Animals
- This Is What We Call The Muppet Show!!!!
I have to tell you...I am happily riding along in the ebb and flow of farm life once again. Up with the sun (and the rooster's crow),I pull on my jeans and tee shirt and head out for a day of farm chores...happier than a pig in mud! The farm is...
- My Confession
Hi, my name is Bev and I have 10 roosters. (I know, it sounds like I am at an AA meeting.) TEN! I cannot believe my own ears.I have 10 roosters. And very possibly, I have 11 roosters....time will tell on that one. Funny....for a gal who only ever...
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There was quite a stir in the barnyard yesterday. Rod was all a flutter. You see, he's had his hands full lately,(I know, chickens don't really have hands, do they?)with Number 6's daily visits to the henhouse. When the two boys' paths...
- Hullaballoo!
There's quite a hullaballoo around the farm these days. You see.....Fifi and her pals have started to spend their afternoonson the lawn of the French quarter....picnicking, gossiping and sunning themselves.(That's Fifi....third from the right....
- Growing Like Weeds
Wanna take a walk with me?You have to put on a pair of chicken boots! I just love these boots.They were my birthday present from Dr. Becky.She calls me the Crazy Chicken Lady.You don't really think I am a crazy chicken lady, do you? Well, down the...
Animals
Fraternization
Well, the day has finally arrived.
I knew it would.
It was inevitable.
Things couldn't continue as they have this past year forever.
The frat pack has spread its wings....
broadened its horizons....
found....
THE GIRLS!!
And life will never be the same again!
For the past year, ever since they were old enough to leave the nest,
my six Ameraucana roosters have lived the bachelor's life
in the small chicken house up by our log home.
I pass these fellows on each trip back and forth to the barn.
They are always together, strutting and crowing in a constant display of male prowess.
Yesterday, however, there were only five.
Hmmmmmm.....I am always fearful of "fowl play"
(see yesterday's post)
and worried that perhaps a predator had taken one Roo hostage.
I continued down our driveway and turned onto the lane through the orchard...
no sign of him anywhere.
Arriving at the barn, Jim met me
(Jim does my Wednesday farm chores - giving me one day off each week)
saying, "Hey , I noticed there were only five Roos up by the house this morning!"
"Yea", I said, "I couldn't find number six either."
I stopped in the henhouse to chat with Barbie.
"I think I lost a Roo", I told her.
"Don't worry" she said, "Roos can take care of themselves. He'll turn up."
And then under her breath I heard her sigh, "Unfortunately!"
All of a sudden, outside the barn in the dry lot I heard Monique (Fifi's cousin)
cackling and exclaiming, "Un homme! Un homme! Un homme Americain tres bel!"
(The Marans speak French, of course!...." A man, a man, a handsome American man!" she exclaimed!)
"Well, I think you found your rooster" said Jim.
Sure enough, there was number six beneath the picnic table
showing off for all of the French ladies outside the barn.
It's all my fault, you know.
It's because of that sign.
You know the one...
"you are here!"
I knew I shouldn't have advertised where the hens were.
It was just a matter of time until the Roos read that sign.
It will be interesting to see if the rest of the Frat Pack makes its way up to the barn.
OR...
Perhaps number six will keep this a secret.
After all, there are 26 young French gals just waiting for his next visit.
"Hey guys" he'll nonchalantly say to his friends, " I'm going for a walk."
"Where ya goin?" they'll ask.
"Nowhere, just for a walk through the orchard," he'll say, the big grin on his face well hidden.
"Life is good!" for an American in Paris!
- This Is What We Call The Muppet Show!!!!
I have to tell you...I am happily riding along in the ebb and flow of farm life once again. Up with the sun (and the rooster's crow),I pull on my jeans and tee shirt and head out for a day of farm chores...happier than a pig in mud! The farm is...
- My Confession
Hi, my name is Bev and I have 10 roosters. (I know, it sounds like I am at an AA meeting.) TEN! I cannot believe my own ears.I have 10 roosters. And very possibly, I have 11 roosters....time will tell on that one. Funny....for a gal who only ever...
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There was quite a stir in the barnyard yesterday. Rod was all a flutter. You see, he's had his hands full lately,(I know, chickens don't really have hands, do they?)with Number 6's daily visits to the henhouse. When the two boys' paths...
- Hullaballoo!
There's quite a hullaballoo around the farm these days. You see.....Fifi and her pals have started to spend their afternoonson the lawn of the French quarter....picnicking, gossiping and sunning themselves.(That's Fifi....third from the right....
- Growing Like Weeds
Wanna take a walk with me?You have to put on a pair of chicken boots! I just love these boots.They were my birthday present from Dr. Becky.She calls me the Crazy Chicken Lady.You don't really think I am a crazy chicken lady, do you? Well, down the...