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Hi and Welcome cgtara!! It is great having someone from my area on the forum!! I'm in Fife Lake...we were just in Traverse today shopping at Sam's Club! Did you see the ad on Craigs list yesterday for a coop with feed/water dishes/fencing and 10 RIReds??? For $385.00!!! What a steal and he was in the Interlochen area!
What kind of chickens do you have??
Very pleased to meet you!!
No, I didn't see that, but I will look--for the heck of it. Our story is sad but is getting better with time. We started with 12 I believe are red-star sex link chicks that we raised from
TSC, and now only have one left of the original bunch--and her name is Sweet Pea. We lost two the first year to something that killed our favorite bird and another one when they went out too early in the morning. I bet it was coyotes. We lost another to prolapse. We lost our smallest bird to a raccoon. Finally, the first day the birds got out this spring..a few weeks ago--a coyote came and killed off 6 of the eight, and left one severely wounded that we found a week later--and had put to sleep. The lone bird now has three pullets for companions that are also the same background that we just got from another member called Fred's Hens. We are pleased with them. She is not too thrilled, but we know it is better for her to have birdie buddies than what we can provide. Now she will be the alpha bird! We plan on getting more chicks very soon to add to the size of our flock. They were all pets to us that we lost, so it was major. Tell me more about your chickens.
That is sad! How awful to lose so many. I read on BYC earlier someone lost 19 I think...5 week chicks to their pet beagle!
I've had lots of different ones in the past 8 years....cuckoo maran, buckeye,buff orpingtons,barred rock, blue cochin....at present I have 5 B/B/S Orpingtons and 24 English/American B/B/S in the incubator. In May I'm getting 24 Blue Jersey Giant eggs to hatch. Out of all I hope to have about 15-18 keepers. I just bought the incubator last month and it is so cool to hatch your own!
I'll have to look up Fred? on BYC.
The storm just passed through here (1am) and woke me up...debated heading to the basement but it passed quickly and thank goodness no power outage! The hail sounded like golf balls...but I didn't get a look at it. Well... I'm going to go hit the sack ...hopefully I'll sleep through the rest of the night!
Jen it sounds like you have really got your rabbits in a nice and clean set up. Chickaboom...your new coop looks like it is shaping up great!
Yeah I dont plan on having chicks in the house again now... they are adorable but kinda dusty and LOUD...lol
