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I finally uploaded the photos from the weekend. Of course they are chicken heavy, as I do love my chickens. This is one of the Rebas who are huge and lay very big brown eggs. I had capris on when I went into the chicken house, and the capris had strings on the side of the leg. The chickens attacked me trying to eat my strings. I had to tuck the strings up the legs just to get out alive!
Give me those string woman!!!
Cecil is still the man of the flock. He pushes the hens around and plucks all the feathers off their butts. He is lacking in the fertilization department, and we are bringing in a few fertilized eggs from Maria and Toby’s just so the hens can actually sit on eggs that will hatch. They have been spending a lot of time and effort trying.
Shooting blanks???? Who said shooting blanks???
This is the road on which Possum Manor West resides. Busy, busy, busy.
Possum Manor West is on Fontana Lake. The damn controls the water level, and at this time of year it is low. By summer the water will be up to the trees. I have read that there are areas of the lake more than 400 feet deep. The lake is man made, and there is a town complete with post office, under the lake. I believe it is the town of Japan, pronounced Jaypan.
The flowers are out, and all the rain has made them very pretty. I think these are Iris.
I have no idea what these are, but they are everywhere.
These lasted the whole winter, even in that horrible cold spell we had.
Carrie has a strawberry bed too. The cat got in it and dug most of them up, but she now has build a shelter for them against birds and cat. We have a couple of strawberries already.
very nice pics….the flowers are beautiful and ofcourse the chickens are very cute….now where’s that video?!?! lol
Nice pictures. Yes, those are Irises. The pink and white look like they might be Phox or a woodland flower that goes wild. Phox can be different highs. This looks like some that I had lining my driveway for years. I had to get rid of them because they were taking over everything, even the grass. Do you think you can fool those chickens by giving them some other chickens eggs? They might be smarter then you think.
i would SO kill to see a video of the chickens going after those strings! Isn’t giving them fertilized eggs actually a fairly common practice? We can only hope they won’t run out of patience before the hatching!
It is common to give them fertilized eggs to sit on. Our problem right now is that they keeping laying in the same nest on which they are sitting. So each day there are seven or eight new eggs, but we have no idea which are new and which are old. Tonight, Carrie will take away all the old eggs, except the Silkie ones, since they have the possibility of being fertilized, and she will put down the six we got from our neighbors. I have marked them each with a big X. Then she can remove the new eggs each day. We could separate the sitting hen, which we are suppose to do, but they are all taking turns. Stupid chickens.