The Chicken Chiefs

01/07/2024

Goodnight from Rosa and the whole gang.

~Eva~

01/07/2024

Here’s the guy that was crowing in my last post. I have 2 of these lavender Orpingtons. They are so beautiful. Both of them have bright red combs and wattles. As they were growing and still very young, Zeke’s comb and wattles were completely gray. I had no idea what made it gray. And I still don’t know, because now it has no gray in it at all. It’s big and bright just like the guy’s in the picture.

Happy Saturday Evening.

~Eva~

01/07/2024

Chevy getting his crow on.
Enjoy!
Happy Saturday Evening!

~Eva~

01/06/2024

Me doing the yo-yo. They had Duncan yo-yos at Target for 3 bucks. I just had to have one. Not a very good video. Never mind 48 Hours on the TV. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Have a good night.

~Eva~

01/06/2024

Today is “National Bird Day”. Down through the years, I have spent many hours attracting and watching and hoping to get a good picture of a bird in my own yard. I’ve taken many good pictures. But Rosa came along and she barks and scares the birds off. Long story short, I don’t even try to attract the birds anymore. But just to let you know, I still have a burning passion to photograph birds. My granddaughter has a Pileated woodpecker that hangs around her place. I have spent some time at her house watching for that bird. But he hides when I show up with my camera. Sorry I didn’t make my long story short. Instead it’s getting longer. When Flint was here yesterday, he told me, “Nana, you need to fill your bird feeders up with bird seed. We can go get some at Tractor Supply and get some.” And yes, we sure could have. But I’ll try to have some birdseed in my bird feeders for when Flint comes the next time.
First Picture: Red-headed woodpecker
Second picture: Blue Jay
Third picture: Chickadee


~Eva~
Happy Friday Evening!

01/05/2024

I was videoing this for a group I’m in. Today was “A” day. So naturally I showed my accordion. Then maybe 2 or 3 or 4 people asked me to play a song. With the exception of playing for Flint 3-4 weeks ago, I have not played this thing for 15 maybe 20 years. Flint loves “If Your Happy and You Know It” so that was my choice. Something fairly easy. I don’t look happy but I was concentrating. I certainly was not sad. lol. Give me a like or a love or a laugh to let me know I’m in your newsfeed. It was very rainy and chilly this morning. The rain has moved on but still chilly and cloudy.
Enjoy a little music from this very amateur musician but chicken loving girl.

~Eva~

P. S. Chief had the camera rolling when I thought I was practicing. 😂

01/04/2024

Flint mowing in the chicken yard today.😉 I’m pretty sure you’ll hear roosters crowing and you might see a hen. So, yes, this is a chicken post.
Enjoy your Thursday evening.

~Eva~

01/04/2024

Big D was supposed to be on his way outside. But when The Flintster started petting him, he didn’t much want to go out. He loves little man, and little man loves him. Hope you’re having a wonderful Thursday. Everything is going good here.

~Eva~

01/04/2024

Flint learns so much at Nana’s. He went from mowing on his “zero turn” to learning about glass that glows. The second picture is what it looks like without the black light. Having fun with The Flintster.

~Eva~

Goodnight!

01/03/2024

Busy day here. The Flintster is mowing and mowing with his Zero Turn. If you listen real close I think you’ll hear a hen singing the “egg song”.
Happy Wednesday. Glad to see the sun.

~Eva~

01/03/2024

I’m wondering if Chief let the girl go that usually boxes the eggs. He didn’t tell me if he did. Obviously, she wasn’t doing her job. 🤪😂

~Eva~

Goodnight Y’all!

01/02/2024

Yesterday Miss Cat was sunning on the deck. She looked so pretty, I decided to go get my Nikon. By the time I found my Nikon and put an SD card in it, this was all I could see of her. She had slipped behind the gate. I’m sure I could have stood on something to get a better look at her. But my plunging record is already not so good for this year. And we’re only 2 days in. 😂
Just enjoy this funny picture.

~Eva~

01/02/2024

It’s Roosday Tuesday, isn’t it? This handsome guy took so long to molt. But he’s looking 100% great now. I took this through the window. It’s a cold 42° here, and yes that is cold to me. Anyway, if I had opened the door, they would have bombarded me for peanuts. I have peanuts but chickens eating peanuts in the morning time would be like me eating a Snickers bar for breakfast. 😂

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

~Eva~

01/02/2024

A boy and his dog.

~Eva~

01/01/2024

I took this picture a few days ago. I posted one similar to it. But I just like pictures with Big D in them. Hope you’re having a wonderful day.

