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[Mojo Chick'n]

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We're enablers - it's what we do

(you're welcome, btw).

Hubby says by the time I drive over to your house just to take a free roo, it'll cost me more in gas than it's worth,

So - can ya wait til I'm coming over anyway (Instead of me making a special trip) to get those babies? what is it, two weeks? If ya can't I understand.

My sister, last night, asked me what I was gonna do for my anniversary - I said "what?"

I totally forgot my wedding anniversary - hubby did too, guess we been busy.

My anniversary is monday. I'll probably spend it working on that corral, LOL. I was married on Friday Oct. 13th under a full moon - I planned it that way - I'm a realist

I figured marriage would be like friday the 13th anyway, so why not celebrate the idea.

I didn't want to get married, actually, I told him I'd live with him forever if he wanted, but a piece of paper is just that - a piece of paper. He insisted, though, and I suppose he was right - it certainly makes legal issues easier.

I did draw the line at a fancy church wedding, though. I said no way was I going to go through that. We went downtown to the justice of the peace. Then came home and had a big party

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It'll be 18 years on monday that we've been hitched. Lucky for him I'm a cheap date

Let me at the grill with some steak and a baked tater and that is fancy eatin'. No need to take me out, no need to buy me diamonds (I'd just lose them anyway, or be so afraid to wear them they'd sit in the drawer.)

One year for Valentines day he asked me what I wanted, I said a rototiller

he got me a used one and fixed it up - I still have it.

I think he has only bought me flowers once - that is when Jon was born. I think his mom told him he had to

We really don't pay much attention to dates like anniversaries and the like. If he happens to see something I might like, he'll buy it for me and vice versa. I rarely get presents on any "holiday" date. But like today he bought me the bator - I figure he's covered for our aniversary - even though we both forgot it,

Peace -
Meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I got the LG, no turner. I figure I'm home all the time anyway and I'll be messing with it anyway - so I may as well try turning them myself for a bit. Gonna try the strictly bare bones deal for my first few.

LOL I was reading the directions on how you have to sterilize your hands before touching the eggs, don't breathe on them, etc... I wonder how "clean" it is under a hens butt ?!? Does she sterilize her belly feathers before sitting on them? I understand and all, it's just funny.

Peace -
Meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I think I'll hold off on a roo for a bit. but I'll buy some eggs next time I'm over there. my slw seems to be smitten with Hoss - that might be an interesting mix,

Peace -
Meri (who has to go now and pick up the kid at work. be back in a while.)

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I got the LG, no turner. I figure I'm home all the time anyway and I'll be messing with it anyway - so I may as well try turning them myself for a bit. Gonna try the strictly bare bones deal for my first few.

LOL I was reading the directions on how you have to sterilize your hands before touching the eggs, don't breathe on them, etc... I wonder how "clean" it is under a hens butt ?!? Does she sterilize her belly feathers before sitting on them? I understand and all, it's just funny.

Peace -
Meri

Yeah, I think it is pretty silly too, but there was someone on another thread that said the reason it needs sterilized is because the conditions are different. The eggs under a hen get to cool for a while everyday, plus they get their humidity from the air and hen. A bator is a very warm, wet environment, and that is prime spot for bacteria. Plus a broody's poo has antibodies, just like in a mammal's milk, so I'm sure that helps. Yeah but I have wondered about all the sterilizing...I mean, it's not like a hen walks through a foot bath before getting back on the eggs

I didn't see the part about not breathing on them. I guess as long as you don't have the flu and bark all over the eggs, it would be all right

The good thing about not having the turner is you can fit more eggs in it!! Only 41 with the turner, and up to about 80 (small eggs) without!! He's gonna wish he got you one of those 20 egg bators!! I bet you'll have it filled all the time!!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I was pondering the chicken addiction this morning -

It begins with a few chickens "just a few for eggs,"
Then you try something new - maybe baby chicks, just to see if it's fun or not.
Then, you have extra chickens, so ya start dealing to your friends, sometimes to total strangers.
Pretty soon, dealing chickens isn't enough to feed your addiction, so ya get an incubator to manufacture your own chickens to deal to friends and total strangers....

It's a wicked, wicked spiral down to the depths of total addiction and no return.

One day people will see me on the street with my shopping cart full of chickens, begging for people's pocket change to go buy eggs.

I'll have a little stagger, a crazy look in my eyes, hair uncombed, chicken mash down the front of my shirt, mumbling to myself, "it might be a roo, look at that comb, maybe it's a pullet, though, you never know til the rooster crows.... cockadoodledoooooooooooo."

Women will grab their children and hide them from me, men will look with pity at my unkept condition and mutter about there being places for folks such as I.

And I will wander in my chicken induced madness, ever searching for the perfect colored egg, the most fluffy cochin, the proudest standing Old English Game roo.

Look upon me with pity, and heed the warning - for this too could be your fate!!!!

Dadun dun dunnnnnnnn.

Meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Well, if that's the way it goes, I must have a very addictive personality!! I got my chickens in early June, started with 1 roo, 1 hen, and 4 pullets. One pullet died, and I decided to go to the sale, just to look. I came home with a mama hen with 15 chicks. Then my other hen went broody. Dog got her eggs, 2 weeks later, broody again. At this time, the other hen I got is broody as well. And wouldn'tcha know? Some of my pullets have begun to lay. So I had to get the bator, cause I'm allergic to eggs, so what else am I gonna do with them?


