Oregon

[peckpeckpeck]

What is this swap?

Welcome @aligarysmom !
What part of Oregon are you from & what's your flock like?

Not to be a total enabler, but....
https://www.oregonpoultryswapinc.com/spring

Check it out. It's my first time going

 

[aligarysmom]

I’m in Portland area. Buff Orpington I won’t say how many

 

[peckpeckpeck]

I’m in Portland area. Buff Orpington I won’t say how many

I just met a couple who have 50. And they're brooding another 15 for a friend who wants started pullets.

If you have more than that, you're in trouble. Less than that & it's normal chicken math!

 

[aligarysmom]

Explain this chicken math so when they come to take my chickens I can tell them. Lol

 

[Killer Tomato]

Explain this chicken math so when they come to take my chickens I can tell them. Lol

Just hide them at a friend's house till the heat blows over. You'll be fine.

 

[aligarysmom]

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Like this

 

[Killer Tomato]

I only think I have too many chickens (I have 6 hens and 4 chicks in the bathroom brooder) when I sadly stare at my decimated garden, and nubbly back lawn, which has ghetto-type fencing from where I've lost the battle.

The Easter Egger girls recently led a break in to my cold frame veggies, and SHREDDED everything. They left me with 2 radishes and 3 broccoli starts.

We're working on the veggie garden fencing, but the yard looks terrible right now. I'm usually a big gardener, so this current loss is depressing. I shudder to think what 4 more hens are going to do. Such a blow to my ego that I've been bested by such little beasties!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Its almost swap day..........
I get to shop for me *and* my mom, lol

 

[Anagram]

I held off for months, but broke down and got 4 baby chicks at Wilco on Tuesday -- the urge was just too strong!!! I had only been planning on 3, but you all know how it goes -- there was a lonely little Marans chick, all by herself in the brooder....I couldn't just leave her! (I'm positive it's a genius marketing ploy by the feed stores, and it works on me every year! Single chick in the brooder, I must buy it!)

2 Leghorns
1 Welsummer
1 Cuckoo Marans

So far, she's the trouble maker of the bunch, too. I'll post pictures when I find the camera cord (darn it, Sweetie! Where did you put that????).

Okay so you had me snorting over here! I can just picture the manager going "okay we got one! Grab another chick and stick 'er in there quick - I see another one coming!" It would get me too, poor little lonely chick - can't just leave her there.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Well, back from the swap and feeling a bit underwhelmed by the whole thing..... were not for getting to see mon and sister, would not have been worth the drive. Did pick up one new bird....pretty little crested cream legbar pullet about 3 1/2-4 weeks old, but that was it....

She rode the whole 2 1/2 hours home on dd's shoulder and lap.