Well, there ARE two little dark-colored peeps I accidentally stumbled across at the Longmont store. And they were half-way across the trough the long way from the lamp. But they WERE pecking at the floor kinda munched up against each other. I didn't ask what they were, cuz that leads to How much are they? and that leads to Are they good layers? and then that leads to me thinking "If I get that original coop into operating condition this summer, I'll have plenty of room for JUST TWO MORE HENS, you KNOW, to keep the stock rotating." And that leads to me buying absolutely everything I need on THAT trip to set up for THESE chicks and well, you all know the ending on this. I have this hoarder tendency that I have to keep so on top of!!!!!! Rubber stamps is one thing...chickens would be a whole new layer of care, y'know? (ha! OF COURSE you know. It's a chicken blog, Marcia) insert emoticon of me making the crazy circle at my head. We need that one. I need that one.
And who has just TWO chicks? The other trough has LOTS (or it did on Friday, I actually didn't check last night..see above), like 50 maybe...the plain pale yellow ones? Does that mean their flockmates perished? Why wouldn't they put the two dark ones in with the yellow ones? Maybe the 50-chick trough WAS gone. I didn't hear anything but I only walked by what I thought were empty ones...
Sorry, I sound like a 4-year old with all these questions. Worse, it's stuff I can't google!
Holy cow, I wish it would quit snowing. I mean quit. Like for the year. I'm a native. an OLD native. And I don't recall a winter like this. Of course, the fall set me up to be hyper-aware of the weather. But seriously? eighteen below? surrounded by days almost as bad? TWICE in one season? so far.
I haven't even looked to see if it's everywhere or just the I25 corridor and the Northern Divide.