It is now October, I started my addiction in early June, with 6 chickens, and 4 ducks. I am now up to almost 100 chickens (got 9 cookin due Thursday!), and 10 ducks. Mine wasn't a steady thing, I jumped right in head first!!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Soon, probably not for a couple of weeks, though, I have to find out how many I'll be brooding here when Cindy's eggs hatch. I know for sure I'll have some cochins, not sure how many others I'll be taking, since her hubby said she could brood some out back in the shed.

I been chicken swappin' in coops this morning - full sun down there right now, it's hot work chasing chickens.

I took Blue to meet Cindy in Russell Springs this morning so she could take Blue to Chknlvn and we had "breakfast" at Taco Bell. I get home to help hubby on the corral, but he has to dig holes, so I had a few moments, and I figured to fill that empty cell.

I put the spitzs into the roo cell, and left the cochins in the other cell. I also added in Nana, hoping with all the shaking up she'll fit in un-noticed. I also took Spazz (the slw pullet) and tossed her into Geroge's cell, which is where she belongs anyway - hopefully she'll start to fit in with those girls. That makes it crowded in George's cell, but since they are out all day anyway, it is only at night to sleep.

I am hoping that Hoss will take Nana under his wing, so to speak, and keep her happy and safe.

George - the dirty rotten sneak - has been trying to find hidey places for his hens to lay eggs. They are perfectly happy to lay in the coop in the nest boxes, while he wants them to lay in odd places - he already has Moony taught to lay hers in the barn, and today I caught him taking Cinn into the shed (hubby left the door open) so I go and he is showing her this cool place behind some windows leaned against the back wall. I shoo them out, and figure I'd better go and check, and sure enough, Miss Piggy is back there sitting on an egg. (she was mad when I shooed her out, too, I am wondering if she's pondering on going broody).

I always know if I see him with one hen, going into some forbidden spot, that he is looking for a new nesting spot for her. That is how I found Moony's eggs, I just followed George and Moony into the barn.

George loves babies, and he hates it when I take the eggs from the nest boxes. If they want to go broody IN THE COOP, fine, they can keep some eggs, otherwise, I'm taking them. When Old Biddy hatched out those two babies he was so cute with them. He was almost as protective as Old Biddy was.

I love it when the hens hatch the eggs - no brooding duties for me. Makes it ever so much easier.

So, Cknlvn - your doggie and rooster are on their way to ya today.

Peace -
Meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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You are worse than I am, I admit. I've only been at it for a year and I don't have as many as you do.

Maybe one day we'll be sharing a cardboard box in an alley and we can push our shopping carts full of chickens down the street together.

We can walk up to perfect strangers and yell at them ---

"Cockadoodledooooooooooooooooooooo!!!" ~snicker~

Peace -
Meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Tell me about it. Cris has decided it is his responsibility to keep track of the baby chickens. He cam in the house just a little bit ago, with a screaming baby chick in his hands!! One of the newest ones was stuck inside the tractor, and instead of him getting it out and letting it go, he decided to bring it to me. Well, needless to say, in the process of trying to get it away from him, it escaped. So here we were, me and my 3 year old, chasing this poor little baby chick around the yard, trying to catch it to take it back. It was the one with 3 little ones, next to Bertha the cochin, remember? She only stays around here tractor, hides in the weeds that were, at one time, a garden. So we couldn't leave it in the yard, and expect her to find it. She hasn't yet came to the front of the house, or near the back of the house for that matter. Dad said just to leave it, and when she hears it peeping, she would come get it. It was peeping it's head off, and she never came. Good thing, that, cause she don't like NOBODY messing with her babies!!
Anyway, I finally got smart, and went and got the spaghetti strainer, and a pillowcase, thinking I should be able to get it that way. The strainer didn't work, it ran right out from under it, but I was finally able to catch it with the pillowcase, after about a 20 minute chase. I swear, kids are sooo agravating!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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My little splash roo was the same way when I bought that hen with 15 chicks. He was helping feed them and everything, and they weren't even his chicks! He doesn't do that now, tho, probably cause there are just too many babies!!
He is pretty good about showing the girls the nest boxes, but I still have some that hide them. Don't know if it's him showing them, or just them finding the spot.

My game hen that I showed you, that had a nest of about 12 eggs hidden, has decided to go broody. The nest looked like it had a good 14 eggs in it!! If they hatch, I'm sure they will be an interesting bunch. I have only had Charlie, my game roo, for a few weeks. So these eggs, if they are fertile, will most likely be from that splash roo!! I put some of her eggs in the bator before, and they weren't fertile, so I will have to candle these in a few days. Thank God dad has some leather work gloves, because I would like to keep my skin intact, thank you very much! The little banties bite hard, and this hen is about twice their size at least!
Yeah but I love having broodies, especially when I have chicks hatch in the bator. Up until this last time, I had no problems adding babies to broodies. The mama hens are soo much more equipped at raising baby chicks than we are!