Who else took the chick plunge! (Pics on post 101) - Page 5

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Originally Posted by yoie 

I finally ordered my chicks for this year today  Anyone else have some fluffies coming soon!! I promised my DH I would take it easy and not order to many, we wanted to double our currently flock of 15 chickens and 4 ducks, but...you know how chicken math works  . I ended up ordering 31+ chicks, 4 ducks, and 2 geese. I just couldn't help myself so I have two orders coming, one from Ideal and one from Mt. Healthy.

So here's what I am getting

Ideal Order:

1 Ideal 236 pullet, 1 Production Black pullet, 1 Silver Penciled Hamburg pullet, 1 Golden Lakenvelder pullet, 1 Black SexLink pullet, 1 Speckled Sussex pullet, 1 Rhode Island Red pullet, 1 Delaware pullet, 1 Barnevelder pullet, 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullet, 5 Ameraucanas (AKA Easter Eggers) pullets, 1 Easter Egger male, 1 Blue Swedish duck female, 1 Khaki Campbell duck female, 1 Snowy Mallard duck female, 1 Rouen duck female, 1 Brown African goose female, and 1 Gray Saddleback Pomeranian goose female.

Mt. Healthy Order:

5 Ameraucanas (Easter Eggers) pullets, 9 Dixie Rainbow pullets, and 1 Dixie Rainbow male.

Now to get our new coops built for our little fluffies coming, good thing they aren't arriving til February 29th, that gives us a little time at least.

Hey Dont forget my silkies and EEs!!!!!!!  I am so excited!!!!

I have 12 assorted bantam babies coming from Ideal on Feb 2nd. 

That is only ONE week from today!!!  

me too! I'm driving my husband nuts with my worrying about the chicks. :)

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Originally Posted by yoie 

 Don't worry, I have a bunch of silkies coming too  I can't wait to see the little fuzz butts, only 34 more days till ship day. I am counting down on the calendar my DH thinks I'm crazy, I'm not crazy right

 I cant wait to see the fluffy butts!!!!! and your not crazy haha

Uh oh, chicken math is hard at work again. I'm about to call McMurray to add on to my order.....again

I did it I ordered from Meyer.

I have to wait til the middle of May.

I am getting

2 Silver Spangled Hamburgs

2 Appenzeller Spitzhaubens

2 Columbian Wyandottes and

1 Meyer Meal Maker.

DH said I could order BUT he did not say I could make the run bigger...... Until I nagged at him lol.

We are doubling the run size in April!

I just placed and order for chicks to come some time the week of Feb 27th.

This is our first time ordering chicks. I had planned on getting fertilized eggs locally and using several of my broody hens, but I need a new coop for my current flock and I didn't want to wait another month or two for before starting chicks. I also wasn't sure that I could do it right this first time out. With the new group I have several KNOWN setter breeds coming, so I hope to use them next year for our own eggs.

Hubby agreed to let me have them inside for the first few weeks, giving more time for him to get a coop built - we are moving our current flock into a barn sized coop and using the small one we have for raising new chicks.

I'm so excited! Can't wait...oh, the time will go by so slowly now, I just know it. Although, with a new coop and fencing to set up I hope it will pass very quickly!

Well it's official- I changed around my order for the third and final time. I am getting cuckoo marans, welsummers, blue andalusions, buff orpingtons, easter eggers, and columbian wyandottes. FINALLY I feel confident enough with my order. Yay!