Evening all.
Mukwonago has a really cool park with shelters, too. Have driven by it, they hold all sorts of different things there. Don't know what/if they charge, though. Never been to bong, will have to look it up.
Had to give a talk on cruciate disease to the techs today, they seemed to enjoy it. By the time I got through the "hey, since you're here"s it was after noon. So much for a day off. LOL
Got my first silkie egg today.
Just put in 6 Marans eggs, 11 or so Lavender Bantam Ameraucana eggs, the 1 Silkie egg, and 20-25 Ameraucana x probably Marans eggs. (There are other cockerels out there feeling manly, so if they made it through the Marans rooster the cross could be x Ameraucana or Iowa Blue or White Whitefaced Spanish or Wyandotte...think that's all of them.) NEED to get that last wall of the bachelor pen finished and more these boys out of my miscellaneous/layer pen.
Man, I'm loving my Iowa blues. Plucky little things and the heat didn't begin the phase them. Heat, what heat? The boys live up to their reputation, they'd breed a shoe if it was available. Can't wait til my little 2 pullets get to egg laying age. The 7 younger IBs are growing nicely and are out in the growout pen now.
No more losses in the heat. Recruited DH to hose the pen/chickens down a couple times a day which they appreciated (once they were cool, didn't exactly appreciate the sprinkling itself).
I need some cats that will chase grinnys. Little suckers have more troops than the army. Hubby has been waging war on them with a bb gun, but they keep coming. Wouldn't minds them so much if they weren't so bold as to sit in the chicken's pan and wait for me to feed them. It was getting out of hand. We've got one outdoor cat, but she's not much of an outdoor cat. She's an outdoor cat because she decided the house was her litter box. Pee on the rug right in front of me, earn your outdoor visa. She loves it, but a hunter she is not. Now my old Maggie that I lost this year...declawed, 8 pound, little slip of a calico barn cat that I got as a 5 week old kitten from a farm...THAT cat never learned to hunt with Momma, but she was death on mice. Hell on strange visiting cats as well. She was little, but NO cat would think of taking her on with her war cry. Miss my Maggles. She had a good 19 years on this earth and now rests under a pussy willow tree.
We'll probably get another indoor cat some day, but not now with the boys so young. 1 and 2 year old + litter box? Yeah, no thank you.
Think I'll go look at rabbit hutch condos/caging to separate a couple birds. Would like to show my silkies at least, but don't want them to get torn up. If they're starting to lay eggs, chances are the cockerel will get after their feathers.
