Hey there folks! How are you all doing? It has been ages since I blogged on this blog. I do most of my blogging on my quilt blog (tiacurtisquilts.blogspot.com) but I miss this space with so much of my life over the past years. So blogging here will again commence!
Our latest adventure is having hens in the backyard. We started with a couple Ameraucana hens and they did great. they happily lived in their little coop and grew and did very well. We made the coop larger as they grew and tried to keep it safe from predators.
The kiddos had a lovely time watching their hens. I guess we had them for about a month, and it was time to go on vacation. Our neighbor was watching our cats and had no problem watching our hens too (Stanley went to the kennel).
The Beach was wonderful! What a relaxing peaceful time! We really liked Fort Walton beach. It had its perfect moments and its stormy ones too...but it was great and I will take it any way I can get it! My husband did all sorts of fishing and the kids did all sorts of swimming. I did some painting and lots of reading!
We then drove up to the mountains and surprised my parents on their annual 4th of July reunion picnic. It was so so good to see everyone!
Happy Independence day! Well on the last 3 nights of our vacation all 4 of our cute little chicken girls got eaten by a raccoon. Sad....but coons are very sharp and no matter how our pet sitter tried to reinforce the battlements, it still got to the hens. Well, as they say life goes on! We are starting again!
But this time I couldn't find pullets so I decided to start with chicks. And quite a variety of chicks! Thanks to Alan of Heartland Hatchery This little lady (hopefully!) is a Silkie. She will look quite fuzzy when she is grown and be a small bird. This one is Sam's chick.
I have no clue what this one is, but I like the feathers on her legs
This is either a Cinnamon Queen or a Road Island red. I had 3 other sets of helpful hands popping chicks into the box.
This girl was a Polish hen of some sort...but I noticed yesterday after I got her home that she just didn't seem as healthy as her friends, and indeed she had passed away during the night. But she was a cute little thing
Here are some more Aracunas.
I know I got too many...but with my luck some won't make it. So my neighbors won't have to worry about giant mounds of chicken poo. They are crazy cute. My daughter has been out playing Mozart for them, we read somewhere that hens like music.
And I have been quilting like a fiend. Really, so much of my time has been spent down in my studio that I have almost no time to blog or market myself. This quilt is QOV (quilt of Valor) made by lovely Raylene. I always love quilting her quilts. She has perfectly flat seams and she is a joy to be around.
OK, I have some work to go do. You all have a great day and I hope to see you here again quite often.
Do any of you have hens? How do you keep Racoons away? I do have a trap....but for now I am waiting for my husband to return home before putting it out. If he wasn't coming back this evening I would go ahead and do it myself...but he likes to do that sort of thing.
xo,
Tia
6 comments:
I don't have hens yet, but it is on my list of things I want to do shortly. We did have a pet raccoon once, for a little while till he grew up enough to let him back in the wild. Yes raccoon are very smart. Once after we let ours go, I got up one morning, and he had gotten into the back yard, through the doggy door in the garage, opened the fridge out there, then pulled out the freshly cut watermelon and ate the entire middle half of it, and 2.5 dozen of eggs were everywhere in the garage. What a mess he made. We had to cargo strap the fridge shut after that.
No hens, so no advice, just wishes for luck. That photo of the beach looked divine. Hope you had a wonderful time on vacation.
No chicks here, but check out Judy L's blog...http://www.patchworktimes.com/
i like the chicks!!! so lovely. haha
It is so beautiful, it always makes me smile.Moncler Hemme And Longchamp Sac
What a wonderful attitude about this. Thanks for posting!
We also have hens, but unfortunately, two to them were killed by a wandering cat, and one was killed by a snake. After that we never try to pet any kind of animals in our home.
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