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[ejcimd]

I love wandering around at the swaps....

Also for the person looking to have his birds processed. I had mine done at Westons Meat in West Gardiner.

 

[blueseal]

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I'm actually not that far from Shmagusta. I used to work in Jefferson, which is pretty close. I'm surprised that Lincoln county is so unknown among so many people on this board, haha. Then again, it is pretty small.

Ohh, you have lavender for sale, hoppy? I love lavender, but it would depend on where you live. I don't exactly have regular access to a car. I thought I was going to get the "retirement" money from my old job's private program, but the paperwork got lost in the mail, so it could take a couple months to come up with a down payment for a car, ugh.

I love seeing all the pictures of these beautiful chickens!! So cute.

im from lincoln county, the town of waldoboro . have family there and lived there growing up. welcome to byc. hope to see u at local swaps this spring.

 

[hoppy]

ok, so here is the lavender orpington roo, obviously a project bird.
he is on the right,next to my blue laced wyandotte roo, they get along well.

and here he is by himself. (ok sort of by himself, lol)

if you are interested in him, pm me.

 

[JacksFlock]

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Beautiful birds! I just saw them on Craigslist

They can always have a home with us if you're desperate!

 

[henney penny]

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Beautiful birds! I just saw them on Craigslist

They can always have a home with us if you're desperate!

I may take you up on that if I can`t sell them

 

[Speed]

Anyone looking for a brahma roo? I have too many so I'm giving one away free.

 

[ejcimd]

Looks like we will be getting some snow. On one hand I am glad but since the last free ranging adventure my birds had in the snow, they will be staing inside. Nothing like coaxing the girls out from under the bus with scratch and carrying them one by one into their coop. Usually I just shake the can with scratch in it and they come running but they all stared at me like I was the crazy food lady.

Six girls lined up under the front of the bus bouncing from one foot to the other and talking to me. I loved crawling around in the snow to get them out one by one. Maybe I'm silly but I just couldn't leave them out there.

I'll have to post some pictures from this past weekend they had a grand time on Sunday scouring the hillside.

Hope you all stay warm...

Irene

 

[henney penny]

I`m seeing you in my mind crawling under the bus and carring one at a time,thank you for the smile you brought to my face.

 

[Gordonhillfarm]

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[Coldweatherbirds]

Broody

Ok, I brought my broody Blue Splash Maran inside. It looks like she has decided to commit fully to being broody. She is in a guinea pig cage covered with a table cloth. She can stand up, stretch and turn around, but not any more room than that. Unfortunately she is not sitting on any of her own eggs, because she stopped laying about 5 days ago when she really got broody. I let her have 3 warm eggs from other birds and when I went to move her I discovered that yesterday or the day before someone must have crawled in with her and laid an egg, so she has 4.

I have questions:



[FONT='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]1. Will she sit on these eggs [/FONT]for 21 days or give up 5 days early because she has already been broody?



2. Will that one egg hatch 2 days before the others and if it does will she abandon the others?



3. How much should she eat/drink/poop while broody? I don't want to take her out too much, but I don't want her to get sick either.



4. What do I do to keep the eggs warm when I take her off to eat/drink?



5. Is 4 eggs enough for a 1st try? Should I give her another warm 1 or 2 this afternoon?



6. Any other advice?