How is your flock today?

[ackie]

my McM order doesn't come in until May. they were sold out until then.


so another fun flock thing today....

someone's been hiding eggs from me

 

[jme_vol4ever]

Mine are ready for spring despite being able to leave the barn, they take a few steps and head back inside.

 

[ackie]

I think I might have one less hen than I thought I had but ... idk

 

[416bigbore]

Mine are ready for spring despite being able to leave the barn, they take a few steps and head back inside.

I think everyone has spring fever people included, what part of the country are you in and how many poultry you have?

 

[416bigbore]

I think I might have one less hen than I thought I had but ... idk

Do you rehome any or invite them for dinner at a later date?

 

[BlueBaby]

my McM order doesn't come in until May. they were sold out until then.


so another fun flock thing today....View attachment 2535876View attachment 2535878

someone's been hiding eggs from me

Are you going to check for fertility and hatch some out? Chick's are going to be in short supply for a while. I got another email today like the one I got yesterday from Murry McMurry's, and this one was from Hoover's. I think that Hoover is the one they use to supply chick's to the TSC. I'm setting a few egg's here in my incubator tomorrow night.

 

[ackie]

Do you rehome any or invite them for dinner at a later date?

I sold quite a few. I was keeping track in a document- just erasing birds that were gone so it was just the birds I still had- and it says I should have one more than I do but... i have vague memories of selling one of Foghorn's hens but my notes say I didnt

Are you going to check for fertility and hatch some out? Chick's are going to be in short supply for a while. I got another email today like the one I got yesterday from Murry McMurry's, and this one was from Hoover's. I think that Hoover is the one they use to supply chick's to the TSC. I'm setting a few egg's here in my incubator tomorrow night.

Yeah I think I'm just gunna take today's eggs and give them to my broody instead of breaking her lol
but they're American game mixed with Orpington so they're not exactly the chicks everyone wants lol

 

[BlueBaby]

I sold quite a few. I was keeping track in a document- just erasing birds that were gone so it was just the birds I still had- and it says I should have one more than I do but... i have vague memories of selling one of Foghorn's hens but my notes say I didnt

Yeah I think I'm just gunna take today's eggs and give them to my broody instead of breaking her lol
but they're American game mixed with Orpington so they're not exactly the chicks everyone wants lol

You never know. Some people don't mind having the mutt chicken's, as long as they can still lay egg's. I have a feeling that chick's are going to be hard to come by this spring. With the post office having that embargo on the hatcheries, it's going to put all of the hatcheries on order delay's and it will take them time to get caught up.

It's good to start a hatch now, and the pullet's will be laying egg's before the colder weather set's back in at the end of the year, and should be able to lay through next winter.

 

[ackie]

You never know. Some people don't mind having the mutt chicken's, as long as they can still lay egg's. I have a feeling that chick's are going to be hard to come by this spring. With the post office having that embargo on the hatcheries, it's going to put all of the hatcheries on order delay's and it will take them time to get caught up.

It's good to start a hatch now, and the pullet's will be laying egg's before the colder weather set's back in at the end of the year, and should be able to lay through next winter.

yeah it's just that american game are known for few eggs and lots of broodiness buuuut I'm not doing too bad so

 

[BlueBaby]

yeah it's just that american game are known for few eggs and lots of broodiness buuuut I'm not doing too bad so

I've heard that Orpington's can be pretty broody too as a breed, but lay bigger egg's.

Speaking of bigger egg's, I need to get some of those jumbo sized egg cartons, and Stromberg's has them on sale this week. I just got an email from them letting me know. I have a Naked Neck hen that lay's egg's too big to close the lid on the large sized one's properly. That's why I didn't want to add her egg's to my incubator tomorrow night.