Congrats Jen!!
I still want a showgirl soooo bad. Guess it won't happen this year
Well, we have looked all over for more hens to take in. After giving some to my best friend and selling some to go to chickenstock, our egg supply was low. So we answered an ad for 7 hens and a rooster. They are all lovely! Unfortunately we can't keep the rooster despite him being absolutely gorgeous. I'll post pics of everyone tomorrow and hopefully (doubtful) someone here would want the rooster.
Anyway, we drove all the way out there. He had 4 pullets, 3 hens and a rooster. We spent 2.5 hours chasing chickens all over 10 acres!!! We even waited for them to roost for the night, but he said the pullets go anywhere. UGH! Well, we ended up leaving minus 3 of the pullets because we just couldn't find them. They free ranged and he tried throwing out food but he said he's had the same bag of food for 3 months because he didn't think they still had to be fed. Not only that he didn't know you could carry chickens upside down, he thought Aric was hurting them. GRRR.
What an adventure! So we figure we need about 5 more chickens and we'll be at the amount we want. If anyone knows of someone selling some standard size hens or pullets please let me know.
Oh and the ducks are finally starting to lay eggs again!! And today we got 6 eggs, so it looks like chickflick's idea (I think it was her) of feeding them oiled sunflower seeds works, along with the hotdogs. It's good because this is the weekend that we have our regular egg customers!!
Also, forgot to say
to the newbies!! Hope you like it here as much as we do!!
The black silkie that was sitting hatched out one of her eggs today!! Here's a picture of the little bugger!
