One Lonely Chick

After many tries Prissy has one little chick! Several weeks ago 3 days before she was ready to hatch her brood all 11 of her eggs disappeared over night! she was a mess. Attacking other hens squacking. It was aweful. So we put some more eggs in her nest. Then Phillip caught Honey eat an egg... whole... you couldn't tell there was ever an egg there. He put out of the hen house and before his back was turned she was at it again! A few days later Granny was attacking Honey..... So! We have a problem..

And we moved Prissy and her new batch of eggs. She ended up with one little chick this year instead of 1/2 dozen like last year. But with all the drama I'm glad she finally got something. even if it did take a couple months longer than normal :D

1st Monday!

It's 1st Monday again!
And that means it's time for the 1st Monday Sale with the Team Etsy Texas group.
I am offering Buy One Get One 25% off anything in my Etsy Shop.
Take a look :)

Pictures

Derek's Birthday cake Raspberry truffle something


Group picture


Wyatt & Pepper






Wyatt's Chicken


Fallon's Dye job
Christmas Lights



Jenna's Dye job
Summer Breeze



Everytime we open the back door



George posing

Summer

Summer is moving along. the niece and nephew have been here a couple of weeks now. They are doing great. Fallon has had to do some adjusting to being the youngest and how things are done here. Rules are a little different I guess. We took all FIVE kids to the movies Saturday. I haven't had that many with me in a LONG time :) We saw Night At the Museum 2. Not bad. They all had a good time. On the way home I surprised them with DQ dip cones & lots of napkins. It got to 101 that day. Hottest day of the week. since then it's only been like 94.

I caught Honey breaking eggs and eating them last night. And my 2 broody hens proceeded to attack her for it. One went for the face wattle and wouldn't let go. Then when I pulled an egg from a nesting box she jumped at my hand and tried to get the egg. :( So I guess she will truely be noodles since she is bonkers for eggs. While we're at it we will cull the extra roosters. Jennifer and I pulled 4 out of the mix while she was here. They have grown a TON since she left. The 5th one we left out is a toss up what it is. It hasn't grown any yet. so maybe its one of those masculine hens ;-)

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.

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.

The Chickies are Integrated!

We moved the 20 chicks in with the other big chickens. They seem to be doing great.