Roosters

We have been talking about getting more Ameraucana chickens, we tried getting more right away but the feed store was out.

We ended up getting 3 Americana chicks and a few buff Orpingtons to round off things, very sweet birds we are happy with the choice 

The Americana ( silver ) chicks all start out looking the same but as soon as the feather up you can see a big difference

This is one of our silver Ameraucana hens 

 This is one of our silver Ameraucana roosters.....

this is our other one....it turns out some of our friends ended up with roosters, they already had as many roosters as they needed....and offered them to us :D 

We meet them a few times as they were growing up....seemed like sweet birds, got along really good with each other.......until they got here...

even though they were from the same batch and have been raised together they are now trying to 

de-feather each other :(

The first night was okay, by mid afternoon the next day we had to separate them....okay no biggie the whole pecking order thing right....it'll work out after they have been here a bit longer.....or at least that was the plan....

While we had them getting used to everything around here I came across a free cycle add offering 2 roosters to a good home, one a buff Orpington  the other was said to be a speckled Sussex....cool both easy going breeds

what could go wrong ...

First off it's not a Sussex it's an Easter egger lol

 We wanted Easter eggers but couldn't find any in the area, so really cool right.....while they get along great with each other....that can not be said about any other bird. They have only been here a few days, so that may still change.... to be fair the Ameraucanas  were the first to attack, never mind the fencing or that the other birds way out size them.....the pecking order again :(   Brent made them their own coop, they seem happy :D

After more than a week of the Ameraucana roosters getting used to the hens, we let them in the garden together....yeah....I put the roosters back in separate areas....not going good at all...very nasty to our barred Rock....looks like they will be staying in separate areas....

Update turns out the guy at the feed store had no clue what kind of rooster he had sold the lady who gave us the buff and other roo.....he's a Russian Orloff, I'm sure he didn't know this when he sold the chick to her. When I had asked if he ever ordered any Russian Orloff's he said no, so guessing it was a mix up at the hatchery....He's a cool rooster now named Orly :D

Pi Pilates

 

I took my camera with me this time to Pi Pilates

Labor Day weekend

 
Our weekend started with helping out a friend.....now we always are willing to do what we can to help out.... 

but when you have a friend who is a great musician "helping" doesn't really come close to what we did..... this guy works so hard, puts in long, long hours.....we come along and move a few things and stand around getting to see a great performance....yeah sure we sell a few cd's here and there...talk about hard listening to all of these people telling you how great your friend is ;) yeah that's some real hard work there.......
André was "working" so hard he had time to sit down and trade pencils with another friend of ours Cecy :D

                                          just a quick sketch but I think they got the feel of Randy ...... Cecy came up with the look she wanted and André worked with that......they both do good work

The next thing we did was go to White Sands for a full moon concert by Randy Granger.....we kicked back in the sand and watched him play...I found a seed bead a few inches deep in the sand...all of this white sand and out pops a blue bead cool :D

What a show...the dunes were full of people as far as you could see....it was so surreal in the moonlight you could see people but not make them out clearly....we were sitting a few feet from the friends we were planning on meeting, but didn't realize until it was almost over........ the music carried so beautifully....you would never have known by the way Randy played that it had been a long day for him already....it was truly magical 


Like a full day of going out and listening to great music the day before wasn't enough for a great weekend as it was.....

This morning we woke up to 2 more eggs, laid by different hens...we now have 3 chickens laying.....
we had thought that one of the reds was laying until a few days ago....then our only barred rock laid one while I was there lol....she tends to lay her eggs in the early afternoons ( and did so today so we got 3 :) )
so the question is who laid these two...one is clearly darker than the other....I have read that reds have darker brown eggs than some chickens......we do have buffs that are sounding really ready to lay as well.......

 

So doing good with eggs and chickens......

and off to "help" at another show of Randy's....... a few of the same people who saw him yesterday came back to hear more.....

This older gentleman comes up and puts a tip in the jar.....than comes back to speak to me

asks me how I know Randy....I say just a great friend I enjoy helping out

He gave me a tip too :D 

                                        a dollar coin...how cool is that :D


Last month we had a reporter from the local paper ask if they could stop in and ask us about reiki....we invited them to a workshop......
the article came out today.....

                   oddly enough we had just about the same clothes on today lol
tonight we are looking to do a bit of work around here...after that find something to put on the grill....


Wishing our best to you and yours


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