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Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :
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Wow they are cute as chicks. I don't mind them as adults, they just have tiny eggs, lol.
Actually, their eggs are bigger than bantam eggs and their yolks are the same size as my standard chickens. Not to mention they lay through the extreme TX heat, where as my other chickens stop. Their eggs are also more orangish in color. They hussel around alot more than my fat lazy hens do.
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Wow they are cute as chicks. I don't mind them as adults, they just have tiny eggs, lol.
Actually, their eggs are bigger than bantam eggs and their yolks are the same size as my standard chickens. Not to mention they lay through the extreme TX heat, where as my other chickens stop. Their eggs are also more orangish in color. They hussel around alot more than my fat lazy hens do.
Pardon me lassy. Guess I'm not a Guenia person. My chickens have lots of shade so they keep pretty busy on cleaning up the place, except on the hottest days or Thunderstorms, which we've had too much of.
All these new members lately is making me recall my first batch of chickens. My lovely Partridge Rocks, I still like them but there are so many other breeds I've discovered and researched about that soon chicken fever took me too. There is also the problem of me having OCD and REALLY disliking odd numbers, lol. So I got 4 hens and 1 Rooster to start at a farm. They were around six months old and great shape. I had just got my little farm at the time and built them a nice coop for room to grow as I wanted them to have babies, "what can I say, I'm a sucker for babies". I hadn't met my lovely wife yet and I was amazed by how entertaining chickens could be, when you didn't have a TV,
I lasted a few months before getting some more color in the flock. It was all hens from a far off farm of Speckled Hamburgs, Buff Polish, White Crested Black Polish and Buff Rocks. I was amazed how big the Rocks were. These new additions to the flock made things CRAZY. I found the Hamburg's just a bit flightly as they roosted in my Oak tree, instead of the coop.
Catching the Hamburg was God's joke on me and obviously never happened. The new flock lasted a few years with some new chicks from clutches and the inevitable losses to predators. I had been very busy with building and growing my farm to an actual profitable opperation, buying cows, a few horses and a few pigs. I wanted and still want to be as self sufficient as possible.
It wasn't till I started dating my lovely wife that the poultry growth started really happening,.....hmmm. She had never lived on a farm or been close to one. Her only expierence was a friend she had that she spent alot of time on their place as a kid, so at least she knew something. I still have some friends who are clueless about farm life, lol.
So lets see back to the story, was convinced to purchase some Pilgrim Geese and some different breeds of chickens " Buff, Barred Rocks and Favorelles". Then after a couple of years and a wedding the real craziness began....
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