~Eva~

01/01/2024

Happy New Year!!

~Eva~

01/01/2024

Fireworks outside…Big D inside. They don’t usually bother him, but when I opened the door to let Miss Cat outside, Big D barged inside. He stepped on the couch, laid down and started snoozing. He’s so peaceful when he’s sleeping. He’s actually always peaceful.

In the words of a friend of mine from Ireland….
“Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. If prosperous is an issue, I wish you more love and laughter to compensate.... 💖”

~Eva and the gang~

P. S. Nothing bothers Miss Cat!

12/31/2023

It’s not quite New Years. But I wanted to post these pictures and say “Happy New Year!” I took these pictures, but Cindy at Baking and Eggs edited them. I think they are absolutely gorgeous. She used Photo Room to do them up fancy. And I absolutely love them. Big D’s photo does not have the logo on it. I didn’t mean to remove it, but I enlarged it a bit which removed it.
Happy New Year from Eva, Donald, Big D, Rosa, Carly, Miss Cat and a whole flock of chickens. We love our followers.
XOXO

12/31/2023

Ruby cleaning up peanuts!
Hope you’re having a wonderful Sunday.

~Eva~

12/31/2023

This was the picture I took right before I fell. Carry on.

And I’m wondering why these sorry Cowboys aren’t doing better than they are.
Dak (QB) just dances around like an old rooster doing a courting dance. Ok. This will be my last post. I’ll be on my way to bed as soon as this Cowboy game is over. (If not before)!

~Eva~

Picture: London- Golden Campine. (London is a hen). I noticed someone said “good looking boy.” 😬

12/31/2023

I love to see Big D in the place he loves to be. I had tossed out a few dry bread crumbs. Well, Big D loves bread which I think is crazy. So I ended up giving it to him and came to the house to get bag the bag of peanuts and my camera. The chickens didn’t need the bread anyway.

I was out having the best time tossing out peanuts and taking pictures. I have some stupid tallish (bar stool+ height) plant stands. Somehow, I guess I forgot what I was doing. I backed into that stupid plant stand, lost my balance (I may have been trying to sit on the stand like a bar stool). Its wobbly not made to be sit on. It went out from under me, and I fell on my butt. It seemed like it took me forever to hit the deck. I didn’t know that Chief was right beside me and saw the whole thing. He was putting out chicken feed. I said “I just fell down.” Chief never said a stinkin’ word. Then I spotted him. I asked, “aren’t you gonna help me up?” And he said, “I’m pulling my wagon.” 🙄 I got up, and STOMPED all the way to the house. And I never once dropped my camera. So when Chief got done and came in the house, I said, “you could’ve at least asked me if I was ok.” He said, “I saw it all happen. I knew you were ok!” 🙄🙄
I’m ok. But my pride sure was throbbing! So, you did get a story after all this evening. 😂
Have a good evening. Stay safe. Try to stay healthy.

~Eva~

12/30/2023

Just cleaning up a few peanuts. Continue with your great evening.

~Eva~

Breeds: Barred Rock- Left
Black S*x Link- Right.

12/30/2023

I follow a glass hen on nest group. Actually all animals are included. They had a New Years Theme of clear/clear frosted. I went though mine this morning, and these are what I came up with. I have one rooster and one lion in this bunch. I was kinda surprised I had so many clear ones. So it was fun setting them up for a picture. I thought I might as well post them here. Y’all seem to like my ACDs (Animal Covered Dishes). If you’ve already seen this picture, just keep on scrolling. If not, stop, look and give me a like or a love. I’ll talk to you later if I have something worth posting.
The beautiful afghan was crocheted by Janice at Diehl Acres Family Farm.
The red piece which is supposed to be a runner was crocheted by Ruth Anne at My Vintage Soul.
My clear rooster was not showing up good so I used the red piece to give him a background. I LOVE all things crocheted.

~Eva~

I have 2 Fenton Hens.
2 Indiana Hens
2 Hazel Atlas hens (I think)
The Lion is by Imperial Glass.
And I don’t know who the rooster was made by.

Have a good afternoon and evening.
Go Cowboys…Eva says rather sheepishly.

~Eva~

12/30/2023

Both kitties are snug as a bug in a rug on a blanket on the Flintster’s wittle bed.
They both gave me the sleepy eyes when I went and turned the light on to see what they were up to. It was like, “did you really have to turn the light on?” Yes, I really had to turn it on.

