Nevadans?

[sherylreno]

I still sit out and watch them all. I call it chicken TV. The expressions are just so funny as they learn new things.

You are going to have a blast just like all of us and then you're hooked and the chicken math will show up in you. You can't get rid of it, there's no cure at all. We have all tried but to no prevail!

 

[horseshowmomnv]

I am so nervous, I want them to be okay. I have not even seen them yet and I am attached and protective. I do understand we may lose a few, but I am hopefully optimistic they will all arrive healthy. I walk into our "nursery" checking things.... I am so neurotic! LOL! This was my 20 year old daughters idea, her project, look who is the anxious one!

 

[sherylreno]

Samething happened to me as well. It was my husband's idea to get chickens again after 20 some odd years ago. And of course it's me who fell in love with them all.

He says the chickens are mine now and the ducks are his.

 

[horseshowmomnv]

Sheryl how is your hen today?
My husband is just sitting back not partaking. I am sure he is rolling his eyes, thinking here is another project she has started.... That's ok, I am quickly approaching being an empty nester so this will give me more things to occupy my time with.

 

[SunnyDawn]

...My husband is just sitting back not partaking. I am sure he is rolling his eyes, thinking here is another project she has started.... That's ok, I am quickly approaching being an empty nester so this will give me more things to occupy my time with.

Ha ha ha! It might be better that way! Steve and I are both nuts about the chickens so neither one of us reins the other one in! We will have all 10 acres covered with chickens eventually if we keep this up!

 

[horseshowmomnv]

Ha ha ha! It might be better that way! Steve and I are both nuts about the chickens so neither one of us reins the other one in! We will have all 10 acres covered with chickens eventually if we keep this up!

Oh my 10 acres of Chickens, that would be a site! LOL! We are on a half and acre, I consider it population control, otherwise I would have at least five horses! With the price of feed these days I am thankful I only have three. I asked Will, he says that he will get excited when the chicks arrive!

 

[horseshowmomnv]

Forgot to mention, if we had more land I would have a dairy cow, some pigs, and a beef cow... Darn county ordinances, two hoofed animals on anything less than 3/4 an acre. Time to move to the farm????

 

[chicharomirinda]

I was surprised my husband got on board with my crazy chicken idea. He likes eggs though so that's what has sold him on it. He is not into it like me but he does enjoy them and gets excited about finding the eggs. He doesn't get why I'm getting more chicks now, though. I'm trying to explain my flock management reasons to him. I showed him pictures of what the lavender ameraucanas will look like and he said they're ugly.

He's all about egg production. That's important to me too but I also want a varied flock.

I would also love to move somewhere with some land but that won't be for a long time with the way we're underwater on our mortgage. Sigh. who knew I'd get into chickens?

 

[sherylreno]

Sheryl how is your hen today?
My husband is just sitting back not partaking. I am sure he is rolling his eyes, thinking here is another project she has started.... That's ok, I am quickly approaching being an empty nester so this will give me more things to occupy my time with.

Patty is the same. She isn't getting any bigger so perhaps that's a good sign. She's moving around in the run like all is good. She does go into the coop though thinking she needs to lay an egg perhaps or just wanting to watch the others lay their's.

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Ha ha ha! It might be better that way! Steve and I are both nuts about the chickens so neither one of us reins the other one in! We will have all 10 acres covered with chickens eventually if we keep this up!

How I wish for 10 acres or even more! John's trying to convince me to buy 120 acres of land in VALMY, oh my goodness, I just can't imiagine it. I would much rather move to Elko instead. It's so pretty and a very neat town as well.

Forgot to mention, if we had more land I would have a dairy cow, some pigs, and a beef cow... Darn county ordinances, two hoofed animals on anything less than 3/4 an acre. Time to move to the farm????

In California you wouldn't be able to have any horses on any land less than 1 acre.

I was surprised my husband got on board with my crazy chicken idea. He likes eggs though so that's what has sold him on it. He is not into it like me but he does enjoy them and gets excited about finding the eggs. He doesn't get why I'm getting more chicks now, though. I'm trying to explain my flock management reasons to him. I showed him pictures of what the lavender ameraucanas will look like and he said they're ugly.

He's all about egg production. That's important to me too but I also want a varied flock.

I would also love to move somewhere with some land but that won't be for a long time with the way we're underwater on our mortgage. Sigh. who knew I'd get into chickens?

I know how you feel Elizabeth. I'm not under water but I have a lot of friends who are.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I'm surprised how into it my husband is. Usually, they're all my projects, and he's wonderfully supportive and willing to give manual labor whenever I ask. He doesn't enjoy gardening, but he enjoys the food, so whenever I ask him to work out there with me, he's there right away. When I get a contract for a mural, I bring him along as the grunt labor... "Here, paint this wall brown so I can turn it into a desert scene." When a friend suggested we get chickens for our earwig problem, he was all over it. I'm the one who has officially gone psycho over chickens, but he's the one who named the first five. And when we ordered the new chicks, he sat down with me and circled the ones he wanted out of the catalog, even pre-naming them Strip and Finger. He'll even cook himself way too much cracked wheat cereal, and leave the extra on the counter so it goes dry and crusty, and it's now chicken food. He's not out there holding them or anything, but he's a huge animal lover and really enjoys having them.

I keep dreaming about a big plot of land, but Russ and I both have bad credit from our previous marriages, plus his medical conditions are keeping him underemployed so we can get insurance. No house-buying for us. That's probably a good thing. When we got into this rented house, the neighborhood was still at premium rent. We came in anyway, because the house came along with rent's-worth in clients. (My landlady, also a massage therapist, retired and moved to Florida. It pays to network.) Life happened, and some of my clients had to drop out because of the economy. Now the houses on three sides of us are for rent, at much lower than we're paying now. So people ask why we don't move. Uh... because my landlady totally ROCKS and knows exactly what I'm doing to her property, and gives us a lot of privileges because she's a yogi who thrives on the concept of karma.