Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

hey @Alaskan did you say you feed flock raiser and layer and switch off or mix them?

 

[Ravynscroft]

  so you and @Peep_Show
 both hatched eggs from @ladycat
 right?

Yup! If you decide to hatch any shipped eggs, Jem, and she has ones you want, I recommend her and her birds very highly!! She's amazing, packs awesome, and her birds are tops!!

you cant count them as Chickens...  count them as rare endangered ground fowl....  Yep Yep..  (best enabling voice)

deb

Yep, Yep, Yep!!!

geezer they are only bout the size of a small parrot...........

Only problem is that they're soooo tiny, I'm terrified they're gonna fall through some small, miniature, nonexistent hole!! lol

 

[Amberjem]

you could have em in a big parrot house inside

 

[Ravynscroft]

you could have em in a big parrot house inside

If they're pullets, I am building their own inside condo, lol... and hide them from my MIL...

 

[Mahen100]

welp too much rain and nastiness here today for outdoor stuff..garden center dragged me in...come home with several hundred bulbs of various kinds ....

What kinds did ya get? and isn't the Tulip Festival in Skagit Valley in a month or so? Last time I trekked up there for that one, the bulbs were late blooming due to weather, and I was on time but too early. No they were late.

 

[Ravynscroft]

What kinds did ya get?  and  isn't the Tulip Festival in Skagit Valley in a month or so?  Last time I trekked up there for that one, the bulbs were late blooming due to weather, and I was on time but too early. No they were late.

Oh, yes! Do tell, Jem!!
I MISS the Tulip Festival!!!!
Huff... makin' me homesick...

 

[Beer can]

Tulip Festival! Holy crap, my tulips are under two feet of snow! My ears are burning and I was only outside for a few minutes, how the heck do those chickens keep laying eggs?!!

From my neighbors weather site!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Wow! You're getting eggs?!?!?
Even my PR's have closed shop!!

 

[Beer can]

Out of my EEgrs, the bantam I think is the one still laying, she had the olive egg and that's the one I get still almost everyday, and she doesn't have the nice warm built in scarf muff that the other ones have. Boy those EE with the muffs look warm. I get a white egg every couple days so one of the two brownleghorns is still laying. I have one welsummer, and she just started laying a month ago is laying almost every day! I still cant believe we have the gl polish laying now! No lights, no heat, these are going to be some hard core chickens! Half the eggs I get though are frozen and cracked by time I get them.

 

[Mahen100]

Half the eggs I get though are frozen and cracked by time I get them.

Beer can, the last couple of days of "unusual cold" here, my chickens had half buried the eggs in shavings in the next boxes. I had not seen that behavior since they were new-laying pullets. I wonder if that was some instinct to preserve them from freezing...or what?

From the weather charts you've been posting, I'd say for sure you got some hard core hearty chickens there!