Goodnight. Sleep tight! 😴

~Eva~

12/30/2023

This will be hung on my coop sometime. I ordered it from Decor Steals. I thought it was cute and they had it marked down. I couldn’t pass it up.
Anyway, I don’t have much to post this evening.

I guess in news that I hadn’t shared. Carly Cat has been on her hiatus. This time I saw her go out the back door. I was perturbed because she wouldn’t come back to me. I just let her go and said to my daughter and her husband who was here, “well, I guess she’ll be gone for a week.” That was last Saturday night. My son-in-law said, “mom, I’m staying up late. I’ll let her in. She’ll probably be back after while.” I shut the door and went to bed. I hadn’t told anyone that she’s been missing. Because she’s left before, and she’s always came back. I did tell my granddaughter today, because Carly started out as her cat about 7 years ago. She said, “Nana, she’ll be back in about a week.” So I heard something scratching on the door. I thought it was Rosa wanting to go out. I got up, went to the door to let Rosa out only to figure out it was Carly scratching on the outside wanting in. Remember my hearing loss. Open door ended up in Rosa chasing Carly. But Rosa was taught she is not supposed to go down the hallway. I have ingrained that in her since she was a puppy and it has stuck. So let me give Rosa credit. She will not go down the hall and she will not go in our bedroom. She knows not to. And she won’t. She’s better than I let on she is. She knows her boundaries. As for Carly Cat…I don’t know what to think about her. She goes out the backdoor. It’s all 8’ wood fencing back there and she is declawed. But somehow when she comes home, she comes to the front door. I told her if she was going to keep leaving, she was going to have to learn to talk. Every day is an adventure.
Sorry for the long story. If you read to the end, you are so awesome!

~Eva~

12/29/2023

“Sarah Jane, why do you get on top of that coop? You’re white and a Hawk can spot you from 2 miles away.”
This coop is directly underneath some pine trees. There is no telling what kind of bugs and beetles fall from them. I wish I could have videoed Sarah Jane scratching and pecking. Sometimes she was pushing a shovel full of debris and pine needles off. She was working hard. But Big D was in the yard. I felt like she was safe.

I read this about Great Pyrenees dogs today. Predators like to get “easy” meals. But when they see the big white Great Pyr and hear its massive bark, they will generally move on. They don’t want to reckon with the big white force. Too much trouble for a meal they can move on down the road to get. Pyrs also have thick, heavy neck fur. Coyotes (for example) can sense that somehow their bite won’t hit where it needs to hit for any damage to be done. Again part of the reason they usually move on. I suppose it’s possible that some predators just come around looking for trouble. In that case, the Pyr usually wins. Pyrs kind of just saunter around until they see the need to go after a predator at which time they can and will spring into action, which is pretty amazing to see. Our only predator is the mail lady and the UPS man. Both Rosa and Big D spring into action. I know the delivery people are so thankful we have our ornery dogs fenced in.
Happy Friday afternoon.

~Eva~

Both pictures posted were taken from within the house through a window with my Nikon.

12/29/2023

I’m 100% surprised that I was able to get these 2 pups’ pictures.
Hindsight is always 20/20. I wish I had moved the coffee table. But in my defense- when these 2 drop, it’s almost impossible to get them to move. So with that said, this was not where I had planned to snap their picture.

~Eva~

12/28/2023

Crowing time in Texas.
This is Chevy doing the crowing. But I heard Amaroollo crow once in the background.
Hope you’ve had a great Thursday. Big D went to the groomer’s this afternoon. We stayed home to be able to go pick him up when she called.
I have a couple pictures of him and Rosa that I’ll share a little later.

~Eva~

12/26/2023

These are a few of my favorite gifts….

I just don’t have any pictures to post. The chickens are good. Flint was here today. And tho he was super excited about riding his zero turn lawnmower, I did not charge it. I felt so bad, because I was excited about it too. We really didn’t think it was going to charge or work at all. But after Flint left, it seemed to work. We are crossing our fingers that we don’t have to take it back. Flint is the best child about rolling with the punches. He takes everything in stride. We played Jacks. Played with tennis balls. He played with a hot wheels ramp, and was just as sweet as he could be.
He sat in the chicken yard with Penny and tossed out peanuts. Now everyone is gone, and it’s quiet here. During the Christmas holidays, I feel we had a near miss with an electrical plug in the guest bathroom. It started shooting balls of fire out of it. So we turned that breaker off, and our guests were very gracious and used an extension cord down the hall to plug a lamp in to use in the bathroom. Now we have a call in to an electrician to come out and get our problem trouble shot and fixed. Ugh. This isn’t a good time to call technicians of any sort. But hopefully he will at least give us a call back tomorrow.

