Isn't She Pretty?

Pixie!

She is so cute!

After I took these pics I gave her a little hair cut. It's amazing the difference that makes for her.

She can see! She looks around at everything in amazement.

"There is something beyond my fuzz!"

She really needs her fuzz trimmed every week, because Lavender -her own mother!- chases her around. Pixie needs her peripheral vision to stay out of Lavender's way.

Poor orphaned baby.

My Garden - Then and Now

I thought I would show you my garden.

This is what it looked like March 30th.

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And March 31st.

And July 12th.

More Giveaway Stuff!

More things I added to the chicken giveaway basket!

A jar of strawberry/blueberry/peach jam I canned last week. Made with fresh berries from my garden.

A pretty glass bottle painted with a barred rock rooster.

(I really want to keep this!)

A funny wooden chicken decoration.

A sticker book!
Ok I know this is about a duck and the giveaway is a chicken basket, but Jemima Puddle-duck only ran away because the hens kept stealing her eggs and raising her ducklings!

Ok that's it for right now!

Keep entering!

Chicken Basket Giveaway

I decided a long time ago to have a giveaway in July.

I have been collecting chicken things for months in anticipation.

There are chicken candles, chicken coasters, chicken soap and lots and lots of surprises!

Leave a comment and you will get one entry.

Blog about the giveaway and you get 3 entries!

Giveaway ends Aug. 1st

I will contact the winner, to get their address, and send them a huge chicken themed basket of stuff!

Here is the cute basket your prize will come in!

Here are a few things I'm putting in the basket. Every other day I will post a pic of something else I'm adding to the basket. Updates will be posted HERE - where you can read my blog *wink wink*

And the winner is............................. here

Thanks for entering everyone! Come back and enter for the August giveaway!

I Miss Her

I really, really miss Honey.

I don't even want to be around the other ladies, because they remind me of Honey and.....I don't know, but now I'm scared they'll die too?

I don't know what I would do if it happened again.

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Really, I didn't think losing one of my girls would effect me like this.

I knew it would happen some day, but it happened so fast.

And Honey was always my healthy girl.

Butter's had bumble foot and Zela is a chronic wheezy breather.

Honey was never, ever sick or even looked sick.

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I miss her.

Honey Died

Honey died in my arms tonight.

I came home from visiting my Grandma and I took Honey out of her cage.

She had a seizure.

I had to hold her down and then she died.

I will miss her, more then I can even explain.

She was my snuggler and she loved to be held.

She especially loved to wrap her neck around mine and snuggle into my hair.

I buried her in the garden, wrapped in my favorite green scrubs, and tomorrow I'll plant some hen and chicks on her grave.

The last pics I took of Honey on Tuesday.

Honey Is Sick

I don't know what to do!

Honey is sick.

I noticed that she was lethargic on Tuesday. She wanted to sleep and she wasn't interested in scratching in the run.

She put herself to bed in the coop 2 hours before everyone else.

I gave her a bath, thinking maybe she was egg bound.

She hasn't layed an egg in a really, really long time.

Her vent isnt's red and her belly is soft.

Well, whatever she has it has progressed and now she can't walk, and can barely stand up, by herself.

I have been posting her symptoms on BYC , but no one has had anything helpful to say.

She has drunk a pint of water mixed with electrolytes today, but she isn't interested in food at all.

I made her scrambled eggs yesterday and she wouldn't eat them.

I made her mash with yogurt and she ate a tiny bite.

I don't know what to do!

Here is a vid of Honey

She wasn't interested in the watermelon until I turned the camera on. And she didn't end up eating it.

Her poo started out white on Tues., but now they are green and stinky.

Sad/Happy Day

Ginger went to his new home today.

I'm kind of sad, but I think he will be really, really happy with his new family.

They seem like great people, that really care about their animals.

And they have the hobby farm that I've always wanted!

They have chickens and goats, a garden, very nice.

Lucky Ginger.

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Tomorrow morning I'm meeting someone else that wants Pepper and Dixie.

It's always a little nerve racking to meet someone that you don't know, but you are giving them a little animal you have worried over and cared for.

Fingers crossed they will have a great new life too!

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I had 17 people respond to my craigslist post! In 8 hours!

Wow!

I know I picked the right people for Ginger, but I just hope I picked the right people for Pepper and Dixie.

I will miss them, but I couldn't keep them, because they started crowing ALL the TIME.

Poor babies.

Update: They're growing

I have a lot to do in the garden, so.........................here are a few updated pics of the chicks and a link if you want to look at more pics :P

More pics

Pepper crows every morning - 6 or 8 times and then he doesn't make a sound for the rest of the day.

It's funny to watch him crow - he's so apologetic about it.

"Sorry, just got to get this done with."

Another Giveaway!

Another nestbox giveaway!

Hurry up your tail feathers and enter!

Life On A Southern Farm's Contest

Choking Chicken!

Honey just choked!

The ladies were out in the run and I brought them some nice fresh weeds to pick through. I never let them have long pieces of grass, because I worry they will choke (!!!) and get impacted crops.

These were fresh dandelions, tiny sprouts about 5 inches long.

Honey gobbled up a sprout and it got stuck in her throat somehow, so half of it was dangling out of her beak.

No big deal. This happens all the time. Usually she scratches at it with her claws or shakes her head and it falls off.

Not this time!

She started walking around with her beak open and her comb turned dark purple.

If you've ever seen this you know what I mean.

Scary dark pansy purple!

I grabbed the weed, yanked it out and patted her on the back.

She closed her beak and her comb faded back to its normal fire engine red.

Whew! Scary!

Week of Strange Eggs

Last week I had 2 strange eggs from the big girls.

In the bottom pic going clockwise: Normal egg that they lay every day, tiny, itty bitty egg, scotch tape for size comparison and in the middle: very strange soft shell egg.

I normally find only one egg in the nest box. What a bunch of slackers!

This is the soft shell egg I found.

It has a soft shell on the outside with a thick liquid inside and in the very center a hard shelled egg.

Strange!!!

Egg opened.

The yolk was strange too. Runny and mixed up with the white.

I was hoping these weird eggs ment that one of the ladies was starting to lay again, but this week we are back to 1 egg a day.