What did you do with your flock today?

[Shetland lover]

@FBMcrazy8 I am so sorry bout the lil babies!!! I was just gonna ask if this was your first time letting hens hatch n be mommas...so hard to know how they will do til you try.

@PopoMyers congrats on the progress with your hand!!!
@Shetland lover how's your shoulder?!
@ChicksnMore must have missed or forgotten bout your foot?! Glad u r doin better!

@TropicalBabies so did I understand that yall made those pots?! They look amazing!
Your papaya looks like my poor lambs ear! Crazy chickens!

My shoulder is aching like mad but I think it is on the mend. Thanks for asking. Are you feeling any better?

 

[Shetland lover]

With not really being able to bake due to the shoulder and neither of us being big egg eaters, the ladies offerings have kind of built up - 44 in the last 9 days - somebody's definitely laying more than once a day...

 

[ChicksnMore]

That WAS a papyrus View attachment 3473295they ate the floating ferns and water weeds and grasses... it was kind of loaded it was supposed to have the parent plants. Chickens

Bet they're happy chickens at least?

I think we are, yes! Although we've had 2 days of relatively sunny weather (been too unwell to enjoy it though and we have a friend's funeral to attend today).
I've heard of Greensleeves but I've never tasted them. What are they like, taste-wise?
We grow Pittmaston Pineapple apples which date from the 17th century and do taste of pineapple once fully ripe. They are delicious and store well but they're very small and only fruit well every other year. I suppose that's why so few people grow them anymore.
We also grow more normal types too.
Are you able to get a U.K. gardening programme called "Beechgrove"? It's set in Aberdeenshire and i find it very useful in letting me know when i ought to be doing certain things in the garden as they are roughly a week to two weeks behind the rest of the country.

I found a link to some nice scone recipes for your Afternoon Tea, they're all from the National Trust and I've not tried them all but those I have are delicious. A little tip, don't roll them out too thinly. There's nothing worse than a flat scone, they should be fat and fluffy.

https://www.nationaltrustscones.com/2017/11/50-national-trust-scone-recipes-tried.html

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/di...desserts/honey-and-apple-scones?origin=search

The 2nd link has some nice cakes you might be able to use too.

Those sound yummy!

Well can't sleep...stupid hormones
Anyways...ole bootyhead Joey is surviving n I guess worse than ever. Idk what to do with the turd. DH is ready to kill him but he wouldn't really kill a fly (remember he tried to put our poor old blind cat out of it's misery after our rottie crushed his hips and he turned his head to shoot instead of looking and the poor cat meowed)...DH too kindhearted sometimes lol. I had him listed AGAIN for sell...for free but no takers...not even a response from a local sanctuary on suggestions even.
On a side note QUESTION: my boys have gotten bad about crowing off and on during the night. Why!?!
They seen to do it worse whenever they sleep on their coop porch rather than inside the coop.
With temps warming up I have always let em sleep on this 10' long porch (all secure inside their run) rather than in the closed up coop due to our insane humidity.
Any thoughts on night crowin?!

Your hubby sounds like a sweetheart . Night crowing seems to me just just like @Shetland lover said. Reacting to something around them.

Oh goodness we had a lot of rain yesterday, so bad I did no even collect eggs. I was pleasantly surprised but my chickens unimpressed. Poor things were sopping wet on their roosts last eve with a ton of mosquitos attacking. I sprayed them and had the fan on a low setting pointed a little more away as I did not want them to chill. All zappers and dyna going, too wet for punks. Super good news is I got notice the bait stations are on their way! So excited! And thank you again @Gammas Bearded Babies ! I will (of course) keep you all posted.
Well, we are going back to a drier weather pattern today so I will hang the last of my sticky traps to pick off a few more of the masses. Also reset the fly traps.
Coffee, laundry and clean up is all I plan on doing today

Must have been a load of rain!

With not really being able to bake due to the shoulder and neither of us being big egg eaters, the ladies offerings have kind of built up - 44 in the last 9 days - somebody's definitely laying more than once a day...View attachment 3473629

Are you going to try water glassing or something to preserve them? Beautiful eggs.

