Hello All!
Havent been on here in forever and miss the chicken chatter. How is everyone? What have I missed? I just posted on the thread for the lewiston swap, but just in case anyone here is interested, I have 2 roos slated for the stew pot this weekend. One is a really handsome marans roo...
Hello All-
I am back after taking some time away to take care of some family stuff around here. Man, did I miss you guys and the chicken chatter! Did I miss much here? Fill me in!!!
They used to have a very hard time with it! But as we have continued to keep chickens, hatch little ones, even raise meaties, they have learned so much and handle it so amazing! I am impressed every time. There was a time we couldnt swat a mosquito without someone crying. Now everyone has a...
So, the bad news is we just had a Northern Goshawk snatch our oldest and last remaining original chicken. Not very happy with that at all. She was a very cool chicken. We called her Kamikaze, named after a character in the "how to train your dragon" book series because she was alwayz the first...
I so want some midget whites!!!!
Set some eggs in the bator today, keep your fingers crossed for me! Lf cochins, teenie tiny seramas, and some mixes from my flock.
Just got my eggs in the mail! I am a little excited!!!!!!!!! LF cochin and seramas...the size difference in the eggs is awesome, and I am very anxious now to see what could possibly hatch from such itty bitty eggs.
And you are close by too! The eggs should arrive today or tomorrow, depending on how much the storm has delayed them. So it will still be 3 weeks yet. And I amhatching shipped eggs in a styro bator...so who knows what will happen!
Oh my gosh! I have eggs being shipped to me otday from 2 different places...I really really hope the storm doesnt muck things up too badly.
Btw, if my hatch goes ok, is anyone interested in some seramas??? I dont knkw what I was thinking, I dont do bantams! But they are so cute and tiny...
I love coming on here and seeing how active our thread is!
I finally cracked and bought some lf cochin eggs on ebay. I was havingthe hardest time tracking some down locally because our schedule is INSANE and just when I thought it was going to calm down, my girls signed up for spring sports...
You arent far from me! I am in Raymond.
Really, either way works fine, its up to you what you you feel comfortable with. Honestly, it is much easier to start with chicks. If you want to start from eggs, then yoj are getting into incubators, brooders, etc. Chicks are easier than you think. And...
We had the funniest scene in the backyard goday as a flock of 20+ turkeys came out and found the treats i had been tossing out to the chickens. They hung around for almost 2 hours, chasing each other and acting goofy. The chickens eventually came out of the coop and huddled together as they...
Clearly I spend entirely too much time on BYC. I had a dream last night that every egg in the incubator hatched...BUT THEY WERE ALL NAKED NECKS!!! ACK!! It was terrifying. But I remember thinking very clearly in my dream that it would be ok, I would just give them all to SCG!
Anyway, as much...
I am kinda sad winter is on its way out. Its my favorite time of year, from november til april! Love the holidays, love snow days, its hockey season (and i finally got to learn to actually play this year!), i love to do valentines day with the kids (romantically speaking, despite having an...