NY chicken lover!!!!

Ok, daily update.

3 eggs from the 4 ladies. One is slacking, but they just started laying 2 weeks ago, so I guess I can cut them some slack.

Treats? OMG, you would have thought I brought them a diamond ring when I held out a stalk of cooked broccoli leftover from my mom's dinner last night. Of course Boldie Hawn had to eat it first, then while the others ate broccoli B. Hawn attacked the rest of the food in the treat bucket. (ok, it's not a bucket, it's a margerine container, but they are just itty bitty hens an actual bucket would be WAY overkill)
Oatmeal was a real hit. Cold cooked oatmeal. (leftover from my breakfast) Of course Ms Hawn had to stick her beak in so far it got stuck on the outside. It was funny to watch her try to wipe it off on the sand. Then peck at the spot she left there.
Carrots, not so much. Squash? Totally not a hit. They left it on the floor and went back to the oatmeal. I probably should keep a log of what they like and what they don't. Guess I'll wait til I have the whole flock before I start documenting stuff like that. Maybe the LF will like carrots and squash.

I sure hope they all like pumpkins and watermelon. I have already started those in the house so I get a head start on the growing season and an earlier harvest.

I tried to pick them up today, for the first time since I lifted them out of the box. 3 were ok with it, as long as I held the broccoli in my other hand. Meg Flyin' was having none of the cuddle time. She flew off my lap in record time, wings flapping for minutes after she hit the ground. Funny girl.

Can't wait til I get my chicks. Since my first 4 are banties, I can probably integrate the new chicks into the flock at about 4 weeks of age. They'll be the same size then.
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Dear God, please help me - I luv you guys!!!
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Seriously, that is some great math, are you sure though that Silkies count as half a chicken - they are half human anyway so why not make it three for every one chicken. What about the giant breeds how do they count like the Jersey Giants

Please continue to enable me everyone and I think I'm going to make a tinfoil suit - where is the auction this weekend?
 
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Nope, no boys for me. At least not if you let me pick them out. I am a genius at only picking girls. When I picked out my Mallards I got exactly what I told the guy boxing them I wanted. 3 boys and 3 girls. Of course HE had to pick up the one I wanted, which proved harder to do than you might think. They are quick little buggers.

DOUBLE?
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I only wanted FIVE hens. I already have FOUR. (which only count as 2 cuz they are so tiny) Which only leaves me room for THREE. How many did I ask you to hatch for me?
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You're right about catching the little things - like a "hand rodeo" in a mini corral
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I have 3 pekins and 5 (had 6) of what I am pretty sure are Rouens - it looks like I got lucky with the Rouens and there is maybe one drake out of the group. Don't know about the Pekins yet - no bumps yet on the noses or any really attitude issues.

I do have a question, can some hens have an area in different breeds that looks like it would be a spur but is not as developed? Just curious because I have one (pretty sure) hen that has those in the back but we are sure she has started laying. Not sure if we're just hallucinating though on her laying.....very pretty lavender color I got from Muggs a while back - I already told my husband when we move the Lavender is coming with us - I had to think really hard on that name.....
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Hensey - how's things???? Sounds like you might need a place to live if you keep it up - my house is up for sale with almost 8 acres in the middle of nowhere you could make your hubby build coops to the back of the property and to the front again for probably the next twenty years!
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Of course you might tick off the deer that live in the area - what the hey though, I missed them when I was bowhunting this year (Don't I feel stupid - hit a sapling TWICE) so they can find somewhere else to live!

Just kidding, very peaceful out here and my neighbors don't mind as long as my Roos aren't on a tear on something - never reported but you know when you're too noisy even if the closest neighbor is probably 2/10ths or more of a mile away on the other side of the road!

I believe I have about 80 eggs in the incubators right now - POOP!!!!
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I just did a count in my head and realized that was what I had incubating.....let's see about 17-20 chicks in the brooder, 11 adult Barred Rocks, 2 EE, 1 Lavender ? 2 Bantam Cochins, a BUNCH of older babies various kinds - 20 (?) 3 quail and 8 ducks....that does not include the few I have already sold off either. OMG, wait that means I have about 56 stinking birds already????? What happens when all the eggs hatch????
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- send me to the nut farm and hand me more tinfoil please. I need to make a little set of earplugs - the hats just aren't working!!!!

Still like my line said when I made it up - they really are like crayons! Always a new type, kind or color you don't have. I was on Welp hatchery earlier today looking for a companion for my Black Sumatra since his siblings died (two were born with bad legs -all twisted up and everything....) for my Seabright and my nankin, of course that didn't stop me from looking at some of the others too. Before I knew it I was ordering blue Silkies, cochins, etc but I stopped myself and cancelled the order....whew - dodged a bullet there.

So if anyone knows where I might could procure a couple Sumatras let me know or a couple Nankins - only ended up with one hatch - but only had a couple eggs. I've learned a lot so I expect this hatch to be much higher of survival and hatching rates.

Cydney83 - I just might have to PM you about some babies!
 
Oatmeal is supposed to be a great chicken treat, mine love split open pumpkins and tomatoes. Lettuce is okay, hand picked worms are best to them. Some bread, we don't give much and whole corn when they eat it sounds like it's raining around the coop they eat it soo fast. I generally don't give any meat to my chickens but I did have a bit of roast pork left over with some fat on it and you thought they'd been starved all winter - it was like watching them when they find a snake!
 
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I can tell ya they DO love oatmeal, since they got a lot of it during the cold winter. I'd tromp out each morning in the minus whatever cold to give everyone oatmeal before I went to work. And they like melon too - I gave them a cantaloupe recently and that was a big hit.
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My LF never would eat carrots for me, so I gave up.. but they love pumpkin.

Did you every make those itty bitty eggs for your client?
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HAHA I really need to stay away but the "bator is still out calling to me! I might hatch more to sell but then they are so darn cute when they hatch I have a hard time selling them! We will see if I make it to the auction I won't bring much money just in case...lol
 
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I can tell ya they DO love oatmeal, since they got a lot of it during the cold winter. I'd tromp out each morning in the minus whatever cold to give everyone oatmeal before I went to work. And they like melon too - I gave them a cantaloupe recently and that was a big hit.
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My LF never would eat carrots for me, so I gave up.. but they love pumpkin.

Did you every make those itty bitty eggs for your client?
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The client didn't want them cooked up. Asked me to put them in the fridge. (Dementia patient) Maybe another day. You just never know with Dementia patients. I gave some to my mom. She isn't sure how many it will take to make an omlet. I told her to use them all and add a couple full size eggs. LOL

I think I'll save up a couple of weeks worth and make deviled eggs for the Pot Luck in June. Would crack the adults up and thrill the kids.
 
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Lots of nice folks here. Lots of helpful, nice folks.

Are you getting little chicks or full grown hens? Good luck with them. I am having a blast with my 4. Soon to be 10. Then 16. OMG, I can't add. I have SIXTEEN chickens ordered.
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I'm getting chicks
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AHA I see.... 4 + 16 = 10 lol . Is that the chicken math I keep reading about? I think I am already a casualty of that.... I got DH to agree to 3 chicks and then ordered 4... (I told him it's just in case one is a boy or one doesn't make it
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