 

[ChicksnMore]

My weeks been off for some reason So today I'm going to try to get back on track and process some veggies. I did get some tiling started in the bathroom yesterday. Got the hardest to do side of the cabinet done. It's also the side tucked into a corner and hard to see, so a good place to start. It can hide my learning curve. Not my ideal tiles but they were cheap and I'm happy with it.
Hope everyone's having a good day

 

[TropicalBabies]

I think we are, yes! Although we've had 2 days of relatively sunny weather (been too unwell to enjoy it though and we have a friend's funeral to attend today)

Too unwell ? The shoulder or more now? Sorry for your loss. ♥︎

 

[TropicalBabies]

My weeks been off for some reason So today I'm going to try to get back on track and process some veggies. I did get some tiling started in the bathroom yesterday. Got the hardest to do side of the cabinet done. It's also the side tucked into a corner and hard to see, so a good place to start. It can hide my learning curve. Not my ideal tiles but they were cheap and I'm happy with it.
Hope everyone's having a good day

Man! Your projects are making me jealous! I need a kithen backslash, vanity countertops and splash in our bathroom. Too hard getting approval for anything. And I am a tile person lol. Do it for days ♡

K. Did an online auction last eve and have to go pick up my stuff today. Hope I chose well Some stuff needs to be reworked and I paid more than I wanted. Should of just let go of the vision... but it is part of the shop redo that is not happening yet Well, I am still stubborn enough to make it happen. That may be our last big rain... and hopefully no more visitors or drama for a bit so can start to focus on that. I'm a little ahead on my bags for a second because sales have been slower. So... good lol. Maybe today I will process more bags for the future organization,- b4 and after I go pick up my junk, weather willing.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Man! Your projects are making me jealous! I need a kithen backslash, vanity countertops and splash in our bathroom. Too hard getting approval for anything. And I am a tile person lol. Do it for days ♡

K. Did an online auction last eve and have to go pick up my stuff today. Hope I chose well Some stuff needs to be reworked and I paid more than I wanted. Should of just let go of the vision... but it is part of the shop redo that is not happening yet Well, I am still stubborn enough to make it happen. That may be our last big rain... and hopefully no more visitors or drama for a bit so can start to focus on that. I'm a little ahead on my bags for a second because sales have been slower. So... good lol. Maybe today I will process more bags for the future organization,- b4 and after I go pick up my junk, weather willing.

I'm slow about getting the stuff I'd like to do done and there's a lot of big projects I haven't done because I'd need to get approval from hubby first. I want to replace almost all of our flooring and I'd love fresh paint through out the whole house. But I won't get those things unless I can convince hubby. Little projects I just surprise him with when he gets home and sees them...lol.

The auction sounds fun! Hope everythings even better finds then you anticipate

 

[Shetland lover]

Bet they're happy chickens at least?

Those sound yummy!

Your hubby sounds like a sweetheart . Night crowing seems to me just just like @Shetland lover said. Reacting to something around them.

Must have been a load of rain!

Are you going to try water glassing or something to preserve them? Beautiful eggs.

I usually just give away or freeze any excess tbh. I've seen videos of water glassing but haven't been brave enough to try it. Maybe I should? Not that I'm complaining but I wish the girls would slow down just a little, I'm getting 100% eggs a day at the moment. I can usually tell who laid which egg but I'm not totally sure whether Penelope or Clara is the one laying more than an egg a day occasionally. Pru lays large (for a bantam Cochin), pointed eggs so it's not her and obviously Gladys lays the pale blue/green ones so ....?

I'll let the girls know you think their eggs are beautiful, they'll be chuffed! I think They are lovely too. I miss Maud's blush pink eggs though.

 

[Shetland lover]

Too unwell ? The shoulder or more now? Sorry for your loss. ♥︎

Thank you ❤
Just a big flare-up of one of my existing conditions, i have another exam next week so I can do without any complications!

 

[Shetland lover]

Man! Your projects are making me jealous! I need a kithen backslash, vanity countertops and splash in our bathroom. Too hard getting approval for anything. And I am a tile person lol. Do it for days ♡

K. Did an online auction last eve and have to go pick up my stuff today. Hope I chose well Some stuff needs to be reworked and I paid more than I wanted. Should of just let go of the vision... but it is part of the shop redo that is not happening yet Well, I am still stubborn enough to make it happen. That may be our last big rain... and hopefully no more visitors or drama for a bit so can start to focus on that. I'm a little ahead on my bags for a second because sales have been slower. So... good lol. Maybe today I will process more bags for the future organization,- b4 and after I go pick up my junk, weather willing.

I love tiling too. I tiled our kitchen and bathroom, find it very soothing.
Auctions are great, what did you buy?