⚠ GOOBER ⚠i thought artemis was gonna go broody but GOOBER BEAT HER TO IT THIS IS NOT A DRILL GOOBER IS BROODY
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so i gave her a fresh, neat nesting pad and the eggs i was gonna have artemis hatch, and some treats. fingers crossed she doesn't take after her mother with the other chicks
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I WAS RIGHT THIS IS LEGITIMATELY NOT A DRILL I WENT OUT TO SAY GOODNIGHT TO THEM N SHE WAS ON HER EGG FOR THE DAY AND SHRIEKING LIKE A DINOSAURi thought artemis was gonna go broody
Precious little creaturesokay i just closed them in for the night n now bandit is broody...
not goober. bandit.
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the child murderer who mercilessly murked 3 of mercury's offspring last year
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lookit those soul-less eyes... killer here was sitting on 3 full-size eggs and only one of her own
i removed the three full-size eggs n even tho she is perfectly fine sitting on one egg and shrieking like any inefficient karen, i gave her the one of hers that i brought in yesterday.
-bandit when i was removing eggs
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i dunno why she was legit shocked... i aint down to let her commit child sacrifices with my breakfast. play moloch with your own eggs (she won't. no ballz)
i joke a lot for someone who is well-aware that despite her murderous nature she makes the most adorable crunchy nuggets
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fingers crossed they both hatch
successgot some stuff to re-plant the herb garden, and a couple peppers and cherokee purple tomatoes over the weekend it but rained half of sunday n all day yesterday so maybe tomorrow fingers crossed
i am not one for "brand loyalty" usually but it is one of the only types of feeders boober can eat from with her crossbeak. she puts her head in n the food's deep enough inside for her to scoopI have the same exact chicken feeders lol
That rose is gorgeous, it's perfection.today was a productive day on the mint farm
fenced in the small red coop n moved pip n the ladies over so they will have room to walk around. the small red coop is just a better coop for baby chicks to walk around in
end goal is to put up openable gates on each side and then alternate which flocks get to free range
pip <3
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ever since the girls started free ranging the egg quality is through the roof
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iris' i planted last year are blooming
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blueberry is blueberrying
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so on n so forth
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pumpkin went on an adventure
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bandit didn't intentionally abort the previous two eggs but she did leave them to go sit in a nesting box with more eggs in them...
she's now sitting on two of goober's eggs
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boo <3
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buddy n spare comparison... buddy's definitely getting worse, but sometimes his coloration varies throughout the day n he's even darker
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blonky n pip don't realize they can fly over this short ass fence to fuck each other up smh chikkens is stupid
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boober beak trim day
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after the chickens murked the string beans i replanted
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power couple
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little buddy escorted goober for an evening stroll. he doesn't try to mate with any of the hens anymore but he will guard them while they free range
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it's crazy cuz the other roos are down bad. roosters get testosterone surges first thing in the morning n right before bed
since pip only has two hens n one is broody i literally saw bro find a stray feather on the ground, pick it up, and mate with it
honey, due to being lowest on the rooster chain, tries to court me by doing the "look i found food" pipping sound and i wish i could have gotten a picture of it cuz honey tried to woo me with a piece of microplastic
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"i showed you my microplastics plz respond"
I am a bit scared letting dog near peepershad a possum take gertie and the other two of artemis' chicks friday night
gonna let the dog solve the problem when it shows its stupid fucking face in the chicken yard again
yehAre you going to let the dog eat it?
they've been around each other since day one tho. before i got the coop up they'd roost where he could reach themI am a bit scared letting dog near peepers
When I was a kid, I was playing with peepers and dog shows up and tries eating one.
Have any live traps to catch the opossums? Either out one in it's head or relocate them. A few of my family members used to trap before fur prices tanked.yeh
my dog treats possums like they wronged him in a past life
he's killed 2 before that were in the chicken area
they've been around each other since day one tho. before i got the coop up they'd roost where he could reach them
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^blonky, sleeping soundly in the same room as the doggo
they free range around him too
before i tore down the fence boo got out once n loki gently caught him in his mouth n i came outside n he looked up at me with wet, drooly, emotionally violated n embarassed rooster. he was so proud he had rescued him
i'm not gonna say they are 100% completely totally safe around him like pitmommy's do, but my dog is smart enough to know i am in charge and i like the chickens and would be furious if he did anything to them
there's only one left hiding in the backyard area. i would re-locate if this weren't war, but the last thing i told pip before i had to put him down was that his children were safe with me and this possum made me a liarHave any live traps to catch the opossums? Either out one in it's head or relocate them. A few of my family members used to trap before fur prices tanked.