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Busy, busy, busy. I like winter but, Long Island winters are about enough for me. Couple of weeks of winter, then a few days of spring, maybe a day or two of summer just to confuse everyone... Repeat as needed to get from Thanksgiving to Mothers Day. If I really want "WINTER!!!!" it's only a...

Have to thin out the heard a bit so no new chickens for a while. Fuzzballs are impossibly cute and DW is an enabler so 120 quail eggs went in the incubator after work today

I have way too many chickens. Town says I can have six girls and no boys, more is only a problem if someone complains.I have 24 pullets and 7 cockerels Can't wait until the younger ones start laying and I can leave eggs for the neighbors. So far everyone but me is OK with roosters at 5:30 in the...

W4W. Over the winter I was playing with building a home made incubator. The plan was to do quail until my son came home from school with a dozen chicken eggs from one of his friends. 5 hatched and 3 were pullets. Chicken math happened and I put two dozen more eggs in the incubator. 10 pullets...

Impossibly small world. ronott1 a long long time ago one of my uncles was a professor and dean at one of the UC campuses. cheeka the Colorado thing had me confused for a while. You were talking about a whole bunch of places that I knew well. Had to read a few months of posts to figure out you...

Hey BC (MC). I had 5 17 week old chickens when I read OK's first post. I read all 23233 posts I just couldn't stop. My 17 week olds are almost 27 weeks and the 3 girls started laying about 3 weeks ago. My 26 little ones are now 17 weeks old. I have a serious problem with chicken math and my wife...

I can't believe I read the whole thing.

Hasn't been a hit and run in a while.

Buy eggs. They probably won't start laying for at least another 5 or 6 weeks.