I am a Hero

So I am officially a hero. Let me tells you about it.

It was super early and in the morning and Dad had already left for work.  It wasn't even light outside yet.  he drinks his coffee, starts the truck, feeds us all, and lets the chickens out of their coop into the garden run every morning.

Me?  I do this....... Momma does the same.

Well the other morning I woke up and starting barking out the window like crazy! Outside there was a Coyote less than a Dane length from MY chickens!

This is Exactly what he looked like.

Momma grabbed her boots and ran out the door chasing the Coyote like a Crazy lady and then she started counting the chickens.  Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Cher, Madonna, and Queen Latifa were all huddled in the corner of the  fenced garden.  Gwen was in the garden and Britney, Lil' Kim, and Reba were still in the coop.  Are you counting?  That means we are missing two of the babies.  Momma got everyone back in the coop and then heard a noise.  Katy was 50 feet up in a tree - the little bantam babies can fly over the 5 ft fence!  She came down and Momma got her back to safety.  We called Grammy and Grampy to tell them that we couldn't find MJ.  This is MJ.

Finally we heard Cockle doodle doo in the woods!  Everyone was so happy.  After he felt safe in about 10 minutes he came back down out of the trees and he was put back in the coop.

I stayed inside and barked the whole time to keep that coyote away. Nobody messes wif my chickens.  I is a hero.

Baby Chicks, it's raining kittehs, and my football

So this stuff isn't related at all but I wanted to share it all, so I'll cram it one post....
First off the baby chicks are now 6 weeks old- can you believe it?  Momma Lady Gaga chicken is still a proud Momma strutting around with her babies.  There are 4 babies and we are sure that #4 is a Rooster.  We think the other 3 are all girls (pullets)!

We can't keep them all but Momma is very happy that #5 (the baby she saved) is a girl! 

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My kitteh Brudder Vader was practicing for the couch potato peeling contest and he fell off the couch!

Yup, this is a partial wipe-out photo - he peeled out off the couch - BOL!

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And lastly - I just luvs my JW pet football - Dis be my 3rd one cause I play wif them so much I wears them out. I previous had 2 green ones, this 1 be black.  They squeak and are just fabulous.

What do you mean you can't see the football?

 Ok here it is..

BOL, sometimes I crack myself up I is still laughing abouts Vader falling off the couch.

Chick Magnet

So guess what, I gots baby chickens!  Back in June my chicken Lady Gaga went broody.  Basically that means she starts stealing all the eggs and sitting on them.  She wanted to be a mom.  The only problem is that we gots no rooster, so all that work Lady Gaga was doing was for nothing!  So we gots 6 eggs from a farm so that Lady Gaga could be a surrogate mom. (Lady is grumpy because I guess eggs aren't comfy when you sits on them?)

So she sat on the eggs for what was suppose to be 21 days. But on Day #19! The first little monster was born.

Come the morning 4/6 eggs were hatched and when Dad gots home the first chick had jumped it's barrier and was running around the coop with the rest of the adult chickens - NOT GOOD.  Fortunately the chick wasn't hurt and we moved Lady and the 4 babies to a temporary coop.  Chick #5 had hatched but since Lady Gaga was running around with first chicken she had ignored it.  So Chick #5 and Egg #6 came inside for the night.  After 36 hours chick #6 didn't make it but Chick #5 was healthy as could be.

 We reintroduced chick #5 to Lady Gaga and she pecked it!  So after reading some stuff about it online at nighttime the hoomans snuck the 5th chick under Lady Gaga when she was sleeping.  The next morning she had 5 babies instead of 4 and happy as could be.  Chickens are stoopid, they can't count.  Meet the babies:

Chicken #1 and #2

Chicken #3, #4, and #5

Lady Gaga and her babies, they are growing fast.

 So I is raising more babies but I can't keeps them all.  We can't keeps any if they are boys and we only have room for 2 girls.  So, when they are older and we can tell what they are 3 babies will go to another family.  Momma's favorite is the brown chick#5 so hopefully that is a girl :)

Oh and a picture of me cause this is my blog!  Isn't my new snake stuffy pawesome!

Give us the bird - Eggciting Chicken Update

Sarge is hosting an event: Give Us the Bird!  I decided this was a great time to update you on my chickens!
Back in June they started as this:

 I helped them grows up in my old baby crate in the basement.

 Then once they were old enough they moved outside to their new home.

And now look at them!

And in honor of Give us the Bird Week they layed their first egg today!  Isn't that crazy, they must have been waiting for Sarge's event.

 I is very eggcited!

Chicken Update

Still no eggs, but any day now we are expecting them....

The chickens have grown up quite a bit!

They are nosey and noisy!  Always cackling at me... Hmph.

And because no post is complete without a picture of me, here I am!  Ignore Vader sleeping in the chair behind me.  Nobody cares about him, BOL.

My new sisters.......

They came home in a box....... there are 6 of them!

I don't really know their purpose, all they do is scream and poop!

They are currently living in my old baby crate, in da basement where the kittehs can't get to dem.....  I just sniff them and walk away.  I don't understand why the hoomans think they are so great.  Pretty boring if you ask me....... Vader really wants to visit them but he isn't allowed.