Beautiful chicks Mike. Tiffany is especially lovely, isn't she.
Yes my barn burned last Saturday. Yes I appreciate everyone's offers of eggs, but my breeding program itself, at least insofar as Mille Fleur Cochins, is still intact. I have 2 incubators and they're still pretty full. I had birds in 2 buildings and I am in fact getting eggs out of the Cochin pen in the coop. I have my hens Peaches and Candy in the coop, plus the younger generation is now growing up and beginning to lay as well.
I will forever miss and I am mourning the birds I lost. MF Cochins Prince and Bran, Dinner and Ivan, Inky and Cinnamon, Lily and Sugar, Yoyo, Oboe and Loula.
Yup, sheet metal, 2x4s, wire, cages is what I need most. I normally did have my grow out pen in the coop, but as fate would have it just Friday and earlier that day Saturday I was in the process of cleaning and rearranging. I was planning on making a grow out pen in the barn, and I moved a bunch of White Silkies from the barn to the pen in the coop that I had been using as my grow out pen. So now, what I need most, is a pen or cages I can put the chicks that are currently in the laundry room in my house into. I'm working on it. We cleared a corner in the garage and I have some 2x4s and plywood waiting on me to get out there and construct a pen out of now.
I'm sure if Stephanie and Karen and everyone else was anywhere close to me they would be over here helping me rebuild, but I'm pretty isolated in South Dakota.
