Hanging with all my Pets!

Sunday the temperature was nice... almost 65! Nice enough to sit outside for a little while and enjoy the sun with all my children around me!! You'll see Big Mama the hen, Buster the rooster, their baby biddie, then Francie, my 6year old shih-tzu, Ally my kitty, and Emma my other 6year old shih-tzu!
AAhhhh.... love these babies!

Big Mama and her Biddie!

Big Mama has been a good Mama! The biddie is 1 week and 1 day old now and doing great! She is so funny! She trys to peck everywhere mama pecks - in the same spot! I've seen her already trying to scratch - just like mama! I've seen her flap her little baby wings - just like mama! She is adorable! (hoping its a she!) and I can see her feathers growing already too! There was one little spot on her tail that I noticed since she was born that I thought was just a dirty spot, but it turns out to be a dark feather! I think she may grow up to look like her mama! Even though her Daddy, Buster, is a completely white leghorn. I wonder how that gene thing works with chickens? hhhmmmmm...

Our first Baby Biddie!

We're Grandparents! One of our hens, "big mama", a dominique chicken, sat on 1 egg for about 23 days!  And Sunday her little baby biddie hatched!  I didn't see it hatch but I notice Big Mama was in the garden shed yard for an extended period of time and wondered why she wasn't back on her nest.  So I decided to go check things out!  She was talking up a storm and I couldn't figure out what she was cackling about.  I went over to were she was pacing back and forth next to this piece of black cloth that had blew over into the yard from the barn.  I sat there in silence for a moment trying to figure out why she was upset and that's when I heard it! Peep, peep!  Peep, peep!  I spoke out loud with excitement in my voice... "Could it be?"  I asked myself!  I lifted the cloth and there was a tiny ball of yellow fuzz!  She had gotten under neath the cloth and mama couldn't get to her, which was why she was upset!  Mama was then able to see her and get to her!  We were all SO HAPPY then!  This was our first biddie experience and it's too cute to even try to explain!  But, I'll have more excited news, perhaps by next weekend, b/c our other hen, Sally, is expecting 2 babies!

 

My biddies are all grown up!

Many of you may remember I posted photos of my new 3 little baby biddies! I was so excited to watch them grow and to eventually get some EGGS!! Well, guess what? Turns out I have 3 roosters!! I've got to change their names from Buttercup, Daisy & Fern to something a little more manly! They are so funny to watch run around & chase bugs! As they started learning to crow it sounded so weak & pitiful, but they tried so hard. They are getting better at it these days as you can hear in the short video below. They follow me EVERYWHERE! I told David I was probably the only girl in the county that "walks" her chickens, AND the cat, all at the same time - in harmony!! Kitty also follows every move I make so he wasn't about to be left out!!