NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

OOOOOhhhhhh, forgot why I came here.

If your'e considering a product do yourself a favor and check for reviews. I've been doing that lately because I get Sears Outlet deal of the day emails.

The latest is a food chopper thingy. $5.99. The reveiws were all bad. Though it used to sell for more than $20 it's now being dumped on unsuspecting shoppers.

I did buy an electric leaf blower that got good reviews from Sears Outlet.

Do the same with Fair items being sold.

Lest you think I'm all negative. I recommend the Cutco Knives being sold at the Fair. They are expensive but we've had a set for years and they're very good.

We got ours when our son graduated and was snagged to sell them. He had to buy his starter set and we now have that. It was a deal for him them I think. We have bought some extra pieces.

I like the long serrated knife. I use that a lot.

Have a nice day folks, Be well.

Rancher

 

[Aria]

In Rome....where did you find Silkies? I am searching in Sauquoit
Thanks Aria

 

[CatMom]

Thanks, @Rancher!

I've got the barrier wire and zip ties, now I'll be doing this in the dark with a head lamp if I can't catch a break temperature-wise. If it's over 70 degrees, I feel like I'm going to get heat stroke. Maybe if I get up at the crack of dawn I can knock it out in a morning... I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[tao chick]

I heard peeping under my broody!!!

Hooray! I'm leaving her be. I haven't picked her up or candled eggs. I've been hands off except to add extra cracked corn and water to her crate and making sure she's ok. She's doing a fantastic job. Even if she has some mishaps I'm letting her be to learn from this. Eeep. I'm so excited.

 

[Metella]

My phone never uploaded the pictures of the Welsummer roo -

SO I finally had time to get one with my other camera - here is REX ! Handsome fellow.

 

[tao chick]

My phone never uploaded the pictures of the Welsummer roo - SO I finally had time to get one with my other camera - here is REX ! Handsome fellow.

Handsome! Where's he from? My Welly hen has a larger comb than that; how old is he?

 

[CatMom]

@tao chickYay!!! I was a total nervous nelly last month when my little bantam broody was getting close. The eggs I got her from eBay all hatched perfectly right on day 21. So far we've been lucky: there are 7 littles in there driving her nuts. Best of Luck to you & your hen!

@metella gorgeous bird! Makes me miss my Wellie hen I used to have down South; what a forager, she taught all my other hens how to be a Chicken.

 

[lbenedict15]

@metella, beautiful Welsummer,I've been considering adding a few to my flock next year.

 

[Metella]

Thanks all - as we all know - when trying to get a good pic - they are always on the move- notice I have two fuzzy butts pointed at me - but seconds before they were running up to check for treats.

He is even more handsome than the blurry pic shows Gunna be a big boy.

I got him from another poster on this very thread ... we did a chicken journey and he traveled at least 4 hours to get to me. Love the Wellie eggs - usually have dark brown speckles on a brown egg.

 

[CatMom]

..."Love the Wellie eggs - usually have dark brown speckles on a brown egg."

Wow, yes. I miss those coppery speckled eggs almost as much as I miss the hen. She came from a hatchery in southern KY; I picked her out of their adolescents pen. She had been raised in cages and her feet had never touched grass until the day I brought her home. I have yet to see a chicken jump so high! She soon learned that the world is her salad bar.
But when I had to move back up North, I gave my handful of hens to a friend closer to Nashville, in the country, who was already raising chickens (EE's/Ameraucanas and heritage Dominiques). I don't know if they ever got any more Welsummers, but I bet Wellie's EE daughters lay an interesting colored egg.
Maybe once I find the farmstead of my dreams I can get my friends to ship me some legacy eggs to hatch out in the hopes that some of the my old Welsummer's good traits will carry through. I heard that the breed were not supposed to be broody, but my Wellie was an assertive though not what I would call aggressive broody. When I had her she only got to hatch out two chicks, one of which died. The other was a golden laced Wyandotte cockerel who I am told, grew up to be an outstanding rooster because his mama raised him right.

Hey, please post more photos of Rex, I'd love to see what the males look like (I just had the one hen in a very diverse little flock; my goal then was a "rainbow dozen" in every egg carton).