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igorsMistress said:
Thanks! I touched base with cactusrota in the last couple of days. Still have a coop to build, thank goodness the eggs have to incubate for 3 weeks!

How long til you have silkies?
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On the shipped silkie egg's, day 20 starts at 12:00 am on the 14th, because of the time that I put them in. I also have some silkie egg's from @Michelle Guynn that are due to hatch on the 22nd. There are a few egg's in there from my flock, too (mostly my blue egg's).
 
BlueBaby said:
On the shipped silkie egg's, day 20 starts at 12:00 am on the 14th, because of the time that I put them in. I also have some silkie egg's from @Michelle Guynn that are due to hatch on the 22nd. There are a few egg's in there from my flock, too (mostly my blue egg's).
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Won't be long then! How many chicks are you keeping from those hatches?
 
igorsMistress said:
Won't be long then! How many chicks are you keeping from those hatches?
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I don't know how many I'll keep. I have to wait until they hatch so I can see what one's catch my eye. :gig I do know that I will probably have extra's to sell.

I already thinned down my hen's, and only kept the one's that I thought were my best one's in the egg laying department as far as size and shape, daily laying, or color goes. The younger one's haven't been laying for long yet, so I'm waiting to see how those green egg's look when they get bigger. So far they have a good shape, and those girls are laying enough of them. The rest that I didn't want to keep found new homes. I do still have a few younger pullets that haven't started laying yet that I could sell. (Those one's have the fully feathered necks.)
 
FeatherPugs said:
Dang that wind is fierce and cold!
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I agree! I have also been starting to look around the yard trying to see if the ant's are coming back on the day's that it's warmer out there. Yes, I am stocking up on the ant killer stuff for this year. They were really bad last year, and I had a few chick's eaten alive by them. I don't want that to happen this year again!
 
FeatherPugs said:
Dang that wind is fierce and cold!
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It was 54* when I left the house for work yesterday, and only 48* when I returned three hours later. I've been watching my flocks run under cover every time it rains, and then run out to enjoy the sunshine and scratch in the moist dirt every time the sun peeks out. It's kinda funny...you know, watching them from the comfort of my house. :cool:
 
DesertChic said:
It was 54* when I left the house for work yesterday, and only 48* when I returned three hours later. I've been watching my flocks run under cover every time it rains, and then run out to enjoy the sunshine and scratch in the moist dirt every time the sun peeks out. It's kinda funny...you know, watching them from the comfort of my house. :cool:
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I know what you mean. Mine are like that, too! I'm so glad that I am doing the pellet's and not the crumbles right now that would probably just blow away.
 

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