Hi Hawkeye,
I'm new here, so I wanted to send you a greeting! I havn't read all the threads, and even if I did I wouldnt remember since there are volumes of info here, so I don't know much about you.
Glad you were safe driving. We only had a couple of inches here, but still a bit slippery.
Maybe my rooster is only half the man I thought he was... 
Hello All! Thanks for the friendly greetings.
My old chickens were not keen on the snow, but my ducks don't care, so long as its wet. Turkeys don't seem excited, but they go out in the snow eventually. The ducks like the rain coming off the edge of the roof. Ducky waterfall, or would that be waterfowl??
I've never planned goat pregnancies for February, since I always had to milk in the grainery, but not in an enclosed area, just the roofed area (when I was a teenager). I milked March thru October, and then let both of them dry up. Just not into milking with cold hands. I don't think the girls would have like it either. Do your does usually have twins? My had twins, and the nubian usually triplets, but we always lost the little one.
I don't have many babies right now, but I've got several in the oven baking. More quail (always, it seems) and some Chocolate Turkeys from an e-bay lady. I don't like the risk, but they are kinda hard to find, and I need the new bloodlines, so....
P.S. I graduated from Waverly.....
Tazcat- I think that looks like so much fun! I'd totally be in.. but for some reason, I think I'm having fertility issues over here. Sigh.
I took 7 baby chicks out of the hatcher this morning! Yippeeee!That's the most I've had out of one setting so far this year. Maybe things are looking up. The lid on my hatching tray was not on straight (it's kind of rinky-dink, anyway) and I took out 5 chicks. I opened the door back up to add water, and I heard peeping. I took the bottom tray out and there were 2 more chicks down on the floor of the hatcher. Shees. Glad I looked. It might have been a day or so before I opened it again!
Hello to all the folks stopping by again! Don't be strangers and stop by more often!
I popped onto the silkie thread and they told me that he *might* be too young yet (he's between 8-9 months old) OR his fluff should be trimmed. I'm going to bathe him and trim him up a tiny bit and see if that helps.
