Must stop tormenting myself!!!! Why do I do that? I can't claim any more swaps but still I have to haunt the swap thread... lol!
Merry Christmas Eve, everybody! I hope all your preparations are done and everyone is settled in safe at home with their families
It's getting nasty here -- freezing rain for the past hour, so everything's getting slicked up pretty well.
I just chased the girls back into the coop (they have a covered 'lean-to' kind of area they like to play in in foul weather) and changed out the water bucket -- it's been freezing at night, so I take out a new one with warm water in it twice a day, switch, bring the frozen one in -- makes it quick, easy, and I don't have to muck around refilling things out in the cold). I had sold off a bunch of my hatchery pullets to make room for new ones, so was down to four adult hens, my cuckoo marans roo, and fourteen poults so I condensed 'em all down into one flock the other night. I expected there to be a lot of snarking and snapping as they all got used to each other but they really settled in together very easily and happily. (More body heat in the coop? Maybe that's it... lol!)
So I am actually back down to 19 chickens! Well, and my three little chickies... who are also playing very nicely together even though Mystery is a week old and the other two just hatched yesterday
