Hi folks!
Long time no see! Life has been super busy and our chicken journey has been just feeding and caring for the ones we have. I ordered chicks for the first time inā¦. Three years I think. They just got shipped today. My mom (who lives down the lane) has some broodies that were going to pop the chicks under I ordered 10 blue layer pullets, 10 BC Maran pullets, 2 cream legbar cockerels and two BC Maran cockerels. I plan to hatch some olive eggers out of them next year. I also have an order for LF White Cornish eggs for some time this spring/summer. I do have some Cornish left, but theyāre all 4+ years old at this point. Iām gonna hatch out some eggs from them and Iāll use any whites or jubilee that hatch to breed with the new strain I ordered. I donāt have any photos of the birds at the moment that arenāt ancient.
We still have American Guinea Hogs. We have two breeders and 6 1 year olds. We are trying to figure out how to make their pens better.
The kids are doing well. Iāve kept some folks in the Squatch Watchers thread updated, but we currently have 5 kids, all boys.
We have Thing 1 who is now almost 8, Thing 2 who is almost 5, and the youngest Thing 3 is himself 3 years old. They are growing like weeds. Since Sept 2022, weāve also had two foster sons, 8 and 9 years old. They were attending our church with their mom and she asked us to take them in when they were removed by CPS. The parents were never able to get things straightened out and their rights were terminated late last year. As of almost 2 weeks ago, their case has been moved to adoption and we are starting the process of adopting them. We should be able to get that done within the next 6 months.
Here are some photos of the Things, I donāt post their faces but youāll be able to see how big theyāve gotten. One photo is when we were watching the partial eclipse, the other is Things 2 and 3 in Darth Vader Hoodies. I canāt post photos of the foster kids at all until the adoption is over.