Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I could say, "Good morning", but I have a feeling that by the time I get this done and sent, it'll be afternoon, at least here. Then again, maybe not, because I really have nothing to report from the homestead. sigh. The weather the last several days have been beautiful, in the high 80 and low 90's. Oddly enough, even when it's been in the mid 90's it's felt nice, when you compare it to the 104+ that it was just a couple of weeks ago.
We have yet another chicken that has gone broody. She's the one that has been sitting in a nesting box in the coop, and either pecked you or threatened to when you went to look under her looking for eggs. She hasn't laid an egg in I don't know how long. We'd toss her out at their supper time to eat, only to find her right back in her box a few minutes later. But apparently she has been eating, because she isn't skinny or anything, just don't know when. Well, a couple of nights ago we decided to take pity on her and put her in one of the empty broody cages. We put 7 eggs under her. Would've put more, but our chickens are not laying very many eggs these days (1 to 3 a day). Anyway, she seems content now that she's destined to be a mom in just 19 more days. My wife said just the other day, "We're almost down to a critical amount of eggs, I've only got 12 dozen in the refrigerator!" LOL.
Umm, not much else happening. I got in the pool yesterday and scooped out a few leaves that had gathered on the bottom. I also took that opportunity to scrub some of the algae that had accumulated, loosening it up so that the filter could, well, filter it. *grin* Left the pool pump running all night so that the floating algae could get caught in the filter. Was just out there a little bit ago and noticed that a LOT more filtering needs to happen, because there is quite a few hundred thousand algae bits floating around. Okay, maybe not THAT many, but quite a few.
Well, that's all I've got! So I guess I can go ahead and say it. GOOD MORNING! :-)
Tags: chickens, broody, swimming, pools, weather in Missouri
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