What did you do with your flock today?

[Nomadicus]

I don't like ants, I try to stay clear of the ant piles in my yard!

Their hours are numbered. Once the rain stops tomorrow they will be no more.

 

[Smokerbill]

I have always heard that the hen ruffling her feathers and shaking afterwards is because she is trying to fix the feathers that got out of place from the rooster breeding her.

Those vane birds! They're wanting to look attractive for the next time, huh?

 

[Nomadicus]

I have on pet pullet that squats for me to pick her up and then shakes it off when I put her down. She's not all there.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Mumble looked like a penguin as a chick as well, and that's where she got her name from! Mumble from Happy Feet. That was three years ago, and we were inexperienced chicken-keepers after not having chickens for so long, so we assumed that Mumble would stay looking like a penguin. Wrong, she's all black now!

Happy Feet! I feel silly...I heard Mumble and thought Mumbles from Dick Tracy Happy feet makes total sense!

 

[ChicksnMore]

Yes, thank you. Getting left one done towards the end of next month. They are just funny, dirt bathing in the sun. Moonscape in the yard. I actually lost a pullet 2 summers ago from heat exhaustion/stroke.

I'm trying to imagine the Puget Sound region getting hot enough for heatstroke! I wonder if mines resistance to it then is more about being born and raised in this heat.

 

[ChicksnMore]

I have always heard that the hen ruffling her feathers and shaking afterwards is because she is trying to fix the feathers that got out of place from the rooster breeding her.

I've always heard the same as @PopoMyers. Shaking after is a sign of a successful mating and the hens securing the delivered package.

 

[ChicksnMore]

I have on pet pullet that squats for me to pick her up and then shakes it off when I put her down. She's not all there.

Funnily I don't have any hens that do that...but I have one peahen and a goose that do. The peahens very polite about it... she just squats and looks confused when I walk by and ignore her. Goosebumps on the other hand gets mad if I don't put my hand on her back and give her a shake. If I give her a shake shes happy and goes back to her tortoise to bill his back and make soft sounds...if I don't she follows after me, bills my leg, shivers her neck at me, and honks as loud as she can.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Busy couple of days for me.

After searching for Mochi high and low all morning, noon and night, I startled awake from a dream of a cat meowing at almost 12 straight up. I jumped out of bed and went outside in the dark forest and started calling for Mochi again... and he responded ♡♡♡♡ I then made my way to him and scooped him up. He spent the day napping after much to eat that early morning.

Last eve I rode down the hill as I was scheduled to do some trapping for KCCP. I made my dh a nice big pot of pretty yummy spaghetti and then took off to do my thing. I spent about 2-3 hours trapping at nice man's house. I was only allowed 4 spots for spay and neuter last night. I got 4, was thinking one kitten may be too young so set a few traps near my house and caught the tom I have been wanting to get and fixed forever. He just went in for surgery about an hour ago. Sooooo happy ♡♡♡

Also, nice man's cat colony is really sick so KCCP was able to diagnose, medicate and will provide me with the antibiotics and flea drops to treat the whole colony. I just gotta ride down the hill everyday for the next 5 days to do it. hehehe. Ok 🏍

Chickens?

Well, my rooftop layer seems to be putting them in the nest boxes again, yippee. And even though girls have slowed laying, I still have another 6 dozen to take down the hill.

I did not freerange the gang today because they have basically been being bad and just hanging out tramping the garden instead of wandering and chomping till their hearts delight. Kind of defeats the whole freerange thing and I don't want to spend the whole 1-3 hours shooing them so they don't flatten and kill everytlivinggreenthing in the front garden. Plus needed catch up nap.

Tonights trapping got canceled due to vets not able to get to all 50+ cats today and mine being delayed. So. That is ok. Next time right? Happy to just hang up here with all of my sweeties.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Yes, the scent of those is so sweet miView attachment 3585479ss all the tropical flowers. This is what we have here. Made this for my sweet 95 year old lady friend who was in the hospital.
Oh, what a good mama! The chicks are quite big already.

Beautiful

 

[ChicksnMore]

Well the naked neck ladies all went to their new home today. Or almost. Somehow I managed to miss one. We were talking and there were a lot of chickens to catch. After my friend left, I went back to tidy the coop and there she was wandering around wondering where everyone went. Guessing she was in a nest box or behind the feed and we were talking too much to notice. Shes a pretty girl.

I posted four peafowl for sale yesterday and have people coming tomorrow. So tonight I let them settle into bed and used a step ladder to reach the girl they want. Put her in the baby peas integration pen since they're not using it yet. Shes not happy but it's temporary and beats the heck out of trying to convince her to let me pick her up during the day when there's so many places I can't reach in there. She's friendly but doesn't like to be picked up at all! Remember Magic? Shes the only silver pied I kept from last year. She sure grew up well. She wasn't listed in the ad but the lady asked and I decided to let her go. Kinda wishing I'd said no .
Here she is in the integration pen wondering what's going on.