calling any one from missouri

[jthornton]

Hi.
Live in Beaufort and looking to buy hatching eggs I can pick up. Don't have much success getting them delivered in the mail.

I got my chicks from Cackle Hatchery by mail last time with no problem. I plan on driving up there this spring to pick up some Cinnamon Queens just for the chance to get out of the house.

JT

 

[SueT]

Good morning! Temp is 24º here and dropping, with 25 mph winds gusting to 35.....just a dusting of snow so far. I hope you all are getting by okay in this arctic blast...

 

[mkeawsh]

I got my chicks from Cackle Hatchery by mail last time with no problem. I plan on driving up there this spring to pick up some Cinnamon Queens just for the chance to get out of the house.

JT

Thanks. Bought chicks for a couple years but I don't get the satisfaction feeling I get like when I incubate. Until a couple years ago that is the only way I did it. Would like to start again.

 

[mkeawsh]

Good morning! Temp is 24º here and dropping, with 25 mph winds gusting to 35.....just a dusting of snow so far. I hope you all are getting by okay in this arctic blast...

It definitely is an arctic blast. The wind is horrendous. Tomorrows temps are suppose to be frigid. I always worry about my animals but they seem to fair better than me.
Where are you located, Sue?

 

[SueT]

It definitely is an arctic blast. The wind is horrendous. Tomorrows temps are suppose to be frigid. I always worry about my animals but they seem to fair better than me.
Where are you located, Sue?

Near Lamar, in Barton County. It's north of Joplin.

 

[BansheeWildRose]

It is dreadful out... my coop seems fairly toasty tho, its on a hill with a nice wind break... I'll worry about them all night tho.

 

[mkeawsh]

It is dreadful out... my coop seems fairly toasty tho, its on a hill with a nice wind break... I'll worry about them all night tho.

So, do I. I have my 4 chicken tractors all attached to each other with the last one attached to the chicken house. I have clear shower curtains covering the outside of all the tractors, so there is no wind getting in and a heat lamp in the house where all my older chickens hang out.

 

[jthornton]

It started snowing about noon yesterday and we got about 6" now it's 19°F this morning. I have vinyl wind breaks on 3 sides of the run and under the coop. One has molted on her back and neck hope she can stay warm.

JT

 

[jthornton]

Thanks. Bought chicks for a couple years but I don't get the satisfaction feeling I get like when I incubate. Until a couple years ago that is the only way I did it. Would like to start again.

I only want hens this next time so I'm getting Cinnamon Queens because they can be 100% sexed the first generation. I had a very bad roo last time and don't really want to go there again. My neighbor had a big rooster that would come and visit me, I called him Rooster Cogburn. He would come running up to me when he saw me and would follow me into my machine shop while I got some food for him. Then he would follow me back out and I'd sit on the step and put the bowl in my lap and he and his ladies would eat till they were full. This guy was so friendly and had the biggest spurs I've ever seen. Then mine was a people aggressive rooster so he had to go to freezer camp.

JT

 

[SueT]

Good morning everyone! It's 9º here....but we only got a dusting of snow. Yesterday it was extremely windy and temps were in the teens. My little Sebright hen was very cold and wouldn't come down off the roost. Anticipating single digits over night, I brought her into the basement for the night. I still have my broody jail cage down there, and she knows all about that having been jailed 5 times last year. I'll put her back out later this morning, it should actually get up above freezing by noon.
So I was sitting here, still dark outside, and I heard our rooster crowing out in the coop. He's loud enuf to just barely hear it in here with doors shut. Suddenly I heard a little crowing sound from the basement, the Sebright was answering him! I didn't know a hen would crow like that! I went down and turned on the lights and made a fuss over her. She talked to me in her little chicken language. She wants to be with the flock, I guess. Soon enuf.....