Widget Lays An EGG

2.17.2011

This little bitty banty chick that I 'saved' has become a mature Hen it seems. She has stayed ever so friendly and knows she is safe from the big rooster ( Lucky) who constantly bothers her in the barn. So it is in the barn she lives with a few short forays out into the barn yard area....

She loves to come into the tack room and sit on human laps, if there are any. She tells us very important Chicken Things all the time.  This evening, she was cackling about something and I just figured it was something misbehaving according to Widget. No- when I went to re-fill her water dish for the night, I noticed there were TWO teeny tiny eggs in the back of her hen house !  Each day so far, we are presented with one small bantam sized egg in there. I got a photo of a normal sized egg from our Rhode Island Red hen, Lucy, and then one of Widgets so you can see the difference . I hope she continues laying !

Carlene's Bracelet

The day before I had Carlene, my dear Clyde mare, euthanized, I clipped a bit of her tail hair to keep.I didn't think it would be long enough to have much of anything created from it, but it turns out I got a good deal of length. Hope , of High Hope Designs, said she would make a memory bracelet from it. When the bracelet arrived here, I was floored !  It was/ is GORGEOUS ! So comfortable to wear, and now, when I do wear it, I think of all the good times had with Carlene while she lived here at WoodFinn.....

Happy End of February !

 This winter has been good to us. "Warm" temps, little snow, some rainy days- but generally ?  A good winter so far. Now- since I just typed that, we'll get a HUGE snow storm in March, Just to prove me wrong.

Alli , my ancient App mare, has come thru this winter in good weight. Normally, she'll loose a little by this month no matter what I try to tempt her with.... but not this year. Alli Likes warmer weather - as do I.

This is a short one- as I'm attempting to once again, learn a stable management program I purchased. So far, so good, but whew, I'd MUCH rather be driving horses !

Take care, and check back again soon !
Below are a couple of photos from our late January snow :