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[pips&peeps]

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

Now, back to sleep. I see that the easter bunny has come...................

 

[Kaneke]

happy Easter to all ---

haven't yet hopped out to the coop and run, to see if the Easter bunny left me any "interesting" eggs --

DS does sometimes surprise me with presents

of course my EEs are still way too young to be laying anything

hmmm -- maybe I should hop up to the feed store instead (assuming they are open) and get the girls some fresh feed;
am getting towards the bottom of the 50# bag of game bird starter

I was a very good girl and did NOT stop there yesterday, when they had the big Chick Days sign out

on an amusing note, the neighbor who donated the coop and run, stopped by yesterday --- no matter that he had said he "wanted nothing more to do with chickens",
he stayed around watching them for quite a while

(could be that mine are nicer than his were, he had Production Reds who were on the aggressive side, would charge the chain link fence when we walked past)

he was amazed that the EEs have very small combs ... even the probable roo has only the little row of bumps ... compared to the great big floppy red combs that his sported

 

[TouchO'Lass]

We used to live across the street from a lovely couple, Joe and Bunny.

One sunny Easter morning as we were pulling out of the driveway on our way to church, Bunny was out in the yard watering her flowers. Mom rolled the window down, waved and hollered, "Happy Easter, Bunny!"

The four of us kids collapsed into tears of laughter as mom just stared at us clueless, "What? What is wrong with you kids?! Settle down!"

I don't think we ever stopped teasing her about that one...

Happy Easter, all you BYC Bunnies!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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You are not spending enough time on BYC if you think pics of people with thier chicks/chickens is odd!!!

Hallerlake

sorry to hear about your mom and dad. Maybe rather than trying to get them to accept / admit they need help. Try the idea of how much it would be better for you if they would allow someone to come check on them. I know first hand that people don't like to be dependant. But many times they will accept help if it is done in such a way that they feel they are helping others. Just an idea and MHO.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Hey, we did this today, too! Now I know how silly I must have looked sitting in the pen with the chicks. Your DD looks cute but I don't think thats what they'd say about a full grown woman sittin in a round pen surrounded by poultry!

Oh, I bet you were just as adorable as she was. Besides, it is fun. You notice there are no photos of me.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Happy Easter all. I hope it is a nice day for you to spend with your families.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I'm not the doctor or the university professor, I'm just the one who is HERE, and has to deal with them!

Oh, good grief.

Hope tomorrow is a sensible day for your Dad, and they get their status changed .​

 

[Chickielady]

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Im not sure why you have the blood spots, I'll try to find out information and let you know.. The spot are from her spray can

but no really they have a sprayer or so they say that puts the darker color on the egg and the spots.
Last year I gave my in-laws some nice dark eggs and what did they do. They called and said hay we washed the eggs and gave them a good scrub and they arent dark anymore...

The blood spots are called "egg meat" and are caused by tiny ruptured blood vessels in the ovary when the bird's ovary releases an egg.
It is harmless, and does not mean the bird is necessarily ill.
In the big egg farms, they high power candle all eggs before they sell them to toss out any eggs with "egg meats'...to pet food factories.
It can be something that just happens as the bird grows, or maybe she was frightened when laying ?
In any event, it is fine to eat.

 

[Chickielady]

pips&peeps :

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

Now, back to sleep. I see that the easter bunny has come...................

Hopefully not the snow bunny too...................​

 

[Kaneke]

Easter morning dawned grey but NOT FROSTY thank goodness --

misty rain started about an hour ago, so I put on my fake-fur hat and let the chickens out, filled their grain feeder, scooped the poo out of the sand under the roosts, and brought over a few more of the evergreen branches that DH cut off yesterday (they seem to love to eat the new growth on the evergreens ... both native fir and the short-needle landscape fir that the other neighbor planted on the property line)

DH and I together got the mass of roots out of the ore trough, but will wait until the rain eases off, to slide it across the yard to the coop area ( 50 feet or so, slightly uphill)

when I get my breath back, I may go scoop dead leaves out of the other two troughs --- as far as I know, they didn't have hay in them (years ago we were going to grow potatoes in this hay, salvaged from archery target backups) -- I'm talking somewhere between ten and fifteen years ago ! so the bottoms of the troughs are somewhat decomposed after sitting on the earth that long

we turn the troughs on their painted sides, put landscape timbers down like rails, and slide them along -- they are NOT light !

( but my thigh muscles are strong from years of skiing and soccer ... 1 2 3 PUSH! )

I am thinking that, using these as the perimeter of the run, with the fence wire nailed INSIDE, they will be both predator-resistant and dig-resistant, and give me a taller run

(the fence wire is only a yard high)

plus if I plant flowers in them, they will be prettier to look at than a standard utilitarian chicken run

no Easter eggs in the coop or run ... just Easter Eggers ...

DS is still asleep (too much volleyball yesterday, too much sun probably as well) --

(edited to fix code errors)