Morning Everyone!
Figured I'd pop on here and mark my spot before the holidays. Been busy around here...I've actually been house hunting. Went to look at house Monday, beautiful antique colonial with a huge 2-3 story barn and 3 acres!! The house needs some updating but there is nothing major wrong with it keeping someone from moving in. The floors are the worst of it - everything else is cosmetic stuff that we could do on our own over time. The floors are the original wood floors so they would need to be fixed in some spots. The barn just had $60K worth of renovations done to it and it already has a fenced in "pasture" attached to it because the people living there had goats!!! Everything about this property is just beautiful and it would be miracle if we got it. DH hasn't seen it yet and I'm sure he'd have his 2 cents to put it but thats just because we are so different when it comes to houses - he likes modern/contemporary and I'm more country/farmhouse.
Anyway, hope everyone's chickens are doing well in the snow you guys got. We've been getting nothing but 40-50 degree weather down here and RAIN! Lots and lots and lot of rain! My driveway is an absolute mudpit and I can't even take Jagger outside to let him run around in yard because I now have my own pod back there. It's just disgusting. I really can't stand living in this house anymore. So we settle for walks around the lake when it is nice out.
I got three new english orpington pullets this last weekend. A woman down the road from me is battling cancer and she decided to rehome her 6 hens, 3 of which were english orps that I have been trying to get from the breeder across main road I live off. Every time I contacted him he either didn't have anything available or didn't both responding at all. And now look, I have three pullets that came from him and I didn't pay a dime! Crazy So I took her orps and someone else took the other three that were marans and auracanas. Oh! And one of them is a SPLASH! I've been wanting a splash hen for quite some time now, so happy to have finally found one!
Silkie eggs are in the incubator, tomorrow is lockdown for eggs 1 & 2 and they each will follow after that into the hatching bator from then until the New Year. So day by day I should have chicks hatching. LOL
Hope everyone is doing well and if I don't get back on here...Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!
Figured I'd pop on here and mark my spot before the holidays. Been busy around here...I've actually been house hunting. Went to look at house Monday, beautiful antique colonial with a huge 2-3 story barn and 3 acres!! The house needs some updating but there is nothing major wrong with it keeping someone from moving in. The floors are the worst of it - everything else is cosmetic stuff that we could do on our own over time. The floors are the original wood floors so they would need to be fixed in some spots. The barn just had $60K worth of renovations done to it and it already has a fenced in "pasture" attached to it because the people living there had goats!!! Everything about this property is just beautiful and it would be miracle if we got it. DH hasn't seen it yet and I'm sure he'd have his 2 cents to put it but thats just because we are so different when it comes to houses - he likes modern/contemporary and I'm more country/farmhouse.
Anyway, hope everyone's chickens are doing well in the snow you guys got. We've been getting nothing but 40-50 degree weather down here and RAIN! Lots and lots and lot of rain! My driveway is an absolute mudpit and I can't even take Jagger outside to let him run around in yard because I now have my own pod back there. It's just disgusting. I really can't stand living in this house anymore. So we settle for walks around the lake when it is nice out.
I got three new english orpington pullets this last weekend. A woman down the road from me is battling cancer and she decided to rehome her 6 hens, 3 of which were english orps that I have been trying to get from the breeder across main road I live off. Every time I contacted him he either didn't have anything available or didn't both responding at all. And now look, I have three pullets that came from him and I didn't pay a dime! Crazy So I took her orps and someone else took the other three that were marans and auracanas. Oh! And one of them is a SPLASH! I've been wanting a splash hen for quite some time now, so happy to have finally found one!
Silkie eggs are in the incubator, tomorrow is lockdown for eggs 1 & 2 and they each will follow after that into the hatching bator from then until the New Year. So day by day I should have chicks hatching. LOL
Hope everyone is doing well and if I don't get back on here...Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!
But now it's all fresh and nice in there. Hope the cemanis reward me with more eggs. I do believe my other Tonie Marie hen has started laying, so that's exciting! I realized if I set eggs tomorrow the hatch date would be my birthday, so tomorrow I'll be setting five, maybe six project eggs. My birthday gift to myself!
