OK, this has stopped annoying me to the point that I start ranting, so now y'all can laugh at this.

( Crack a cold one. You'll be a while. )

So. Lucy (the red hen) is going into molt and decided she doesn't have the energy to lay for a while. That's ok, because Jenny (the white ... ish one) has gotten over her brood from when she laid the 16 and is starting to lay again. The cute part, however, is that Lucy has decided that her "comfort zone" is the rail on our kitchen porch and the ( Read more... )

Seen on the way to work today:

"Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason."

( Random life crap )

So.

I'm experimenting with cold extraction coffee, mostly because the most dangerous words in my household are, "I'm bored," and I know better than to mix explosive/hazardous stuff.

I made a small batch, and it seems to have reconstituted ok. At least, I haven't needed to put several spoonfuls of sugar in like I normally do. But it did leave me with ( Read more... )

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:has no base images to play with on this computer: -->
:should really be in bed: -->

Older son f*cked up his finger in afterschool sports. Didn't tell me until after dinner.
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One of the roof panels on the coop (a converted greenhouse, so, plastic roof) blew off in the massive wind gusts we're getting right now. Tried to put it back on. Blew off again. Repeated 2-3 more times while waiting for my son to come back up from the barn because the bolts are rusted, and I need him inside the coop to hold a wrench on the nut, ( Read more... )

Heard a fuss in the coop while helping older son get ready for bus. Run out expecting trouble (Hubby just told me his coworker lost the hen and chicks I sold him to weasels. They ripped the bottom of the coop door off. T^T).

Two adult chickens spontaneously appeared in the coop overnight. O_o

This must be investigated.

Edit: After letting everyone ( Read more... )

Trying to figure out of much pipe I need to run an arc roof over the corral so I can turn it into a chicken run. I know the corral is ~40' wide, and I need it to be about 10' at its peak (maybe more, but if I can nail the original math, I can fudge it #s later), which is ~4 feet  from the top of the posts I'm using to anchor the PVC pipe. My ( ( Read more... )

Something managed to dig into the chicken coop this morning. Given the tiny gap between base and stone to dig through (and the smell) I'm going to guess skunk. We didn't lose any birds, but we are down to 5 of the original 16 eggs I found almost 2 weeks ago. We'd lost a few over the past week or so, probably just because the poor girl can only ( Read more... )

Well, Jenny's pissed at me for moving her eggs & won't sit on them any more. I put them under the little black hen, but 1) she's tiny, 2) there's 16 large eggs, and 3) I don't know if the eggs got too chilled last night. :-( Oh well. The little one's been trying to hatch a golf ball she found, so maybe she'll be able to hatch a few of these out and ( Read more... )