Hi I'm Dandy [they / xe, adult], from @its-dandy-mack, & this is my growing things blog! I have a lot of plants and babies and I just want to collect them in their own little space. There will be a lot of images and thus a lot of descriptions đ
I welcome pictures of your babies in the ask box đ I love them already.
The Baby List (WIP):
Uncle Kai's baby, only to be featured on this blog with permission. A chill lady who lives for chicken treats, cotton sheets, and occasionally running through the house like someone bit her tail.
Tokki [American short-haired moggy cat, 6]
Panic! [American short-haired moggy cat, 4]
Renny's baby, a spoiled little kitty with a deep fondness for salmon, watching kids walk by, and every single toy uncle Kai ever buys (but none of the toys anyone else gets her).
[ID: a short-haired diluted calico cat with green eyes relaxing on a cat tree near a narrow windowsill. End ID.]
The Ladies [chickens, various breeds, 2]
We inherited 15 chickens from the previous owner of our house. They were not particularly acclimated to human interaction (or named), but we are doing our best to give them the best life we can now. The ones I've named are as follows (I'll give them all names eventually, I just need to distinguish them):
Black Broody: a big, fluffy, broody grey lady with a black head. We often have to scoop her up and put her outside of the coop to get exercise or she'll sit on anything vaguely egg-shaped for her whole life and refuse to move. She's very soft (and very crabby).
Woody: a slim orange chicken with a brown legband. She's the boldest of the chickens, and will run right up to people for treats. Tends to vibe by the woodshed (it's near where the humans bring treats from, obviously).
Comrade: a slightly larger and darker orange chicken with a red legband. She is similarly bold to Woody, but prefers being around the main flock.
Lucky Diogenes: a little grey chicken who had an unfortunate run in with the former owners' dogs and had her entire ass plucked bare. She's regained much of her health, dignity, and feathers - but she's currently still under supervision.
Oh God, Stupid, No (or just Stu, for short): a tiny, brown-speckled chicken with an unfortunate tendency to flee in the worst possible direction from anything which startles her. You must check for Stu before you open or close any gates, coop doors, or garage doors.
Ghost: a small orange & white chicken who screams like she's seen a ghost when she sees me. I'm just as scared as you are, Ghost, why are you screaming?
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...I am missing a few ingredients and doing my own thing but it will be borscht-ish (say that 5 times fast) soup!
Pink onions! đ
[Tastes it] oh boy that's gonna be weird with the chili powder [why is it so spicy i didn't add that much đ]
[ID: a series of 4 photos showing various angles of a stock pot on a stove top with a tile backsplash that features an image of a rustic collection of herbs, 2 apples, and a pumpkin. The stock pot contains the vibrant fuschia of cooking beets, onions, carrots, vegetable stock, and red cooking wine - which is being poured in in the third photo. End ID.]
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Excuse me ladies, but this deck is not chicken-proofed or really safe for humans even... rip... [I did scoop them down to the yard & re-use our "anti-kitty" gate, no worries.]
[ID: two orange chickens - specifically Woody and Comrade - on a somewhat dilapidated grey and white deck. They are both looking in an intrigued fashion at the camera. End ID.]
I will admit that I save and thoroughly clean out my tincture bottles and droppers for controlled fertilizer application. Going green with... my greens... đ¤Ŗ
[ID: a photo of a catnip plant on a windowsill beside an art piece of an abstract flower being clicked with an iridescent mouse and a small glass bottle with a dropper and diluted plant fertilizer within it. The bottle is surrounded by little 90s-inspired stickers of stars and triangles. End ID.]
My chickens are SCREAMING and I'm like [scrambling outside] "what?! What's happening?! Are you OK?!" No one is hurt and no one is stuck and they have lots of food & water & already had treats...
I think they're mad it's raining so they can't go play in the yard without getting wet? I do not control the weather ladies I don't know what you want me to do
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A tree fell on the run! So that was a... fun day. We had to get new roofing panels, several replacement 2 by 4 connector brackets, and two new 10 foot boards. Luckily, we scrounged up better screws and nails than the people who built the structure had access to, so the repairs are at least sturdier. We also put away the... quarantine kennel that the old owners left. For sheer "wow does that ever look like a chicken torture device" reasons. Still need to do upgrade work on the coop and run, but for now we're happy they function and would like them to stay that way, doggone it.
[ID: a series of 6 images of a chicken run. It is clear by the sky in each image that this process took the majority of a day, as each successive photo is darker. By the sixth image, it is dark out.
First there is a photo of a fallen tree resting on the run's broken roof and fence with a distant pale person sawing it in half.
The second and third show a closer shot of the damage to the roof and fence. The damage includes 5-6 broken / dented corrugated metal roofing sheets, two completely severed 2 by 4 planks which leave one corner of the left half of the roof dangling - unattached to the support structure, and half of one section of wooden fence completely flattened.
The fourth image shows the broken fence area fully covered in deer wire for a temporary fix. The chickens need to access the run to get food and water, after all.
The fifth image shows the person from before, on a ladder with one foot on the wooden fence screwing in the final screw connecting the roofing panels to the wooden structure. This is not a professional job and OSHA would be furious. Please be safe on ladders, do not follow our example. A cage visible within the structure in former photos has been removed.
The final image shows the underside of the completed roof, illuminated by light from within the distant coop. If one looked closely, they would see a cluster of chickens preening in their roosts in the coop. End ID.]