Everyone's Lying Down For The Night.❤️🌙💤

Teriyaki is currently broody and has about 7 eggs under her. Hopefully, she'll commit to caring for them as they're well-developed now. I just wish she didn't choose now to get Broody since I already have 6 new chicks plus the four adults including her.

Seth from Day Shift 2022. Anyone else think he's a cutie? I mean he's a total nervous wreck, he's got glasses, and a man bag. He's a total dork! So cute!

Girl Getting it Done on a John Deere 5020

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Girl Getting it Done on a John Deere 5020

My most recent chicks who are still indoors till I'm able to get everything situated for them.

⬆️ Basil, Paprika. ⬆️ Pepper

Sadie was laying on my momma with her arms stretched out like this today. She's a weird cat.

Who else is southern but likes to use "big words" when your talking mixed with the normal slang? My parents find it strange I guess. Because they've mentioned it before.

Oreo and Franny have their winter coats on. Franny has a thicker short coat compared to Oreo's longer thinner coat.

This is about 3 years' worth of Oreo's wool that I brush off him each spring. Franny doesn't usually let me brush her, so she just rubs it off herself.

I'm thinking of eventually starting a breeding project and would like to know yalls opinions on body type. Most probably wouldn't even notice much difference.

First off, cubalaya are much heavier/sturdier in body whereas the marans classic dual-purpose body type can fool you as to how much meat they actually have on them. Cubalayas are technically a dual purpose breed but most keep them for show. It's one of the rare breeds and most online breeders only keep the bantam varieties.

Personally I prefer the small comb and almost nonexistent wattles of the cubalayas along with the hens flat back in line with almost level tail.

What I'm looking for in my breeding project is

Color - white pattern red wheaten (finished breed)

Egg color - Speckled brown (not required)

Temperament - Flighty to escape predators

Foraging - excellent foragers

Egg/meat production - at least 3 eggs a week on the low end (most produce at least 4 a week) & good feed to meat ratio.

Made this simple recipe I found today. Ham and egg breakfast bowls.

Ingredients

Eggs - one for each muffin mold.

A bit of melted butter

Circle slice ham or turkey

Veggies of your choice

Cheese of your choice

Salt & pepper or other seasonings

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Instructions

With melted butter grease muffin tin and place deli meat inside to make a bowl shape.

Add a pinch of cheese on ham, then add an egg to each bowl.

Next add veggies more cheese and seasonings.

Preheat oven to 400°F or aprox 204°C.

Once heated, place tin in oven and cook for 15 min, occasionally checking to make sure the egg isn't overcooked or the cheese burned. It's alright if the ham looks a little extra crispy 😉.

Once cooked, remove, cool, and enjoy!

I realized I haven't really posted much about Teriyaki's babies. Unfortunately, we did lose smore shortly after the last post with him (the dog got him). Hershey recently passed due to illness. Marshmallow and Cookie are doing great, though! The top pic is of them free, ranging in the back yard, and the bottom pic is of them in the front yard. They're gorgeous mutt birds and so far have been having success free ranging during the day. I make sure they come into their coop at night and lock them up.