Wild Winds Homestead : January 2017

Friday, January 20, 2017

October

Clarissa's pictograph is about hunting and fishing with her brother, Taylor and her Dad. She has discovered that she can hunt at 12. She is very excited to do so.

Mystery chicken Molly is a rooster named Rooster Bean.

Victoria

Rose

Honeysuckle

Victoria likes to be groomed!

Rose loves to be groomed...she may be addicted.

Sarge and India

Clarissa and Chet

Darth Juan Carlos

Chicken quilt top is done,

Scrappy quilt,

and the rooster quilt tops are done too!

First snowfall!!!

Wesley is 8!

Fossil hunting.

Darth Juan Carlos

I totally tried to cut my finger off with my rotary cutter while I was cutting quilt squares. It is not as bad as this looks, I was told not to use it for a week if i did not want stitches. It is too hard not to use it in my everyday chores....this makes it easier and it hurt less when I bump it into things!

Averie's quilt top is done!

Our late chickens

Lucy the Red Star, died of natural cause of old age. We will miss her. She had the best personality!

Roni the Rhode Island Red-She was eaten, she would not stop eating eggs, we tried many things to stop her but in the end she was eating 3 eggs a day so we ate her.

Sophie the Red Star- She was egg bound, we tried to save her in vain.

Phil the Faverolle-Her death is still a mystery.

Blackbird the Black Australorp-She was injured and then several other chicken pecked out her flesh around the injury. We separated her and she eventually healed but did not walk very good. She spent most of her time just sitting in the lay box. She was put out of her misery.

Pickles the Barred Rock-She seemed to have some kind of a stroke, she stood for many hours in the same place and stared off into space. She would not eat and only drank for my husband. After a week she was kindly put out of her misery.

Willow, the Leghorn, is no more, she got in the dog pen and was played with to death.

Chicken who stopped by

Mabel the Mottled Java- She came to us from a neighbor, she would allow their other chicken in the coop. She was at the bottom of our pecking order until the new chickens arrived. She would hop the 3 foot fence and not allow the new chickens to eat their own food. She moved to the Jenie Hansen coop in West Haven! She does well there.

Ruby and Rhoda the Rhode Island Reds- Bought from a neighbor. They pecked the flesh out of Blackbird and were aggressive with several of the other hens. They found a new home with a daughter's friend. They do better there at the bottom of the pecking order.