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KitchenAide stand up mixer? OOOHHHH... you will love that! I have had one for years and it is so nice. Just throw the stuff in, turn it on and go. It's the best piece of equipment in my kitchen!

I'm going to try to get a new shelf put up in my layer coop in the storage area. I've got chicken equipment laying around in my extra bedroom in the house and I'm really tired of having it in here. I just don't have enough storage. It really won't take much to get it done, but if I don't I will be off work tomorrow and will have more time then, although I do plan to allow some time for hunting. Gotta get the freezer filled.

Oh, and I MAY be changing my mind about building a poultry barn this coming summer.
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I'm really torn. We need a garage added to the house in the worst way. It may have to become the priority. The way I've rearranged things in the barn, all the chickens are fine and happy, and of course the layers all have their seaparate area. The problem will be next year if I hatch very many, especially the LF. All the bantams are easily accomodated, but the big guys are a different story.

What to do..... what to do...
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Awesome day! Iowa Blue hatching eggs arrived yesterday and will be getting set! We are so excited to hatch out this breed and help in its preservation. Also very interested in seeing if their midwest selected genectics result in better weathering of the mother nature at its extremes. Suppose to be excellent, excellent foragers and free rangers, which is right up our alley. Thank goodness it only takes three weeks for hatch...but man are those long days! Also have a "baby momma" (the term from my teen age boys, they don't like saying "broody") in the cuckoo coop on her clutch of cuckoo marans eggs. December is going to be full of baby chicks!
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Now, if those darn ameracaunas would give some eggs...sigh...

Now time to take advantage of the nice weather to wrap up outside projects! don't know how many more days like this we will see!
 
Chooks I'll donate some of my eggs to you as well. I have cayugas and anconas. Ducks are the easiest birds to raise. Friday would be prefect. I may even have time to separate some guinea hens.
DH emailed me from work and asked that I get the duck house stained so it will be ready for the roof on his days off. So one more project to catch up with.
My neighbor just called and is on his way over here to get some more shavings. Ugh! More shoveling.
 
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Sounds like everyone is busy and with the weather, gotta take advantage of every minute a person can. I just bought three ex- rabbit hutches. I am going to re-do them and make training cages for my rosecombs. Each cage has two separte sides, and all I am going to do is line the wire with cardboard to protect their feathers, and replace the old wire on the bottem with board. The old wire is all but gone, and needs to go any way.
When I don't have show birds in the training pens, I can always put young birds in to raise. I've got them all apart and scrubbed down, and going to let them dry. Make sure all the screws are tight or add any that may be needed, and get ready to put them to use. I need to post some pictures of my birds.
I have got to get out and make a list of birds that I need to advertise for sale. Only way I can keep my hobby a float.
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Yes, projects, projects! I just finished putting two shelves in the layer coop to hold my extra waterers, feeders and other chicken equipment. It looks a lot better in there.
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The first thing I did when I finished the first shelf was bump my head on it. I decided not to build it out as far as I had planned, so it is about where it needs to be now. Got the other shelf finished with a few contortions trying to work around and above my community roll out nest.
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Yes, Rosie, post some pics of your beautiful birds. My little rosecomb rooster is looking pretty awesome these days, and you know, those little ginger red OE's are really pretty darn nice pullets. Too bad I don't have a place to raise them all! Maybe I should consider getting a good ginger red cockerell.

I put a cochin pullet in with Grumpy Jr. He has paid no attention to her. I think he is just too old.
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Now my dear sister, do you think that I would let you take anything from here that was not the top of the line!
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Yes, those ginger reds that I had, like I told you one of those hens was Reserve grand champion, only to be beat by one of my rosecombs. The judge really liked my gingers, but I had to chose what color to keep,
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and I so I let my breeder gingers go. You have the only two pullets left, and if you could get a top shelf cock, they will be hard to beat anywhere.
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Hope everyone feels better soon! DH got a free gazebo thing - 12 sides, 8 foot each side. I am leaving it to him to figure out how to enclose it. Erm, that will hold too many chickens. Oh well. Scout and Wes were helping dig in the plywood pile.
 
Another busy day. I got the duck house stained but it really looks ugly. It is OSB and it didn't stain pretty at all. My hands and arms look rather nice with redwood colored dots all over them from my messy brushing though.
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I got the trash pile burned today too. I didn't have that on my agenda but it was such a nice day without wind I just had to get it done.
Chooks I bought a Kitchenaid mixer last winter and I really love it especially for making home made bread. I retired my bread machine after making my first batch with the mixer. I would so love to buy all the attachments that go with it but can't afford to. Maybe next spring when I am hatching full time again I can feather my kitchen with some new toys. My only complaint about the mixer is you just have to leave it on the counter because of it's weight. Also my upper and lower cabinets are closer together than most so I can't slide it under my uppers.
 

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