The lighter colored eggs are from my older birds...so onesies and twosies from them.
The dark ones are from my Welsummers, there are 6 of them...
I just COULD NOT believe it when I looked in there and saw all those eggs...what a waste. I have no idea how long they have been in there.
Here's a "What the Heck" moment...
I go out to collect eggs and one of the girls starts talking to me from inside the coop. So I go around and open the side door.
...just how long have they been laying eggs here?
Seriously? :ep
Yesterday we watched a deer and the turkeys chase each other around the back of the cabin for about 10 minutes or so. I'd never seen that...crazy hilarious. :lau
Posted to My Coop Project thread...
We were visited at lunch today by 4 wild turkeys. Apparently wild turkeys like apples & pizza.
They are lounging under a couple of pine trees behind the cabin. Every time I go outside they perk their heads up and twitter at me.
Headed up to Estes Park for the evening, so we came up through Lyons last night, did not know there was a Blue Grass Feztival this weekend. It was crazy trying to get through town.
The rain was nice, and the scenery was beautiful. As we rose in altitude we eventually entered the clouds...
Weekend Shenanigans...
On Friday evening, we went to the Pawnee Grasslands, out by Briggsdale, to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower. There were 8 in our group.
There was a boyscout troop, and my wife got to hold a Sugar Glider.
Sunset was very vibrant. Dinner was awesome, with lots of...
My last surprise Rooster was named Pecker...he had his good points and was working on some bad points.
It's hard to let them go when we get attached to them.
So..."Here's to auto-sexing birds and no surprises." Well...no bad surprises anyway.
I quickly got tired if the surprise rooster.
Now I maintain birds that are easily sexed as chicks...I like how it limits the appearance of the surprise rooster.
Yesterday evening, I was in the front room watching cartoons with my grandson. Suddenly my wife runs through the kitchen and out of the house onto the back deck and starts yelling for everyone to come outside.
I ran outside through the open sliding glass door, while my 2 1/2 year old grandson...
My research time at CSU is drawing to a close...August 5th is my last day as a visiting faculty. I made some new and exciting discoveries with the experiments that I conducted, those will result in a few publications.
Wednesday, Thursday are the big talk and show days. I give my presentation...
My tomatoes are coming on...I have Yellow Pear tomatoes, and Roma's. I also have a variety of Roma that is supposed to bigger and meatier than a Roma, so I'm a bit excited to see how they go for me this year.
Almost none of my sunflowers made it this year, I plant inside the openings of the...
I have one bird, and bless her black heart, she has figured out how to climb the fence. She goes up to the fence, grabs on, flaps her wings and walks right up the side of the fence, and plops over the top into the garden.
She's only done this a few times right after I closed the gate on the...