Danz, I know you posted your feed mix and ratios and at the time I never considered I would even be thinking about such a thing but if we can save money I can't keep voluntarily throwing our money away. If you have it handy, could you post that again please? If not, I will start going back through. I promise to keep it handy so I don't have to ask again. Even in the warmer months I'm only getting 15 tops eggs per day with about 30 older hens. I know I sold a few, but it shouldn't have dropped me this much. I only got 5 eggs today. I agree about the time of year but it wasn't so good at the good time of year either. People are asking for eggs, I got 3 new contacts in the last 2 days and I'm turning people away because I don't have them. I think we all reached an agreement here to find a mate for Colt, the Narragansett and hopefully find a home for Casper.
It's hard, they like us. I'd rather find a home for him than eat them. Are all turkeys this tame? I feel like just keeping both and finding mates for both, but I'm diving in too deep way too fast with all of this. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't want to do anything to take away from our family. I'm scared of screwing up and spending a bunch of money I can't get back. Are you buying egg cartons? I was looking at them online today. I can't seem to keep enough of them around. I know why you have to have so many birds, it's because that's your passion. I was sitting there looking at hatching eggs for sale on
eBay and thinking that's pretty, not those are beautiful, ooooo, look at those and I kept on going. Then I wondered if I could spend 2 years with different types of chickens just to see for myself how beautiful they are and then sell them and try different ones. I had a break down moment today, I think it just hits that there is so much to do and it's overwhelming to have to cook so much on top of it. It's not that I don't want to cook the big meal for everyone, but it is a lot of work on top of usual chores and wanting the house to be extra clean too. Just start somewhere, doesn't necessarily matter where. When I finally stopped walking in circles, I got the macaroni done, the stuffing started, the sweet potatoes done, and the dough is rising for the bread crumbs. That's a decent start for only a couple of hours. Why was I having such a cow? Tomorrow I will have some time again in the afternoon but I may not even try to work on the extras until after dinner because my kids like to eat again and again. The boys and I were brainstorming things we could use to work on the watering system and came up maybe seeing what's inside of a coffee pot. Do they pump water to the top to run it through the coffee? Also, the heating pad on the bottom may be useful to heat water. Maybe it wouldn't get too hot if it was a larger amount of water or set on a thermostat.
Sunflowerparrot, your dogs looks os sweet. Looks like they are friends already.
PrairieChickens, I think concrete blocks are heavy too and I'm not small anymore.
I was admiring that pan, it looks like one of those huge ones, they are hard to find.
lol, Josie likes to rock her baby chicks in the turner.
I'm still thinking I had better hatch rates doing it haphazarly than trying my best. It's really rattling. Toby and his girls were together all day, I noticed him peck them away from the food but he was still gentle. When I went out to check he was sleeping inside and they were sleeping outside so moved the girls back to their baby pen where they ran in their little house. I will put them together again tomorrow. We can keep this up until they figure it out. I really think that when they are older it won't be an issue at all. Poor little guy, he's been through a lot of changes here recently. I hope his permanent pen/coop will be finished tomorrow or Wednesday, but I won't want to leave him in that big pen all alone either.
PrairieChickens, that's great that you sold a mug. I wondered how that worked. So you can design them and they can sell them? I'm guessing you get a kick back from that? Is it hard to do?
