Funny Story

My friend told me a funny story I thought I'd share.  

Sadly,  a bob cat has been coming into our pasture during the day and stealing our chickens.  (This is not the funny part!)

We have gone to great lengths in an attempt to keep the cat out including raising our fence from 6 feet to 9 feet and adding an electric wire.  Unfortunately, fort knocks does not keep this Cat Burglar out. 
 
My friends, the one I promised to tell you about,  was talking to her kids about my frustrations over the bob cat and her daughter blurted-out: " I feel sorry for the Portuguese".  

My friend  was shocked and surprised that her daughter would blurt that out, so for clarification she asked: "What did you say?,  and her daughter repeated: "I feel sorry for the Portuguese"!  

At this point my friend was getting upset and told her daughter not to be dis-respectful to the Portuguese and her daughter replied: " I did not say Portuguese I said Poor Chickies".  They spent the rest of the night laughing.

10/21/11
Okay,  we are finally done with the covered run over the Polish Pen breeding pen.  Three days of hard labor and my precious chickies are safe from the bob cats.

 I am calling the new run the chicken church because I felt like an  Amish Farmer as we raised the roof one truss at a time.  

I'd like to thanks my friend and carpenter Brian for an amazing job, and my good friend Maylynn who is always willing  to lend a helping hand when needed.  I keep teasing her that I will eventually turn her into a Farmer - she does not believe me...  Roof going up over the rare and exotic pen.  The Bob Cat has claimed 35  beauties from this pen since June.  We tried raising the fence from 6' to 9' and adding a hot wire and the cat just climbed over, so we had to resort to a roof.   Unfortuantely, this means the chickens will have limited access to the hillside until the cat realize there's no more chicken ala carte here. 

10/19/11
Picture #1 roof going up,  Picture #2 Rooster Phil telling us if the Trusses are straight.  More pictures to come once it's complete

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This is a fabulous, one of a kind, horse property on approximately 3 flat acres on coveted McClay Road in Novato.  Lovely 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, office, formal dining room, laundry/mud room, walk-in pantry and media/game room. The park like back yard offers privacy, hot tub, mature fruit trees and raised beds. The horse facility includes a 10 stall barn, tack room and hay storage, additional covered paddocks, turn outs, arena and large hay barn. 


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Yep, you read that right.  We now have "Olive Eggers"

We crossed a Dark Brown egg laying hen, with a blue egg gene roosters and the resulting babies lay - you guest it... olive colored eggs.  

I am thrilled with the color but my husband is repulsed and think they look un-appetizing.  You will have to judge for yourself.....  oh and just in case you are wondering.. olive eggs are just as delicious as all our eggs.

We are currently only getting 4 olive eggs a day.... so count yourself lucky if you find one in your carton.

We will be offering "Olive Egger" chicks next year... so if you love the olive colored eggs as much as I do... be sure to get on our wait list.  

7/9/2011:  Finally published my website!!!  

Yes, it is still a work in progress, but my goal for this website is to help introduce you to the faces of Just Struttin farm and  keep you posted as to the happenings on the farm.