Weird Situation Update (With Pics)

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That sounds beautiful - I love the hill country but I also like all of the trees here as it helps with the electric bills!

I wish you could send rain, also ... we seem to have a bubble over us that blocks even the little bit of rainfall that the rest of the area has seen since last October. I am terrified that some idiot will start a fire.

My friend gave me 6 araucana eggs and 6 ee eggs and I HOPE they are all little girls although my friend did say she would take any roos that hatch. Pretty good deal for me. All I had to trade was a few passion flower vines.
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We have pips and ONE CHICK! woohoo! Feral mama's name is now Lisa Marie (nieces named her after my sister that we lost to cancer this March). Now they get to have fun naming 12 chicks ... will post more tomorrow!
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Third time's a charm! Take THAT, snakes!
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My nieces (8 & 13) are visiting from Washington so the timing is absolutely perfect!!! We have been out to the coop every hour for the past two days checking ... the youngest, Sara, is the one that spotted the first pip. She was SO excited!
 
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Hi ik know this is an old post bu ti wanted to say that opossums can and will get through dog kennel fencing. Proof is from my moms sib husky having a dead opossum in her kennel daily after a night of them coming (squeeznig through the links) into her kennel to steal her food where she'd hten kill them... so yes they can get through those too just a warning. Oh but with the hardware cloth ha ha theres no way (unless they pry it open).
 
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I hope it is safe! During the day, two of the dogs are kenneled right next door to the chicken run. At night, the dogs come & go from inside to outside. Between the dogs and the superstructure, I hope we are good to go. I have added layer upon layer and gone back to do tweaks over the past three weeks. Part of my neighbor's goose pasture (sounds silly but that is basically what it is) runs just behind there, as well, and they are very good at throwing up the alarm when anything out of the ordinary appears.
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Thank you for the warning, though! I will be inspecting every morn & eve.
 
Momma and chicks are so cute! Nice story, too. Don't you love it when the broody rolls the eggs under herself? My little silkie hen sat on 3 eggs, and she couldn't turn them so the nest would move all the time, I guess she would roll them all to a new place every day.
 
It is really cool that they can do that! I caught her during 'break' time yesterday - halfway between the water & food and she froze ... then she very slowly crept over the eggs and reached out with her beak and pulled/rolled the six that she missed up under her. It was neat to watch & the kids got a big kick out of it. They think she is VERY smart.
 

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