Maine

[Jazor]

Widget, I'd love to buy/trade with you if you're interested! My fiancee has been begging me to find her a couple silkies. Mine are just 2 weeks or just under, do you suppose they would be about the right age to integrate?

Feel free to PM me so we can coordinate!

Thanks so much

 

[cmw226]

Nellie and Lucy are doing wonderful. They are still very vocal and have been laying for at least a month now. They still like to go visit my neighbor when I let them out for supervised free range before bed.

 

[jdoane]

Nellie and Lucy are doing wonderful. They are still very vocal and have been laying for at least a month now. They still like to go visit my neighbor when I let them out for supervised free range before bed.

OK. good to know that they are accounted for!

My friend shave found a farm nearby who will take the chicken so all is well. She did make it through the night and was safe from predators. Was looking in their kitchen window this morning! LOL

 

[IZZYBELLA]

Yesterday I took whoever would follow me from their run into my fenced-in raised bed garden area. (Don't look at the horrible state the beds are in...it was too late to put much of anything in by the time we moved in this year.) Not surprisingly, it was my personable buffs and golden comet who came. They were in 7th heaven! For the most part they would follow me to wherever I was weeding, because they figured out I was turning up worms and beetles. I even had our greyhound in with them for awhile. She mostly ignored them. However, except to take the photo, I was beside her the entire time... don't trust that her instinct to chase small, fast, squeaky animals won't kick in!

 

[dowgirl71]

So glad to hear that!! Their "brooder mate," Cherrie is still my one consistent layer. Waiting on the younger ones, now.

 

[lazy gardener]

Depending on where they live, I would imagine they aren't far from the chicken's home. It can be a little awkward approaching neighbors if you don't know they well, but I'm sure it would be fairly easy to spot which neighbors keep chickens. A simple "is your flock missing a member" could be a good ice breaker. I doubt the lonely chick ran too far from home.

Must be a classy bird, though, to stay on the porch and let them take care of it! Sounds like it had a long night.

In reference to the chick photos, sorry, I have no shame! They are hilarious, and I have to share their comedy with you guys. Consider it payback for all the awesome photos I've seen over the past few months while I had no flock of my own! Now we're getting close to even! =P

Cheers

p.s. thanks for the advice on silkies, I can't imagine anyone in the area has any silkie chicks they'd be willing to part with so late in the season--but perhaps you guys could point me toward someone who wouldn't mind selling me a couple?

Izzy: Your girls look very happy! I'm hoping that by planting time in April, my garden will be completely stripped of weed seeds, insect pests, and thoroughly fertilized and tilled. AND, they're paying me for the privilege of working my soil (with eggs!) Does it get any better than this??? I think not!

Yesterday I took whoever would follow me from their run into my fenced-in raised bed garden area. (Don't look at the horrible state the beds are in...it was too late to put much of anything in by the time we moved in this year.) Not surprisingly, it was my personable buffs and golden comet who came. They were in 7th heaven! For the most part they would follow me to wherever I was weeding, because they figured out I was turning up worms and beetles. I even had our greyhound in with them for awhile. She mostly ignored them. However, except to take the photo, I was beside her the entire time... don't trust that her instinct to chase small, fast, squeaky animals won't kick in!

 

[CoopChick719]

So glad the wayward chicken has found a home!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You are buzz clipping the butts? And DH doesn't complain that they smell like poo or you that his stache isn't smelling like chicken butt????

We can now call mustaches butt fluff! [I might still be really tired... humor is effected at this level of cognition, sorry]

Sorry, I'm about 3 days behind.

I am not buzz clipping, it's actual mustache scissors. And it was one thing that my ex left in the house that was actually worthwhile.

I have an opportunity to keep the nubian doe that I've been raising for a few months now. Only problem is now I also have to take back by nubian wether. I'm starting to feel like GoatMath (TM) is taking over.

 

[buckabucka]

GO GOATMATH!!!!

 

[Widget]

GO GOATMATH!!!!

Nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank goodness goat math has not found me yet. I have had two and only two goats for the past few years. And with one on a downhill slide due to age concerns I may soon find myself with only one.