What did you do with your flock today?

[ChicksnMore]

Seems all the blood was from the one large clot. There was some smaller blood clot in her feathers. No more blood yet 4 hours have passed. I'll check her in the morning to see if there is any more.

Glad to hear she's not still bleeding. Sounds promising for her.

 

[TropicalBabies]

@ChicksnMore Belated answer sorry, I'm slow. Yes, spiderplant gone wild it is a great landscape plant up and down the mountain.

I wanted to poke around and get more mushroom photos but after moving the trailer coop back and then collecting the cats. That was a little trickier than I had hoped for and the saying "like hearding cats" came to mind... ​

Good to get home and see my chickens. We missed each other ♡ picked my first soursop and shared with my babies

Also dumped 10- 50lb feed bags of fresh mulch into the run. Nice. ​

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[ChicksnMore]

@ChicksnMore Belated answer sorry, I'm slow. Yes, spiderplant gone wild it is a great landscape plant up and down the mountain.View attachment 3365596View attachment 3365598​

I wanted to poke around and get more mushroom photos but after moving the trailer coop back and then collecting the cats... that was a little trickier than I had hoped for. The term hearding cats came to mind... ​

Good to get home and see my chickens. We missed each other ♡ picked my first soursop and shared with my babies View attachment 3365597​

Also dumped 10- 50lb feed bags into the run. Nice. ​

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Mmm that looks yummy
Sounds like your kitties have proper catitude...lol.
Love the wild spider plant. It does well here too outside, as long as it's in planters. It'll never naturalize here though. Lovely seeing what it looks like in nature

 

[Shetland lover]

Have to share a picture of a king bolete my kid found on a local mountain.View attachment 3364880View attachment 3364881Its was such a perfect mushroom too...no bugs or bad spots anywhere. Kimi was in heaven for days

Wow! Amazing! Reminds me of the field mushrooms I used to forage with my grandad. Size of dinner plates! You very rarely find them that sort of size anymore.

 

[Shetland lover]

@ChicksnMore Belated answer sorry, I'm slow. Yes, spiderplant gone wild it is a great landscape plant up and down the mountain.View attachment 3365596View attachment 3365598​

I wanted to poke around and get more mushroom photos but after moving the trailer coop back and then collecting the cats... that was a little trickier than I had hoped for. The term hearding cats came to mind... ​

Good to get home and see my chickens. We missed each other ♡ picked my first soursop and shared with my babies View attachment 3365597​

Also dumped 10- 50lb feed bags into the run. Nice. ​

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What did it taste like? And the texture? They really do intrigue me.

 

[Shetland lover]

We have a nice spell of dry weather, not that the ground will dry out before the next precipitation event. Went and let the chooks out, and white pullet Pikake has blood around her vent. I need to catch her tonight off the roost (takes some gymnastic abilities to do so) and investigate. Kind of shocking. No blood under the roosting bars or nesting boxes. Any ideas what is happening? She is acting normal. Could her vent have torn from a large egg? I didn't see anyone trying to peck her there. Blood seems fresh and still bright. Not profuse.

Could be straining to lay an overly large egg and burst a small blood vessel, as you said. If there's not much and it's bright red it's likely not desperately serious. Check for signs of prolapse though. Is she a young bird just started laying?

 

[kurby22]

Sounds like you are very busy!! I hope that Nohope is recovering! we were supposed to get a bunch of rain this week and luckily we haven’t seen any, but after the snow melted a few days ago, everything is still SOO muddy. I honestly have to say I don’t envy you. I’m sorry you’re going through all of that! I happy you caught that in JoJo! That would have just add so much more to your list if others had gotten it! JoJo looks absolutely annoyed

I’m trying very hard not to get my hopes up, since this “thing” has not ended well with any of them. He’s such a good boy! Loves to snuggle and makes such happy sounds when he gets food.

We got a ton more rain this afternoon and everything is super soggy again. Blah! The worst part of winter is the slop! I am certain you have to deal with worse! Snow slop is definitely worse…the pretty snow doesn’t last nearly long enough!

Yes, I do believe if looks could kill, JoJo may have taken me down with that face!

Mine also adore salmon (and just about any fish I've tried them on). Nohope certainly looks well in himself. His comb and wattles are beautifully red. His eating well and wanting to move about are all great signs!
Poor JoJo! He looks thoroughly annoyed with life. It must be a relief to not have itchy lice on him though.
Your new quail pens sound wonderful, like little palaces!

I’m glad you think he looks well too! Sometimes I wonder if I’m imagining his healthy glow because I want him to be better! He has been able to move himself where he wants to go, just wouldn’t call it walking! But I’ll take it!

I’m not sure if JoJo is going to make it—he’s very quiet and pale. I gave him vitamins and he’s nice and dry…but he makes no noise and sleeps. I’m hoping with the vitamins and the rest he will bounce back.

