AWESOME!

So exciting! so, Sunday, the same day dear little Vanilla went to Chicken Heaven...

I discovered something...hidden among the peas....

whatever could it be...but an egg from sweet Penny! a lovely pale green color....gorgeous!

And then of course I had to set up some photos...hehe!

She laid a second egg today, but I was too late letting them out of the coop and so it got trampled( need to get those nesting boxes built now...)

But! She is laying now! which is fantastic! Goldie should start laying soon as well, she will lay just brown eggs, and my newest baby, Cinnamon will also lay green/blue eggs.

anyways...that was my exciting news! oh, and I'm finally finished with school for the year, so expect lots of new things for my shop!

cheers,

~The Bella Modiste

R.I.P.

Little Vanilla had to be uh, taken care of today.

She was doing great since Friday, but today when I was taking care of them, she was just laying there, not doing anything, so antibiotics, water, nothing helped, we separated her from Cinnamon, and kept an eye on her for the rest of the day, but she took a turn for the worse this evening, and so I allowed dad to do what he had said he could do if it needed done.

So, I'll just have three chickens, three is plenty.

anyways,

~The Bella Modiste

New babies!

Both are hens, both are unnamed, and as far as the feed store lady told me, they are both araucanas...and both are SO cute..names..I'm thinking Chocolate and Vanilla...rofl
cheers,
~The Bella Modiste

Farewell!

Cookie and Cream are going back to the feed store today and will be exchanged for standard size chickens, who have been sexed, because, as it happens...Cookie and Cream turned out to be Bob and Rob....two little roosters...the neighbors would so hate me!

The duck will be staying around, as she is a she....haha

I'll introduce the new babies when I get them.
cheers,

~The Bella Modiste

I've been busy...

So...what with the new babies, the dog, the older chickens, and finishing up the school year...I've been pretty busy...BUT! Finally a chance to blog....I got some more pictures of the new chicks, but now the pictures are a few days outdated...haha

Here we have what my cookbook calls "Double Apple Fantans" I rehydrated some chopped apples for this, instead of using fresh, ooooh yum, these are SO GOOD! We (family of 5) polished off the whole dozen that evening....yummm!
This is "Cream", I think at this point she was saying in her own way,"where did everyone go!?"

Here we have Cream and Marigold, mom's new duck.

And here is the back view of Cookie following Marigold and Cream, now, I'm really afraid that Cookie will have to go to a new home, as "she" is showing characteristics of a rooster, fast growing comb, large tail feathers....yeah....I'm gonna give it another week or so....but I'm pretty sure I've got a little boy...:(

Anyways, nothing really exciting has happened lately, today had a nice visit with some out of town homeschooling friends, but it was a very short visit, as they had a previous engagement with someone else.

cheers,

~The Bella Modiste

Here they are!

Meet my new babies...both bantams and as of yet unnamed.

Hopefully I havent got a rooster, and I still dunno what type of bantams they are, it was a mixed bunch and they didnt know what they had or didnt have. But I do know for sure that they are not silkies, which is fine, I love them as they are...hehe...
cheers,
~The Chicken Lovin' Bella Modiste~

All set up!

oooh! I'm so excited! Off to the feed store!


For those of you going.."what!?" yes....I'm getting 2 more chickens...bantams actually....hehe!
cheers,
~The Bella Modiste

P.S. This is my 50th post...woooohooo!..kinda sad though...50 posts in nearly a year! should be 360+ tsk...shame on me...:P