Monday, May 11, 2009
May Socks
Here is a progress picture of the 3! Yes 3 pair of socks I cast on this month. From left to right (all 1st socks, and #1 sock of 2)... Glynis from my Sock Innovation book I mentioned before that I am in a group knit with. The middle sock is Pomatomus, same designer, different group. They are knitting the book as well but in a different order and with alternates. I chose the alt, mainly because I been "going to" for a long time and never did & had the yarn. The last sock, still looks like a sock monkey butt to me. That will change soon. It is a "Mystery Knit-a-Long". Which is fun. No one but the designer and test knitter know what it looks like before hand. Every week a new clue is released. The deadline to finish the 1st 2 pair is May 31. The Mystery Sock is June 30.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Broody Strange Chickens
AnnaBelle has gone broody. And only one of the eggs she is sitting on is hers haha. It looks like there are 7 eggs.
Honey is being a bully to the babies. I guess it's her turn. The other hens were really aweful to her when we got her.
Hershey keeps to herself she's still a bit spastic but she's no longer at the bottom of the pack.
The chicks are now 3 months old. We are down to 20. Total. We figured out what was getting them when they were smaller...snakes. Last night when I opened the main door for me a snake zoomed into the hen house. Deven tried to stop it with a board and missed so I went and got Phillip. We ended up finding 2 snakes in the hen house. It was 2 dark for the bigger chickens to see them or they would have killed them themselves. They were non fanged snakes, but they were right next to chicks that wanted to nest in the hay floor instead of the lower roost. They were 2.5 - 3 ft long skinny snakes with small heads. It was too dark to see true color. I think they had stripes. We've already had 2 rat snakes in the nest boxes eating eggs this year. THOSE bite! and 2 5 ft snakes by the driveway. Last year we had a total of 2 snakes. ALL YEAR. So for us, it's the year of the snake LOL
2 of the white pullets that had hot pink "hair" as chicks are actually cockerals! We separated them out. They've been causing problems.
The other night only one chick got lost on the way to hen house to go to bed. Last night 8 decided to sit where they were?!
The little runt black cochin has pulled all her feathers out that she can reach, clear to her ankles. and when they grow back..... she pulls them out again. We call her "Nakey Butt" She just looks SO weird flapping her wings and all you see is skin.
Honey is being a bully to the babies. I guess it's her turn. The other hens were really aweful to her when we got her.
Hershey keeps to herself she's still a bit spastic but she's no longer at the bottom of the pack.
The chicks are now 3 months old. We are down to 20. Total. We figured out what was getting them when they were smaller...snakes. Last night when I opened the main door for me a snake zoomed into the hen house. Deven tried to stop it with a board and missed so I went and got Phillip. We ended up finding 2 snakes in the hen house. It was 2 dark for the bigger chickens to see them or they would have killed them themselves. They were non fanged snakes, but they were right next to chicks that wanted to nest in the hay floor instead of the lower roost. They were 2.5 - 3 ft long skinny snakes with small heads. It was too dark to see true color. I think they had stripes. We've already had 2 rat snakes in the nest boxes eating eggs this year. THOSE bite! and 2 5 ft snakes by the driveway. Last year we had a total of 2 snakes. ALL YEAR. So for us, it's the year of the snake LOL
2 of the white pullets that had hot pink "hair" as chicks are actually cockerals! We separated them out. They've been causing problems.
The other night only one chick got lost on the way to hen house to go to bed. Last night 8 decided to sit where they were?!
The little runt black cochin has pulled all her feathers out that she can reach, clear to her ankles. and when they grow back..... she pulls them out again. We call her "Nakey Butt" She just looks SO weird flapping her wings and all you see is skin.
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Chickies are Integrated!
We moved the 20 chicks in with the other big chickens. They seem to be doing great.
Friday, May 1, 2009
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