Attitude shown in actual size. Sonia did eat some scratch from my hand this week after an extended forced cuddle session. Perhaps we can come to an understanding yet!
#silkierooster #SoniaSotomayor #wattles #rosecomb #earlobes #petchicken #petrooster #Mohawk #alphachick #roostersofinstagram
Me: Can we take a selfie?
Nameless Chicken: No.
Me: Can I take your portrait?
Nameless Chicken: No.
Me: But your Mohawk is amazing today.
Nameless Chicken: No.
Me: This is why you still don’t have a name.
#silvergreydorking #petchicken #backyardchickens #MohawkMonday #Chickencoop #stubbornchicken #comb #chickenportrait #chickensofinstagram
Girls, such good work! I love your palette. I just bought a bunch of English muffins and I look forward to sampling your wares.
#petchicken #fresheggs #EasterEgger #happyeggs #oliveegger #backyardchickens #organic #freerangeeggs #breakfastfordinner
Wow! Look at this #camellia produce! It is living its best life in perfect patch of afternoon sunshine. It is only knee high right now. Imagine what it will look like when it is 10 feet tall!
#mastergardener #zone7 #redcamellia #gardentour2020 #gardening #gardeningingeorgia #springtime
Bearded and beautiful! Wilga is Sonia’s favorite hen for completely obvious reasons. Just look at her!
#salmonfaverolle #Faverolle #beardedlady #wilgefortis #petchicken #chickenportrait #chickenselfie #plumage #chickensofinstagram #hottie #hens
My gardening crew lacks focus, discipline, strength, and arms. They do not take direction. They mostly do what they want and try to escape. But they are super cute and they work for scratch.
#beckywiththegoodhair #SicilianButtercup #collardgreens #gardening #scratch #petchickens #chickensofinstagram #polishchickens
Will this be the year we finally get a nectarine? Step one: time to relocate all of the squirrels.
#gardeningingeorgia #nectarine #nectarinetree #zone7 #beehouse #pollen #springtime #squirrelfood
It’s almost time to till under the winter garden so I set the girls free to begin the process. So many delicious weeds! So much mud! Such happy girls!
#petchickens #cochins #silkies #collardgreens #backyardchickens #freeranging #happyeggs #chickensofinstagram #happychickens
Rainy afternoon in the workshop. Granite surface plate under its protective cover. Fired up my new 2400 degree @evenheatkilns oven. Now to install the drive on the @tormach 1100 for the new 8 inch tilting 4th axis. #heattreatment #evenheat #KO22.5 #surfaceplate #metrology #tormachmill #instamachinist
Just a dash of danger for Saturday night. Winching a 1200lb granite slab off its pallet. #surfaceplate #metrology #instamachinist
The girls are ready for #fluffybuttfriday this week. Donna Martin does it best. Silkies are just so fluffy!
#silkies #Cochin #petchickens #backyardchickens #SicilianButtercup #mygirls #Rosie #donnamartin
Yard pretties. I think this is the first red #Camellia in our yard.
#zone7 #mastergardener #gardeningingeorgia #springisintheair #buds #gardentour2020
Weeds. It’s what’s for dinner.
The chicken area does not have a single speck of greenery remaining so I have to pitchfork in weeds from the other side of the fence. Luckily the garden area has plenty of weeds to go around.
#petchicken #myflock #salad #cochins #oliveegger #EasterEgger #SicilianButtercup #silkierooster #chickensofinstagram
House pretties!
#thanksmom #vanbriggle #bouquet #decorating #daisy #wormwood #kitchentable
Ladies, try to contain yourselves. Sonia is showing Wilga her powerful rooster kick and circle dance. It is just so…impressive. Swoon. I don’t know how Wilga resisted. (Also, check out the stare down Sonia gives me before heading back to her flock. Jerk.)
#petrooster #silkierooster #SoniaSotomayor #roosterdance #petchicken #courting #roostersofinstagram #chickenvideo
Hey Glo, did you somehow escape from the chicken area?
Yes. I tiptoed behind you, crept through the run into the coop and then escaped through a door you left cracked open. That is what you get for taking your eyes off of me for one minute. Now I am enjoying free range in the garden! You’ll never catch me! Ha ha ha!
#gloriavanderbuilt #Gloria #oliveegger #petchicken #backyardchickens #chickensofinstagram #chasingchickens #Gwinnettcounty #chickenportrait
Turns out Rosie is a sunbathing queen! The second she finds a patch of sunshine it is a full extension soak. I should make her a tiny bikini for her #foodboob. Just one triangle for the top!
#adopted #poundchicken #sunbathing #sunshine #feelinggood #petchicken #freeranging #happychickens
I stepped on this awesome nail filled board and now my right boot has a little extra ventilation. Maybe I should upgrade to pink and sparkly like @thekeetlifefarm? These are my favorite @crocs though. They slip on and off and come almost to my knees. They used to be waterproof. Now I am sad.
