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[SadieSue]

Well, yesterday was the same as the day before where we got in the van & made mad dashes from 1 store to another.....falling behinder as we went.
Is that a real word-"behinder' ? lau

It should be. My great grandmother used to have a trivet hanging on her kitchen wall that said "The hurryier I go, the behinder I get".​

 

[Chickielady]

Update on the really awesome & super expensive guarranteed not to leak tarp:
None.
Remember it started leaking the first night?
Then I contacted them & they asked for photos?
Then she said it would be 24 hrs & they would call?
So far it has been 2 days with NO CALL or e-mail.
The perils of buying something SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO far away: #1-The shipping, and
#2-you cannot 'jerk the clerk' nor toss the product through their front window (like Big O tires)
and appearing at their counter entirely outraged, infuriated, makes sellers move alot faster.
If my floor gets wet enough that water drips into all that insulation, then down on top of the vapor barrier, I am going to fly back there & jerk the clerk anyways.

OK, back to work!

 

[jbear]

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i haven't caught up enough to see if someone already answered this for you CR...

but just in case not ~ here is the link. OKANOGAN FAMILY FAIRE

 

[Chickielady]

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It should be. My great grandmother used to have a trivet hanging on her kitchen wall that said "The hurryier I go, the behinder I get".

That has been exactly how the last 2 days have been.
Missing breakfast due to running late, a super quick bite of cheese & tomato for "lunch" dying of thirst on the freeway but stuck in traffic and not having time to pull off for a tea or gatoraid...and on & on all 2 days, finally eating dinner at 9:30 dishes rinsed by 10..collapsing into bed at 11:30~~~
And the next day repeated.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Ohh, maybe so. I have heard something that I would guess sounds like a Mourning Dove around here. It was bigger than a crow is pretty much all I know. I'll look up the doves and see.

Well shoot. No, I just looked up Hawks and the tail had broad stripes underneath and was wider than a doves. I'm afraid this was a hawk - Cooper's or Northern Harrier. I live right near Chamber's Creek so we're surrounded by wooded areas. I just don't know what kind of hawks are living in the trees in this area. I know we have eagles in the neighborhood. I see them being chased by crows over Orchard Street and they're plentiful down at Chamber's Bay Golf Course which is right on the bay.

Great - now I'm going to be worried about them.

ETA: Pretty sure it was a Cooper's Hawk after looking more at the photos.

I get a ton of coopers hawks here, in fact, had one sitting on the quick shade frame that's sitting in my driveway when I came home from taking DS to school this morning!

Glad I didn't let the birds out before we left!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I'd say about 9 to 12 for an Australorp - she could probably hold more but not as comfortably.

I read somewhere below you have her in a litter box. Just to say - be sure you have it to where it cannot tip even if she steps on the side. Also - we lost one egg from our broody stepping into her basket (up & over the lip) so I ended up removing it. Ours is a Giant Jersey - and she is a bit clumsy!

Don't worry about the loss of heat. They will get up & out of the next about once a day for up to 30 minutes...just make sure she goes back to the correct nest (since she's new) for the first couple days.

And finally - when I put eggs under our broody - she likes to see them and tuck them herself. So anytime I remove her eggs for any reason (candling & what not) I place them in front of her one at a time as she tucks them under (Counting?

)However - I know a lot of people just put them under the bird when they are sleeping. My broody thinks of me as the rooster and food provider and lets me get away with a lot!

GOOD LUCK!!!

Broody mamas & their chicks are so fun!

I have her alone in a large dog crate right now; I suspect I'll leave the rock in the bottom for ballast for the moment, and put in a few more shavings if she's packed them down overnight.

If I actually get out of this chair today: I really need to slow down and rest and I really haven't been able to.

 

[jbear]

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Sharp Shinned or Coopers hawk.. yes, I would put your peeps away. Those are what we have around our house.... not the falcons.

 

[jbear]

Here is a good page with all the things we must fear from the sky

RAPTORS OF THE PNW

 

[Ogress]

The %^$^&@! bears are back!!!!
I picked the first unripe apple off my tree a few days ago, and as I did so I thought every year,the bears are here to clear my trees within 48 hours of me picking that apple. Dang bears did it again!

I decided to check on the orchard this morning, yesterday was too wet. Awful smell, 3 huge bear poops (2 full of berries and one full of apples). All the apples were stripped off the lower branches of my Liberty apple trees. Thankfully there still are about 50 apples left on the higher branches - the lower branches were so loaded that the bears got their fill off them and did not climb the tree. The bears did climb my peach tree though, and it had no peaches on it this year as it is still in shock from having most of its braches broken off last year. now the poor treee has only one branch left. I think the bear climbed the peach tree to try and reach the carmine apples which hung above it.

The bears thankfully did not bother the chickens. The coops are in a different part of the yard. If there bears visited on Tuesday, the chickens were free-ranging all day, and they spend a lot of time in the orchard - when I let the chickens out this A.M. they ran straight for the orchard. Yesterday the chickens stayed in the runs all day because it rained hard almost all the day, and when it finally sloweda bit, they all ran out of the runs to drink from the puddles.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Probably a female Cooper's Hawk, but at your altitude and especially at this time of year it could be a Goshawk; if so, Nelly bar the door! I just noticed that our overwintering geese are back and I'm worried about them attracting the Goshawk I've seen very occassionally perching in my oaks. Accipterine hawks are the worst predators on ground birds: unlike every other hawk they'll get down on the ground and run after birds under cover.