Municipal Competence
Jul. 18th, 2013 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firebyrdI love how competent our city is. They're so helpful, with a newsletter coming with our utility bill talking about all sorts of holiday events on July 4th, even including a coupon for reduced ticket prices for one of the fireworks events!
...The utility bill arrived this week. You know, weeks after all of this is over. *golf claps*
In other news, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are both broody. They spend most of their time huddling in the nest box together, both trying to sit on the eggs the others are laying (since they're broody, they're not laying hardly any themselves). Dumb birds. I feel kind of bad for them, but I think most of that is habitual after feeling bad for Wyvern and her broodiness for so many years. The whole purpose in life for these birds is to lay constantly, and if they're not doing that, they're not fulfilling their purpose.
It's crazy to think that if we want a regular supply of eggs, we're probably going to need to start a new flock next year. The information varies about how long hens lay, but even so, it does seem to agree that they're at their peak now. I definitely want to do ameracaunas again and probably sussixes as well. The sussix eggs are smaller, but before their broodiness, they were quite consistent. Both of the individuals of those two breeds are a lot friendlier and less skittish too. The dominique is pretty ornery and the wyandotte is still way nervous. If we just had those two, I don't know that everyone would have such a good impression of them. Instead, the other five are so gregarious, everyone loves them. Even Eric smiles over them.
My mom's going to freak when we start eating them. Hopefully they'll keep laying pretty regularly next year while the new batch gets started to put that time off!
...The utility bill arrived this week. You know, weeks after all of this is over. *golf claps*
In other news, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are both broody. They spend most of their time huddling in the nest box together, both trying to sit on the eggs the others are laying (since they're broody, they're not laying hardly any themselves). Dumb birds. I feel kind of bad for them, but I think most of that is habitual after feeling bad for Wyvern and her broodiness for so many years. The whole purpose in life for these birds is to lay constantly, and if they're not doing that, they're not fulfilling their purpose.
It's crazy to think that if we want a regular supply of eggs, we're probably going to need to start a new flock next year. The information varies about how long hens lay, but even so, it does seem to agree that they're at their peak now. I definitely want to do ameracaunas again and probably sussixes as well. The sussix eggs are smaller, but before their broodiness, they were quite consistent. Both of the individuals of those two breeds are a lot friendlier and less skittish too. The dominique is pretty ornery and the wyandotte is still way nervous. If we just had those two, I don't know that everyone would have such a good impression of them. Instead, the other five are so gregarious, everyone loves them. Even Eric smiles over them.
My mom's going to freak when we start eating them. Hopefully they'll keep laying pretty regularly next year while the new batch gets started to put that time off!
