Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[wingstone]

Completely unrelated to chickens. Called to set up kindergarten registration today and barely made it thru without crying. Where does the time go........

 

[SilkieSensation]

I was in TSC today to get bulbs & feed for the chicks & poults I have coming this week. They had everything set up but no chicks yet. They said they would be in in a couple days.

 

[grandpaw roo]

For those interested.The Tractor Supply in New Holland has 2 bins of chicks.One of pullets and other Bantams.Looks like mostly Old English in the bantams with blk/yellow/blk/yellow stripes on backs.The others are black with a little dusting of cream across the backs. Not sure but might be bantam americana?$2.99 each.

 

[wingstone]

egg related but not chicken related..
granddaughter asked for those colored eggs that come out of a jar...okay, I got that part, she wants red beet eggs.. then she says can I get them in purple....need a little help...thinking I can add some food coloring...what do I add to make purple.....that color wheel thingy confuses me..

 

[18angovem]

egg related but not chicken related..
granddaughter asked for those colored eggs that come out of a jar...okay, I got that part, she wants red beet eggs.. then she says can I get them in purple....need a little help...thinking I can add some food coloring...what do I add to make purple.....that color wheel thingy confuses me..

Blue and red make purple........

 

[SilkieSensation]

 
egg related but not chicken related..
granddaughter asked for those colored eggs that come out of a jar...okay, I got that part, she wants red beet eggs.. then she says can I get them in purple....need a little help...thinking I can add some food coloring...what do I add to make purple.....that color wheel thingy confuses me..

Blue and red make purple........

My pickled eggs are always purple. Use pickled beets to get purple instead of stewed beets to get red.

 

[fisherlady]

Busy day.... had to work over this morning to cover for boss while he was in a meeting, so didn't get home till nearly lunch, then errands and coop cleaning/chicken social time till dinner. DH requested crab cakes and perch for dinner. Am down to just a couple packs of crab meat left in freezer, will have to head back down to visit the cousins soon!

Ordered 50 meaties from the hatchery today. TSC and the local feed mill order from somewhere different (I don't know who TSC orders from this year, but an employee said it was not this particular hatchery) We may get 6 from each of them to see how they grow in comparison to the hatchery we are getting our other ones from.

 

[fisherlady]

egg related but not chicken related..
granddaughter asked for those colored eggs that come out of a jar...okay, I got that part, she wants red beet eggs.. then she says can I get them in purple....need a little help...thinking I can add some food coloring...what do I add to make purple.....that color wheel thingy confuses me..

If you normally use beets or beet juice then I would just add a couple of drops of blue food coloring to the juice and test the resulting color on a white paper towel. Add a bit more blue to make it darker if needed.

 

[chiques chicks]

Why am I hatching in this weather?

I guess since they are starting to come out of the eggs, I really should get a brooder together, huh?

 

[dheltzel]

Why am I hatching in this weather?

I guess since they are starting to come out of the eggs, I really should get a brooder together, huh?

X2 - Back in Dec when I put eggs into the incubator, I planned it all out and though that 6 week old chicks would be fine outside in Feb with some supplemental heat. I severely underestimated the February weather, so now I have 16 CCL's over 7 weeks old still in the basement. The oldest roo has started to crow! They really must go out this weekend, at least the older ones.

I'm compulsively checking the long-range forecasts, hoping for warmer temps if I check more often. I keep telling myself "just one more week" . . .