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TwoCrows said:
Well then, you need a vacation! We've got plenty of guest facilities. ;)
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That's a great idea! If I didn't have so many critters depending on me alone, I'd probably do it. I haven't left the vicinity of Albuquerque/Moriarty since 2007. As I recall, it was quite beautiful down there. :love
 
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Eggswithleggs said:
I have been keeping chickens since the summer of 2000 (roughly). My introduction to chicken keeping began quite by accident. The hubby and I were cleaning up the property in preparation to take pics for refinancing, and I kept hearing the cheeping of a little bird. I just went about my business assuming it was a wild baby excited by a parent returning with food. Near dusk, when we were wrapping up, I finally decided to go investigate. On the other side of the road from my five acres I found him...this cute little "egg with leggs!" I'm pretty sure that he escaped from a neighbor who raised fighting roosters. I named him Lucky since he had managed, in spite of all his peeping, to survive the whole day without being eaten. The next day I called my local feed store to ask if there was something wrong with him because he seemed to be growing a "tumor" on his neck. Imagine my embarrassment when I was informed that this "tumor" was his crop! He cried piteously every time I had to leave for work, so we went and got him some little friends and they lived in my front room until we finished building their new home.

I lost my Lucky bird about two years later to a bobcat attack. He gave his life trying to protect his harem. I also lost another hen and my Red bird suffered some damage to her head...she was blowing bubbles out of her eye and had a couple of deep cuts. I brought her in the house with little hope that she would survive, but she pulled through and became a part-time house chicken. I was holding her in my arms when she breathed her last several years later.

Over the next couple of years I added a few here and a few there. While I was working at a local bank I was befriended by a much older gentleman who began bringing me all the "leftovers" from the local feed stores. When all was said and done, we had forty chickens, two turkey hens and a tom. The last of my old ladies passed two years ago and Dude (the tom) had been adopted by an older couple in Colorado. I haven't thought about much else but getting a new flock started up since. Unfortunately the coop had fallen into disrepair and I wanted to make some improvements, so I had to wait. In the meantime, I had joined the fb group The Crazy House Chicken Lady and lived vicariously through their posts.

This July I finally ordered my babies from McMurray. I ordered two each; RIR, blue laced red wyandottes, ameraucana, light brahmas, egyptian fayoumis, silver laced polish, gold laced polish, and buff polish. I also ordered a silver spangled hamburg rooster, and they sent me a straight run buff polish rooster (mystery chick). I'm afraid I didn't do as much research as I should have and I'm a bit worried about how my fayoumis will fare during the winters out here in the NM highlands.

I initially found BYC on a google search and I have visited this site numerous times over the last few years, but didn't actually join until a few months ago. I am an avid gardener, I love to read, I enjoy domestic crafts such as sewing, crocheting, knitting, and cooking. I love to work outside on landscaping and various carpentry and home improvement projects. Of course many of these things are either impossible or take a lot longer now that I have been diagnosed, three years ago, with rheumatoid disease. My husband and I live here with two cats and my chickens. I moved my mother into her own mobile home several years ago when she became unable to work. Sorry for the novel!
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TwoCrows said:
Same here, too many critters. We haven't left this area in decades! Did you make it to the Balloon Fiesta this year? We have never been there either, ever! :oops:
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Not since I was a kid. It's cool to see all the balloons and stuff, but I never could get into rubbing elbows with all those people on a cold October morning. ;)
 
TwoCrows said:
I hear you. Talk about cold, its been 20 to 23 degrees for 2 days now! :barnie Freezing!!
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We've actually made it up to 42 deg. today, but with that darn wind, it feels a lot colder. I'm sitting here right now with the wood stove going and poor little bald Clash sitting next to me in a box lined with old t-shirts. He is such a gentle soul, I wish the others would leave his top knot alone. BTW, all three of my buff polish are named after labyrinth firebirds...more or less. Clash (rooster/mystery chick) and Prell (hen) share the last name of the voices behind a couple of the birds, and then there's Fraggle (hen). Sorry, I do tend to ramble! :duc
 