#gardenboots #gardendangers #crocs #chickenchores #wellies #gumboots #chickenboots #tetanus
Who’s got cute wattles and an oversize comb? This girl!
#silvergreydorking #petchicken #comb #earlobes #chickenportrait #chickensofinstagram #prettygirl #profile #MohawkMonday
Thank you nature! I daffodils!
#daffodils #February #springisintheair #volunteers #zone7 #bulbs #flowers #mastergardener
My valentine, my partner for 17 years on the road trip of life
Because I love them, I gave them a flock block and cleaned the whole coop today. Because they have no choice, they gave me three eggs. And then complained non-stop about how strange the coop smelled and that I didn’t put the perches back just right. Happy Valentine’s Day!
#petchickens #backyardchickens #myflock #flockblock #EasterEgger #chickensofinstagram #gardeninggloves #valentinesday #spoiledrotten
Me: Glo, can I please be in the #chickenselfiesunday post this week?
Glo: No. I am the chicken and it is a picture of myself.
Me: But @chickens.and.wine wants the human too.
Glo: No chance. I am perfection.
Me: You’ve got a little dirt…nevermind. You look great.
#gloriavanderbuilt #oliveegger #petchicken #spoiledchickens #splayleg #chickenportrait #chickensofinstagram #attentionhog #superstar
A minute of Donna Martin working the chicken piñata. This elaborate set up is a head of cabbage, with a hole drilled through it, hanging from a shoelace. It usually takes them a full day to demolish it and it distracts then from picking on each other. Cheap toys.
#petchicken #donnamartin #Silkie #cooplife #chickentoys #rainydayactivities #backyardchickens #chickensofinstagram #spoiledchickens #cabbage #eatlocal
Sonia: Come at me bro.
Me: You are a tiny silkie.
Sonia: Try me.
Me: These are MY hens.
Sonia: F that noise.
Me: Are you doing steroids? You seem…edgy.
Sonia: *biting, flying, flapping, vicious attack*
Me: bleeding
Any advice for making friends with my Napolean complex rooster? I seem to be losing the upper hand.
#silkierooster #SoniaSotomayor #shortmansyndrome #napoleoncomplex #comb #wattles #Silkie #petchicken #petrooster
Some chickens are lucky that egg laying does not have a commission based compensation program. The giant on the right is definitely a #doubleyolker and it is the third one! Those two little brown sparrow sized eggs are ridiculous and the green and blue are just perfection! I love them all, but seriously, those tiny ones?
#eggvignette #oliveegger #mintygreenegg #TinyEggs #doubleyolk #petchickens #fresheggs #happychickens #freeloaders
If you love something, take it apart. If it works when you put it back together then it’s probably still indifferent to your existence but you might save a couple grand on a new laptop. #holdmygroundstrap #laptopsurgery #dellxps15 #keyboardswap
I am normally a hawk hater but this guy is not near my chickens so we’re cool. He did not care how close I got and only left when he saw something to hunt. Go ahead, tell me what kind he is.
#hawk #raptor #workhawk #naturephotography #blueskies #perchprofessional #birdsofprey
Danger! The ravenous velociraptors are after my collards! Look at Vi in the middle with her beak wide open.
#Silkie #Cochin #polishchicken #donnamartin #violetZ #Alejandra #petchickens #collardgreens #tinyfarm #flock #snacktime #chickensofinstagram #velociraptor
Pretty much twins. Becky is a little bedraggled after a rainstorm but that does not even slow her down.
#beckywiththegoodhair #petchicken #BuffLacedPolish #polishchicken #prettyasapicture #poof #looker #bemyvalentine
These volunteer daffodils have pushed up through weed cloth and gravel every year since we moved in. They seem to be thriving! The 200 bulbs that were planted a few years ago? Squirrel food.
#springtime #daffodils #mastergardener #Gwinnettcounty #spouts #zone7 #japenesemaple
Help! I have 7 nesting boxes. Some chicken is removing all of the straw from 2 of them. Why?! This has never happened before in 6+ years of having chickens. It’s been happening every day for about a month and today the culprit emptied a third box! It’s escalating. Are they mad at me? At straw? Just really vindictive? It must take a while to accomplish. We’re going to have to get a chicken cam set up if this doesn’t stop. Officially ON NOTICE you monsters!
#petchickens #jerks #makeworkproject #coop #chickencoop #nestingboxes #criminals #messyjesse #mystery
Bryce can’t. Just can’t. Can’t eat the kale because you are holding it. But can’t eat it off the ground. But wants it. But you’re holding it! ARGH! The struggle is real. Swipe for the full range of emotions.
#brycedallashoward #brontosaurus #chickensaredinosaurs #petchicken #kale #chickenfood #leggy #struggle
This is my best contender for #MohawkMonday @urbannarnia! She is a #SilverGreyDorking, sporting a smallish Mohawk, nearly symmetrical wattles and a suspicious nature. She has not yet told me her name!
