived and in need of feeding the last of my hay and rebuilding the hay table so there is 100% no chance of water infiltrating under the bale.


(And also trying, in my modification of the physical environment, to figure out a way to get a Christmas tree into the house past my husband's apparent resistance to that whole concept, along with the idea of having empty horizontal surfaces anywhere, although I've finally broken him of using the actual BED to store clean socks and underwear.)


ETA: and today my whiny post triplicates, how very fun that isn't!


ETA, again, argh, no, it's quadruplicated! This is weird!

You've seen my house. There's no room for a tree inside. I found two and three foot artificial trees at Joanne's for 60% off. I brought home a heavily flocked one, Attached a star to the top, and strung lots of red beaded garland around it. It's out on the porch table by the front door. I put the same stars and garland on my little Coprosma topiaries on either side of the steps. Did you see the beaded snowflakes I made last year? I hung some of them on the light fixture in the dining room with a holiday centerpeice underneath. I have a holly arrangement on the little table on the porch, too. I fine a bunch of smaller decorations easier to manage than a tree.

I don't have a porch, at least not one with a roof/ not occupied by farm stuff. The tree thing has always been tricky here, but now it's insane: Franklin has six months worth of newspapers stacked next to his chair, for instance.

I need the smell of fir as a SAD treatment almost as much as I need to figure out which of my first things gets to be first this morning- not counting the "get BG up over a number which makes it safe to go outside" which is also being a real trick this week.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: I wasn't gonna go there but leave it to my brudder to get us in twouble !!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

No room for a tree at our house, either. Well - at least no large trees

Here is our tree this year!

Hey no offense but that is a very nice Charlie Brown Christmas tree. I am not making fun of or laughing at you I am laughing WITH you.. That is better than the Christmas tree we won't have. I just don't even have the spirit to do any Christmas decorating. Kind of sucks as I have several big inflatables and lights just being stored.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: I don't have a porch, at least not one with a roof/ not occupied by farm stuff. The tree thing has always been tricky here, but now it's insane: Franklin has six months worth of newspapers stacked next to his chair, for instance.

I need the smell of fir as a SAD treatment almost as much as I need to figure out which of my first things gets to be first this morning- not counting the "get BG up over a number which makes it safe to go outside" which is also being a real trick this week.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love having a porch.

 

[LaughingFeather]

Please help me identify for sure this hen. She is a EE I am assuming. From Privitt hatchery. I was told she was Ameraucana when purchased but after reading how few there actually are figured EE.

 

[VelvettFog]

Please help me identify for sure this hen. She is a EE I am assuming. From Privitt hatchery. I was told she was Ameraucana when purchased but after reading how few there actually are figured EE.

Looks like EE girl to me.

 

[CarolynF]

Please help me identify for sure this hen. She is a EE I am assuming. From Privitt hatchery. I was told she was Ameraucana when purchased but after reading how few there actually are figured EE.

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Kathy,

I would call yours, like mine, anEE.

When I started "shopping" for chickens and before I got educated here at BYC, I talked to several people at the feed stores. In every one that I went to they used the term Ameraucana whether they knew what that meant or not. In at least one place they said, and I quote... "This question comes up all the time. When I asked our suppliers (the hatcheries) they always tell me that Easter Eggers and Ameraucanas are the same thing." Eventually I learned that Ameraucanas are the ones that match the SOP (standard of perfection), or maybe Project Birds that breeders are trying to have accepted to the SOP. Easter Eggers might look like Ameraucanas, but are simply the ones that lay the colored eggs. Most of the ones I've seen from the hatcheries (like mine) I would call a mutt. They don't have much of a muff and the colors are no where near what are seen in the standards or the "projects birds".

Now... those with more precise information out there.... please make adjustments or corrections to what I just wrote. I'm still learning, too.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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No offense taken =) we had to simplify, and love our Charlie Brown tree. It has since had a couple handmade ornaments added - branches getting lower & lower all the time