Maine

[superchemicalgirl]

I can do slaughter. I raise those birds to be meat. I think of them as meat from the beginning. I might like them, but I know their ultimate purpose is to become food.

I don't have a problem with killing chicks that don't hatch right.

And I don't have a problem, theoretically, with putting something out of its misery. I'm just a mess when it happens. I'm lucky BF did it, but I still stood at the window and watched Ginger go.

 

[buckabucka]

Sorry about the hens and lame duck that had to go, SCG. I will be sad this fall when we part with some of our older hens, but we can't supply people with eggs if we are running a retirement home. It is definitely the worst part of keeping chickens for me.

I hope to get some photos of my new chicks soon. It's hard to get home from school in time, and today I was preoccupied with integrating the crusty chicks in with the others. They are not totally out of the woods yet, but I'm definitely optimistic now. I don't regret helping these chicks out of the shell, even though I was apprehensive about doing so.

I tossed the 4 dead eggs from the incubator today. 3 were late quitters, and 1 looked like it quit very close to hatch time, with full feathers. Not sure why that happened.

 

[lazy gardener]

I just wanted to stop in and say hi! I am in Gray and we have about 40 chickens.

Hi to you. I spent my first 8 years in Gray on a beautiful farm. We had sheep, chickens, horses. It was an incredible place to spend a childhood. I spent my summers with a hammer, cracking black walnut shells on an old granite well curb. And when I wasn't eating nuts, there were lots of berries to be had, a brook with a sand bar, a turtle pen, a climbing cliff with an old gnarled pine tree that you could step out onto from the top of the cliff. Oh how I hated to leave that farm!!!

 

[kinsey228]

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I tossed the 4 dead eggs from the incubator today.  3 were late quitters, and 1 looked like it quit very close to hatch time, with full feathers.  Not sure why that happened.

I am soon to be over run w/ chicks, so if you need some, I go to school in Fairfield on Monday's and Wednesday's and can drop some off

 

[lazy gardener]

I am soon to be over run w/ chicks, so if you need some, I go to school in Fairfield on Monday's and Wednesday's and can drop some off

Any chance you're going to have any dom pullets to spare? I have 3 which are supposed to be pullets, but they look suspiciously male to me. My hubby works at Mainely Trusses, or I could take a trip to Fairfield. What program are you in??? (if I'm not being too forward to ask.)

 

[dowgirl71]

I am soon to be over run w/ chicks, so if you need some, I go to school in Fairfield on Monday's and Wednesday's and can drop some off

Just be careful that you don't give away your husband's favorites!

Where do you go to school in Fairfield? I graduated from KVCC (when it was KVTC) in 1995.

 

[dowgirl71]

Any chance you're going to have any dom pullets to spare? I have 3 which are supposed to be pullets, but they look suspiciously male to me. My hubby works at Mainely Trusses, or I could take a trip to Fairfield. What program are you in??? (if I'm not being too forward to ask.)

Us KVTC alumni, I just asked her that, too.

We must have been typing at the same time.

 

[kinsey228]

Any chance you're going to have any dom pullets to spare? I have 3 which are supposed to be pullets, but they look suspiciously male to me. My hubby works at Mainely Trusses, or I could take a trip to Fairfield. What program are you in??? (if I'm not being too forward to ask.)

I am sure I will. Physical therapy assistant.

 

[kinsey228]

Just be careful that you don't give away your husband's favorites!

Where do you go to school in Fairfield? I graduated from KVCC (when it was KVTC) in 1995.

He is going to be soooo mad when he sees the extra 15 eggs. I am going to KVCC. I figured now that my youngest is in pre-k, I needed to go back to school. I graduated in 2000, so I guess better late than never?

 

[CoopChick719]

I just wanted to stop in and say hi! I am in Gray and we have about 40 chickens.

Hi Tammaclean, Welcome!!

Here are some pictures of the fun cross who is a BrabanterxOrloff cross I have that I have talked about a few times. So pretty! Just bragging. Just got a dog house for the chickens and might get another ha ha ha (cheap!)

You have a right to brag...She is pretty! Now I'm thinking I need to go get that free doghouse I was offered back when I started this venture.

He is going to be soooo mad when he sees the extra 15 eggs. I am going to KVCC. I figured now that my youngest is in pre-k, I needed to go back to school. I graduated in 2000, so I guess better late than never?

Never too late, Kinsey! It took my husband 9 years to get his degree but he worked full-time so could only take a few classes here & there. He has no student loans because we paid as he went. We had our first child the year he graduated from college...a degree & a son within 3 months of each other.