#petchicken #backyardchickens #myflock #chickenportrait #foodboob #Mohawk #chickensofinstagram #flamingoimpression
#chickthrowback
I cannot believe that Wilga (left) and Bryce (right) once fit in this tiny cup! Look at that fluff! Wilga is now a hefty #Faverolle with a full beard and Bryce is a #brontosaurus with the sturdiest chicken legs in town. They grow up so fast!
#chickthrowbackthursday #TBT #babychick #petchickens #ramekin #bffgoals #blonde #ginger
This brontasaurus is furious I dropped the kale but too skittish to eat it out of my hand. I can’t work with that. Look at her wing feathers on the left side. See how they stack outward? So strange!
#brycedallashoward #redhead #petchicken #kale #homegrown #chickensaredinosaurs #foodboob #brontosaurus
Davos is best known for the World Economic Forum this week, but if you love to drive it’s really just where you turn left to get to the Stelvio Pass. #MakeAmericaFastAgain #Roadtrip2014 #stelviopass #mercedes #S550
Last week at work I reached into the pocket of my jacket and pulled out a minty green egg. First, goodie! I had forgotten that I got a fresh minty green that morning! Second, maybe not my most professional moment. Third, impressive that it made it from the coop to the house, through my commute, and into the office without being broken!
#theincredibleedibleegg #mintygreenegg #pinkegg #oliveegg #nottreatsVi #donnamartin #petchickens #cooplife #chickensofinstagram #eggvinette
Heading home with my new surface grinder. I’ve been looking for a heavier full manual one to convert to 3 axis cnc and this one seems to be perfect since the shafts for the x,y,z axis handles are accessible from under the front edge. It’s a 12 inch wheel with 6×18 capacity. I’ll throw some clearpath servos on and make her dance soon.
#surfacegrinder #instamachinist #cnc #sprintervan #dumptrailer
It’s not what I made the trip for but I would have taken this #radialdrill home as an art piece if I had brought my bigger truck and trailer. It’s about 8 ft tall and weight guesses were around 3 tons. Probably too heavy for the floor in my living room.
#vintagemachinery #mechanicalart #instamachinist #fosdick #drillpress
Violet barely tolerates the younger chickens. Most of them know to steer clear of her. However, Becky can’t see the death stare so she just walks right up to Vi to share food and perches! Vi has learned to tolerate Becky the best.
#sisters #silverlacedcochin #BuffLacedPolish #furfeet #poof #winteringeorgia #petchickens #besties #beckywiththegoodhair #VioletZindars #cochin
First road trip in the Sprinter with my new dual 12in #Android tablet #gps setup. Google maps on the bottom, #Waze on the top watching for smokies.
#sprintervan #mercedes #googlemaps
Becky, winter white is sooo your color! You look like a fearsome yeti.
#beckywiththegoodhair #BuffLacedPolish #polishchickens #petchickens #chickenportrait #chickensofinstagram #snowchicken #yeti #Gwinnettcounty #tinyfarm
#chickthrowbackthursday
Back when Sonia was a disagreeable chick instead of a feisty rooster. That is some #meanmuggin on a week old #Silkie!
#chickthrowback #silkiechick #silkierooster #SoniaSotomayor #furfeet #chickensofinstagram #petchicken
Wilga & Kahlo: You said we had to come out to see if we liked the snow. We have come out. We do not like it. Now supply us with fresh water, hot oatmeal and dry bedding. We’ll talk again after it melts.
#salmonfaverolle #whitecrestedblackpolish. #petchickens #wilgefortis #fridakahlo #backyardchickens #tinyfarmer #chickensofinstagram #bossypants #featheredfriends
Memories of a past snow day in #Atlanta. I was going for closer to a 180 degree spin but I came up a little short. During a 2014 storm I made it most of the way up this icy hill to find the top had been blocked. I lost momentum so instead of sliding back into a busy, blind intersection I went for the #jturn. I did clip the sign on the right with the back passenger side but it buffed out.
#mercedes #sprintervan #remax #remaxlegends
That is a hard no on snow from the chickens. Only 50% came out of the coop and all of those who came out are refusing to touch the ground. Same girls, same.
#petchickens #myflock #EasterEgger #silkierooster #whitecrestedblackpolish #backyardchickens #Gwinnettcounty
A little secret garden action from the park. Look closely – that tree has grown into a bridge over the streambed.
#Gwinnettcounty #Grayson #tribblemillpark #forest #needsagnome #mossy #ferns
Oh Rosie! Have you been overwhelmed by your own beauty? Is it simply TOO MUCH for you today? I completely understand. Those tailfeathers could not be more perfect. You slay.
#Rosie #poundchicken #adopted #petchicken #preening #backyardchickens #chickensofinstagram
What? Who? Us? No! Not us! Uhhh, somebody else. Yeah, the rooster. The rooster did it. Yep. All innocent over here.
Hawk and Wilga are terrible liars. They for sure are pecking toes.
#EasterEgger #salmonfaverolle #beardedlady #petchickens #prettygirls #backyardpoultry #chickensofinstagram #comb #wilgefortis #sophiebhawkins