NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

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Hi Tom , Thanks for the great eggs ...Thanks for marking them too ..
I hope our 1st hatch isnt too bad ,
We started up the incubator this afternoon .
I dont know what we are going to do with 23 chicks - 11 from Cass LOL

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

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[stonykill]

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fect

 

[miquwid]

Nothing chicken related to say today, but I got a lot of my plants into the garden. Figured it was a good time since it is supposed to rain on and off all week. I have hose enough to go from house to garden, but it gets darn heavy dragging it across the grass. First Ray put up the fence so the chickens can start forgetting where the nice soft soil is to dig in. (My lawn is hard clay, so they are always looking for a soft spot to dig in. Never occurs to them to use the pile of soil I put by the chicken coop. Bird brains, I swear they are all bird brains)

Good morning all I put out some flowers in the garden as well and finally my veggies are starting to sprout, yayy!!! I'm slowly buying periennals weekly to add to the my backyard on raised beds so my chicks or dogs don't get any ideas. I'm so pleased with my compost, this year is full of first I seem to be doing pretty well!!! My chickens are still only allowed to forage in a chicken tractor as I keep finding wires glass shards and other dangerous debri that I already had to take the dog to the vet for. Man the people who owned my house before really trashed the place, but I'm slowly getting all back to a nice urban farm I call Nisber Homestead. Hopefully today I will get some more yard work done I think I have only one section to check for debri and girls can free range. And I can make some signs for the property.

 

[Breella]

Good morning all I put out some flowers in the garden as well and finally my veggies are starting to sprout, yayy!!! I'm slowly buying periennals weekly to add to the my backyard on raised beds so my chicks or dogs don't get any ideas. I'm so pleased with my compost, this year is full of first I seem to be doing pretty well!!! My chickens are still only allowed to forage in a chicken tractor as I keep finding wires glass shards and other dangerous debri that I already had to take the dog to the vet for. Man the people who owned my house before really trashed the place, but I'm slowly getting all back to a nice urban farm I call Nisber Homestead. Hopefully today I will get some more yard work done I think I have only one section to check for debri and girls can free range. And I can make some signs for the property.

I too got some veggies in the ground this weekend-- however I was just reminded that I have some flower bulbs from my mother that I forgot to plant :-(

Also, I should start seeing the veining in the eggs if any of them are fertile (and I haven't killed them with my inexperience) either tomorrow or the next day!

 

[miquwid]

I too got some veggies in the ground this weekend-- however I was just reminded that I have some flower bulbs from my mother that I forgot to plant :-(

Also, I should start seeing the veining in the eggs if any of them are fertile (and I haven't killed them with my inexperience) either tomorrow or the next day!

oh very exciting I won't be hatching eggs until next year, I'm still waiting for my younger girls (13weeks) to start laying which should be starting in about 5weeks. One already has developed her comb and is turning very red, my son though she was bleeding a few weeks ago.

**** I can't wait till next paycheck already I want to buy some more flowers to plant. My sunflowers are a growing in the front lawn I put rocks around them a laid a wonderful layer of compost. hopefully my hard work will show my neighbors that they need not flick their cigs and garbage my way! Well at least one can dream.

 

[miquwid]

BTW strong black coffee is a wonderful thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[smoothsewing]

I am new to all this and love my 3 girls already. they are funny for sure. the other day 2 got under the door and escaped captive area and I was over on the side working the new coop tractor and they walked over to me and 1 tapped me on the leg and looked up like to say hahaha we got out on you here we are out in the free rang mom. It was so cute I just let them go for awhile they stayed close and even scored a worm. no one will ever tell me that chickens are dumb or do not have personality

 

[Lapeerian]

purr

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur....

 

[Lynzi777]

Morning Everyone,
Hope everyone was able to enjoy the weekend. Never got any rain here and my lawn could really use it. Went Chuck Hafners yesterday to get some more plants and man was I overwhelmed! That place is HUGE!!! I've never been to a nursery so big in my life. Came home, planted, and as I was grabbing the hose I happened to look under my porch to see if I could grab a larger rock, that was now showing due the birds dust bathing under there, to add to my rock border along the porch and I what do I see? An EGG! And of course it's too far for me to get in there reach to grab it out of there. I'm going to have to find a stick or something to try and get it. I don't want to leave it there and have who ever laid it keeping laying there. I think it was one of the BRs though, one of them was going crazy the other day, clucking away and I'm wondering if the door to the coop shut from the wind and she couldn't get in there to lay it. She wasn't clucking by the coop though, she was down on my porch. So I just assumed she was looking for the others. I'll have to keep an eye on that one!

TOB Love the pics! Looks like you have a nice variety of birds from Rancher and Marquisella.