Not a good thing for me to go and buy chickens at a breeder!!

[KDbeads]

I drive out for an hour and 20 one way but I'm still in Central Texas, central TX is huge BTW, you can fit small states in it. I finally get to this little place at the end of a road and have to drive down a graveled driveway. On one side of the driveway were all kinds of chicken tractors for sale, some had chickens already in them. I get out with my cat carriers and follow the man behind the shop where there are so many different chickens, ducks and geese.
Out of the corner of my eye I see the cutest little banty rooster and have to do a double take, he wasn't as big as the banties I remembered growing up. He had a little ego too, stalking me up and down the fence until I'm too far away from him. I look down and at my feet is another teensy chicken, seriously even smaller than the roo. The guy told me they were OEGBs, which made sense to a degree, but I really don't remember banties being this tiny.
While he was rounding up the birds I bought I caught sight of a poof of white and thinking it was a little teacup dog of some sort I reach down to pet it and got pecked... it was a silkie. Never have I actually seen a silkie or a frizzle but they apparently liked me enough to follow me around.

Had I room and money the 2 banties would have come home with me, possibly even the silkie just for the 'weird' factor of looking like a dustmop puppy.


OMG..... I think I've been infected with chicken fever

 

[EAST TEXAROO]

It happens to the best of us. I went to a ranch here in east texas to pick up a rir roo that was free and it ended up costing me $60 bucks because I saw some Jersey Giant hens that I couldnt resist. Its cheaper to breed your own than going somewhere where there are a bunch of chickens.

 

[KDbeads]

These were a b-day gift for hubby though, mine are in the bator. Unlike me, he's not patient

I still think I should go back and get the dustmop

 

[muddypuddles]

I think so too!

 

[KDbeads]

Must resist the dustmop...... must resist........ Maybe once the run is finished and the coop is enlarged and we know how many of my eggs are female......

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Get a couple of dust mops!

 

[mrsengeseth]

just one dustmop??? heck, i've got three and KNOW i could squeeze in another two...or ten.

 

[Widget]

Go for the dust mop. You will never go back to a regular peep again

. And wait until you see all the colors they come in. Then you will need one of each. Did I say one? I meant several of each.

 

[KDbeads]

Nope.... not going to get a dustmop, don't even like the dog varieties of dustmops, hence why I have a dane. Nope...... Can't do it....

But once we get everything built and set up...... Maybe in the spring....

 

[muddypuddles]

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That's what I keep telling myself except for me its maybe once I get my three hens through winter successfully, then next spring.........must resist.......I WANT A SILKIE!!!