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Oh it was soooo beautiful today. And a beautiful day means lots and lots of blogging fodder. In fact, I have three days of topics. Today’s topic is the wonderfully, sunny, colorful Saturday.
First, here is a Little Sprout. She is certainly a cutie, and is getting fluffier each day. She is also changing in color. At birth, or hatch as it really was, she was all black; now she is getting a bit grey or blue on her sides. What a noisy baby she is too.
The photo crop is a bit fuzzy, but you get the idea.
The sky was so blue…no rain….hear me, no rain!!!!
There are hundreds of leaves and millions of acorns on the back deck. It is pretty, but a bit slippery because of wet leaves.
I am not fond of spiders, and this one will probably give me nightmares. It is on the outside screen of the bathroom at Possum Manor West. I think I will never go to the bathroom there again.
Now for the videos……
I will never be tired of videos. Sprout is amazingly cute, but you have to admit Butter Bean has real stage presence…and while i get why we are calling Sprout a girl…how do you actually determine the sex of a chicken? DO you have to wait for them to develop that weird thing on top of their heads and that other weird thing under their chins or what?
And that damn spider could have easily have auditioned for Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings…i am even now flashing on poor Frodo all webbed up…and i am never, never, never setting foot in Possum Manor, oh no not me, no. it was bad enough i was already scared of Ann, and now you’ve shown me the Manor monster.
I do not know how to tell what sex the chicken is, so we will have to wait to see. I am calling her a her because I want it to be a her. Two roosters often fight, so if she is a she, there will be no problem, and I guess incest is not a thing among chickens.
As for the spider, I am with you. However, it is not at Possum Manor but 84 miles west at Possum Manor West.
LOVE, love, love the videos!! Will never get tired of watching them.
Possom Manor looks beautiful with all the leaves and the halloween decorations and the chickens are adorable.
However, I must tell you my computer ate your last blog about Ann’s Doctor Doolittle and I never did get to post but I hope she is feeling better and you know soon the results of the tests she has to take.
Spiders freak me out too, Kathie. But, if it makes you feel any better, that is a writing spider… the kind Charlotte (of Charlotte’s Web)is.
I will never get tired of your videos. They are great!
Chicken sexing…..with some breeds you can determine the sex of a chick by the length of their wing feathers but with others you have to wait until they are 6 weeks old when the other gender characteristics are evident. If it turns out to be a boy, can you send him to PMW?
The spider is beautiful….as long as it is in a photograph. I wouldn’t get close enough to it to see it live and in person. LOL
Little Sprout is soooooo cute. I like to see more videos of her/him. Is there some animal store and vet that you can ask about determining the sex of a chicken?
Does this web site help you determine the sex of Little Sprout? http://www.ehow.com/how_2259107_determine-gender-chicken.html
I love this blog, i really do. Never did i think i would ever know how (in theory at least)to sex a chicken. And certainly i would never have been able to identify a “writing spider”. (Although honestly i do not care how literate it is i am not going near it)In the last months i have learned many new things, laughed out loud and seen some of the most amazing photography ever…y’all are amazing, and Kathie is best of all for putting this here…(no, Kathie, even though i appreciate you i am not sending a check). Y’all, all of you, really make my days more amusing and entertaining…thank you.