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[ODEY587]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! Prayers to Rancher that his tiny peeps get well. My cheeps are happy they arent on the menu. They get some fresh venison for their dinner, now that we finally finished cutting it up. Hopefully I will retain all my appendages while dropping it into their run! Be safe and well everyone!

 

[happycountryhens]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Six eggs last night and three this morning. Gave the girls left over mac n cheese this morning. They would pick up one noodle and then run away with it.

Masonacord: Congratulations on your olive egg!

If God wanted you to have more chickens, why did you have to get rid of the rooster to have some eggs?

Your husband doesn't read this forum, does he?

Anyway, just joking around. Of course we are all ment to have more chickens. I think I may try that logic on my husband when we get our first green or blue egg.

Rancher: How are the chickies doing?

 

[featherz]

Happy thanksgiving!! Just baked up my veggie lasagna and have an o-so-fun drive to Massachusetts. Yuck. 5 hours to get there, sometimes 6. Not looking forward to it, but what can ya do?

I've never been a fan of long drives, but I suck it up for thanksgiving and sometimes Xmas. It's either that or sit home alone with a Lean Cuisine.

Chooks are ok after the HORROR of snow yesterday. We got about 6 inches, but about half that is melted. Our cheapie gazebo collapsed - I had told DH it would, and that we needed to take it down for winter, but noooo..

 

[rancher hicks]

Happy Thanks giving fellow New Yorkers,

Happy- I understand the slogging thing. Lord have mercy I'll be slipping on ice if it doesn't dry out before the snow flies and I snow blow to the hoop coop.

Cass - Glad about the olive egg. I hope you have many more. I've yet to breed to olive color so your one up on me.

Surviving chicks are doing fine and I expect they'll be replacements. I realize these things happen and no one is to blame. I was kinda in shock. I have had chicks fine one minute and just drop over dead the next. I'd still order from Jon. He's got some nice Brahmas. Just don't tell DW.

Featherz - Forgive me if I laugh. My first run did the same. I heard this crack and there it went under the weight of the snow.

Poor chickens must have thought the sky was falling.

Fortunately none were squashed. So I just waited til spring and in the summer rebuilt it with 2x4's not the skinny 2x2''s I had used and put on a slanted roof so the snow could be raked off. Such is life.

Mads - I completely understand the cheeps not being on the table. I'm to much of a softy. Poor things come running each day and then I'm supposed to chop their heads off. I don't think so. They trust us , don't they? They seem so relaxed and secure when we're in the yard and then bamm! off with the head? Not by me.

Well folks give your birds a hug for me.

Love ya,

Rancher

 

[Framac]

Happy thanks giving all.

I have a question for you all. If a hens goes broody now, what are the chances with our weather she will hatch anything out?

Chris

 

[Cass]

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100% sure she will. For starters it's still warm, for November. Second, she is wearing a Down Coat. Just had a broody hatch about a week ago. I did give her extra scratch. She wasn't in a nest box, just on the sand floor and she hatched out chicks. Give your broody a nice warm nest box and you'll have chicks in 21-25 days and eggs come spring from the hatchlings.

 

[Cass]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

I hope that everyone is safe and has enough to eat.

Hugs to all the chicks out there....oh, and the guys too.

 

[Aria]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Aria

 

[happycountryhens]

So...peeled potatoes we got from a potato farm. Yup, we washed them first. The nice peels I put in a bowl, the ones with small yucky parts went in a paper towel for the compost heap. Cooked the nice peels in the microwave and took them out when they were still warm. Girls ate them right up. Feels so good to feed family and birds and hardly any waste. Even the waste can be recycled in the compost.

madsenecord: Congratulations on your venison. My nephew got one, but so far we have not got one. So looking forward to the tenderloins.

This is an animal which gives lots of food and can have other parts used ending up with very little waste. We do our own meat preperation and packaging too.

Turkey should be almost ready.