What did you do with your flock today?

[Shetland lover]

I do not have a cluster of BEAUTIFUL lilies or charm of the English ♡♡♡ but I thought my front chicken proof garden has been looking terrific this last week so I will share... before it gets too over heated and stressed out.View attachment 3556653
My fish containers are a joyView attachment 3556660
And the one lily the deer did not munch on up Koke'e had another bloom. She ate all of the white agapanthus buds though lol.View attachment 3556659

It is beautiful, Tropical Babies ❤❤❤
I just love tropical foliage and blooms.

 

[Shetland lover]

All your beautiful blooms made me smile @Shetland lover and @PopoMyers ! So I took a walk around my garden looking at my few precious flowers Yep...almost everythings hunkered down for the summer heat. But I have a few sparse blooms hanging in there!View attachment 3556319View attachment 3556321View attachment 3556322View attachment 3556324
And my Mexican elderberry is fruiting for the first time! View attachment 3556327

Just lovely!
What's the purple flower a bit like a stretocarpus?
I adore plumbago! We can only grow it outside in a good summer and needs to come indoors by autumn. You are so lucky!

 

[Shetland lover]

I know that new threads get lost in this forum because things move so fast, so here's a link to a thread I started about a noxious weed I found today that's a potential danger to chickens. Tansy ragwort, bad stuff.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-found-a-poisonous-tansy-ragwort-plant.1587388/



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We have similar plants here, ragwort and Oxford ragwort. They are highly toxic to nearly all livestock. It's actually been legislated against in the 1952 Weeds Act and landowners have a legal responsibility to control it. It's also the favourite foodplant of the cinnibar moth caterpillar whose numbers are in serious decline.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Just lovely!
What's the purple flower a bit like a stretocarpus?
I adore plumbago! We can only grow it outside in a good summer and needs to come indoors by autumn. You are so lucky!

The purple flowers are mexican petunias. Thirsty plants so I keep them in containers with a water reservoir...but as long as they have the water they don't care at all about the heat

 

[ChicksnMore]

We have similar plants here, ragwort and Oxford ragwort. They are highly toxic to nearly all livestock. It's actually been legislated against in the 1952 Weeds Act and landowners have a legal responsibility to control it. It's also the favourite foodplant of the cinnibar moth caterpillar whose numbers are in serious decline.

It's sad when a problem plants also needed for a species. We have dutchman's pipe here. It's not a huge problem with livestock, but the kind we have attracts biting flies so who wants it right? But it's also a food source for pipevine swallowtail butterflies. ☹

 

[ChicksnMore]

Had three more peachicks hatch. Two black shoulder and one white. I'm outside enjoying the morning but will get pictures of them together later. That's the last of friends eggs and I'm hoping the peas have wrapped up laying for the year. It's nice seeing the incubator starting to empty.

Started making a chess table for my youngest. Wanted something special she could take with her when she heads off for college in August. She likes chess and it's small so easy to take with. Started with a $2 yard sell find. Long ways to go but happy with how it's coming along.

 

[Nomadicus]

Actually today I've started putting out a new layer of pine shavings in the coops.

 

[Smokerbill]

We have similar plants here, ragwort and Oxford ragwort. They are highly toxic to nearly all livestock. It's actually been legislated against in the 1952 Weeds Act and landowners have a legal responsibility to control it. It's also the favourite foodplant of the cinnibar moth caterpillar whose numbers are in serious decline.

I saw a cinnabar moth on the back of my house last year, so I guess there must have been some tansy ragwort in the area then. Wikipedia says that the Cinnabar moth was introduced to North America specifically for ragwort control. Interesting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar_moth

 

[Smokerbill]

I found a chicken egg in my yard yesterday, with a hole pecked in one side. And my chickens aren't even close to laying yet.

How did it get there? My guess, a raven carried it to my yard from who knows where. There's a guy with chickens about 1/4 mile away from me, so maybe that was the source.

And there are lots of ravens around here now. I hear the young ones screaming all the time.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Had three more peachicks hatch. Two black shoulder and one white. I'm outside enjoying the morning but will get pictures of them together later. That's the last of friends eggs and I'm hoping the peas have wrapped up laying for the year. It's nice seeing the incubator starting to empty.

Started making a chess table for my youngest. Wanted something special she could take with her when she heads off for college in August. She likes chess and it's small so easy to take with. Started with a $2 yard sell find. Long ways to go but happy with how it's coming along.View attachment 3557425

What a gorgeous table and idea ♡♡♡ what have you done so far and what are your plans? Please keep me posted as I love this kind of stuff ♡♡♡