The chickens had a week filled with surprises! Chicken-theme gifts from their fans…..some from Georgia and as far as Russia.
The “Westies” Stitchers (my old and dear stitching group) from Georgia came up for a visit and brought along some treasures old and new:
An antique wooden painted egg crate circa 1920’s along with an Acme Egg-Grading Scale (1924) [...]
While my friend Rusty was visiting here, she got to meet the “girls” but also to see my comedy routine of trying to balance buckets, feed, treats and eggs back and forth to the coop. Since they are laying a few eggs at a time, we do not need to use an egg basket yet….I have been [...]
Dan planted a flower cutting garden for me this year…it is filled with an assortment of sunflowers, zinnias, queen annes lace, cosmos, daisies and more! I have enjoyed making up mason jar bouquets to share with friends.
Today the girls lovingly laid the first dozen eggs! For the past few weeks we have had 2 eggs gradually up to 8, then 10 per day, today we hit the lucky dozen…. even got a light blue one from Betsy Ross, the Americana! Which means at least 12 of the 25 are laying. The eggs [...]
We received a wonderful surpise from our friends at The Castle Group – a red Radio Flyer wagon! I had been wanting one for use in hauling the girls, garden goods and eggs. So here are the girls inspecting the new “poultry porter”.
Thanks Mark, Scott, Carol and Cindy!!
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Emma … ready to ride!
The garden haul
Oprah has been coming into the chicken coop cackling for the past few days…something was up…over the weekend she laid her first egg! Oprah came in “second” in our egg laying contest. Here she is in the chicken coop quite proud of her accomplishment!
And yes, you can see there are curtains and framed family photos (baby [...]
The egg laying mystery is solved: it is our little Emma who has been busy! While I was cleaning the coop she came in, started hopping in & out of the nesting boxes and seemed anxious. She followed me out the coop’s front door, into the smaller yard and found her xylophone and started playing a tune [...]
FIRST EGG!! July 6, 2010 I found our “first” egg in the coop, on the ground next to the nesting box in the morning – Yippee!
Estimated cost $5,000
Here is a re-enactment photo of how I found it in buried in the wood shavings (I was so excited I picked it up, ran in to show Dan, [...]
Well I guess Auntie Lil will have to be called Uncle Lil….she started crowing….eeek! Everybody told me that she was a he, since he towers over all the other chickens and bosses them around. So we have a Rooster. Rats. We ordered all hens and they gave us a free one, guess which one!
I still [...]
Red, White & Blue – I love to celebrate the 4th of July! The cabin is decorated inside and out … barrels planted with red, white and blue flowers, flags flying, quilts and lots of hand stitched “Americana” theme projects I made through the years.
The baby Keets are one week old, they are taller and started growing little wing and tail feathers. They look like tiny ostriches now, with their legs set further back, long necks and tiny heads. Look and see what I mean…..
Baby keets are little Guinea fowl. They were born on Tuesday …so here they are at 3 days old. My friend Karen got some for her farm and gave us four. We hear that they are good watch dogs for the farm and chickens; as they are loud and obnoxious. They are so tiny compared [...]
We spotted a couple of turtles today….they are late arrivals this year. Normally see them around and about a month earlier. They must have been busy. They are Eastern Box turtles. When we first bought the property 23 years ago we spotted several of them, some munching on the strawberries near the creeks…..that is how we named the [...]
Chicken version of playing ball – with the ‘Refs” on perch above the field watching the plays. Chickens play only when they want to, they do not follow rules, or play as a team. They cheat whenever they can.
Misty morning shot of one of our vintage hay rakes against the background of wild roses.
This is the season for wild fragrant honeysuckle. It is growing along some of our fences, the pastures are filled with its beautiful fragrance. Honeysuckle is one of my favorite “weeds” as they refer to it around here! Below the actual photo is a thread painting I did of some wild honeysuckle .
The garden is really starting to take shape, first up were the radishes
Also growing are the little birds…..this birds nest gets remodeled each year with a new family.
Walking out the ramp to see the great outdoors for the first time ….
The chicken coop has two chicken doors, this one is to the little yard at the entry and the side door takes them to their large yard with a movable electric poultry fence. This fence hopefully will keep them in and other [...]
Movin’ on up….the girls were packed up and moved out to the chicken coop. They squealed, they squawked, then settled in. The chicks are 8 weeks old now and working on pecking order as to who will be Queen.
The girls coming over to Dan for a snack.
Everybody wanted to “roost” when I sat down! There are 5 on [...]
OK, we are going into week 4 with the chickens and now they are going from the oh-so-cute stage to kinda geeky almost teenagers (‘tweens). Their heads look too small for the long necks (sorta like turkeys), longer legs with feathers making them look as if they are wearing cheap capri pants. They are all [...]
Spring has sprung at Turtle Creek…..lenton roses and daffodils are starting to pop up everywhere.
Go Green – Think Green -in honor of St.Patrick’s Day, plus it’s the right thing to do! Here are some photos of our little sprouts, Dan started them a few weeks ago along with building more rasied beds for the garden. The sprouts are heirloom tomatoes, various peppers and eggplant.
Little sprouts just starting…
The girls have been busy entertaining visitors!
Reading fan mail from the Weasel
Chicklet Holly
Chicklet Jamie
Chicks hopping into Jeanne & Holly’s hands
Chicklet Caroline has one fall asleep in her hands
This little Rhode Island Red loved Jamie
All of them came to greet Anjte
Our sweet chicklet Emory checking out the chicks
Cristy and [...]
The chicks will be one week old on Friday, March 5th. They have grown so much in the past 6 days. Little wings are starting to grow, tiny tail feathers, they are even a bit taller! First chick to hop into my hand was one of the Buff Plymouth Rocks (yellow ones). She has done [...]
