Oh yea...

AND for a short while we had ducks!!!!  here are the first 3 ....ended up getting 3 more...and then all but one was eaten by foxes....

incubator first run!!! 2013

here is the hatching from the first brood in the new 'bator last year!!!  Its full again!!  Hatching about Feb 27th

mother's day/my birthday 2013

Wooooo hoooooo!!!!   I got an egg candler, a brinsea eglow brooder and a brinsea incubator!!!  it only hold 7 eggs so I can't go crazy....

Our Fallen comrades ....

now lets see if I can remember:

Sparkle.....lost to fox

Fozzie the silkie roo....lost to fox

Eugene (aka rapunzel)....lost to fox

Campbell .... we ate him :)

1st batch of barred rock babies....all of them lost to fox just before laying age

2nd batch of barred rock babies.....all lost to fox before laying age except the boys, we ate them :)

Cinderella...lost to fox or eagle

Broken....lost to fox

goldie....fox

sweetie .... fox

brown fluffy face....fox/cold, not sure because she didnt come home

baby cakes the sweet silkie.....euthanasia

Ugly girl 1....who the heck knows, she disappeared.....

WOW...its been HOW LONG since my last post???? holy crap!!!

WOW WOW WOW....I haven't posted in a year!  GEEZ!!!  A LOT has happened....we have 2 new coops, been through LOTS of chickens....soooooo many of our fav's from last year have become food or fox food!  *SIGH* I'll get the pictures together and get posting soon!!!  Stay TUNED!!!!

Counting eggs when they hatch....

WOW WHAT A FEW DAYS!!!  

Wednesday evening we started hearing baby chickies saying hello....

By thursday morning we had Bacon (Baby #1) then came Aegs (eggs, baby #2)

and then and then and then......but we are waiting for 1 more..not looking hopeful I found it on the edge of the nest barely under her and it was room temp...we'll see though...its not due to hatch till tomorrow (it was the last one laid)

 Bacon







                                                                       Aegs

Climbing on mama

Snuggle time

Snuggle time

Tandem climbing on mama

I found the food guys!!!  Come on out!!

And then there was 15.....

SERIOUSLY.......

after a ridiculous day of phone calls, accidents and police from different areas....I come home and my sweet little black silkie "Flo-Rida" was laying lifeless only 4 feet from the coop....about a foot away was a new crime scene with feathers everywhere and large, "bird-like" scratches on the ground...poor little guy was missing from his lower beak all the way down to his legs.... 

Proud of myself that I didn't cry until I called Nate, but I totally cried like a 2 year old....then put on my big girl panties and  cleaned up the mess....


*poor sweet Flo-Rida* ...Your babies are hatching next weekend and will never know you...we'll tell them you died a heroes death...in combat...probably with a hawk or eagle....