Maine

[lazy gardener]

Widgett: You'll have to keep me posted about the quality of Cackle Doms. Izzy, sorry for the loss of your PBR. Spring is coming, folks!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Where did the eggs come from, and what was your hatch rate on shipped eggs???

California, Arizona and North Carolina. The NC were duds.

Overall a 66% hatch rate including NC eggs. Not bad!

 

[Widget]

Widgett: You'll have to keep me posted about the quality of Cackle Doms. Izzy, sorry for the loss of your PBR. Spring is coming, folks!

Will do. I do not expect them to be perfect but if they are friendly, healthy and do well here then I will be very happy.

 

[lazy gardener]

I found that both of the sets of MMc Doms that I got were fragile, but would get them again in a heart beat. I love them. I'd love to have some good quality stock of Doms. Once they get going, they do very well.

 

[dodochick92]

Had to do a snow burial the other day. My roo unexpectedly died the other day. He had an infection from frostbite so that might be why. Had to bring my lonley hen inside for the next couple days cuz of the storm.

 

[chickenneighbor]

Sorry for the loss of your roo. Will you be getting more hen friends soon? You know how chicken math works; why get just three, when six will be twice as fun!

 

[CoopChick719]

So sorry to hear of the recent burials! Was not able to let the girls out today. With the blowing & drifting, we already had 2 feet of snow. DH has been out plowing since 4 am. However our yard was not plowed! Glad I filled up their water yesterday. Just worried about feed. I know they had some leftover feed in a bowl and 2 of the tube feeders were almost full. I have just as many gray hairs from these chickens as I do my kids

 

[Marcy54]

We tromped through to feed and water the crew a couple of times. We surprisingly got two eggs today. Hopefully, we can dig them out tomorrow, the path we made with the snow blower is gone.

 

[dodochick92]

Sorry for the loss of your roo. Will you be getting more hen friends soon? You know how chicken math works; why get just three, when six will be twice as fun!

Planned on getting more soon. Maybe some speckled sussex or some ameraucanas. What do you guys think?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I love my speckled sussex - great personalities but they're not good layers. I'm sure whatever you get will be fine.

I still haven't clomped out to see my chickens and turkeys in the main coop. Due to the timing of the storm and where the coop is located, I was going to wait for it to be over, but now I have to go to work. I did clomp out a few times for the ducks yesterday and this morning, they are absolutely snowed in. I couldn't even get close enough to the spigot on the house for water, so I had to bring buckets from the garage. It's going to be a hard cleanup.