Woohoo, congrats. It's amazing isn't it. The excitement. The plans. I have my handyman coming tomorrow to build me a wooden door for my dog kennel coop. So I can pull my utility cart in and also to get rid of the pesky little openings in the other door. That's why I lost one of my white rocks. The fellow said it probably was a mink that got in so small an area. This will fix it. Yea.e
yay! Christmas in June heck ya! 
@ "i don't care if I ever get an egg"....I believe you...now. just wait - the other wait is the egg wait....sometimes driving one to insanity! Mwahahaha 
you'll do great in chickens. If you love them this much already? Your flock will be spoiled 
As long as you can get a protein % up to 18 or so you can mix it. Corn has about 9% and I believe sweet feed might be a tad more. Look on the sack. Whole oats that are fed to cattle and horses is a zip for me. I have a 50 # bag of race horse triple washed and they won't touch it. I tried soaking it for days, and sprouting it. Nada. Oats has about 12% I think and it has to be hull less. Two different kinds of oats. Reg oats has the really thick shell and hull less has a soft one that the chickens adore. I don't know if I can get it. Maybe through Azure. I'd mix 1 part corn, 1 part sweet feed and 2 or 3 parts grower feed. Does this help at all?
Lost one of my EE pullets today. Think she got too hot. Checked her from head to toe and everywhere in between no injuries or signs of infection. Found her just laying around so I have her some electrolytes in a dropper because she was that weak. I even checked her poop and no unusual signs there either. After about 4 hours she quit breathing after she looked to be getting stronger and I thought she would make it.
Now that you mention it, I have it in the scratch I ferment. I guess that's the way to go. Thanks.
LOVE the hydrangeas. they are my absolute favorite!!
She's an awesome Mama (she is the great grandbaby of one of Celies does )
and I have OCD about my record keeping and one mishap of mixing up litters could make us have to start from square one and that would be devastating to me 
. So, I'm scared to death of this "stamping" tattoo but we decided after weeks of serious research it was the quickest, most effective and every demo I watched and a customer "stamp tattooed 2 of his for me- seemed like the least distressful way on the rabbits because its quiet and quick. but still scared...
