What did you do with your flock today?

[Shetland lover]

I’m behind too…

All around I hope you had a great Christmas with the family! And around here I could see maybe one or 2 but I can’t promise they would want that for their birthday. That is cool! My oldest was asked once what she wanted for her birthday when she was 6. She didn’t have very many words but what she could say I understood rather well. This particular year all she wanted for her birthday….was CHIPS. Yes chips. So I went to the store, bought her chips and wrapped them. She was the happiest little girl opening those bags of chips.

My youngest brother asked for a rock for his 4th birthday

 

[Shetland lover]

Can do! They have been eating puppy food lately instead of just on momma…who is annoyed with them. At least with them nursing. But those guys have teeth now for sure. I weighed them last night and they are up to 6/7 lbs. and last week they were only 4 lbs with 2 of them at 5.

Don’t mind the flower on the floor in the background, I just made a birthday cake for a little girl. Her birthday happens to fall on Christmas but her mom celebrated a little early, which i would have to also. I was pretty happy with. I will attach a picture of that as well. The one of the puppy on the rug is chewing on a bone her momma had.

Oh, my heart just melted looking at those adorable babies! They're certainly growing fast!
The cake is great. I love the way you've made the tree.

 

[Shetland lover]

So sad. I too have hostas around my trees, which are in their reach, and have put fencing around them. The deer easily reached over the short fence and ate half of them, so put taller fence. Chickens ate anything else poking outside the fence, and I have 2 little mischievous pullet who go over said fence and will also get high up in the tree. One of them also escaped out of my new 6 ft. fenced in huge run. Cockerel Ertugrul was beside himself.

Maybe he thought they were turkeys? Lol. DH can remember specific movie lines, but not other things.

Sure does look lovely. Lucky you to have a mulch source. The leaves we put in the run eliminated, or maybe just sealed, off the stinky mud, so not hauna anymore. Haven't heard bumbai in a long time. For non-locals, that means "I can procrastinate on this project". So glad to hear that Mochi is home. I know you are both happy to snuggle once again. You have the beginnings of another Waimea Canyon? Yikes!

At least we don't have deer to worry about where we currently live. I grow one variegated hosta in a 4 ft tall pot. Gladys, being a giraffe of a hen, can just about reach any leaves which spill over the sides but the bantams can't. It's hilarious watching them flinging themselves in the air trying to grab a mouthful of 'forbidden fruit'
Ferdy freaks out if the girls go AWOL too. He's a very conscientious roo.


Sounds just like my DH! He's a real movie buff and can quote lines at you all day. Didn't even know what day of the week it was today! Turkeys? He can't even remember seeing ANY birds

 

[Shetland lover]

Yesterday, found rat poo in one of the nesting boxes! So, discovered and excavated all the tunnels under the board panels that were in the ground around the coop. Dug a 6" trench and placed flat, rectangular concrete pavers vertically flush with the coop bottom board. The railroad tie plates seem to be holding on the other side. We have enough extension cords to plug in their heated water fount, and just in time. Forecast after Christmas is below freezing. We have flurries, light snow through the next day, then rain all weekend. Two hens are in their raggedy stage of molting. Do you think they will be ok with temps in the 20's?

That is absolutely gross! Rat poo in the nest boxes cannot be tolerated! That's my job on Wednesday. I plan on lifting the slabs I just laid and digging any tunnels out. If I can find where they're getting under the garden wall, I've got some anti rodent mesh to block the hole then line the perimeter of the run with it. IF I can find a way to cut it, I've had no success with either pair of wire cutters i have.

 

[Shetland lover]

Your platter is to die for! The English are so charming with out effort ♡

Thank you. I think that might be the very first time I've been called charming!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

@FBMcrazy8 they calling for you to have insane temp changes Thursday like they are us in TN? Wondered what you had planned for your babies (chickens lol).

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Oh, my heart just melted looking at those adorable babies! They're certainly growing fast!
The cake is great. I love the way you've made the tree.

Thank you! They are growing crazy fast but oh so much fun!!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

@FBMcrazy8 they calling for you to have insane temp changes Thursday like they are us in TN? Wondered what you had planned for your babies (chickens lol).

I have no idea! It’s going to be -7 and wind at 25/35 mph. I’m hoping the wind breakers I have will help them all but I am nervous. What are you doing?

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I have no idea! It’s going to be -7 and wind at 25/35 mph. I’m hoping the wind breakers I have will help them all but I am nervous. What are you doing?

Well I didn't think they were gonna keep changing it to get worse! But now I'm getting xonxerned cuz I only covered 2 sides of the run...so I'm not sure.

 

[The Birb King]

I hung out with my chickens and fed them. Same as always