Oregon

[aligarysmom]

What is this swap?

 

[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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[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.