Latest count: 5 hens. Roosterbator must have broken! UPDATE

[Rozzie]

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Don't forget your M Gold - Colors showing proven male. And a very handsome one at that. Ah you are questioning my naming the Red as a Male. Well time will tell.
I dare you to take the other males out. We'll see how long it takes him to crow. Likes hanging around with that little M Gold, doesn't he. I see now why you don't want to give him up.

Oh, White beard and belly, will you name him please? I have one just like that, that is a hen. For certain, lays a beautiful egg, well, when she comes off her rest she will again lay a beautiful egg.

Nope, not questioning you. Just keeping up false hope.

Red is, well, Rusty if a boy & Ginger if a girl.
White Beard & Belly will get a name. It just hasn't come to me yet.

Didn't forget the Manchurian - his coloring gives me no doubt. He's a beauty. He's the one in the sandbox pictures.

I'll eventually pull some of the males out. Won't have a choice, I know. Only one can stay in that pen with that number of girls. However, I haven't decided who gets to stay yet. Right now, the little English White is pretty nice to the girls.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

I vote for Red, to come here. (Where's the looks away as typing smiley- no I don't know how that got there.)

Well I am just going to have to talk to somebody next month about those colored birds. I'm gonna get me some, I hope.

Lets see, when am I gonna hatch next - Oh, 2 weeks.

 

[Stellar]

I love the sandbox pictures!!! He really is hogging it HAHA

 

[Rozzie]

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For sure! Some of them aren't quite sure yet what the sandbox is all about. I think it's because they take their baths in the sawdust. The section of the pen near their water and feed gets the pellets broken down the fastest. They scratch the pellets out of the way then make hollows in that area to dust bath. Some of them prefer that. It doesn't make as pretty of pictures, though.

 

[Rozzie]

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And the fun thing about them is that you can tell them apart in the pen.

Unlike a pen full of browns. (That might, however, be a disadvantage for someone who wants to grow them for food. Easier to get attached to them when you can tell them apart, I think.)

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

No meat birds are meat birds. Doesn't matter what coloring they have. I can tell most of my browns apart. When you have the breeders for more than a few months, you get to know them. But it doesn't matter.

Meat birds are meat birds. Its their purpose and they fulfill it well and always have. I just want to keep it that way for the future. So keep spreading them around people, then they'll be there tomorrow too, when we really need them.

 

[Rozzie]

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I wouldn't make a good farmer.

I'd go broke fast. Grew up on a farm, so I know how that works.

I best stick to pets.

 

[peewee]

Those babies are looking BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I really love the head on shot of Boots. S/he is turning in to a great looking bird.
Love the photos. Especially of bath time.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

I grew up on a farm too, and in a city. Don't consider myself a farmer. But I do rely on my birds for my eggs and meat. Next year, probably our only source of meat, because of my allergies. But I just can't be vegetarian at this point in life, DH couldn't handle it.

Just a few days ago we found out DD is allergic to eggs, so we'll see. The pies I make in the morning and the quiche for dinner will be made with quail eggs and we'll see how that goes. I may need to supply her with quail eggs, if she can handle them. OH, that means she'll help with the cost of my quail keeping. Because there'll be no more chicken eggs bought or brought to her house. She is also almost completely absent of meat except for chicken (soon to go) and turkey, again by necessity for her health. She does not like wasting time in hospitals. Been there, done that, figured out if she watched what she ate, she could stay out of them and off some horrid meds.

 

[Rozzie]

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Thanks! I was really pleased with those. My son's grandparents gave him a new camera for Christmas. I keep borrowing it. It does 14MP shots, which is better than my 12MP camera. Plus, his reacts much faster.