A bromance is exactly what I called it! I hope I can get a picture.Deerling's comment about her Banties being not really a part of the rest of the flock made me think. I don't have them because I wanted BIG fluffy chickens and had read that Banties sometimes need their own coops. I plan to have a retired hen pen as my girls age out of productivity and Della is a problematic layer and I would never get rid of her because of it so I totally get having chickens that don't have an obvious use just because they make you happy. So is that why people have Banties? Just because having pretty little mini chickens makes you smile? (which is an absolutely valid reason) Or is there something I am missing.
It's like quail, I didn't know why people hatched them unless it was to set them free in their yard but now I know that their eggs have added benefits and that people raise them for meat too. Educate me please
Deb, your kill'in me. So dang lovable <3
I started off on silkies because I thought they were popular, and I am a retailer at heart. I got 3x as many silkies as I thought I was becuse they are awesome. I have roosters, so I hatch chicks and sell eggs. I have eaten a silkie egg on occation, but never a showgirl egg!!Deerling's comment about her Banties being not really a part of the rest of the flock made me think. I don't have them because I wanted BIG fluffy chickens and had read that Banties sometimes need their own coops. I plan to have a retired hen pen as my girls age out of productivity and Della is a problematic layer and I would never get rid of her because of it so I totally get having chickens that don't have an obvious use just because they make you happy. So is that why people have Banties? Just because having pretty little mini chickens makes you smile? (which is an absolutely valid reason) Or is there something I am missing.
It's like quail, I didn't know why people hatched them unless it was to set them free in their yard but now I know that their eggs have added benefits and that people raise them for meat too. Educate me please
ya, when the next hen starts to move, just stick the eggs under the next broodie and ninja the chicks if they hatch. I kept pumpkins sitting an extra 2 weeks that way
She kept stealing eggs about to hatch ( how did she KNOW??) and I ket taking chicks. I'm gonna have a few scars on my hand from all the chick stealing.I own a hair dryer! MY mother gave it to me when she moved to Australia... in 1982. It really only gets used for chickens. The question is, why do I still have it after not using it since then?
OHH very pretty! and big! go girl go!Shantih, The EE we got from you in Feb laid her first egg yesterday! It is a beautiful turquoise green that is actually darker than the pic! Today's egg was a little more green and normal shaped!
HAHA, MArio is crushed when your kids don't give the chickens names with at least 8 syllables!A bromance is exactly what I called it! I hope I can get a picture.
I wasn't intending on having bantams (except Silkies, for my daughter (okay, okay. And me.)) but we ended up needing a companion for a weak bantam we brought home from the feed store. She actually died, but before she did we went to TSC and they make you buy at least six. Luckily they only had four left, so we just got those. We rehomed one that wasn't very friendly and the other three are by far the sweetest we have. I love them so much. Lefty, our frizzle, will cry and run to me and jump into my hands. So will Tuck, our Quail Antwerp. So that's why we'll be keeping bantams. They're too cute not to.
Shantih, we named our other two frizzles! The black one is Anouk and the blue one, very creatively, is Blue.
haha I love that story! I think our chicks believe we're the gobblers, too. They're in that stage.I started off on silkies because I thought they were popular, and I am a retailer at heart. I got 3x as many silkies as I thought I was becuse they are awesome. I have roosters, so I hatch chicks and sell eggs. I have eaten a silkie egg on occation, but never a showgirl egg!!
ya, when the next hen starts to move, just stick the eggs under the next broodie and ninja the chicks if they hatch. I kept pumpkins sitting an extra 2 weeks that way
For those of you that read the golden compass trillogy, I'm sure that the birds think I'm the gobblers.
From Mario still stuck waiting for some vendor in Sacramento:
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hahaha oh no! Well... hmm. Maybe I'll have to get more creative for them, I hate to disappoint. We did name one of the little babies we hatched Pompadour. There's three for him
never ask MArio for suggestions for pet names. Never, ever, ever ( ever ever)haha I love that story! I think our chicks believe we're the gobblers, too. They're in that stage.
hahaha oh no! Well... hmm. Maybe I'll have to get more creative for them, I hate to disappoint. We did name one of the little babies we hatched Pompadour. There's three for him. Does he have any good suggestions?
This is Pompadour