I know gifts are not what Christmas is all about. However I got some really good ones this year and wanted to show you. Thanks for taking a look. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.

Much love,
~Eva~

12/25/2023

I had gotten this new bedspread about a week ago and put it on the bed 3 days ago. But I didn’t want the cats on it until we took the pictures yesterday evening. I was still going to keep the door shut to keep them off just a few more days. However, someone let their guard down, and it didn’t take the cats a matter of 3 minutes to get to the new bedspread. Of course I had to take a picture of them, because they were posed so perfectly. And yes, I left them there. They look so comfortable. How could I scoot them off?

Merry Christmas!

~Eva~

12/25/2023

I took this picture yesterday. Amaroollo had been running around in the rain. Matter of fact all my chickens stayed out in the rain. Silly birds. But one last “Merry Christmas” from all of us here at the Chiefs. Look in the comments for more pictures.

~Eva~

12/25/2023

Flint got a Zero Radius Lawn mower for Christmas. It was wild but oh so much fun. No, it’s not made for the house but why not? It was dark, rainy and Christmas Eve. Little boys have to have fun!
Hope you enjoy this. We laughed til our sides hurt. Merry Christmas, Flint. We sure do love you!

12/24/2023

12/24/2023

This is a picture of my 2 Black S*x Links. They are the best layers. Their eggs are beautiful on the outside as well as on the inside. If you want good eggs, I recommend this breed. Hope you’re having a good day.

~Eva~

12/24/2023

Our basket of pretty eggs from today.

Merry Christmas!

~Eva~

12/24/2023

Here’s Tate. I took this through the window, and he was at least 50 yards away. So I got my Nikon to see what I could get. My hands were trembly. But somehow the picture turned out decent. He was laying under the shade of the pine trees. There were several hens around him who were dust bathing amongst the pine needles. I couldn’t get the bathing beauties in the picture. He was totally content. This was this morning. Then this afternoon it came a good drizzle. It actually peppered down pretty good for at least 30 minutes.
Happy Christmas Eve Eve. Ha!
The Chief and I had a pretty good day, but we are sure slow about getting our strength back. My intentions was to make simple cookies. A batch of Molasses Sugar cookies and I had decided on peanut butter cookies. I wore out before I got the peanut butter ones made. I’m not going to sweat it. It’s not worth it. We are not doing special food for tomorrow nor Christmas. If I tell ya what I’m doing- I don’t want you to make fun of me. 🤭 It’s Frito Chili pie tomorrow. And Christmas we are having Sud sandwiches we will make ourselves. Just pile up meat, cheese, lettuce, onions, tomatoes…whatever you want and they’ll be yummy. Ok. I was trying to land this plane and I went off on my boring menus. Oh! Of course fresh eggs, biscuits, gravy and sausage for Christmas breakfast. That’s all.
Talk later.
~Eva~

12/23/2023

Just Carly swinging in to say hello.

12/23/2023

I’m not sure if this is Chevy or Zeke. But both these Lavender Orpintons (only one pictured) have turned out to be good guys. I hope it continues. Tate, almost 4 years old, seems 100% happy living his life in a more reclusive state. Tate almost killed 2 other roosters in his life. I rescued both in the nick of time. Rooster fights are not a funny thing. I ended up rehoming the 2 boys that almost drew their last breaths from Tate’s actions. I can’t say that I have an alpha rooster. Out of the 4, I’d say the little Red Cochin, Amaroollo, tries his best to be number 1. I can’t say he is. You know the little dudes have the biggest attitudes. He’s one of those.
Things have kinda quieted now at our place. Rosa is sleeping on the couch. Big D is quiet for now in the yard. Looks like Miss Cat is about to ask for her saucer full of milk. Carly is snoozing in her nighttime place. All is good- except Chief is feeling pretty rough. I hope daylight brings him good health or at least feeling better.
Have a goodnight. Don’t forget to hit the like button below to keep me showing in the newsfeed.

~Eva~

I spoke too soon. Big D has just started barking. That’s normal. He’s pretty much a nocturnal creature, which is how I keep my chickens safe. So that’s a good thing. 😃

12/23/2023

Rosa looks calm here. But looks can be deceiving. In her mind, she had jumped on me 15 times. Begged for treats. Stepped on my toes at least 1/2 dozen times. I got one shot. And the coloring is a bit off. Oh! And I had the poinsettia sitting in the wrong place. Rats!

But her Christmas bandana is cute!

~Eva~