new hampshire spring chat thread

[firedove]

Good luck to everyone with their babies and hatches! They are all too cute. I just FINALLY got my EE chicks that hatched in November out of the house and moved in comfortably in the garage cages! I need to take at least 2 months off from brooding or my DH will make me go sleep in the coop

No more chicks until I can get my garage brooding system set up! He has said it before and means it more all the time, "no more chicks in the house!" As adorable and fun as I think the chicks are, I'm inclined to agree at this point.

We live in a trailer and the living room is where the brooder always ends up. It's cute for the first two weeks or so when the poops are small and there are few feathers to make feather dust, then it just gets smelly, then dusty and smelly. If I had a basement or a spare room away from our general living area it wouldn't be so bad but the living room, kitchen, and addition are all open on each other and not very big. I love my chickens, but I don't want them living in my house unless it is absolutely necessary!

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

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Hopefully it won't be 11 boys and 1 girl.

I'm also on the hunt for some good standard favs.

Like I don't have enough birds already.

Hmmm, last time I saw really nice Std. Favs was at the Boston show, can't recall now who had them

There aren't too many of those around..

 

[sherrydeanne]

Why is this so hard? A local (well, fairly) woman has 4-week pullets but she got a mixed box and has no idea what she has. I asked for pics. Ideal has NO idea when my order may be ready and I want chickens NOW!!!!

 

[chickn]

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if its fav's she will be able to tell by the white skin 5 toe thing

 

[blazingsaddles]

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Here are the address for the agways

 

[sherrydeanne]

I sooooo don't know what to do. Now I'm considering getting a flock of Marans so I can sell eggs in the spring. I was going to do a mixed flock with a pretty egg basket, but now I'm wondering. I *can* have a roo, but I don't know if I want the trouble. Argh, urgh.
I asked Ideal for an estimate on my shipping and he said 'don't have one but we'll contact you'. That doesn't help scratch the itch, ya know?
Seriously, if I don't have chicks in my brooder soon, I may have a coronary.

Back to reality now...

 

[aceschix]

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You could come up here and buy some of my mixes

they are ready to go

I have a new batch of WAY too many eggs going in the bator on Saturday, too...BC Marans, Wellies and olive eggers, and a few pure cochins.

 

[chickn]

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LOL i hear ya

 

[sherrydeanne]

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You could come up here and buy some of my mixes

they are ready to go

I have a new batch of WAY too many eggs going in the bator on Saturday, too...BC Marans, Wellies and olive eggers, and a few pure cochins.

If you have a good hatch on those Marans and have a few extra, I would LOVE them! I'd be darn tempted to keep a roo if he was a nice Marans.

 

[sherrydeanne]

Ok, I talked to hubby and he's handling my manic moodswings LOL. He says I should wait on my Ideal order, so I'll be a good doobie and wait. That, however, only accounts for 5 chickens and I could do at least 7