Thirty followers!

I never imagined I'd have to make another award so soon!  You guys are keeping me busy!  Don't worry, I really enjoy making awards.  This one is the first one that says why I made it!



  Enjoy looking at it and (as usual) you can put it on your blog if you want.  If you don't want to put it on your blog, I don't mind. 

  Chipmunk and friends wanted me to post a link to their blog.  The shameless pullets will do anything for publicity!  So here it is:  Mookie and Kooshie and Chipmunk and Yellow and Help's blog

I wonder if we'll ever get eggs again....

I really miss getting eggs.  I don't think we've gotten one since August!  Here's what I want:


Aren't they pretty?

Also, I started trying out png for some of my pictures.  The nice thing is that png supports transparency!  I would use gif except for a small problem:  my favorite image editing program rejects that type of image!  Very annoying.
  Oh, and here's an example:


You can't see it here but that picture is transparent where it looks white.  Cool!

Edited to add:  if you click and drag this picture, you can see the writing underneath!

Poultry project fun!

I just got back from the poultry project.  As usual, it was very fun!  My favorite part was when we made chicken treats!  Here's the recipe:

Chicken treats
You need:

• Peanut butter
• A pine cone
• String
  
• Scratch or feed or birdseed

First tie a string around the pine cone.  This will make it easy to hang.  Coat the pine cone with peanut butter.  It doesn't have to be drowned it the stuff, just coated with enough to make it sticky.  Roll the cone in seed.
  You might have to put it in your fridge for a bit before giving it to your chickens.  Have fun!

Finally, a wet day!

It rained a bit!  For some queer reason, Lord Firestar was hanging out in the damp Eglu run by himself.  Maybe he thinks he'll be more heroic with wet feathers.  All the girls were staying in the Eglu house, occasionally going out to eat.
  They are all getting along pretty well now.  Even evil Lady Sandstorm is being fairly good.  I can hardly believe that little creep became tolerably nice!  I love her.

Here's a picture I just finished doing:

Nothing quite as satisfying as making the perfect picture!

I took a really neat photo today!

Chipmunk in action!  I like this picture.

Chipmunk is a cool pullet!  She likes to eat, play and hang out with the gang!  Oh, and she's cute.

Twenty Followers? Cool!

This is so cool!  I currently have twenty followers!  Take a look at my followers gadget, it's amazing!  I also know of at least one person who subscribes to my blog unofficially.  I guess this means I must have a fairly good blog.
  As usual, that means I need to give out a prize.  You don't need to put it on your blog (unless you want to, of course!) but I need to make a prize.  Here it is:

Rabbits...for meat

Rabbits are very cute.  Rabbits are very fuzzy.  But, at dinner tonight, I learned a sad truth: rabbit meat is very tasty!  Have you tried rabbit?  It can be really good!
  The point is that we have a good reason to raise rabbits now.  I think we'll be choosing a New Zealand White or similar breed to start with.  This should be an interesting adventure!

BIG Eggie! (Not)

Egglantine weighs 3 ounces.  She's about a month and a half old if I figured that out right.  Not as far behind as I thought.
  Yellow is 11 ounces and Help is 12.  I tried to weigh Chipmunk but she left.  Silly Chippie. 
  I guess Eggie isn't quite as stunted as I thought.

Some of the fabulous blogs and websites I've found!

You may be aware that the internet is vast.  I am very aware that I have only seen a small handful of the millions of websites out there!  Here are some of my favorite links (more will be added):

Poultry blogs:
Completely Quackers! A nice blog.  Lots of ducks and chickens!

It's a Poultry Thing Lots of great photography!

Poultry websites:
Backyard Chickens Want to learn everything about chickens?  BYC is the place for you!

Feathersite You can find almost any poultry breed here.

Brown Egg Blue Egg Lots of great articles!

American Poultry Association What chicken link list is complete without this site?

Omlet USA Want a nice, easy to clean coop?  Then this is the link for you!

My new chicken breeds spreadsheet!  Take a look at it!

Blogs by my cool followers:
Wings of a Horse Dreamstar's blog.

Heart 4 Art Eyecontact's blog.

Our Little Farm Jennifer's blog.
 
Fun blogs:
Ponderings of Two Guinea Pigs Okay, how can I not add a blog written by guinea pigs?!

Silly/fun YouTube stuff (absolutely NOTHING offensive!):
Thunderbirds Are Go~Alan's Dream Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds, not the human-actor nonsense!

Rooster does a Birthday dance! This is a funny video!


If a link no longer works, please comment here.  If you want your blog/site on this list, comment here with the URL.
  I hope you like some of the links!