California - Northern

[torrelee]

My other chickies were past dinosaur stage when I got them, I'm pretty curious to see what these super fuzzy butts will look like then!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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I sold one of my EE Roos to a nice young lady who has 2 young kids. Her and her husband just purchased 7 acres that they're moving onto this weekend with their 8 hens + her new Splash Roo! She'll be adding more. She's picking him up early in the morning. I love to see this younger generation getting into farming. Self sustainability and raising kids with some work ethics! Dang, I sound older then my 50 years!

anyway, I'm going to turn her onto this site, get her off in the right direction in her chicken endeavor. Both my kids live in city limits but have beautiful, year around veggie gardens and chickens. We've raised them with veggie gardens, horses, chickens, rabbits, and of course dogs, cats. And your typical reptiles love it when anyone adds chickens....but I have to say, I sometimes l feel like a referee between couples who have different ideas on how to raise the fluffy butts and they call me for advise!

 

[classicsredone]

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I sold one of my EE Roos to a nice young lady who has 2 young kids. Her and her husband just purchased 7 acres that they're moving onto this weekend with their 8 hens + her new Splash Roo! She'll be adding more. She's picking him up early in the morning. I love to see this younger generation getting into farming. Self sustainability and raising kids with some work ethics! Dang, I sound older then my 50 years!

anyway, I'm going to turn her onto this site, get her off in the right direction in her chicken endeavor. Both my kids live in city limits but have beautiful, year around veggie gardens and chickens. We've raised them with veggie gardens, horses, chickens, rabbits, and of course dogs, cats. And your typical reptiles love it when anyone adds chickens....but I have to say, I sometimes l feel like a referee between couples who have different ideas on how to raise the fluffy butts and they call me for advise!

Self sustainability is a beautiful thing. We live in a residential area, but we've got our chooks, veggies and melons growing in the back yard, we can, we lacto-ferment, make soap, etc. I love when the older ladies stop me at the store when I'm buying canning jars or sewing notions. I got a lot of it from my grandparents that live through the tail end of the Depression, and my parents. I may not ever need to depend on the skills for my life, but they definitely add to it.

 

[kfchickenlady]

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I sold one of my EE Roos to a nice young lady who has 2 young kids. Her and her husband just purchased 7 acres that they're moving onto this weekend with their 8 hens + her new Splash Roo! She'll be adding more. She's picking him up early in the morning. I love to see this younger generation getting into farming. Self sustainability and raising kids with some work ethics! Dang, I sound older then my 50 years!

anyway, I'm going to turn her onto this site, get her off in the right direction in her chicken endeavor. Both my kids live in city limits but have beautiful, year around veggie gardens and chickens. We've raised them with veggie gardens, horses, chickens, rabbits, and of course dogs, cats. And your typical reptiles love it when anyone adds chickens....but I have to say, I sometimes l feel like a referee between couples who have different ideas on how to raise the fluffy butts and they call me for advise!

Self sustainability is a beautiful thing. We live in a residential area, but we've got our chooks, veggies and melons growing in the back yard, we can, we lacto-ferment, make soap, etc. I love when the older ladies stop me at the store when I'm buying canning jars or sewing notions. I got a lot of it from my grandparents that live through the tail end of the Depression, and my parents. I may not ever need to depend on the skills for my life, but they definitely add to it.

Good for you! too many kids grow up these days with NO idea of how to do the things youre teaching them. I love my dairy goats, chicks, ducks and garden. My DH and teenaged DS and DD butcher the chickens when its time, it sure gets them in touch with real life!... I guess the horses, (one drives) could be used as transportation if needed,...lol. I really want to make goat milk soap, yogurt and goat cheese.

 

[jeremy]

My Sumatras are hatching, my Sumatras are hatching!

The cock bird is Dun colored and the hens are Black and Blue, here is the first baby that made it, I'm not sure what color it is. When I first saw a peek of it under it's "momma" I thought it was Blue, but after seeing it closer I'm not so sure. It's a very silvery almost metallic looking gray. Sort of like a Lavender chick but with no yellow down.

A second chick has hatched, it was much darker but still wet so I'm not sure what color it is either.

 

[classicsredone]

My four year old screamed "AWWWWWW!!!" when she saw that little fuzzy butt. So cute.

 

[dldolan]

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I sold one of my EE Roos to a nice young lady who has 2 young kids. Her and her husband just purchased 7 acres that they're moving onto this weekend with their 8 hens + her new Splash Roo! She'll be adding more. She's picking him up early in the morning. I love to see this younger generation getting into farming. Self sustainability and raising kids with some work ethics! Dang, I sound older then my 50 years!

anyway, I'm going to turn her onto this site, get her off in the right direction in her chicken endeavor. Both my kids live in city limits but have beautiful, year around veggie gardens and chickens. We've raised them with veggie gardens, horses, chickens, rabbits, and of course dogs, cats. And your typical reptiles love it when anyone adds chickens....but I have to say, I sometimes l feel like a referee between couples who have different ideas on how to raise the fluffy butts and they call me for advise!

Self sustainability is a beautiful thing. We live in a residential area, but we've got our chooks, veggies and melons growing in the back yard, we can, we lacto-ferment, make soap, etc. I love when the older ladies stop me at the store when I'm buying canning jars or sewing notions. I got a lot of it from my grandparents that live through the tail end of the Depression, and my parents. I may not ever need to depend on the skills for my life, but they definitely add to it.

Ditto! Nice to remember Grandma when I am making blackberry Jam in the late summer! She would have loved my chickens...

Jeremy, what an INTERESTING color for your chickee! so pretty (even though I think Sumatras are scary-looking adults!

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[HHandbasket]

So today, Farmer Lew was hanging in the chickenyard and doing our end-of-the-day chicken chores, including picking up the little ones that live in the house at night but have a free range "space" in the yard on nice days. At any rate, when he sat down to pick up the little ones (barnies), the two blue wheaten ameraucanas that Linda gave us (from Jeremy's eggs) hopped up on Farmer Lew and just hung out with him. I ran in and got my cell phone and snapped this shot.

What sweet girls!

 

[dldolan]

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I love that photo! what better perch, after all!! My Wheatie juvenile girls are very friendly as well! So fun, huh??

I am naming my two (Butter) Scotch and Rye (Whiskey)!

 

[dedicateddourly]

To Handbasket and ddolan, I too have some of Jeremy's Blue Wheatens, but they are only 1.5 weeks old. They were hatched under a broody, and they hate me right now. I try to spend time with them, but maybe they're too small right now to even really see me. They cry like crazy when I manage to catch them and hold them. Were your hatched under a broody or in an incubator? I've read that babies hatched with a broody are standoffish. I hope that's not the case here! Were they skittish at first? Did they get sweeter and friendlier as they got older?

Thanks!