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[ChickCrazed]

That is this Monday. The season is starting

This will be my first time experiencing walking past chicks in the store when I know I have the ability to take them home! YIKES!!! How do you guys hold onto self control? Or do you avoid the store? Or do you just bring home new chicks every time you go to the farm store? Crap, I had better minimize my exposure and stock up on a few months worth of horse/chicken feed and bedding. If only my truck wasn't still snow drifted in.....guess it will be multiple trips with my car and many batches of chicks. No self control here.

I was also stalking Ideal's site again, and pretty much every breed is now sold out until May or June. That tells me they are helping stock many of these farm stores! Hmmmmm, what if they have cochins in my farm store!!! Obsessed!!!!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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I typically don't buy from the stores unless I can get there as they are unpacking them. The chicks get exposed to a lot of different people from many different areas. I do plan to get some broilers sometime when the weather gets better but I may break down and order a bunch at once. More work at one time with many broilers but not exposed to as much. Still the prices at RK for broilers is hard to beat. The trick is to get them soon enough when they can graze but be culled before the heat wave brings the flies / or to get them late enough they can still graze but be culled just after the chill sets in. Too many flies for my comfort to process a large number of birds outside in August.

 

[ChickCrazed]

I typically don't buy from the stores unless I can get there as they are unpacking them. The chicks get exposed to a lot of different people from many different areas. I do plan to get some broilers sometime when the weather gets better but I may break down and order a bunch at once. More work at one time with many broilers but not exposed to as much. Still the prices at RK for broilers is hard to beat. The trick is to get them soon enough when they can graze but be culled before the heat wave brings the flies / or to get them late enough they can still graze but be culled just after the chill sets in. Too many flies for my comfort to process a large number of birds outside in August.

I can definitely see the wisdom in getting them early in the season as opposed to when there are only a few left. So many people reaching in and touching them, you never know what they have been exposed to. Maybe I can just wear horse blinders later in the season

 

[kabhyper1]

Well I figured out a solution to the Gus tearing up the girls wing feathers issue, I made them little shoulder protectors to snap onto their aprons. Now they look like butterflies.

I got a video of Chance showing up his dad crowing. Poor Booker never has gotten it right. Chance is really getting the hang of it. I got the little silkies in there too. They are 12 days old now, but still teeny. One of them still looks like she just hatched.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

Well I figured out a solution to the Gus tearing up the girls wing feathers issue, I made them little shoulder protectors to snap onto their aprons. Now they look like butterflies.

I got a video of Chance showing up his dad crowing. Poor Booker never has gotten it right. Chance is really getting the hang of it. I got the little silkies in there too. They are 12 days old now, but still teeny. One of them still looks like she just hatched.

Loved it !!!

 

[chick rookie]

hanakimi ~ CRSelvey is the one who asked me to pass the info along. It says it's for an iPad, but there is some info I've attached that mentions that this app integrates with a previous PC/Mac version. Here is a link: Grow Planner Gardening App for iPad - MOTHER EARTH NEWS
If you don't think this app will work for you, I noticed other Garden Planner apps on the App Store. Good luck! Wish I didn't have so much shade or I'd get the app.

chick rookie and chick crazed ~ You two and your Cochin adventures are pretty funny! I'm glad your DH is watching out for that poor hen-pecked roo.
kabhyper ~ That Gus! And I thought he was perfect. lol Can you separate the hens and give them a break? They're probably stressed from the horrible weather and then they have some crazy Art Deco roo attacking them!

lol I am too. but I have to roll my eyes cause until Big Man, he just didn't get it... lol

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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LOL

Going early, think we are going to add leghorn if they have them. Other than my polish and OEGB I have no white layers.

 

[racinchickins]

LOL

Going early, think we are going to add leghorn if they have them. Other than my polish and OEGB I have no white layers.

How well do your polish lay? As far as I know, I've not gotten an egg from either of mine yet.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Well I figured out a solution to the Gus tearing up the girls wing feathers issue, I made them little shoulder protectors to snap onto their aprons. Now they look like butterflies.

I got a video of Chance showing up his dad crowing. Poor Booker never has gotten it right. Chance is really getting the hang of it. I got the little silkies in there too. They are 12 days old now, but still teeny. One of them still looks like she just hatched.

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hehehe all of the above

I have 2 full incubators right now too.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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Lousy. I have had these girls 6 months, they are almost a year old. Not a single egg YET.
I really like them, but I need a rooster for them! I got rid of both mine, and my tolbunt roo passed away during the cold snaps.