First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

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Jessica- Hopefully the dang custom tractor company gets their act together and gets all the rest of the parts to you! I would be so mad! Good luck with the tarp, sounds like a good idea. Do you get much wind where you are?

We have begun working in the garden! We really can't plant until after Mothers Day, but just want to get the soil and our new irrigation system ready. I may need to start hoarding poultry netting like Ralphie. I am pretty sure my little 4' fence will not keep the turkeys out.


Ralph- You have been pretty quiet lately... are you out boring holes in the 4' of frozen ground? Or just chasing around those diamond encrusted chickens of yours?
I have come across a beverage I think you will be a fan of. I am sure at some point you have had Angry Orchard or some other hard cider. Being the fan of Schnapps I know you to be, you will really enjoy a hard cider with a shot of cinnamon Schnapps in it. Yum!

So since I have moved Clyde to the old meatball coop, I need to build another coop for my meaties. I think it will be a glorified lean to. We usually only get wind from one direction, so I am thinking a 3 1/2 walled structure. Usually my building efforts offend my carpenter husband (who built me a chicken Hilton for the gals last spring), but I have much more time for these things than he does.

Also, my daughter is about to have a birthday... is it reasonable to get her chickens?! Of course they would be "her" chickens...
 
I candled eggs tonight...

Not real happy with the findings. I think over half are not hatching, BUT I was not wearing my cheaters so I a hoping it was just e being blind.

I was surprised how hard the olive eggs were to see through..

ON a happy side it appears 2 out of the 3 creamettes are alive.
 
Hope u get better luck Ralph. I found a hen ate all but 2 of my easter hatch along eggs. We r culling some hens anyways to make room so she was butchered for eating eggs and she want that good of a layer... that hen was delicious. but the 2 that were left are developing there is an EE and NHR. And have another batch set for a few days after Easter.
 
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Olive eggs are not even worth trying to see through! I candle many eggs for my egg biz and I found that the olive ones aren't worth even trying to candle! You just say a prayer and put them in the carton for sale.

Good luck on some good hatches Ralph!

Here is the temporary house for the pullets so that we could get them home fast! See all those pretty girls! They are so happy and more lay eggs each day.





Here is the frame for the chicken tractor that the oldest girls will get to move into. We still don't have all of the parts but they promise that we will have them all by Friday (most likely today for most of your reading this on the E coast). If we don't have them, I told my husband that they will be meeting me and that would be a bad thing for them.

 
Your flock members remind me a lot of my Cinnamon Queens. I think red sexlinks are the prettiest production hybrid ever. (Meaning no offense to Bert & Pearl, of course!)

And that grass! A sight for sore eyes. Our snow has been melted for a while, but very, very little grass is greening up as of yet.

Good luck today. Hoping your parts arrive and that tractor can get into working order. It feels weird calling that monster a tractor, though. Maybe a combine?
 

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