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!

Blogs by my cool followers:
Just Fall 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!

Rabbit project and day 2 outside

Today was the 4-H Rabbit Project meeting.  We learned about Showmanship (I always think it would be funny if girls did showgirlship~there's a funny breed of chicken called a Showgirl!) which was interesting.  I definitely won't be doing it though!  It looks hard!

  Egglantine & friends are doing okay despite the fact that Lady Sandstorm is a peckish creep.  They're getting along pretty well in the Eglu now!  I wish we could move so Lord Firestar could join them.
  Well that's the news!  Not a lot going on here, is there?

Big slumber party!

All the girls are sleeping in the Eglu tonight!  If it works, we'll only have Lord Firestar living in the house!  I'm going to check on them now. 

Everything looks fine.  Just a big puddle of sleepy Seramas.  Hopefully they'll just decide to live together.

The newest header!

Take a look!  The new header is a special one!  It took way more time to make than the old one.  The first header was just writing.  The second one was a cropped picture set under the writing.  This one took a lot of work and arranging!  I like it.  Just goes to show that sometimes hard work is worth the effort.

Old header:


New header:


In case you forgot her name, the new fashion model/hen is Snowneck. 

I was inspired by Olive Tree of HorseFeathers.  She's always improving her blog and it makes me want to improve mine!

Lady Sandstorm

The Lady's tail is growing back beautifully!  It must be the chick starter that's helping her feathers.  Don't worry, I took pictures of her with no tail.
  Egglantine isn't doing well, she looks a bit bald!  I'm not sure what the problem is, I'm guessing she's cold or something.  Hopefully she's just going through a major ugly stage!
  The gang is doing fine.  Three months old is probably my favorite chicken age.  By three months old, most of their down is gone but they still get scared of the silliest things (such as pieces of mint-green fabric)!
  Lord Firestar is falling in love!  "Yay!  He and Lady Sandstorm like each other again!" you think.  Actually, he's falling in love with Chipmunk, his silly daughter!  Chipmunk likes to hang out with Lord Firestar but she leaves when he starts dancing.

Life is very busy around here!

Quackie? Is it you?

I think I saw QuackStar at the Japanese tea garden!  One of the ducks was a big, fat drake who was having fun splashing around.  He just seemed like my little Quackie.  It was good to see him again. 

And the winner is.....

CHIPMUNK!!!!  Congratulations, Chipmunk! 
Despite a lot of competition, Chipmunk won by one vote!  Here are the scientific results:

• Yikes: 0
  
• Cutie-Pie: 0
  
• Bluestar: 0
  
• Cheeseball: 0
  
• Sleeve-Eater: 0
  
• Snowneck: 1 (Dreamstar)
  
• Mouse: 0
  
• Trespassers: 1 (Jane)
  
• Mookie: 0
  
• Kooshie: 1 (Sara)
  
• Turtle: 0
  
• Juliana: 0
  
• Lord Firestar: 0
  
• Lady Sandstorm: 0
  
• Chipmunk: 2 (Allyson, Colin)
  
• Yellow: 1 (Lila)
  
• Help: 0
  
• Egglantine: 1 (Joyce)

Thank you for voting!  That was fun!  Now I need to make Chippie a prize...