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[Molpet]

Prayers please. My dad is in the hospital with pneumonia. Will be there tol at least Sunday. Hes having trouble talking too. Tests are being run. Im exhausted. Got home at 5:30am, took a shower and got the kids to school before running to work.

Prayers

 

[Faraday40]

Prayers please. My dad is in the hospital with pneumonia. Will be there tol at least Sunday. Hes having trouble talking too. Tests are being run. Im exhausted. Got home at 5:30am, took a shower and got the kids to school before running to work.

Prayers. Please keep me updated if you need anything.

 

[Molpet]

The Kankakee Farm swap on FB got shut down, they have a mewe site though.. info below


if anyone here was on my facebook Kankakee farm swap group with over 30,000 members, heads up fb shut it down today due to poultry etc. sales so we started a group here on Mewe to keep members in contact with each other and continue selling our farm animals.. feel free to join.
https://mewe.com/join/kankakeefarmswap

 

[Faraday40]

Do you remember how I suspected 3 hens of laying the recent brown eggs appearing in the coop? Well, I can confirm today that I have 3 brown egg layers! (Chizzy: the Speckled Sussex, Crystal: The Silver Laced Orp, and Cupcake: Buff Colombian Orp) On top of that I'm getting 2 daily Leghorn eggs and 2-3 useless bantam eggs. I never had so many active layers in December! I'm getting about 4-6 eggs per day! I haven't had to buy eggs this year and I can use them for both breakfasts and holiday baking!

Other than the leghorn, none of my spring pullets are laying. Who knows I may end up with too many eggs at some point.

 

[homeschoolin momma]

Who knows I may end up with too many eggs at some point

Yes, this is me when everyone is in full production. At one point I had 16 dozen eggs in my pantry. But I do have buyers here and there. I still want a sign I can put out at the street when I have an abundance of the little nuggets.

I'm not so sure the brown eggs I've gotten are from my bb's. I caught Perry the ancient lav I dont like chasing everyone out of the coop and nest hopping this morning. (She really needs to be a stew chicken)

 

[Molpet]

Do you remember how I suspected 3 hens of laying the recent brown eggs appearing in the coop? Well, I can confirm today that I have 3 brown egg layers! (Chizzy: the Speckled Sussex, Crystal: The Silver Laced Orp, and Cupcake: Buff Colombian Orp) On top of that I'm getting 2 daily Leghorn eggs and 2-3 useless bantam eggs. I never had so many active layers in December! I'm getting about 4-6 eggs per day! I haven't had to buy eggs this year and I can use them for both breakfasts and holiday baking!

Other than the leghorn, none of my spring pullets are laying. Who knows I may end up with too many eggs at some point.

That's a good problem to have
I have 4 hens laying .....out of 40+ hens... the 6 pullets, which are 24 to 20 wks, haven't started yet. The 3 oldest have red combs but run from the roo

 

[Faraday40]

Egg numbers are still increasing! I got 7 eggs today!!!!!

I also took a few pics outside.

Here's my newest layer, Glow. She hatched April 15th.

She's called Glow because of the way her beautiful feathers glow in the sunlight. (Also, she's a GLO = gold laced orp)

Here's my blue SLO. She's replacing Blizzard, so I'm going to name her something like "Snowflake" or "Flurry."

As she transitions to her adult feathers, she's developing a funny-looking hat.

This expression.......

 

[Molpet]

Egg numbers are still increasing! I got 7 eggs today!!!!!

I also took a few pics outside.

Here's my newest layer, Glow. She hatched April 15th.
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She's called Glow because of the way her beautiful feathers glow in the sunlight. (Also, she's a GLO = gold laced orp)View attachment 1979424

Here's my blue SLO. She's replacing Blizzard, so I'm going to name her something like "Snowflake" or "Flurry."
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As she transitions to her adult feathers, she's developing a funny-looking hat.
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This expression....... View attachment 1979430

Beautiful Keepers
Love that face

 

[homeschoolin momma]

so I'm going to name her something like "Snowflake" or "Flurry."

She doesn't look like a snowflake, but maybe a flurry. How about Elsa?

 

[Faraday40]

It's beginning to feel a little like Christmas. Snow on the ground this morning & a beautiful Holiday concert this evening. Everyone played & sang well. I really like how the young ladies wear formal gowns and the boys wear tuxes. It gives them such a professional appearance.

DD's teacher is very young & energetic. She also blends in with the students. LOL