Gaire an Badhbh

I forgot to post these. This little guy was living on that sunflower for a couple of days. I took about a hundred pictures to get a few good ones.

So this week has been chilly, and there’s a smell in the air that says we’re pretty much done with Summer. The stores have their Halloween gear out, the pumpkins are taking over the grocery, and the blooms are fading off the last of the flowers. The wild Aster (some call it a weed) is [...]

All I wanted when I got chickens were top hats. They’re funny. I wanted a flock of Phyllis Diller hair wearing silly chickens. The first batch of 3 that I got, I lost two in the dog massacre. From the one, I hatched some of the eggs that she laid with an EE sire. One [...]

This is a real Craigslist ad that made me shoot coffee out of my nose.
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://burlington.craigslist.org/grd/824552027.html
 
I believe I have the most dysfunctional flock of layers this side of the Mississippi. No amount of Blu-Kote will keep these hens from pecking themselves until they all moon me as soon as I walk in the door.
When I picked [...]

I haven’t had much time for posting lately. Things have been kind of nuts both at home and at work. Recovering from the Massacre took a lot out of me emotionally and physically. As for that, Melissa found the dog, and we called Animal Control to come get it. I don’t know if it’ll be [...]

We got them all buried in a mass grave. The duck that was injured has since died. She’s buried next to the others.
We didn’t catch the dogs. We found them, but didn’t catch them. The sheriff called animal control, and he’s out looking for them now. I don’t think he’ll find them.
The remaining birds are [...]

The chickens were out ranging this morning. About 8:30 we got a knock on the door. The neighbor was out there, and said that something got in the chickens. It was a dog.. b*stard didn’t even eat any of them. It was all for fun. He ran the dog off, and I went out to [...]

I can’t order for a while yet, but the next chicken order has been compiled. I’ve lost several female chicks and pullets, and the roosters are all going (well, most of them), so the ladies need to be stocked. I need more eggs happening around here…

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Attributes
Item
Qty
Price Each
Total
Remove

Not Vaccinated +$0.00
Females +$0.50

Blue Andalusian

$3.00
$7.00

Not Vaccinated +$0.00
Females [...]

ell, they’ve hatched.
10 eggs laid. 1 kicked out. 1 that never pipped. 8 survivors. One disappeared the night before last.. I don’t know if it got out and wandered off or if it got left behind or picked off or what. There are 7 now- 4 black and 3 chipmunkey ones. They’re skittish as hell, [...]