Update: chicks, plumeria, and a sale

   I told you I'd tell you more about Amy and her four babies today and show you more pictures. It's been seven days and the chicks have started to get their wing feathers. We haven't named them yet.
  Amy is very over protective of her babies and a bit feather-brained. She almost killed one of the little black and yellow/white chicks I think she smashed it with the nest we gave her. I didn't see what happed; I just noticed Amy was looking agitated and there was a lot of noise coming out of the pen. And found the youngest black chick pined between the back wall and the nest looking dazed. I picked up the chick so it would get stumped and after a few minutes it perked up. AKA, started being able to hold it's head up. Periodically, the chick would peep and Amy would try to attack me, again. As I had been the one to hurt it. She pecked me pretty good as I reached in to grab the chick. And that's why she no long has a nest.
For some reason chickens hate cameras.

  We ended up putting her in the broody pen and Mohawk and her babies in the cages in one of the barn's lean-tos. Mohawk started acting anxious and attacking her kids (which was weird because she was almost more protective of them then before, like "Only I may kill my children.") We let her back out with the other girls. She seems happier, now. We left her babies are in the cages, because we don't know if they're boys or girls. I think Little Bit's a boy. But Opossum and Handful look like girls. Fingers crossed.

  Mom made a lei out of flowers from the Plumeria. It smells wonderful.

  Bats Bizarre is taking part in Etsy's Christmas In July sale. Use coupon code CHRISTMASINJULY for 15% off your entire purchase from 7/14/13-7/25/13. Shipping cost is not included in discount. After this sale I'm probably going to listen to my mom's advice raise the prices on my knitted merchandise. I'm not sure how much yet, but I know I would like to make more than about $1.80 an hour. The knitted snakes won't go up more than two dollars or so; they're almost priced right.

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Amy's brood

This is a very quick post, because I have a lot of work to do. Amy has Four chicks now, three black and white/ yellow and one brown full blooded Ameraucana. We're not sure if the last egg will hatch, but I'll keep you posted. As you can see it's no longer in the nest, her babies kept hopping out of it and after the second time Amy dragged the egg out so she could sit on all five of them I just left it there.
 I couldn't get that good of pictures of the chicks because Amy is very protective of them, this is the best one.

 

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Jury Duty and an egg update

That's right people, I had jury duty today. I can't believe it; I only reached voting age a couple of years ago. Thankfully I was dismissed early.

 I should have, and was planning on, writing a blog post for today on the weekend, but I spent my weekend helping build a chicken coop and run for Mohawk, which has not been finished yet. Amy's eggs are due this Wednesday or Thursday and Mohawk is getting rather restless. She seems to have  gotten more protective of her children and has started laying eggs again. There have been quite a few misunderstandings as we've reached in to get the eggs, and by misunderstandings I mean attacks. She's been laying almost every day now. We have two of the 10' by 6' chain link panels made for the run.

~~Just got back from the chicken house. I walked into the house to pick eggs and found Amy on the floor under the nest boxes with a chick that appears to have hatched early last night. Two days early! There was a chick in the abandoned nest, dead. Apparently it had caught a draft. The rest of the eggs might have caught one, too. We're sick with ourselves here. Today was the day we were going to move Amy to a cage and hope she was too far into the brood to freak out and almost crush all the eggs, like the first time we tried to move her. We've moved her, her baby (who looks just like Little Bit), and the rest of the eggs into the cage and are hoping for the best.  


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Reseeding (again)

Let me start off with Happy Fourth of July!

  For some reason I have been having a horrible time with the herbs I've been trying to grow from seeds this year. I don't understand it at all. I planted Lavender, Eucalyptus, Catnip, Thyme, Feverfew, Hyssop, and Pennyroyal; and all I have to show for it is a spindly thyme sprout and three small Pennyroyal plants. (which, by the way, smell fantastic.)

  All but the Hyssop and Catnip (I have been having a terrible time with catnip) seeds came up, and all but the two mentioned died shorty after. I think I over watered the Feverfew. I don't know what happened to the Lavender. It was looking nice, growing strong and suddenly started dying. One by one each of the four seedling turned brown and died. The Eucalyptus developed tiny purple-brown spots and promptly died.

  Mom's trying with the catnip this time. I've tried planting Feverfew, Lavender, and Eucalyptus again, but if they don't work out I'll probably wait until fall to try again. It's rather hot to be planting anything. Although, it's been in the nineties for highs and has been dropping into the seventies for lows recently which feels wonderful after all those  hundred and higher days we were having.

Bats Bizarre's fourth of July sale ends this Saturday! Be sure to use the coupon code JULY4 for 10% off your purchase before 7/6/13. Discount doesn't include shipping.
                 
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