Eggswithleggs said:
We've actually made it up to 42 deg. today, but with that darn wind, it feels a lot colder. I'm sitting here right now with the wood stove going and poor little bald Clash sitting next to me in a box lined with old t-shirts. He is such a gentle soul, I wish the others would leave his top knot alone. BTW, all three of my buff polish are named after labyrinth firebirds...more or less. Clash (rooster/mystery chick) and Prell (hen) share the last name of the voices behind a couple of the birds, and then there's Fraggle (hen). Sorry, I do tend to ramble! :duc
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I think the heat is due back in on the weekend, so stay near the wood stove! Ours has been chugging away for 2 days now. :p

Oh poor little Clash. :hugs Sounds like you need to make him a house chicken. ;) When I have a bird that continues to get picked on, I find 1 other bird that does get along with them and keep them separate from the others, give them their own space. Definitely wait until any wounds have healed on his head, if he sustained any. Good luck with Clash! :)
 
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Eggswithleggs said:
I have been keeping chickens since the summer of 2000 (roughly). My introduction to chicken keeping began quite by accident. The hubby and I were cleaning up the property in preparation to take pics for refinancing, and I kept hearing the cheeping of a little bird. I just went about my business assuming it was a wild baby excited by a parent returning with food. Near dusk, when we were wrapping up, I finally decided to go investigate. On the other side of the road from my five acres I found him...this cute little "egg with leggs!" I'm pretty sure that he escaped from a neighbor who raised fighting roosters. I named him Lucky since he had managed, in spite of all his peeping, to survive the whole day without being eaten. The next day I called my local feed store to ask if there was something wrong with him because he seemed to be growing a "tumor" on his neck. Imagine my embarrassment when I was informed that this "tumor" was his crop! He cried piteously every time I had to leave for work, so we went and got him some little friends and they lived in my front room until we finished building their new home.

I lost my Lucky bird about two years later to a bobcat attack. He gave his life trying to protect his harem. I also lost another hen and my Red bird suffered some damage to her head...she was blowing bubbles out of her eye and had a couple of deep cuts. I brought her in the house with little hope that she would survive, but she pulled through and became a part-time house chicken. I was holding her in my arms when she breathed her last several years later.

Over the next couple of years I added a few here and a few there. While I was working at a local bank I was befriended by a much older gentleman who began bringing me all the "leftovers" from the local feed stores. When all was said and done, we had forty chickens, two turkey hens and a tom. The last of my old ladies passed two years ago and Dude (the tom) had been adopted by an older couple in Colorado. I haven't thought about much else but getting a new flock started up since. Unfortunately the coop had fallen into disrepair and I wanted to make some improvements, so I had to wait. In the meantime, I had joined the fb group The Crazy House Chicken Lady and lived vicariously through their posts.

This July I finally ordered my babies from McMurray. I ordered two each; RIR, blue laced red wyandottes, ameraucana, light brahmas, egyptian fayoumis, silver laced polish, gold laced polish, and buff polish. I also ordered a silver spangled hamburg rooster, and they sent me a straight run buff polish rooster (mystery chick). I'm afraid I didn't do as much research as I should have and I'm a bit worried about how my fayoumis will fare during the winters out here in the NM highlands.

I initially found BYC on a google search and I have visited this site numerous times over the last few years, but didn't actually join until a few months ago. I am an avid gardener, I love to read, I enjoy domestic crafts such as sewing, crocheting, knitting, and cooking. I love to work outside on landscaping and various carpentry and home improvement projects. Of course many of these things are either impossible or take a lot longer now that I have been diagnosed, three years ago, with rheumatoid disease. My husband and I live here with two cats and my chickens. I moved my mother into her own mobile home several years ago when she became unable to work. Sorry for the novel!
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