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[flyladyrocks]

Remind me where you got these please! Editing to add that I'm so easily entertained that I'm still laughing over licking. Hmmmm I'm thinking you have to get some of @peacefulwalls pretty colors with some flavors and have some real good licking!

Update on the little red hen waterers and feeders. They work great, so good I bought a third waterer and one feeder.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Wellll my sportsman cabinet is FULL. Set eggs for DD's friend who lost her buckeye flock this week from predator attacks

Sad news for her, luckily she had several eggs on hand from her flock.
Will have several goslings in about a month, all are looking real good and veining nicely. Turkeys are all laying now, including my MW! Guineas gave me the first eggs this weekend, so am very excited to load up the incubator, once I have ROOM

Looks like there will be a few more broody hatches this year.

 

[flyladyrocks]

@jchny2000 I am conflicted about your EEs! I am just so worried about ending up with way too many roos if everything I get is straight run. And you have LOs. DD informed me we need another Lav b/c we got 3/jubilees and 3/splits but only 2 lavs.
What is the coloring of your EEs I think you told me but I forgot.

Can you plz Pm me approx hatch dates & approx ages of your various lavs and how much for them (EE & lav bitty chicks and how much for older lavs. Thanks!)

 

[ellymayRans]

@jchny2000 since seeing my IB pair mating over the weekend I was told I can expect her to start laying in a couple of weeks! I've yet to see her or my BS hens wings start to drop but Oh I can't wait cuz you bet I'll be posting those pics and setting every egg they give! Given I can find them!

My DH has the week off Thank goodness and he told me to make my materials list so he can go shopping and offered to have me 4 pens built by end of week!! My goal ultimately is 8 but I'm happy with 4 for this week! Lol!

I'll plan to have my Black Copper, Blue Copper and Golden Cuckoo Marans in 3 and I haven't decided on the 4th yet! Probably Olive Eggers! I already have had my frizzle Cochin with hen separated and put all the silkies in the small coop. Even though the silkies are of different colors I don't mind, would like to see some crosses of those anyways.

 

[ellymayRans]

Off to see if I can't find a good place to draft my pen builds so I can print them all nice and pretty for DH. Then again my drawings on paper look smaller....hmmm maybe best so he doesn't see how big I actually want them until he gets all the wood home! Lol!

 

[ellymayRans]

I hate I have to go into the office tomorrow and Wed... Means I won't be here to supervise! Being a night owl kills me when I have to shower and all that nonsense to go into the office! Blah!

 

[ellymayRans]

Oh and we had a dust bathing frenzy today with the nice weather!

Those peas dust bathing crack me up because they're just all legs, neck and wings!!
Not to mention they are trying to fit in chicken sized "tubs"!

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Well, my very first set of day-old peepers survived the night in the garage. I'm using a Sunbeam heating pad that lets you leave it on indefinitely, and that seems to be working.

They will eventually figure out where the food and water are, right?

 

[raisinemright]

Well, my very first set of day-old peepers survived the night in the garage.  I'm using a Sunbeam heating pad that lets you leave it on indefinitely, and that seems to be working.

They will eventually figure out where the food and water are, right?

You can help them out by dipping a few of their beaks into the water and they will show the rest how to drink. But I usually dip all of mine so I know for sure they are drinking. I've never had an issue with feeding. I start the new hatches on newspaper and sprinkle some feed around. They seem to figure it out quickly. Then introduce a feeder. Good luck!

 

[ChickCrazed]

Greetings, peeps. Wanted to say hello. We have had chickens in the past. Currently are chicken- less :-(.

We are really hoping to get some CCL pullets, Welsummer pullets and a Welsummer roo.

This may be a big dream but if we could choose, those. We are trying to avoid hatcheries also, especially based on our research about the Welsummers. Trying to get a docile roo especially.

Wanting to start with baby chicks. We enjoy our flock and hope to have some before long. Look forward to meeting everyone.

Welcome! You might want to check with Akers Hatchery in Southern Indiana. Although it is a hatchery it is a small, family owned local hatchery and they only have a few breeds. I am pretty sure they have Welsummers and I have heard good things about their birds. Personally I would get birds from them over a feed store since smaller and local usually means a bit more emphasis of quality over quantity. I personally pretty much loathe everything about large hatcheries and won't support them myself!