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[shelleyd2008]

Mrs. Turbo :

Hey Shelley....did you still want me to look for a roller at the sale tomorrow?

I don't know, it would be a few weeks before I would have the money to ship it here, and can't really drive that far. My dad's truck is on its last leg I believe. Maybe we should hold off for a little while? But thanks, I'll let you know when I'll be able to get one or two

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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I don't know, it would be a few weeks before I would have the money to ship it here, and can't really drive that far. My dad's truck is on its last leg I believe. Maybe we should hold off for a little while? But thanks, I'll let you know when I'll be able to get one or two

No problem...just hold tight and we will make a trip out your way to visit family one of these days. We should have some babies
grown out by then if my daughter would stop stealing the eggs.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Well, I did pretty well tonight at Sano - took 28 birds, only came home with 5. At one point I was mobbed (hubby had stepped away just before, of course

) and had three customers all wanting the same birds.

Hubby doesn't feel as badly, now, about me buying birds tomorrow

I need to get chick starter monday, too - I would go tomorrow if it weren't in the opposite direction of where I have to go for sand and birds. I have enough to last me, though, til then.

I got rid of a bunch of cockerels tonight (woohoo!) so my pullet to cockerel ratio in the top brooder coop is much better. The guys were starting to get at that age where they were trying to spar a little, and it was getting crowded for the girls.

So, now I get to fix the top run with some sand tomorrow, then I can move the Columbian Rocks to the top coop, and put my Delaware pullets out into the lower coop. (they are trying to fly out of the brooder bin in the house

poor things.

Technically my call duck babies are old enough to go out - but I want to see how much more rain we're gonna get.

Oh - and this is odd - I didn't think it was THAT hot today, but the babies in the lower coop drank 5 gallons of water just today!!! I do have 4 call ducklings in there, but hardly any of it got splashed out - the flooring was dry. The Columbian Rocks are getting bigger (would have to look, but I think they are about 6 weeks), though, and I have my barred rocks (5 of those) and my buff orp pair in there, too (they are about three months old, now) so I guess they are just drinking more.

Oh, and Shelley (or anyone who knows).... how old before the mallard looking calls (mallards, I mean, I imagine calls would be the same) get the green heads on the males? I have four of the mallard types, and I know I have two girls, but not sure on the other two. They are about 4 weeks old, I think. I hope I have a male in there somewhere.

Well, the call babies inside are complaining for more water (every ten minutes!! they splash out more than they drink) so I'm gonna go.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

The rouens don't get their green till they are like 6-8 weeks old, and then it's just the very tops of their heads and their backs that start getting it. But you can do the quack test at 4 weeks old, you should be able to tell almost for sure what they are that way. Just pick them up, if they quack they are girls, if they are still peeping they are boys. The boys will have a hoarse-sounding peep, even as babies. I'm getting pretty good a telling them apart, though I'm sure by next spring I'll forget and have to learn all over again!!

ETA: And I say the rouens, because I don't have mallards. Mallards, I believe, get their green a bit earlier, but it is hard to tell unless you know what you're looking for.

 

[FrChuckW]

Mrs. Turbo :

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They is the weekly Saturday morning Sale/Swap at the Shepherdsville Stockyards. People get there around 6:00 AM - ?
As far as I know there is no cost to show up and sell your birds.

Exit 116 off I65

set up fee is $5 in Shepherdsville...... We will be there with some BLRW and maybe a few call ducks.​

With or without Flowerpot, me and the old grocery getter will be there. I drive an 83 Chevy Caprice Estate Wagon, with BYC Bumper stickers plastered all over the tailgate. I'll have my beige MinPin hat on. Looking forward to meeting another fellow BYCer.

I'll be looking for two or three good homer hens, and a white silkie pullet.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Well, I had a busy day. Was going to leave to go to Spydertoys first thing this morning, but a neighbor dropped by (he is fixing hubby's weight brakcet for the tractor, came by for a fitting).

Finally got to her house, and got to meet her dogs

one of whom is as big as TeaCake and a little taller than Butters (my mini donkeys).
Got four beautiful buff orp girls. Spydertoys has wonderful birds, and a great barn.

Left her house and made it to L&S in time to get some sand before they closed. Put a half ton of sand in the top chicken run (it helped tremendously).

Before I could get the sand in the run, however, another neighbor stopped by with a load of eggs he wanted me to incubate for him. We cut a deal that I'd do his eggs and take half of the chicks that hatch. I'm sure he'll become addicted like the rest of us and have his own incubator before next spring

I swapped the Columbian Rocks to the top coop (since I had thinned it out Friday night, and cleaned the run today) and put my Delaware babies out into the other coop.

The duckies went into the coop pretty well, tonight - I hope they are getting the idea of "go inside at night when Mom says so". I only had to chase them out from behind the coops twice tonight (the other night I had to go get help to block their path

)

Oh, and Sandi - I have your hatching eggs gathered, so anytime ya want to stop by is fine. I'll PM you with directions to my house. I haven't been past Debbie's yet, so I haven't asked her about the bantam eggs, but I'm going to town tomorrow, and I'll see if she's home.

Was too tired to think about dinner, so I made everyone make their own food and I just had some ramen soup

gonna check out BYc a bit then go watch some TV (nothing is on

)

meri

 

[spydertoys]

Nitro is a monster isn't he?? LOL!!

If you are coming anywhere near Edmonton in the next day or so..you can leave Sandi's eggs here if you want. She can pick them up here then if she wants to.

Enjoy your new babies.!!

 

[cthrash1]

I GET 3 HENS!!!!!!!!!!

Silly Ron thought you had to have a rooster to get eggs...

 

[spydertoys]

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Well..come and see me..I have LOTS of them for sale

About 60 of them!!

 

[cthrash1]

I might just do that, I know I need to get at least one BR girly from Meri if she still has an extra or two and I thought she had some BAs but can't remember, maybe that guy bought them. And I e-mailed a lady I got SQ B/B/S Am eggs(hatched 2 sweethearts out of them) from last year to see if she has a pet quality pullet just for the fresh eggs, but if you have pure Ams I may go see yours(it will prob be real costly to buy/ship from Washington state anyway), you are only about an hour from us I think. I know I'd like either 3 BRs or a BR, BA, and an AM. It won't be until around the end of June beginning of July because we have vacations and other commitments before that.

Can't wait to have my own hens for eggs...But also enjoy visiting Meri when I am out of fresh eggs. Ron still hasn't caught on that I'm willing to drive 50 mi.s to get my fresh eggs, you'd think that would have been a big enough hint there that we need our own hens.

Shelley - we'll probably be down to visit again after the 20th if we don't get there before we leave for vacation.