Checking back in, Hi!
Jack, neighbor and chicken mentor, has been home from Houston for nearly a week now. He is weak, was laying on his stomach for 5 months and the antibiotic drugs they gave him made him very nausious. He will begin hatching chicks in March.
My Black/Lavender bantam Cochin pullets have begun to lay.e I started with 12 birds from last Summer's hatch and am down to 3 pullets and 3 cockerels.
My Showgirls have begun to lay too. - Spring is just around the corner - right?
Roger was asking how Jack was doing. Thank you for that update!
Yes, spring is coming soon...lots of eggs popping out here too.
My neighbor brought me two dozen Cochin eggs for my incubator. The hens are from Bo Garrett and the rooster is Blue Jeans from my Big Blue and a Blue hen. Expecting some full feathered birds! All three incubators are fully filled and the hatcher has some ready to pop in a few days. Have 72 set just for the 19/20 of February...will be interesting to see how many make it thru candling.
Sorted out roosters into rooster pens.....the girls are much happier without all the attention they were getting. I was beginning to think I was running a cathouse for chickens. The broodies are beginning to cover eggs already...even in the Bantam breeds. I'm setting aside some eggs for each hen.
The ponds are finished too. They reworked two of the existing ponds and constructed a new one...46 dozer hours and 8 on the track hoe...$5400 and well worth the hire. They were done in 5 days. So impressed with the high school son of Pieper Dozer...he worked that dozer like a pro.
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