Yeah I’m super excited about the quail coop, they deserve more space! I decided to make the walls half plywood, 1/2 hardware cloth, and the entire front will be well-framed large doors with cloth centers. They need the summer ventilation! Roof is going to be a leanto with gray pvc plastic to allow some light thru but not too much. Working on my drawings

@ChicksnMore Kirin... after the beer too?! as I recall it was not a bad beer especially with sushi (in a sushi bar, with friends and saki!)

@kurby22 I am excited for you and your new housing project. I'm right behind you on the major coop clean. Cool you had a family event out of the chore. Many hands 🖐🖐🖐.

I'm still up Koke'e but plan to make my way down by noon. We got the yard all raked and it looks great except for a few gardening spots that I will have to get back to. Also, got my truck loaded up with mulch ☑
Miss my chickens a lot. Think Princess Gracie jumped on my camera so I don't have the full view of my run anymore need to move that camera higher and also install a second camera in the run or something... need to figure that out
Also we made the hard decision to sell Cisco and I have to go down and deal with his rehoming. Time for him to have younger people . Have had a few good calls so looking forward to meeting with people this week We are not in a hurry but he is a looker of a good age and got a lot of interest.

It is 6am and still pitch black here. Not much I can do without waking dh except have another cup of joe and catch up on byc.

Haha, my kids and husband did not find it as cool or fun at all The clean coop does make me happy though! They needed it!

I am testing out my colors on the new roost bar addition I want to add to the coop. So this one got Gypsy Teal…it’s really a pretty color!

I love love love your quail plans! Lucky lil birds .
Hope you didn't overdo it and that your backs ok today.
How wonderful that your whole family pitched in...your raising some great kids there!

I'm so jealous of your beautiful mulch pile!
That is a hard decision on Cisco but can certainly understand. Hope you find him a good home with lots of horse crazy youngsters.

Is that a wild spider plant I spy?

I was on a girl scout camping trip once and a girls little brother had joined us for the day. I had the kids hunting for conk mushrooms for a project and the little guy kept pointing to every little brown mushroom he saw wanting an id. I told him those are all called LBM's and explained how hard it is sometimes to I'd a mushroom. Poor lil tyke was soo disappointed!

Thanks! I am doing my best to work patiently and do what I can when I can. Right now I can sit on my memory foam cushion hand sanding cheapie furring strip boards to make coop doors and trim. Cheap wood for a reason! Then I’m painting all the studs and exposed to the ground wood Flexseal white. I do them a bunch at a time for a couple hours and it seems to limit the pain to my back!

 

[Shetland lover]

I’m not sure if JoJo is going to make it—he’s very quiet and pale. I gave him vitamins and he’s nice and dry…but he makes no noise and sleeps. I’m hoping with the vitamins and the rest he will bounce back.

I really, really hope he makes it too. I wonder if he has something underlying going on? Hopefully he just needs the vitamins and a good rest.

That teal is beautiful. I'm biased though as I had a piano stool painted that colour paired with a very pale olive trim and a William Morris style needlepoint I made for the seat

It's great when you can find useful activities that don't hurt your back. I'm having a slower day today, after spending most of the day in the kitchen on New Year's day then all day yesterday mucking out the two coops, disinfecting and riddling the sand I put down, then tidying the back garden, shampooing the grass and sawing up the branches I cut back just before Christmas. Oh, and belatedly planting hundreds of spring bulbs. Don't know why I actually bothered with that as it's really too late to put them in and Pru and Gladys went round last year pulling up any tulip they came across and flinging them round the garden.
My back wasn't great last night but I couldn't get out of bed this morning as it had gone into total spasm. It's eased off a bit now but a definite message to take it a bit easier.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

This weather is insane!
First rains
Then blizzard
Then tornadoes and flooding
Guess only thing we won't have is volcano!
No wonder all of em are sneezing!

@TropicalBabies that spider plant is amazing!!!
@kurby22 I feel for you n all the soggy mess. Hope JoJo gets better! So much illness. I wouldn't know what to do!

 

[TropicalBabies]

What did it taste like? And the texture? They really do intrigue me.

Kind of like a soft pineapple x lychee.
They are less sweet than the pineapple and don't taste as sugary and the texture is soft and pliable that is firm enough to section off usually with a big black seed in it that spits out easily. I would not know how to cut it, it is more of a cut a section off and hold and eat and pop out seeds as you go.

I am so impressed with all of you mushroom hunters. I have thought of buying plugs and plugging a log or 2 up Koke'e but never learning and harvesting from the forest. Mr son is a bit of a mushroom head too but just a little, he is mostly busy with being a young man. So, i'm intrigued. Your big beautiful showy shrooms are too beautiful to not get a heartfelt reaction. It is like a whole world into itself amazing!