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[thetajmahalcoop]

YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! Congrats the place looks awesome! JUMP ON IT and let us know how it goes! The place looks amazing and a great price/great taxes! We have a 5 yr old log cabin on 17 acres in the KUNTRY and pay thru the nose in taxes, it looks soooooo peaceful! I'm so excited for you!

 

[thetajmahalcoop]

OMANI--- I checked the wall at the feed store and there are about 3 signs up right now with people selling hens, etc. I took one business card down and will look into it today, the other were signs saying "laying hens" etc. You may want to check that out. Also, there's a feed store closer to me, up near Geneseo that will order you chicks thru Murray/McMurray and you don't have to order 25, just how many you want, I'm going to give them a call today I think to inquire. The first time I heard about them I didnt call until maybe April and everything i wanted thry M/MC was sold out till august so I said forget it... The name of the place is Retsof Feed if you google them.

Everyone else......... one of my Broad Breasted Bronze Hens went into Heart Failure ( I think ) fri night so we had to hurry and find a butcher Sat. as she was too lame to walk anymore (but still wanted to eat.... hmm sounds like a Cornish Chicken to me ha ha) all our butchers our way were closed for the winter poultry wise, so my Uncle and Cousins came over and taught DH and myself how to butcher it, went very quickly and was a little sad (well DH was a little sad, I'm a nurse and knew that was no way to live). I sent the Turkey home with Dear Uncle as we had actually just cooked another one up that morning for DH B-day and no lie we got 4 gallon ziplock bags of leftover meat from it (whoa can we say turkey sandwhiches for the rest of the month?). Also I'm hoping that my Dear Auntie (if you are reading this/stalking my posts ha ha ha) will pass some lamb/venison along to me soon..........

This was the first year raising turkeys and I don't think we will ever do this again going into fall/winter as finding a butcher in the winter became a problem. (our local butcher only charges 1.80$/chicken and 8-10$ turkey not bad I think) On a positive note, we had not a single issue with all four bronzes (and my Bourbon Red TOM) as most people warned us they are very hard to raise. If some of you haven't before, i really recommend getting a few, the taste is a gazillion times better than store bought turkey BUT they ARE MESSY! (Poop wise)

Hope you all had a great weekend, it is thawing (and flooding) out my way and everyone is out of the coop and partying (I think they are looking for worms or something?) DH and I had to ice skate to the coop last night to fix the screen door that blew off in the high winds we had, he'll be so happy to see that tonight instead of ice skating there, we can now swim!

 

[AmyJ]

Looks like you had a lot going on this weekend Amy! We are getting flooding and high winds here too. Hope it all stops soon. I hope everyone is making it through this terrible weather ok

 

[Omani]

Did you guys get the fog? Just about all of our snow is gone, except on the paths we made to the coop and the wood shed. I have expect to see the neighbor's ducks swimming in the backyard. Guess I'll just have to wear my "big boots" for a while.
Tajmahalcoop... OK then, no turkeys for me.

Did the signs at the feed store say what kind of hens? We kinda want to hold off on buying any birds until I see how this incubator thing works out.

 

[thetajmahalcoop]

I think they said barred rock and Rhode island red but not 100% sure.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

I think I was watching salmon spawn across my back yard this evening but I'm not sure. What makes me nervous was that when I went out last the temp was plummeting.. on to the skating rinks I guess...

 

[chickeypeep101]

from Mendon

 

[Omani]

Where is Mendon?

 

[thetajmahalcoop]

I posted some of my extra Roosters on craigslist and I have someone that wants them all in Hamlin.....kinda near mendon (sorta LOL). I work in Rachacha. but live an hour south..welcome to BYC!!!