Well howdy strangers!! I have been so remiss at keeping up with all your goings on! I miss my regular stalking... erm... socializing... on here. Luckily I've had the flu for the last week so I can finally start getting caught up on stuff like this.
welcome to the newbies, hope everyone has had a good month and enjoyed their family and friends. I look forward to reading backwards and catching up on all your goings on.
Been crazy around here this month. My son moved back in with us and brought his new wife and step son with him. Became an in-law and grandma in one fell swoop last October. Got them all settled in and then the whooshed off to celebrate the holidays with her family back in SC.
Bad news: Neighbors dogs killed two more of my chickens - My Polish rooster and one of my easter eggers. I miss that roo. Also, the roofs of both of my coops leak now.
Good news: This has finally spurred the hubs into action and he has promised me a new 5,000sf chicken run and a brand new coop in January with three more coops to follow over the next 3-4 months. They'll be smallish coops 4' x 8' so will only house around 10-12 chickens each. This way I'll be able to separate out into the four separate breeds we plan to stick with. Currently sourcing some quality Blue Wheaten Ameraucana's - or just Blue ones. No more EE's for us, want the real deal. If anyone knows of any of those for sale let me know. Also keeping the Speckled Sussex, Delaware's and RIR's as well as our token Silver Laced Polish. Not planning to do a lot of breeding, but hoping to sell enough eating and hatching eggs to cover feed for my addiction. Not even going to try and sell enough eggs to cover housing costs at this point.
How is everyone's egg production going? Getting between 4-6 eggs a day here. Considering we got 2 a day over the summer I'm pretty happy. Two more girls just reached POL this week but I'm not expecting anything until Spring out of them.
Stay healthy!!
welcome to the newbies, hope everyone has had a good month and enjoyed their family and friends. I look forward to reading backwards and catching up on all your goings on.
Been crazy around here this month. My son moved back in with us and brought his new wife and step son with him. Became an in-law and grandma in one fell swoop last October. Got them all settled in and then the whooshed off to celebrate the holidays with her family back in SC.
Bad news: Neighbors dogs killed two more of my chickens - My Polish rooster and one of my easter eggers. I miss that roo. Also, the roofs of both of my coops leak now.
Good news: This has finally spurred the hubs into action and he has promised me a new 5,000sf chicken run and a brand new coop in January with three more coops to follow over the next 3-4 months. They'll be smallish coops 4' x 8' so will only house around 10-12 chickens each. This way I'll be able to separate out into the four separate breeds we plan to stick with. Currently sourcing some quality Blue Wheaten Ameraucana's - or just Blue ones. No more EE's for us, want the real deal. If anyone knows of any of those for sale let me know. Also keeping the Speckled Sussex, Delaware's and RIR's as well as our token Silver Laced Polish. Not planning to do a lot of breeding, but hoping to sell enough eating and hatching eggs to cover feed for my addiction. Not even going to try and sell enough eggs to cover housing costs at this point.
How is everyone's egg production going? Getting between 4-6 eggs a day here. Considering we got 2 a day over the summer I'm pretty happy. Two more girls just reached POL this week but I'm not expecting anything until Spring out of them.
Stay healthy!!