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[vmdanielsen]

Morning all! You have been a chatty group. All work and no play make chicken momma crabby. Its nice to get on and catch up. Glad to hear little girl is doing well.

Still trying to find homes for my two free silkie roos. I have detected no aggression from them at all. The boys have been very good with me and the others when they are out. Perhaps the family who took them just didnt want them any more. Anyways, they need a new home as I have no room for them really. They are in puppy runs during the day and crates at night. They follow me around and talk to me when I am home and let them out.

Wish my terrorists would finish their molt. They are a raggedy looking bunch but man, am I getting eggs! They are laying machines now that spring is here. Almost 19 for 19 every day. The divas have even been laying more often now.

My chicks are growing like weeds and dh is constructing a containment curtain to keep the dust to a minimum in our cellar. I will post a pic of it when its done. My heritage rir chicks are feathering fast and look so different from the hatchery ones we got last year (aka the terrorists). I have high hopes for them and am pretty sure I have 3 hens and a roo. My four remaining silkie chicks are also looking fabulous and growing quick. They all get along well so I will keep them together for as long as possible until the silkies are sold.

My youngest daughter has become obsessed with polish chickens. She wants them very badly. I told her when she finishes her pharm d, she can buy a nice piece of property and I will help her pick out chickens. Hehehe. She has succumbed to the addiction. She keeps sending me pictures of polish chickens with the caption of I want it.

Have a good day everyone. Off to work again so I can support my addiction!

I staple plastic sheeting to the rafters in my basement when chicks are brooding. I put then near the door and window so they can have some naturaL LIGHT AND THE SHEETING HELPS TO KEEP THE DRAFTS OUT AS WELL. OOPS! MISTAKE ON THE CAPS

 

[Henicillin]

My youngest daughter has become obsessed with polish chickens. She wants them very badly. I told her when she finishes her pharm d, she can buy a nice piece of property and I will help her pick out chickens. Hehehe. She has succumbed to the addiction. She keeps sending me pictures of polish chickens with the caption of I want it.

Have a good day everyone. Off to work again so I can support my addiction!

Tell her to work for CVS around here, and she can be my partner. I need a chicken-obsessed partner, even if she does like Polish.

At the moment I'm working with a humorless scold, which sucks the fun out of it - I'd rather talk chickens all day!

Our surviving bee girls are doing well, and were out foraging yesterday. They were even coming back with pollen from someplace, ,so they'll be fine. I'm getting a nuc from Betterbee this spring to replace the hive we lost, and we'll be back in business.

 

[Henicillin]

bagged and tagged

. Kinda like whack em and stack em

. Made me smile, had to share.

I'm with your hubby. I don't like the cone method at all. Give me a hatchet any day.

The hatchet will be much faster, so I think we'll opt for that.

I haven't heard whack 'em and stack 'em before - I'm stealing that! I've always wanted to answer the phone at work, "County Morgue. You stab 'em, we slab 'em, you kill 'em, we chill 'em, you snuff 'em, we stuff 'em, how can I help you?"

 

[stonykill]

Tell her to work for CVS around here, and she can be my partner. I need a chicken-obsessed partner, even if she does like Polish.

At the moment I'm working with a humorless scold, which sucks the fun out of it - I'd rather talk chickens all day!

Our surviving bee girls are doing well, and were out foraging yesterday. They were even coming back with pollen from someplace, ,so they'll be fine. I'm getting a nuc from Betterbee this spring to replace the hive we lost, and we'll be back in business.

CVS in Schodac (SP) next to TSC?

 

[Henicillin]

CVS in Schodac (SP) next to TSC?

Nah - I'm in Delmar at the moment. I think I'm a little too hillbilly for the humorless scold. I really should lay it on thick and discuss whacking my birds, just to see the reaction, because I'm evil.

 

[happyhensny]

It's officially the One Bad Day for six of the eight roosters tomorrow, as our next door neighbor says the crowing is getting annoying (getting? How about IS?), and they're now beating the snot out of the poor girls as their hormones are firing up. The Captain and the Easter Egger stay, and of course my Japanese Bantam doesn't count - he's a squeaky toy. All the others will soon end up as honored dinner guests.

My husband is coming home from work early to help me send them to Freezer Camp, which is good, as I've been trying to get him to help me for a while now. I've wanted them done in for ages, and can handle doing several with no issues, but I could use some help for the grunt work. He even made me a nice, sturdy cone out of roof flashing and a BYC pattern (OK - I nagged him into it), although I think he wants to use the hatchet, as the cone method weirds him out a bit. Either way, they'll be bagged and tagged by tomorrow night. It's going to take a while, but it'll be worth it. Winners, winners, chicken dinners!

Home grown, loudmouth, sassy Roos are the best dinners.

I was at the Countrymax in Cicero yesterday checking everything out and grabbing some stuff when they got their delivery of chicks. So funny, I was all the way at the back and could hear them chirping as soon as they brought them in the front door lol.

Didn't dare look but they go up for sale today. I believe they said they got 6 dozen. They said they were hatchery's choice when I asked what breeds. Just an FYI for any of you who are short on chickens.

Like I said, I had to stay away - can't succumb to chicken math!

I got a call from TSC on Monday "Just to let me know" that the brown Leghorns I just bought were marked down to $1 each. I bought them all. 22 more. Total of 34.

 

[stonykill]

The hatchet will be much faster, so I think we'll opt for that.

I haven't heard whack 'em and stack 'em before - I'm stealing that! I've always wanted to answer the phone at work, "County Morgue. You stab 'em, we slab 'em, you kill 'em, we chill 'em, you snuff 'em, we stuff 'em, how can I help you?"

It's a Ted Nugent saying. Whackem and Stackem.

As a kid decades before caller ID I would answer the phone "Joes pig farm" . Boy did my mother despise that

 

[stonykill]

Nah - I'm in Delmar at the moment. I think I'm a little too hillbilly for the humorless scold. I really should lay it on thick and discuss whacking my birds, just to see the reaction, because I'm evil.

. I get NYC flok at the house now and then to pick up tables I built them. The looks I get alone because chickens are wandering around the yard is priceless. Never mind the phone conversations interupted by roosters crowing or duckers quacking.

. I get "oh you have chickens...how many?" "Oh 80 to 100" . dead silence.

Better yet was the day I was asked to remove 3 Pekins from the local Motel. Right of of the Taconic Parkway. I walk around the corner with a loud quacking duck and go to put her in the dog crate in the back of my hillbilly flatbed S10. Which is parked next to a Mercedes. The young city couple walks up to their car as I'm approaching my truck. I say good morning. Blank stares. "Dinner " he says. Me.... "Not this one, dead ducks don't lay eggs, but that drake is next...he might be".

. Evil stares as they get in their car to leave

 

[AQHAchick22]

Nah - I'm in Delmar at the moment.  I think I'm a little too hillbilly for the humorless scold.  I really should lay it on thick and discuss whacking my birds, just to see the reaction, because I'm evil. 

Did you recently start at the delmar cvs? I used to go there but then got angry and transferred everything because they couldn't figure out how to put my prescription on automatic refill...grrrr I won't blame you though

 

[happyhensny]

It's a Ted Nugent saying. Whackem and Stackem.

As a kid decades before caller ID I would answer the phone "Joes pig farm" . Boy did my mother despise that

I like to answer with "Joe's (My sons name) pizza, pick up or delivery?" Or "Tony's Morgue, you kill 'em, we chill 'em"