Musings of our Chickens, Ducks, Turkeys and Birds
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I thought I’d over-load this post with a bunch of photos of the wild turkeys that call our Swamp home….. They’ve really multiplied recently…and become far less shy….. I recently had to go into the backyard before letting out the hounds…because it was covered with a big flock of visiting turkeys….. They seemed totally unconcerned that I came out and tried herding them over the fence and into the safety of the back…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’ve accumulated too many roosters………….again….. And again………….I don’t think they’re All ours….. …..(damn that suburban farmer down the road)….. I didn’t notice it right away…(or I did’t feel a need to do something about it)…until the roosters came of age…and start crowing their faces off….. …..and then…I realized I’d waited too long………….again….. I’ve found that the older I get…sleep is an easily interrupted luxury…and it’s hard to regain…once it’s been squelched….. …..add to…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ***This is more of a compilation post~~of chicken sub-topics….. Just some recent occurrences that have happened in my World-of-Poultry…(said with a diminishing echo response)….. ***I thought this would be an interesting follow-up to our unidentifiable hen and/or rooster….. *****(Click Here for the Mystery Chicken Post)***** The hen (or maybe the rooster) has changed again….. …..kind of like the Horse-Of-A-Different-Color from the Wizard Of Oz….. I don’t know what breed of chicken they are……..
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ~~~~~Try My Posts on SubStack/Click Here~~~~~ Mister Possum is still in the neighborhood….. …..he’s now considering our little homestead his tromping grounds….. Even as possums go…he’s nasty looking….. …..he’s been around the block a few times…tripped off the curb…gotten run over…but he keeps coming up swinging….. I’ve got to admire his chutzpah…I’ll give him that….. …..but he’s a flea-bitten limping geriatric nuisance….. And I can’t shoot him….. …..because Doctor Brigid said so….. He’s…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s Hot!….. It’s now July in Sunny Subtropical Florida….. We are all miserably hot…and sitting in puddles of sweat….. …..and the chickens aren’t laying as many eggs in the heat….. My biddies are protesting…I don’t blame them….. The Runner Ducks stopped laying awhile ago…but that’s to be expected…because they’re only seasonal layers….. So…to attempt jump starting the chicken egg laying…I’ve started my old time-tested egg production enhancer….. I’m sprinkling cayenne pepper on their…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* There’s an odd chicken in our flock….. Unlike the additional (7+) surplus roosters who were recently & secretly flung over our fence (by a nearby/newbie neighbor)….. *****(!A. M. Cacophony! Explains How We Ended Up With Too Many Roosters)***** …..this Mystery Hen was raised here….. I buy my chickens as young chicks from several mail-order catalogs…I can pick the breed & sex of the babies I want…. I pick up the two-day old chicks…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’m still having on-going truck problems…but this time specifically with the steering….. This has been an issue since last Spring/Summer…after I went to get new tires….. My daughters and I got “sketchy vibes” when we were at the garage…and I’ve always encouraged my girls to trust their instincts….. …..my truck has NOT been the same since….. This post is about our most recent attempt at figuring out what happened and trying to…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* First………….here’s a little up-date….. …..No Snakes have been found in our house (or my lingerie drawer)….. …..No Snakes have been found in or around Doctor Brigid’s car….. …..No identifiable carcass smells have wafted up in the good doctor’s car…or from under our couch….. …..so that’s a Win–Win?–(Right?)….. There was an instance two days ago…when Danny (my younger daughter’s Papillon)…started barking his face off at something that was under her bed….. I thought that…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The last post I wrote about bumblefoot (pododermatitis) was in May of 2023….. *****(Click Here For: Remind Me What’s Bumblefoot?)***** I wonder what it is about the month of May?…and why our roosters keep getting this affliction(?)….. …..but it happened again….. I noticed that our French Black Copper Maran rooster had problems with his feet a little while ago…but then I went into the hospital…… …..(and maybe I don’t have my priorities in…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’re thinking something might not be right with our incubator….. This last attempt at hatching eggs was not very successful….. A few brave souls made it through the hatching process…but not many….. My younger daughter and I were able to successfully save another struggling chick-let….. So far…everyone who tried to break out of their shells were able to…(but there were so many who didn’t make it to that stage)….. I’m sure it had…