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 Ok, so for some reason my computer wont let me quote or multi quote!

Um, if you live on the flats on Ross Canyon Rd...we are neighbors (well almost). I live between Miller and Nichols on Duck Lake rd.  (and CR this is not enough address for you to come rustle birds...LOL).  Yes, the little guys will squeeze through the bigger wire. Gotta watch for that. I would bet with a heat lamp for them to get in and out from they could be outside at night, but I would not put them inthe run. i was going to tell you how to post multiple quotes,but looks like someone got ya' set on that one.

Oh and a head's up....all the birds will find 1 or 2 of their favorite boxes and they will all squeeze into that 1 or 2 boxes to lay. Even if you have 10 or 12 boxes. They will all find their favorite and that is that. craz birds.
 

                I drive to Tonasket every day for work, and take the highway...but that's exactly how I come home every night..odd to think I've driven by hundreds of times :)  Thank you for the tip about the fencing.  We can beef up the bottom of the run before they do go outside, but I'm not in any hurry to get them there.  We used to have 31 chicks in a big cardboard produce bin here in the house... the majority of the "stinkie-poopie babies" as I've affectionately started calling them are outside now, so we're down to Teeny and Tiny, Petunia and Marigold the Red comet chicks, Dahlia and Penny the speckled sussex, Lily the Light Brahma, and Chrissy, another EE.  The chicks I bought and will be picking up in Seattle( a Cuckoo Maran and a Welsummer)  were hatched 5/9, so I expect that by the time I get them they'll only need to be inside a week or so, if the highs/lows stay the same.  We've all become chicken obsessed around here: the catalog I ordered from has become so tattered from us looking at it.  The book that has influenced me the most is The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery: I built our flock based on cold/heat tolerance, docility, and egg color but we designed our coop and run based on his observations and experience.

I had heard that before, about the boxes....silly birds!  Seramas, huh?  I don't know much about them...I'll have to look them up :)

For some reason, Sunbug, I just can't seem to "quote" or reply to you....if you come to the house to pick up your chicks I will send you home with some meal worms for your babies. I have "accidentally" started raising them.  It is funny.

Hmmm, I know there's several of us over on this wet side that could use some coop and run help. Maybe we could all pitch in and sponsor a VF buildathon!

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Originally Posted by 4cats3kids1hubby2many 

 

Um, if you live on the flats on Ross Canyon Rd...we are neighbors (well almost). I live between Miller and Nichols on Duck Lake rd.  (and CR this is not enough address for you to come rustle birds...LOL).  Yes, the little guys will squeeze through the bigger wire. Gotta watch for that. I would bet with a heat lamp for them to get in and out from they could be outside at night, but I would not put them inthe run. i was going to tell you how to post multiple quotes,but looks like someone got ya' set on that one.

 

Oh and a head's up....all the birds will find 1 or 2 of their favorite boxes and they will all squeeze into that 1 or 2 boxes to lay. Even if you have 10 or 12 boxes. They will all find their favorite and that is that. craz birds.
 

Whispers:  CR - I have that transponder you gave me.  I will make sure to install it in the new coop where 4312 will not find it.  Dial in the proper frequency, and bada-bing - new chickens :)

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Originally Posted by CrazyChcknChick 

                I drive to Tonasket every day for work, and take the highway...but that's exactly how I come home every night..odd to think I've driven by hundreds of times :)  Thank you for the tip about the fencing.  We can beef up the bottom of the run before they do go outside, but I'm not in any hurry to get them there.  We used to have 31 chicks in a big cardboard produce bin here in the house... the majority of the "stinkie-poopie babies" as I've affectionately started calling them are outside now, so we're down to Teeny and Tiny, Petunia and Marigold the Red comet chicks, Dahlia and Penny the speckled sussex, Lily the Light Brahma, and Chrissy, another EE.  The chicks I bought and will be picking up in Seattle( a Cuckoo Maran and a Welsummer)  were hatched 5/9, so I expect that by the time I get them they'll only need to be inside a week or so, if the highs/lows stay the same.  We've all become chicken obsessed around here: the catalog I ordered from has become so tattered from us looking at it.  The book that has influenced me the most is The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery: I built our flock based on cold/heat tolerance, docility, and egg color but we designed our coop and run based on his observations and experience.

 

I had heard that before, about the boxes....silly birds!  Seramas, huh?  I don't know much about them...I'll have to look them up :)

Best.

Chicken.

Book.

Ever.

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Originally Posted by 4cats3kids1hubby2many 

For some reason, Sunbug, I just can't seem to "quote" or reply to you....if you come to the house to pick up your chicks I will send you home with some meal worms for your babies. I have "accidentally" started raising them.  It is funny.

I want some!  (Seriously)

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Originally Posted by FlyRobinFly 

Hmmm, I know there's several of us over on this wet side that could use some coop and run help. Maybe we could all pitch in and sponsor a VF buildathon!

Have nail gun will travel :) 

Same deal I made 4312.  You pay the gas to get me there and back, and all the materials.  If you have room for my travel trailer, you'd save your self the cost of a hotel.  Oh, and I don't eat much :)  

(CR - I'm going to need more transponders me thinks )

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Originally Posted by Farmin Momma 

 Ok, so for some reason my computer wont let me quote or multi quote!

 

 

To change that setting click on Preferences close to the bottom of the page, right below the page numbers. One of the options is called "Remove Nested Quotes in Replies" click no.

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Originally Posted by Farmin Momma 

 Ok, so for some reason my computer wont let me quote or multi quote!

 

 

To change that setting click on Preferences close to the bottom of the page, right below the page numbers. One of the options is called "Remove Nested Quotes in Replies" click no.

 

Edit remove link.

 Wal La.... That is wierd that I had to do that all of a sudden. I have used quote and multi quote several times and never gone into Preferences to change anything. Oh well it's done now. Thank you for the guided had to find my way to it!

 I am so darn frustrated, because I thought I needed to down size my girls a bit. I was up to 21 so I sold 6 of them. Then over the last two days realized that my two 5yr old Barred Rocks have stopped laying. Now I am not getting nearly enough eggs for the demand I have. Sounds like I need to find a few new girls, but my problem is I WANT some beautiful EEs like ( oh gosh I hope I get this right) Sunbugs two girls! But all I can find are the normal cute ones.

Does anyone have the information for our state vet? I need to have a necropsy done. Could someone just PM me with the contact information and the cost?

Thanks Sunbug! My husband would burry me out back if I drove all the way to Wenatchee just for some chickens!

Does any one have pics of what the lil chipmuck EE chicks grow up to look like? Or are they the normal brownish ones with the black beard and muffs?