Flock!

I think you should have gone with Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, but oh well.

[viscousmemories]

Chicken for breakfast?

Sure, mix it in with some hash browns and fresh salsa. Mmmmmm, Breakfast.

[godfry n. glad]

Eggs for breakfast!

Or, in this case, eggs from Breakfast.

Yeah, I thought it an inspired set of names myself. However, I did not pick the names. I submitted the list to my SO, who picked them. She wrinkled her nose at the "Fricasse..." and the "Breakfast..." sets. "Buffy" nearly won out, but she went with "Ginger".

[livius drusus]

Oh well, at least it was close. Now the next stage of excitement commences: the wait for the first egg.

[godfry n. glad]

We think it's going to be Hester. She's had "chicken butt" since she the first day home and has been doing things like tearing holes in the lawn to make a decent nestling place.

[livius drusus]

Oo, we should start a first-layer pool! I'll go with Hester since she's the odds-on favorite.

Are you going to make them some roosting boxes at some point, do you think?

[godfry n. glad]

They have roosting boxes in the bunny hutch. On the dark side.

I can't believe I don't have any hutch pix in the archives....I guess I'll have to update the archives. I think I have a picture that needs to be resized before I can upload it...I'll have to look tomorrow morning.

They are presenting outdoors in the chicken run, a dual chambered collapsible cage with one portion covered with a rigid screen, the other with nylon netting attached with laundry pins. This allows Emma to be in another area from that in which Ginger is located, each with it's own food and water.

[livius drusus]

The gallery should do its own resizing. It did back when you submitted all the ToT stuff, didn't it?

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

The gallery should do its own resizing. It did back when you submitted all the ToT stuff, didn't it?

ToT stuff? You mean the overseas pix? No...those were all resized prior to uploading by a friend. Everything I've tried to upload since has required resizing (I use the free online ResizR site) before I was allowed to upload them to FF. If I try uploading my unresized pix to FF, I get snarky little notices about them being too large.

[Ensign Steve]

Ever since the upgrade, it resizes attachments automatically. Not sure about the gallery.

[livius drusus]

Hmm... I suspect the too large message is in filesize, not dimensions. The two are linked, however, so usually when you shrink them dimension-wise, they get smaller file-wise, too.

Can you give me an idea of what filesizes you generally work with?

[godfry n. glad]

Hmmm...I've never tried it as an attachment.

But I can tell you that the upgrade didn't affect the problem I have uploading new pix to the gallery. It's still the same.

However, the pix I need are on the drive at home, rather than here at work.

[livius drusus]

When you get home, give a lookie at the details, wouldya? If the filesizes aren't too ginormous, I'll up the gallery limit.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

When you get home, give a lookie at the details, wouldya? If the filesizes aren't too ginormous, I'll up the gallery limit.

Sure thing....I'll try direct upload from my photobook and see if actually works, first. It may not be until tomorrow morning.

[livius drusus]

Wotcha.

[vremya]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Oo, we should start a first-layer pool! I'll go with Hester since she's the odds-on favorite.

Are you going to make them some roosting boxes at some point, do you think?

Which one's Hester? I like the Rhode Island Red. My money's on her.

[godfry n. glad]

Hester is the black and white "speckled" one.

Emma is the dark red Rhode Island.

Ginger is the light red...buff.

[godfry n. glad]

Day 4: Still no eggs.

The girls are getting an established pattern and we're thinking about setting up a track so they can go in and out of the hutch. They're also tearing up the lawn with chicas-sized divots to in which to nestle.

Chicas politics continues as per yesterday.

[godfry n. glad]

We need Legs in here to set up the pool.

[godfry n. glad]

Day 5:

Still no eggs.

This morning, Emma is fairly calm, but Ginger is frantically searching the perimeter for a way out. Emma is still 'the pecked'.

Talk is about letting them have run of the yard tomorrow. We need a track from the ground up into the hutch for them to take refuge and be closed in at night. This means I need to figure a roost setup for in the hutch, too.

[ms_ann_thrope]

Maybe you need... the eglu!



* ms_ann_thrope will getting one of these, if she ever gets chickens

[vremya]

Originally Posted by Uthgar the Brazen

Sure, mix it in with some hash browns and fresh salsa. Mmmmmm, Breakfast.

Mmmm....hash browns. I could really go for some hash browns right about now.

[godfry n. glad]

Okay... I just tried to upload using an attachment to a post. After about three minutes of "please wait", it returned the following:

"Your file of 2.92 MB exceeds the forum's limit of 253.9 KB for this filetype."

The filetype is .jpg.

[livius drusus]

Try now.