Consolidated Kansas

[TaraBellaBirds]

Great. Absolutely you can get some jubilees. The girls are just beginning to lay but I candled a developing egg yesterday. I have 5 new eggs out there today so some of the other jubilee girls are starting to lay. Just remind me when you are ready. I never completely quit hatching although it slows down a lot in winter.

I will PM you when I am closer to expanding. I am trying to cut down on the mouths over the winter LOL.....as I hatch more! I just love Orpingtons and the Jubilees are so amazing! You have Brahmas too don't you? I mean hey if I'm going to travel to pick up birds I might as well make it worthwhile right (practicing speech for Husband

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[Trish44]

TaraBellaBirds you're just as bad as the rest of us with chicken math, LOL. I also will have Jubilees next year, but mine have a bit of growing to do between now & then. I have a big rooster waiting on the others to grow out. I will have Mottled as well, I have chicks growing out from 3 different sources on those. Next year I will have Partridge Orps too. I'm really liking the fluffy butt English Orpingtons.

I'm working my way down my to do list, but it seems like it's going a lot slower than I would like. I did get the rest of my young guineas moved to the guinea hoop coop yesterday & that went OK this time. I also got the small pen next to my main coop & run cleaned out & new straw in & a new house for the birds in there. I found a guy who had built a couple of brand new dog houses that I got cheap & they're really heavy duty. They will work for chickens in the pens great. I sat the smaller one up on a pallet to get it off of the ground. I moved my little Mille Fleur Cochins in that pen yesterday afternoon. They're the cutest little things! I normally don't like bantams, but the cochins are just too cute to resist.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

I was always really good at math, chicken math is complicated!!!! It's hard to subtract..... ;-)

 

[Trish44]

I agree, it's easy to add but hard to subtract.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

Once you factor in the cuteness and fluffiness, it changes the equation quite a bit!!!

 

[StinkyChicken]

There are lots of people with fancy Orp’s. Nice to know I don’t have to ship them for England myself. LOL.. My kids got there first green/blue egg from the EE’s last night. It’s been 27 weeks, and it’s been killing them.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

There are lots of people with fancy Orp’s. Nice to know I don’t have to ship them for England myself. LOL..

My kids got there first green/blue egg from the EE’s last night. It’s been 27 weeks, and it’s been killing them.

Is that her in the background like "what are you doing with my egg"!

 

[Prairie Fleur]

Lost my gorgeous BLR Wyandotte roo today. He was lying near the coop door bloodied and dead. He'd been there for a while already when I found him because he was thoroughly wet and bedraggled from the drizzle all afternoon. I'm horribly disappointed as he was exceptionally tame and sweet. RIP Blue. I can't figure out what killed him. He was a nice sized bird so I don't think the cats got him. London, my GP, has so far been very well behaved around all my animals. Any chance my peas could have done him in? Maybe a hawk that got scared off? I honestly can't figure out what happened. All my other birds are fine.

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

So sorry Prairie Fleur. I had a roo that was found much like that. I hawk picked him up, broke his neck, then dropped him. Hawks suck when you are a chicken owner

 

[Prairie Fleur]

Thanks, Tara! We wondered if maybe it was a hawk got that him. it's hard to tell tho.