Friday, October 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
In honor of Kevin Bacon's Birthday today - He is 50!
The baby chicks are proud to announce they are only 4 degrees from Kevin!!!!
Kevin Bacon
was in the movie End of the Line (1987) with Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter - 1st degree
was in the movie Home for the Holidays (1995) with extra's Bruce & Gesila Black
Bruce & Gisela Black - 2nd degree
Parents to Stephen Black, in-laws to the Chickens mom Davida
Stephen & Davida Black - 3rd degree
chickens
Chickens - 4th degree
This also means if YOU know us, you are also a 4th degree to Kevin Bacon!! If you only know the Chickens, you are a 5th Degree! :-)
Happy Birthday Kevin!
The baby chicks are proud to announce they are only 4 degrees from Kevin!!!!
Kevin Bacon
was in the movie End of the Line (1987) with Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter - 1st degree
was in the movie Home for the Holidays (1995) with extra's Bruce & Gesila Black
Bruce & Gisela Black - 2nd degree
Parents to Stephen Black, in-laws to the Chickens mom Davida
Stephen & Davida Black - 3rd degree
chickens
Chickens - 4th degree
This also means if YOU know us, you are also a 4th degree to Kevin Bacon!! If you only know the Chickens, you are a 5th Degree! :-)
Happy Birthday Kevin!
Monday, July 7, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Who Trapped Lulu?!?!
When I wake up the first think I do is say good morning to the baby chicks! This is a status check, plus it's an all-around feel good move. They are so cute and happy, plus I need to check and see what they need from the night before, water or food and what is the temperature in the box. (It should be around 100 degrees.)
So they needed some water - they have been using a very small bowl so no one could fall in and drown, meaning it had to be refilled 3 - 5 times a day. I told them they were silly little girls and went to get the water.
Darling Husband Stephen stopped me and said "Water, you are getting water? I need to show you something." I said OK. I finished getting the water. They were famished and all started immediately drinking. Hubby proceeded to tell me he wad also given them water this morning. Odd they looked to thirsty - what were the little buggers up to!?!?
Then husband showed me the picture above! They trapped lulu!!!!
How in the world had they done that?? How long had the poor girl been in there? Now Lulu is the smallest, she is our preemie. The last born #9, the one we helped, the one that would not have made it if we had not helped. She is adorable! Lulu has the loudest peep, and she is holding her own getting right in there with everyone else. She may get pecked but she dishes it out! That's why we named her Lulu - the slang for Louisa which the German name for Female Warrior.
It will remain a mystery on how Lulu was trapped. But we did go out and buy them a proper chick watering system. There will be no more trappings!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
My Chickens
It's a long story really so I will fast forward to the last month. I found a farm from the Backyard Chicken Form (A really cool place if you love chickens) in souther New Jersey that sells fertilized eggs in the variety I desired. I wanted different chickens, ones that would look cool! So we got eggs for Ameraucana chickens - they lay blue/green eggs - Very Cool! Blue Faverolle - they have very fuzzy feet and Cochins who are very gentle and hopefully we got the frizzy ones. Their feathers are all curly like they just came out of a hurricane.
We had 24 eggs because we expected some were not fertile. In the incubator they went - for 21 days we monitored the temperature, the humidity, and candled the eggs to see if anything was cooking inside. We knew a few were duds but we left them inside, just in case.
On hatching day Saturday June 28th 5:30 am- there were a few cracks on the eggs!!! BUT this being my first time I was not expecting a crack to a free bird to take 30 hours!!! Let me just say a watched egg does not hatch! And it's hard not to be excited and not keep checking on them, especially when the egg is shaking, or you can see a little beak peaking out of a hole. So my day was shot!
Of course I missed the first one being born, I checked on them, walked away and the little bugger popped out like three minutes later! 11:30 pm Then it was like 18 hours of watching eggs - so went to bed when most of them hatched. We did catch one - egg #8 on video as seen below. Egg number 9 wasn't going to make it out, so we helped her. She is a preemie, very small - but so far she seems to be holding her own. We are cheering her on and giving her some special attention.
Now we have to hope they are all little girls since we can't keep roosters. But we won't know that for about four months. For now we just get to enjoy them as they grow and do all the funny stuff baby animals do. Stay tuned for updates.
We had 24 eggs because we expected some were not fertile. In the incubator they went - for 21 days we monitored the temperature, the humidity, and candled the eggs to see if anything was cooking inside. We knew a few were duds but we left them inside, just in case.
On hatching day Saturday June 28th 5:30 am- there were a few cracks on the eggs!!! BUT this being my first time I was not expecting a crack to a free bird to take 30 hours!!! Let me just say a watched egg does not hatch! And it's hard not to be excited and not keep checking on them, especially when the egg is shaking, or you can see a little beak peaking out of a hole. So my day was shot!
Of course I missed the first one being born, I checked on them, walked away and the little bugger popped out like three minutes later! 11:30 pm Then it was like 18 hours of watching eggs - so went to bed when most of them hatched. We did catch one - egg #8 on video as seen below. Egg number 9 wasn't going to make it out, so we helped her. She is a preemie, very small - but so far she seems to be holding her own. We are cheering her on and giving her some special attention.
Now we have to hope they are all little girls since we can't keep roosters. But we won't know that for about four months. For now we just get to enjoy them as they grow and do all the funny stuff baby animals do. Stay tuned for updates.
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