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free buff silkie rooster

 

[keyt1969]

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Absorb moisture better?? When? How? Last time I used that it turned into soup after a day! and that was just with 5 ducks and 9 chickens! Straw works out so much better for us..as long as we don't have rain 3-4 days in a row like this week! Unless you're talking about something other than pine shavings?

 

[maggiemmm]

I only have Banties. I now am down to 6 Sumatra's and one Cochin and Charlie , a silkie. I would love some Seabrights. and would be delighted to pay whatever you want. I do have to teach this week.. but could drive down to get them this weekend if that would be OK?
My dear Hubby said he would call from Rio if I got a rooster tho'...

:-( Can I get the hens only? I will understand if you do not want to separate them . email me please !
Thanks!!!

 

[Chickmate]

Wow. Frozen, frozen, frozen. Worked outside for about 3 1/2 hours this afternoon trying to make chicken wire cages for some of my plants I don't want the chickens to eat. Have three beautiful clematis coming up, or trying to, but they keep nipping them off. Also doing lots of damage to my mock orange bush, but it's still trying to grow. Friday I moved several of my huge giant blue hostas from the back yard to the front where they can't get at them. I want my flowers and plants, but I also want the chickens to free range. What is that saying about having your cake and eating it too? I know I can't have both, so I have decided to let them have the back yard and keep the gate closed so they can't come through to the front. Now if I can just figure out how to keep them off the back deck! I want to get in a hot shower so bad right now, but have to go back out to catch the babies (7 wks. this week) that are in their little run and put them in the brooder in the coop for the night. THEN a steaming shower. I've been on jury duty all this month, but so far my panel hasn't been called. Hope I can make the whole month without having to go!

Friday night I had just come in from putting the chickens to bed, about 8:30. I was standing looking out the kitchen window across my front yard, past the fence and across the road. From in front of my neighbor's house south of me on the shoulder of the road comes running a pretty large red fox. My property has about 375 feet of frontage and it ran all that distance, past my property to in front of the neighbor to the north of me and cut into the brush there. I was surprised it ran out in the open along the road for so far. It looked very healthy and didn't seem in too much of a hurry. I love wildlife and was just standing there thinking "COOL! A fox!" I've only ever seen one a few times before. Then I came to my senses and remembered I have chickens and thought "OMG! A fox!" I'm still so new to this that I forget I have them sometimes!

Keyt - You need to come to Chickenstock! Hope you will. Sorry about your thumb problems. Are you accident prone?

Stacykins - So excited for you in your move! Where are you moving from? I love going to da UP! It seems almost like a different state, in fact if da UPers had their way, it would be, wouldn't it?

Henny Penny - I feel so bad for you and your little yokohama hen out there all by herself! I hope you find her. Opa's suggestion sounds like the best way to catch her again.

OK, hoping the older flock has gone to roost so I can put the babies up and come in and take a HOT shower!

Night all.

 

[keyt1969]

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Yes and no. I do injure very easily because of having had 46 surgeries, numerous comas, etc plus having been on anti seizure meds since I was 3 months old. Growing up docs thought I had a brittle bone disease because I've broken just about every bone at least once. But it's just due to one of my medical conditions called Hydrocephalus...aka too much fluid on the brain. Thus the reason for having had 20 brain surgeries, gall bladder, appendix and right kidney removed...oh and a hysterectomy. I don't have any removable parts left!!

This is why I have a bunch of animals. I'm not allowed to work anymore (well, never really was my whole life but have anyway) so my animals are my job!

 

[RIRJen]

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Yup! Whenever it rains bad I throw a bag of pine shavings into the run and it's instantly dry!

Plus they LOVE scratching all around it in and getting the mud off thier feet.

 

[Opa]

Good morning. I've worked the crossword puzzle, checked the threads of BYC, drunk a couple of cups of coffee, and it's still a couple of hours before it will be a reasonable time to start the day. since it's still dark and today the questionable eggs in the incubator are scheduled to go into lockdown I think I'll go out and candle them. Hopefully some are viable and I'll wind up with a few chicks.

 

[uchytil]

Tilled yesterday. Now to plant? I usually end up replanting corn so I thought I'd wait a little longer this year. Anyone put in corn yet around the Muskegon/Twin Lake area? Here's my tip of the day: If you've never planted French Horticultural Beans you should. I grew up in Maine and they were called "shell beans". The only place I've ever seen them canned was in Maine by Stewarts. Anyway I grow enough to get me through two years so I'm always ahead. And the chickies are doing good too.

 

[Opa]

While I've got my garden tilled I won't be doing any planting until after Memorial Day. Most seeds won't germinate until the soil temperatures are above 60 degrees. Often if the ground is too wet and cold the seeds will rot before the have a chance to germinate. I've noticed that several friends with gardens who plant much earlier don't harvest any sooner than I and the yield isn't as high.

I am not very optimistic about the eggs in the incubator. I candled an took out a dozen that hadn't even started. The others are a possible maybe.

 

[1muttsfan]

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I am down to 7 of the 17 vorwerk eggs I started with (17/43 overall including the welsummers and cochin bantams), lots of detached air sacs and non-starters this batch. I go into lockdown wednesday evening, still hoping for some cute little vorwerk babies.

The only seeds I have planted yet are lettuce, but they like it chilly. I also seeded my chick run with brooder greens and they are starting to come up. My tomatos are going this week - after this cold snap is past - from the greenhouse to the garden in walls-of-water, which have been set up for the last week to get the ground warmed up in the new raised bed that went in last fall.

Don't you just love spring