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[Faraday40]

Cock-a-doodle! No denying he's male now!
5 wks old (Not actually crowing yet)

My other serama (Noodle) still looks female.

Here are last year's chicks - now hens.
Jewel - my blue orp
Wendy the Welsummer
Chizy - DS's "special sussex"

(The CCL is 2yrs old and not part of that group.)

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

I'm only moving about 5 minutes away from my current house. The zone we live in now is soon to be demolished and turned into an airport.. We just found out about it a few weeks ago. They are wanting to start demo in a few months. We will be moving to a "fixer upper" that sits on 4 acres of land. Its still out of city limits and no restrictions as for pets and no neighbors on our street! Its a dead end side road too so no random people and no speeders. But it's a smaller property, no lake..., the house needs a lot of work and restorations. So we will be fixing up the house as much as possible with any spare money we have. So with us having no lake, I'm going to need a pond dugged. But once the house is restored and everything else we need is done, I will re-group bigger! We plan to buy all the abandon lots (6 lots about 10 acres) on our side of the street and fence in the entire property with 6ft stockade fence and then go about how many I would want. My current property is 15 acres, so we would only lose 1 acre and our mile wide lake.

I see. I didn't know you lived on so much land! Very nice.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Blue orp pullet hatched 3-4-18. She's much bigger than her silkie mama - who still covers her at night.
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My blk/lav cockerel. (5 mo old today) I love those shiny feathers! He just started crowing and mating the hens. (He gets beat up for his advances, of course.) Yesterday he grabbed a whole slice of bread & ran off with it. He was vocally tidbitting but also gobbling the bread as quickly as possible. Yes, my boys learn how to call the girls over long before they learn how to share!
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Cute and funny!

 

[Finnie]

I believe there should be a new law for people to apply for a license with a written test to own any animal, keep chickens, and hatch eggs.

i would "dislike" this post if we had a button for it. Government already wants to be too much in everybody's business.

I assume you wrote this because something frustrating happened? I can sympathize with that.

 

[Indyshent]

Two more finals left! Physiology tomorrow and Physics Wednesday. Ugh.

Was happy that I missed absolutely nothing on the microbiology lab final I took Thursday morning. Still waiting to see how I did on the Statistics final I took Saturday morning.

We're going to be hopefully gearing up to get out of this house soon. Still have a lot of fixing up to do on it before we'll be able to recuperate costs even. Really hoping to be moved out sooner than later. This house has been purgatory.

Bright side, we got a kitty from Indianapolis Animal Care and Services for $1! He's about 2 years old, good with kids and dogs, was probably abandoned when a former owner moved. Longer haired, almost solid black. Husband is pulling for Mr. Mistoffelees.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Busy, busy spring but its finally here!

 

[JanetMarie]

i would "dislike" this post if we had a button for it. Government already wants to be too much in everybody's business.

I assume you wrote this because something frustrating happened? I can sympathize with that.

Yes, you're right.

 

[JanetMarie]

Squirrels!!! Thats what happened to me! 2 of my girls were sharing a nest of 28 eggs and a squirrel came everyday stealing eggs till I caught it! It had taken 10 eggs by the time i caught it!

It disappeared overnight, but it could have disappeared before their door was closed. Whoever took it probably ate it.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Yes, you're right.

@JanetMarie I have to agree with you, but more enforcement rather than regulation.. Dogs running loose are my #1 peeve, lost livestock over the years especially goats. Stray cats abandoned here are a close #2. But I think the worst of all is keeping an animal and not providing proper care. Living conditions, food, water and sanitation. Animal control is always under funded and the first program to be cut.

 

[faerydust16]

@JanetMarie I have to agree with you, but more enforcement rather than regulation.. Dogs running loose are my #1 peeve, lost livestock over the years especially goats. Stray cats abandoned here are a close #2. But I think the worst of all is keeping an animal and not providing proper care. Living conditions, food, water and sanitation. Animal control is always under funded and the first program to be cut.

Child services is a close second to that. They need to be funded better rather than giving our senators and Congress big fat salaries. Most of us barely live on 15k a year. They're living on 100k easy.