Denim Deb
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I'll take some eggs, please! I've only gotten 2 this week. 
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Dern heat! Were they already cooked when you collected them?
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It didn't even reach 70 degrees here today, the weather is mild.
*hands FF and DD each a dozen eggs*
Just bring me back the cartons, you guys!
I had fun filking with my husband tonight. We were trading insults about each other's dogs (Bindi is his, and Dee Dee is mine) to the tune of the introduction song to "Flipper".....it makes a really good filking medium...
They call her Bindi, Bindi Bindi
Weirder than Dee Dee
No dog you see
Is weirder than she
This is about the level of our humor, kinda pre-junior high level.....at this point if it keeps us laughing, it is a good thing. Bindi knows we are insulting her somehow but Dee Dee just wags her tail.
*hands FF and DD each a dozen eggs*
Just bring me back the cartons, you guys!
I had fun filking with my husband tonight. We were trading insults about each other's dogs (Bindi is his, and Dee Dee is mine) to the tune of the introduction song to "Flipper".....it makes a really good filking medium...
They call her Bindi, Bindi Bindi
Weirder than Dee Dee
No dog you see
Is weirder than she
This is about the level of our humor, kinda pre-junior high level.....at this point if it keeps us laughing, it is a good thing. Bindi knows we are insulting her somehow but Dee Dee just wags her tail.
I'm glad your land problems aren't going to be a worry for now.
Farmfresh
City Biddy
The pre-junior high humor is usually great around here as well. So easy. So refreshing.
Yesterday my family all gathered for burritos and watched a Riff tracks to some really stupid movies, Birdemic -the terror and Grasses. Laughed our butts off.
Yesterday my family all gathered for burritos and watched a Riff tracks to some really stupid movies, Birdemic -the terror and Grasses. Laughed our butts off.
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Yea, Hubby likes the three stooges, stuff like that....
We are having drizzle again. At least it isn't too hot like so many of you are dealing with.
I'm hoping to make some soap this weekend, I got out all my stuff the other day. I want to try to duplicate my last batch, it came out so good.
We are having drizzle again. At least it isn't too hot like so many of you are dealing with.
I'm hoping to make some soap this weekend, I got out all my stuff the other day. I want to try to duplicate my last batch, it came out so good.
Henrietta23
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We resort to preJunior High level humor here too! When things get tense it's our go-to tension breaker. DS is catching on and if he senses an arguement will throw out some ridiculous comment that gets us laughing. Love it!
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C'mon up and get 'em, I got plenty. More comin'Denim Deb said:I'll take some eggs, please! I've only gotten 2 this week.
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I wonder why your hens are not laying, Deb? This is a good time of year for my chickens. I have nine laying right now (since one is broody) and usually get eight eggs a day. My EEs lay daily, and my orloffs often do as well despite being 2, and my RIR hens the same age do, as well, and my little cross that thinks she is the roo right now has her own color, so I can see she usually lays one a day as well.
I like it much better having different types of chickens so the color egg tells me who is laying. Much easier. I'll eventually have six or eight EEs so I hope my new ones lay a slightly different color.
I have let the chickens have the "dog yard" every day and they absolutely adore it. I really enjoy seeing the different colored beautiful chickens I have now, EEs rock! I tried to take some pics yesterday for y'all and I ran out of batteries. But they are so pretty and each different. It makes it really hard to sex them though. There was one I thought was turning out to be a roo, but yesterday I changed my mind, it is just a pretty little hen I think. But a different one is sure getting BIG green legs on her....er...him.....it. And the feathers are getting kinda pointy around the neck and it suddenly has a green tail feather as well, and it is the "partridge" colored one, one of the most colorful. It is quite a bit larger than the one that is a sexed cockerel, but if I went by that, I have all roos. The last time I bought sexed birds from this feed store, they were 100 percent the correct sex (18 of them!) so I know they are not all roos. But with other breeds, the comb and wattles seems to start forming and with my EEs, I don't see that the confirmed male looks any different than all the rest, nor is he larger. He does have the feather pattern, but he is a different color than all the rest so that doesn't really help.
Do we have any EE experts?
I like it much better having different types of chickens so the color egg tells me who is laying. Much easier. I'll eventually have six or eight EEs so I hope my new ones lay a slightly different color.
I have let the chickens have the "dog yard" every day and they absolutely adore it. I really enjoy seeing the different colored beautiful chickens I have now, EEs rock! I tried to take some pics yesterday for y'all and I ran out of batteries. But they are so pretty and each different. It makes it really hard to sex them though. There was one I thought was turning out to be a roo, but yesterday I changed my mind, it is just a pretty little hen I think. But a different one is sure getting BIG green legs on her....er...him.....it. And the feathers are getting kinda pointy around the neck and it suddenly has a green tail feather as well, and it is the "partridge" colored one, one of the most colorful. It is quite a bit larger than the one that is a sexed cockerel, but if I went by that, I have all roos. The last time I bought sexed birds from this feed store, they were 100 percent the correct sex (18 of them!) so I know they are not all roos. But with other breeds, the comb and wattles seems to start forming and with my EEs, I don't see that the confirmed male looks any different than all the rest, nor is he larger. He does have the feather pattern, but he is a different color than all the rest so that doesn't really help.
Do we have any EE experts?
Javamama
Almost Self-Reliant
I've got confusion going on with one of my EEs too. I've always thought it was a roo, but now it's 17 weeks old and not crowing, doesn't have roo-ish tail feathers, but kinda-sorta has saddle feathers. It does have a green sheen and has always been rather aggressive and big so I'm stumped. I'll get a photo today. It's also very talkative like the other hens and that really throws me off.
I think that the EE roos mature later than other breeds do.
I think that the EE roos mature later than other breeds do.
