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[Mojo Chick'n]

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I paid 40 dollars for the pair, so if I get that back out of them I'll be happy.

Benny is Embden mixed with something and Joon is a pomeranian.

I had originally bought them for someone else - but they decided they didn't want them after all - so I ended up with them (after saying I was gonna wait on geese

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I just put 7 American Buff eggs in the hatcher - hopefully I'll get some babies to raise with the chickens so they'll get along better.

 

[Stephen in SoKY]

Regarding the Green River Poultry Club show this Saturday: There are currently 770 entries. Last spring there were 660.

For those unfamiliar, the spring show usually has more vendors outside than the fall show.

Currently WBKO is calling for a slight chance of showers, but late in the day and temps around 70 degrees.

 

[hobbyfarmer]

Woohoo! 70 degrees is perfect and the rain should hold off? That's good news. We aren't showing anything this spring but maybe in the fall. Could someone tell me if there are any requirements to have birds tested for anything before you can show them in KY? Please forgive my stupidity - showing goats requires a health certificate but I've never heard of a health cert. for chickens yet.

 

[raneydayfarm]

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There was an ad on the Louisville Craigslist that had a trio of mille fleurs for $40. I thought about buying them myself, I REALLY, REALLY want them but I am trying to concentrate on what I have for right now before I bring in anything else.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Ok, well, I talked hubby into more chicks from the feedstore

He finally saw the reasoning in "if I'm buying more chick starter anyway, why not get free chicks with it?"

Apparently the only chicks they got Monday were RIR and Columbian Rocks (another shipment is coming next wednesday, then after that just banties and turkey poults). So I got 15 columbian rock babies. They had a ton of the Rocks left, a few RIR (I refuse to get red chickens, though, so they can find other homes for those.)

I like Plymouth Rocks - not fond of how the pure white ones look after dust bathing

but the columbian pattern is my favorite pattern, so maybe these ones won't look so bedraggled all the time (it's mud season, ya know). Now, my Brahmas (in the same pen/coop/run as the white rocks) are nearly white AND have feathered feet - and they don't look nearly as pitiful after a dirtbath/mudrun as the white rocks - I just don't get it.

Once I get replacements grown up enough, the white rocks are going. I need them for eggs right now, though, so they stay.

Oh, and my call duck eggs arrived today

a dozen of them - one was dented and one I dented trying to unwrap it

but I have ten perfect ones waiting to go into the bator tomorrow morning

No action on the goose eggs yet....

eta - Shelley, they had a bin of banties, and Julie said the shipment after next is a LOT of banties, supposedly - so ya might want to check em out.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Mojo Chick'n :

Ok, well, I talked hubby into more chicks from the feedstore

He finally saw the reasoning in "if I'm buying more chick starter anyway, why not get free chicks with it?"

Apparently the only chicks they got Monday were RIR and Columbian Rocks (another shipment is coming next wednesday, then after that just banties and turkey poults). So I got 15 columbian rock babies. They had a ton of the Rocks left, a few RIR (I refuse to get red chickens, though, so they can find other homes for those.)

I like Plymouth Rocks - not fond of how the pure white ones look after dust bathing

but the columbian pattern is my favorite pattern, so maybe these ones won't look so bedraggled all the time (it's mud season, ya know). Now, my Brahmas (in the same pen/coop/run as the white rocks) are nearly white AND have feathered feet - and they don't look nearly as pitiful after a dirtbath/mudrun as the white rocks - I just don't get it.

Once I get replacements grown up enough, the white rocks are going. I need them for eggs right now, though, so they stay.

Oh, and my call duck eggs arrived today

a dozen of them - one was dented and one I dented trying to unwrap it

but I have ten perfect ones waiting to go into the bator tomorrow morning

No action on the goose eggs yet....

eta - Shelley, they had a bin of banties, and Julie said the shipment after next is a LOT of banties, supposedly - so ya might want to check em out.

meri

Did they just get them today? I was there yesterday, and all they had were the rocks and RIR. I had to buy a baby duck to keep the one I hatched company. I don't have any more due to hatch for 3 weeks, so this one would have been really lonely with just the chicks. It won't be long, and that duck will have to be moved to a different box. It is already twice as big as the bantam chicks, and bigger than the few standards that are in there too.​

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I don't know when the banties got there - they had a bin on the floor - not with the rir and rocks. Like a water trough of them - maybe 30 banty chicks. Julie said the bigger shipment of banties is coming after the next shipment of regular chicks. She also said when the banties come in she's gonna have turkey poults, too.

Most of the banties had feathered feet, but looked like they were chipmunky.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Probably millies, I can't think of another that has chipmunk stripes and feathered feet. They must have gotten them today, cause the only bin I saw on the floor was the ducks. And they don't put them in with the standards, cause the standards are free with purchase, the bantams aren't. But that's okay, I have way too many chicks as it is right now in the house. Plus I have 2 hens with chicks outside, and 3 more that are brooding. And some of Cris's silkies are laying again, so they'll be broody before I know it

I don't think I need to pay $2.50 for a chick when these birds are determined to make me chick poor!

 

[estpr13]

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My bantam Brahmas were chipmunky with feathered feet.

In other news, I really need to have a cull/processing party to get rid of a bunch of roos. I think eleven Barred rock roos out of 13 eggs. Does anyone know if that sexing of eggs thing is true? If it is I got gyped.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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My bantam Brahmas were chipmunky with feathered feet.

In other news, I really need to have a cull/processing party to get rid of a bunch of roos. I think eleven Barred rock roos out of 13 eggs. Does anyone know if that sexing of eggs thing is true? If it is I got gyped.

wow 11 out of 13 - sounds like me last year

I got 10 chicks at the feedstore - had maybe 4 girls.

The banties at the feedstore could be about anything - Mt. Healthy doesn't advertise Columbian Rocks, either, but that's what they sent them last time. So just cause it ain't on the website, doesn't mean Mt. Healthy doesn't have it, I guess.

Not many hatcheries that I've seen have Columbian Rocks - you'd think that would be something they would advertise.

I'm still waking up this morning. Got my chores all done, but that's about it - I did manage to get dressed first, though

Got my white call eggs set in the incubator. I keep checking the goose eggs in the hatcher - even though they aren't due until Saturday or Sunday

Well, gonna cruise a bit on BYC and wake up....

Hope it warms up more today than it is now.

meri