Jeannine -- the first two photos are just a love letter for your birds. They are great pictures also and I loved zooming them for each of the birds. These are in importance of my opinion of my own observation from important to just wondering
(1) the picture you provide and the scene you capture with Buttercup is beautiful
(2) Having worked many years ago in a place that took me to industrial food production, the group photo of the bird just made me smile. They look well cared for and genuinely part of a great place.
(3) That flexible conduit plug doesn't look like anything I can pick up at Home Depot!
Thank you! I do love my chickens. I've always told people that my ladies are pets who happen to provide eggs. It turns out that my young gentlemen are very protective of the hens, so they serve a purpose beyond petdom as well. Though right now, there are no eggs - commercial egg production farms use lights to trick the hens into constant laying. I figure it's healthier to let the take a break during the winter and let the resume laying when they're ready. Buttercup's advanced age seems to bear that out. 😊
Buttercup is a lovely elder hen. She will probably die soon (in my experience, elderly or weakened animals tend to die in the spring... I'm not sure why, perhaps the warmer weather gives rise to bacterial infections?), but my husband and I are trying to at least make sure that her remaining time is comfortable. She seems pretty happy, at least.
The flexible conduit plug is my husband's work - it's attached to a chicken water heater that he designed and built, because we could find nothing appropriate commercially. He's good with gadgets. 😎
The "V is for Volcano" story was a lot of fun, but I thought my head would explode by the time I was finished! Some of the commenters on the Fiction Dealer page responded with even more V words. 'Twas fun.
Your trip up the volcano and back sounds like an amazing adventure. May poor, valiant JC rest in peace. 😥
I still can't believe you peed into a volcano... 😂
Jeannine -- the first two photos are just a love letter for your birds. They are great pictures also and I loved zooming them for each of the birds. These are in importance of my opinion of my own observation from important to just wondering
(1) the picture you provide and the scene you capture with Buttercup is beautiful
(2) Having worked many years ago in a place that took me to industrial food production, the group photo of the bird just made me smile. They look well cared for and genuinely part of a great place.
(3) That flexible conduit plug doesn't look like anything I can pick up at Home Depot!
Thank you! I do love my chickens. I've always told people that my ladies are pets who happen to provide eggs. It turns out that my young gentlemen are very protective of the hens, so they serve a purpose beyond petdom as well. Though right now, there are no eggs - commercial egg production farms use lights to trick the hens into constant laying. I figure it's healthier to let the take a break during the winter and let the resume laying when they're ready. Buttercup's advanced age seems to bear that out. 😊
Buttercup is a lovely elder hen. She will probably die soon (in my experience, elderly or weakened animals tend to die in the spring... I'm not sure why, perhaps the warmer weather gives rise to bacterial infections?), but my husband and I are trying to at least make sure that her remaining time is comfortable. She seems pretty happy, at least.
The flexible conduit plug is my husband's work - it's attached to a chicken water heater that he designed and built, because we could find nothing appropriate commercially. He's good with gadgets. 😎
All those V words! Reminds me of…
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermoore/p/that-time-i-pissed-into-a-volcano?r=4g2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The "V is for Volcano" story was a lot of fun, but I thought my head would explode by the time I was finished! Some of the commenters on the Fiction Dealer page responded with even more V words. 'Twas fun.
Your trip up the volcano and back sounds like an amazing adventure. May poor, valiant JC rest in peace. 😥
I still can't believe you peed into a volcano... 😂