Updates and Ramblings

I haven't have a lot of time to write, finally had some nice days and the feathered garden crew and I have been trying to get some weeding done! It's a slow go as this seems to be the event to attend! Marjorie my garden chicken has taken a back seat to Dorthy who has lost most of the feathers on her head while working her way up the pecking order! Interesting how one can lose ones spot in live so quickly!

 Dorthy it seems has a whole new lease in life and follows me around like a puppy! Her nickname in fact is Puppy! She is the only one that can  actually fly up and catch food midair! I was carrying some lemon cucumber from my garden to the house the other day when she did a fly-by and took a chunk right out of my hand! Not crazy about this trick!

Sadly we did lose a girl. Three of my Rhode Island Reds look so much alike I couldn't tell them apart so they became as a group, "Hey There Chicken!" I now know the signs :( Not wanting to roost and trying to separate from the rest of the hens. It seems that animals have more of an acceptance than we do in these matters. I would sometimes place her on the roost thinking she had been bullied off, I had misread it, she was   simply preparing for her transition. She may have been egg bound, something I didn't know about before. I placed her in the hatch where she was found in the morning. RIP Chicken, hope I gave you a good life!

I  have been trying to upload a couple videos from my Android but I am having some trouble. Puppy
 ( formerly known as Dorthy) has learned to pick blackberries, due primarily to her food addiction. I was able to catch that on video what I thankfully didn't catch was what happened after! I discovered I was standing on an ants nest! Poor hubby got to see the most horrid strip tease ever!!!

Personality Disorder

I think Eenie has a personality disorder! She has been all fluffed again to about twice her size brooding on an eggless nest. This morning I opened the hatch, as the girls marched out in an orderly fashion Eenie got a wild feather and flew out of the hatch like a drunk fighter pilot! I'll tell you it was like a bowling ball hitting pins! About two hours out and I saw her suddenly stop, start clucking and run full bore, head down and wings out, the optimum aerodynamic position. She is now back on that stupid nest!    

Working The DR Mower

Concerned about the overgrowth that we can't quite keep up with, Virginia tries to figure out how to get the DR mower started!

New Phone

Marjorie finally gives up trying to teach me how to use my new phone as Dorthy steps up to the plate! They have decided to teach in shifts as their patience is limited!

Deer Netting

So, I've been trying to pull up the old deer netting to movie to my raised beds. This has caused great excitement for my feathered friends because it involves pulling weeds along the bottom to release it! As I am pulling weeds with one hand and swiping chickens away with the other I console myself by saying, at least I'm learning patience! Then it occurs to me, I have already learned patience! How much is one actually required to have? At some point I believe it's okay to just be annoyed!  

BUGS!

I've spent some time riding around on my lawn tractor trying to hack up a bug that I sucked in! I don't see what the chickens see in them, they don't do a thing for me! Oh, and talking about chickens Eeny's still brooding! she's puffed up to the size of a flippin turkey! Every day I have to drag her tail feathers off the nest and lock up the coop so she will eat and drink! She didn't even have an egg under her today, she is mothering air!