NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

This weather is making me crazy. I want to have eggs shipped next month but it may be too/to/two cold then too! I don't want to risk them not hatching for the money I'm spending.

 

[Coop de Cuse]

Sounds like they are taking lessons from Stonys Sumatras...Hope they are smart enough to come in the morning

Still in the trees when I left for work

I suppose they are not hungry enough

 

[Coop de Cuse]

Well consider a hoop, easy and cheap. This one is attached to a coop but could easily do as a stand alone green house.

Good idea

Or maybe I will just enclose my entire property in a geodome and be done with it

 

[Cass]

Good idea

Or maybe I will just enclose my entire property in a geodome and be done with it

Hey, that's MY idea. Climate controlled GeoDome. No snow, no rainy days. My idea of a good time. But just at my house. Y'all can have regular weather.

 

[Lynzi777]

~~Told you so. Glad he's okay even if he is an Alien.

He's no Alien, if anything he's a sumo wrestler.

(Gru is my large Splash English Orp roo)

 

[bakingintherain]

I was home sick today with a sore throat and a fever, yuck. But there was an eggsplosion today and I suddenly got tons of eggs, so that was nice. I also got to play with my two babies who settled in well in the workshop. Chicks always brighten my day The birds were more energetic today too - I think they enjoyed the warm weather and think that spring is coming soon. A bunch of wild birds are starting to show up too, so I'm hoping they're right and after this next deep freeze we warm up and stay there. That might just be wishful thinking though.

Hope you feel better hey when you get a change hop on other site had a question for you

Well consider a hoop, easy and cheap. This one is attached to a coop but could easily do as a stand alone green house.

I have one I use as a green house, I love it!

Good idea Or maybe I will just enclose my entire property in a geodome and be done with it

Oooooo yes! That would be the first thing I would do if I won the lottery

 

[Glasshen]

Well, lamb is tasty, but the fuzzy babies are adorable. And baby goals are equally adorable...my husband is working with a fellow on this job who has a farm and they do all things goat. Cheese, milk, meat. We are getting adorable pics of newborns. We were given goat milk to drink, and a container of sauce made with goat meat instead of beef or pork. It was very good. We would need a barn for them, and more electric fencing, but these things are more likely to happen if DH is interested. I am at the point that I need to make site visits, kind of like Why Do Birds, before I dropped the ball.

Goats could save me a lot of time with the brush hog, and make our land more useable....I am not in favor of lamb and kid births, however, as they happen in the middle of the night. I could have a single sex herd...as you can see there is lots of mulling to do.

 

[Lynzi777]

Well I didn't get any eggs yesterday from the silkies but I found one from the lavender in the corner of the nest box really early this morning. It was stone cold so I'm wondering if she layed it late last night after I locked everyone up. Since it's not going in the incubator I decided to crack it open this morning to see if it was fertile. I can't even tell. Doesn't look so good to me so I doubt the two in the incubator will develop. What do you think??



Picture isn't the best for the white dot, I tried changing the coloring a little bit to brighten up the white dot so you could see, didn't really help too much.

Haven't heard from Metzer Farms yet, so I'm assuming they shipped our ducklings. The email confirmation said they would only contact me if they couldn't ship, so I guess we'll see Wednesday. I'm wondering what the chances are of me being able to pick them up at the PO while I'm up there bringing my son to school for 7:30-7:45. They said they usually arrive at the PO between 6:30-8:30 but I know the PO isn't open yet when I'm up there at that time. Do you think if I call they'll make arrangements for someone to open the door for me so I can pick them up??

 

[Lynzi777]

Well, lamb is tasty, but the fuzzy babies are adorable. And baby goals are equally adorable...my husband is working with a fellow on this job who has a farm and they do all things goat. Cheese, milk, meat. We are getting adorable pics of newborns. We were given goat milk to drink, and a container of sauce made with goat meat instead of beef or pork. It was very good. We would need a barn for them, and more electric fencing, but these things are more likely to happen if DH is interested. I am at the point that I need to make site visits, kind of like Why Do Birds, before I dropped the ball.

Goats could save me a lot of time with the brush hog, and make our land more useable....I am not in favor of lamb and kid births, however, as they happen in the middle of the night. I could have a single sex herd...as you can see there is lots of mulling to do.

That's what I've read, that if you have land with a lot of brush goats are great to use to get it cleared. Not that it'll ever happen I'm sure, but if the owner of this property ever wanted to stop renting it out and decided to sell it, giving us first option to buy and we DID buy it, I would definitely get some goats just to help with that! The whole left hand side edge of the property is brush. It's nice and flat and could be put to good use, but I would need something to clear all that stuff away.

 

[AQHAchick22]

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I think your chances of having somebody there to open up are great. Somebody would be there anyway and usually more than happy to get rid of the chicks. When my chicks came from Murray McMurray last year the distribution center called me at 7am to let me know I could stop by and get them. Also that egg doesn't look fertile to me....