What did you do with your flock today?

[kurby22]

🌤Happy Labor Day all!! Hope you all get an extra day of fun and/or rest.

Down the mountain chickens got their waterers scrubbed and freshened, feeders filled and papaya, lettuce and tomatoe snack.
Going to ride up the mountain with clean laundry, repaired shorts, fresh ground coffee, chicken feed and maybe a fun snack for all.
Checked my cameras last night and it was great to see the flock snuggled up in a fresh coop. Checked the cameras this morning and it was terrific to see DS painting a bag stand ♡♡♡
Got some chores to do today but going to keep it light and fun. Only 7 more bags that I have to finish by tomorrow. Doable.
Have an add out for the 2 boys but no responses yet...View attachment 3628036
They are kind of at that awkward stage anyways. Probably won't get any interest till they are close to 6 months... I'll keep trying till they are homed.

Sounds like the birds are fresh and clean now!

It’s such a bummer more people don’t want good boy roosters! I just love my boys, they’re all saucy but sweet, full of personality and more capable of being interactive and friendly. Unless they’re the young boys @LTAY1946 they sound quite naughty

 

[ChicksnMore]

I know, isn’t it fabulous? She bought the hat back in May at the Poultry Expo we were at, but I guess the lady also has an Etsy shop. They’re very patient chickens hahaha She also tried it on Peggy and Peggy was much less compliant haha.
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She also tried it on Shadow
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Aria must have a gentle touch to win their patience! Kids and pets are just a joy to watch

 

[Nomadicus]

Sounds like the birds are fresh and clean now!

It’s such a bummer more people don’t want good boy roosters! I just love my boys, they’re all saucy but sweet, full of personality and more capable of being interactive and friendly. Unless they’re the young boys @LTAY1946 they sound quite naughty

I have a few that are on the naughty side. That's ok as their one and only bad day is coming soon.

 

[Shetland lover]

This is an idea video for toys.
https://fb.watch/mS2Gza3nrU/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Some great ideas there! I love the cob string but mine are too lazy to eat corn from the cob

 

[Shetland lover]

Mine too! I'm probably going to end up looking like a ball of cotton candy . But family is family . DH has a very honest tongue...just no blinders and not good at holding it when he should.
I'm hoping she does better than the expectations I'm hearing too. I don't actually know her very well...just through chicken stuff. Shes an adorable chicken lady...just babies her birds to bits...but that's about all I know about her. I can't even imagine what she's going through.
Piggies doing wonderful! He's finally fully healed. Not sure he'll ever actually be tame...but he'll eat treats from my hand and makes cute inquiring grunts when he sees me. Don't think the sanctuarys ever actually going to take him. Live and learn on what fostering really means . So doing my best to get him to like people and asking around to see if I can find anyone interested in him. Think I might have a permanent guest here.

So glad he's healed! You certainly have the magic touch when it comes to healing animals ❤
He's obviously learning to trust you so I think you'll be building him a permanent pen....

 

[Shetland lover]

My SIL's son in law used to have a business catching feral pigs on Kauai. They found a piglet. Raised it for meat. Another friend would name and love on her pigs and butcher them when grown. I don't have the heart to do that, seems like you don't either. Glad it's all healed, thanks to your care.

No way could I raise animals for meat then slaughter them. I just don't have it in me. Hell, I even get upset killing red mite - of which we have a small outbreak . I can't use ivermectin at the moment since Gladys and Pru are mid-moult!

 

[Shetland lover]

I know, isn’t it fabulous? She bought the hat back in May at the Poultry Expo we were at, but I guess the lady also has an Etsy shop. They’re very patient chickens hahaha She also tried it on Peggy and Peggy was much less compliant haha.
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She also tried it on Shadow
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Shadow looks completely underwhelmed!
Is the hat felted? I do a bit of needle felting, might have a go!

 

[Shetland lover]

Sounds like you have a lot of brazen and naughty rats too! They destroy a lot of things!

Very much so! I think word has gotten out in the local rodent population that I used to feed our resident mice so it's probably my own fault they're so ballsy.

 

[Shetland lover]

I think it was yesterday that I came real close to running over a young pullet. She got away from the JD limping. I get surrounded all to often when moving supplies from the truck to their storage bins. No sooner was she deemed ok a young cockerel was chasing another young cockerel and one of them nearly got pinned between the front of the JD and a feed bin. Some days just get as crazy as I am. It's all better when my little red hen runs to me every morning now and gets in my lap to be fed one on one. I can tell she is not the top of the pecking order and needs a little special care. I've started collecting eggs from the RIR pullets that we hatched from our stock in March. Getting large eggs from them already. The Dark Cornish are laying a pink colored egg. At least one of the is. I'm well pleased with the demeanor of my White Giants that are also starting to lay a light brown egg. 7 Bresse pullets are laying 5-7 eggs a day now. My older Delaware girls didn't lay any eggs today and the RIR girls from our first purchased only laid 20. Both the Delaware and RIR flocks look really rough right now like they are starting to molt. I didn't think they would molt until a year old?

My brother's hamster was mown down by a tractor when we were kids. I was horrified, convinced it would be as flat as a pancake and very dead. It wasn't! Just got up, shook itself and scurried off. Probably helped that it was a child's sit and ride tractor...

Chickens have a juvenile moult, could be that?

 

[Shetland lover]

Sounds like the birds are fresh and clean now!

It’s such a bummer more people don’t want good boy roosters! I just love my boys, they’re all saucy but sweet, full of personality and more capable of being interactive and friendly. Unless they’re the young boys @LTAY1946 they sound quite naughty

I totally agree! DH and I were talking about the chickens yesterday as I was expressing my desire to get another Shetland. He said "We won't be getting more cockerels though, once Ferdy and Stan are gone?" I just gave him the side eye...