I forgot something very important!

Yesterday I did something really bad. The temps have been in the mid to upper nineties with some hundred days too. Between the high temps and a lot on my mind, well, I forgot to do something very important. Yesterday afternoon I scrubbed and filled the chicken waterer. See the black cap in the center? That black cap unscrews and screws onto the drain hole so while you are filling up the water it doesn't continue to run out. Can you guess what I did? I forgot to unscrew the cap from the drain hole when I put it back into the chicken coop. And that meant the chickens had no water on a hot afternoon for about three hours when I went back out to check on the new baby chicks.



I felt so bad when I realized that here is was, a nice clean container of water with ice cubes in it, for the chickens, but the chickens couldn't drink it because of my stupidity. When I walked into the coop and saw my chickens panting like crazy, I turned the fan on thinking that was the problem and when I turned around one of the chickens was trying to drink out of an empty container! Quickly I unscrewed the cap and as soon as the chickens heard the water coming out they all rushed over to drink.



You can bet I will double check that waterer from now on!!!


And speaking of chickens, Little Inger hatched out two eggs. So now there are two new babies in the coop.

This is the first one born.

This cutie was the second to come into this world.

And these two girls are from the first hatched eggs months ago. They are now gifting eggs pretty much on a daily basis. It's at the point now that I am giving away eggs. I know, I could charge something for them, but the way the economy is, well, money is so tight that if it helps someone save a buck or two, then why not.

Until next time.....................

Stare down

As the babies are growing bigger by the day I have been watching to see how many roosters and how many hens there are. Well, pretty sure there is one for sure rooster out of the first three chicks that were born. What do you think? As I was leaving this morning to pick up my youngest at college I see Mr. Worm ( on the right) and Shortbus ( on the left) sitting on top of my daughters truck.

It was a definite staring contest going on. Shortbus looks away first.

Then Mr. Worm looks away.

Obviously Mr. Worm won the contest. Shortbus is leaving.

Mr. Worm giving the last 'look. He wins this round.

I was going to try the hen aprons on the girls this morning, but couldn't due to having to drive my daughter to college. Tomorrow morning for sure they are going to wear their new outfits.

Oh, it kind of snowed a bit last night and early this morning. The surrounding hills/mountains have snow on them but sadly nothing stuck on the valley floor.

Until next time..............

Sunny Day

This post is for the kind folks who visit my blog that are having to deal with winter weather aka a LOT of snow and freezing temps. Bonnie is still sitting on five eggs. Hmmm, wonder if and when they are going to hatch. I took a peek under her and there are four Bantam eggs and one big white one.

Thought you might like to see how big the first chicks that were hatched compared to the last two. Quite the difference!

Today it has been close to 70 degrees. Beautiful blue sky. Warm soft breeze.

Pearl just relaxing and enjoying the day.

Arnold snoozing with the warmth of the sun upon him. Cookie not wanting to do much of anything but stand around.

On a side note, this morning I had to drive to town and on the way back the traffic slowed to a crawl. What the heck. The speed limit is 45 and everyone including me were doing 30! Was there an accident up ahead? Did a car break down blocking traffic? Nope, neither of those. It was a truck way up ahead with no one in front of them, and that driver was doing 30, which caused the whole line of traffic to do 30. Um, at that moment the word hostage came to mind. Here it was, one driver was holding up a lot of traffic by going that slow and the rest of us didn't have a choice but to follow. Ugh!!!!

Back to today being a beautiful, warm sunny day. I hope the pics put a smile on your face for those of you dealing with snow and wanting Spring.

The video at the end is short, sorry.

You can hear the frog next to the house, but can't see it.

Until next time..........................

Bringing the outdoors in

Today is a beautiful, blue sky day. And with such a beautiful day the cats are really paying attention to all that chirping going on inside the chicken house. Trashcan ( black cat) and Chit Chit ( gray tabby) acting nonchalant. I was mistaken about them wanting to get inside and help themselves to a chickie meal. Yeah, right boys, you were just hanging around to protect them!

So, since Little Inger, Bonnie and the chicks cannot come out of the hen house, I dig up some dirt and grass and brought the outside to them.

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One of the chickies trying a piece of grass for the first time. I am pretty sure he'che liked it.

Little Inger has done such a good job teaching the young ones to scratch and look for food.

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No other eggs have hatched this morning. Bonnie is still sitting on them, so will let Mother Nature take her course. Maybe tomorrow there will be another surprise.

Until next time...............

Another Surprise

Look who was born this morning. The first White Silky baby! So small compared to the other three.

The first three chickies born are now venturing outside the hen house into the enclosed outside pen.

Little Inger has been teaching her kids all the tricks of the trade. They are growing so fast.

I was told that chicks raised by the mother grow faster.

Stay tuned. Maybe tomorrow there will be another surprise!

Until next time................

And then there were three

On the way to check on the baby chicks late yesterday afternoon a lone bee was to be found. I thought it was dead, but nope, it was moving. Geez, it is January and already a bee is to be seen. And yes, it was moving ever so slowly.

Ta Da! And now there are three babies! Well, by the looks of them they are not White Silkies. I collected the eggs shells and looked at the colors. Well, for sure there is one Americauna baby. Pretty sure there is one Mottled Houdan and quite possibly a Polish Lace. The only eggs left are the White Silky eggs to hatch.

Aren't they adorable?

Stay tuned!

Until next time.......................