7:45AM 1-14-14
Pat called me from the barn this morning, I said, "do we have babies?" He said," I see one so far." So I quick bundled up and went to the barn. Little Girl had 2 babies sometime last night. They were both nice and dry. The little boy is the biggest and has white markings amid the chocolate; including a bull's eye around one eye! Hence his name will be Bull's Eye. The little girl is a tiny thing and solid chocolate as far as I can tell now. Both appear to be little hair sheep so I suspect that Cocoa Puff snuck one in before we moved him in the ram pen. I will name the little girl, Midge (short for midget). Pat and I will weigh the babies and put a tag in their ear and notch the boy ear tonight, as he had to hurry off to work. We found it's a lot easier to find the boys when their ears are notched.
Last night when I was doing chores, a huge hawk flew into the willow trees by the chicken yard. So today I'll weave some baling twine across the top of the chicken yard as Pat says they don't like to go where their wings could get caught. The chickens are confined to the pen for at least 1 week and maybe two. We had a hen, last late summer, make her nest in the barn to set on. And we left her and she raised her babies there and they called it home. It was a dreadful mistake on our part. The chickens roosted up in the rafters and did Vitamin S all over the barn and everything in the barn. So, Sunday morning Pat eliminated 4 roosters and 1 hen that didn't cooperate. Then Sunday evening, we clipped all the chickens wings on one side so they couldn't fly out of the chicken yard and got the 2 hens from the barn and put them in with the other chickens. Now they have to learn this is their home and here is where they lay their eggs. One rooster escaped, but he is a bantam and has been roosting in the willow trees all winter long. One night in December, it rained and froze and then snowed and we thought surely he would go to the barn with the other chickens but no, he's a tough bird. Well, I'd better get with it. Have to bake bread and make cookies today.
Pat called me from the barn this morning, I said, "do we have babies?" He said," I see one so far." So I quick bundled up and went to the barn. Little Girl had 2 babies sometime last night. They were both nice and dry. The little boy is the biggest and has white markings amid the chocolate; including a bull's eye around one eye! Hence his name will be Bull's Eye. The little girl is a tiny thing and solid chocolate as far as I can tell now. Both appear to be little hair sheep so I suspect that Cocoa Puff snuck one in before we moved him in the ram pen. I will name the little girl, Midge (short for midget). Pat and I will weigh the babies and put a tag in their ear and notch the boy ear tonight, as he had to hurry off to work. We found it's a lot easier to find the boys when their ears are notched.
Last night when I was doing chores, a huge hawk flew into the willow trees by the chicken yard. So today I'll weave some baling twine across the top of the chicken yard as Pat says they don't like to go where their wings could get caught. The chickens are confined to the pen for at least 1 week and maybe two. We had a hen, last late summer, make her nest in the barn to set on. And we left her and she raised her babies there and they called it home. It was a dreadful mistake on our part. The chickens roosted up in the rafters and did Vitamin S all over the barn and everything in the barn. So, Sunday morning Pat eliminated 4 roosters and 1 hen that didn't cooperate. Then Sunday evening, we clipped all the chickens wings on one side so they couldn't fly out of the chicken yard and got the 2 hens from the barn and put them in with the other chickens. Now they have to learn this is their home and here is where they lay their eggs. One rooster escaped, but he is a bantam and has been roosting in the willow trees all winter long. One night in December, it rained and froze and then snowed and we thought surely he would go to the barn with the other chickens but no, he's a tough bird. Well, I'd better get with it. Have to bake bread and make cookies today.
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