Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[BullChick]

That's really being neighborly. Enabling by delivery!
Look at those gorgeous yolks! How I miss my fresh eggs! Even the best ones at the grocery store pale in comparison. Saw "pastured" eggs at Giant yesterday. $7 and change for a dozen! Worst part is, I thought about buying them....
Lol! They do look like old men!
Is satellite internet terrible? We are looking into options once we move out a bit further. We have to have fast internet since hubby fixes computers and does work remotely.
So sorry to hear that.
That is a neat mix! God Job!
Only 6?

I wake most mornings without internet. I reset the router, and I am good to go. Sometimes it takes two or three resets. Other times, I call Dish, and they make me do it. And they act like they have done something wonderful. They tell me to call back if it happens again that day. I explain that it will not. They can't understand how I know that.
If I did have to call back, I would have to wait on hold for about half an hour to get the same person. What is the point in that? I know how to reset a router without help!
Using Verizon wasn't much better.
There was a storm today, and I never saw any of the post that Fisherlady was coming. It was a very pleasant surprise!
There is one thing that I try to remember. We live out in the middle of nowhere because we want the land and animals. If we have excellent Internet service, we are probably not living in a good area.
On the other hand, Dish charges $80 for ten gigs of data.

 

[troyer]

Anyone ever have any chicks that if you squat down outside, they run over and chill out under you? My two blue silkies that I picked up at the swap have taken to doing that. The one more than the other will come running and just lay down under me lol. They're starting to get the little polish chicks doing it too. It's so stinking cute!

Our Cubalaya chicks do it frequently when they are incubator hatched.

 

[BullChick]

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

@AnneInTheBurbs. @Fisherlady thank you I hope she gets better also me and my sister are very close to her. If I missed anyone else I missed I thank you also. .

 

[Lelanae]

Very first egg! Blue!

I was very supprised to see it laying in the egg box this morning. The girls are only 19 week old.

Suspect #1: Dolly the Rees Legbar. She is the one with best comb development and acted very excited this morning.


Suspect #2: Bownie. She is the only other blue egg layer who squats for me all the time. Ruff-Ruff the Rhodeba is the one on the back. She doesn't look ready yet.


Suspect #3: Molly (75% legbar, 25% welsummer) She sang egg song yesterday and last week.


Other girls:
Bear looks like a pure bielefielder, although she is only half.

Penny the Welbar. She sings egg song and squats, but her comb is not very red.


Thanks so much to Dennis. These girls are absolutely beautiful, cute, healthy, and friendly.

Sorry, I didn't come here recently. Had some difficult time within last two months. Bad news is : I may need to move out of PA, and there's no way I can take my chickens with me; Good news is: If I cannot bring the chickens with me, my brother-in-law will take the girls as their family pets.

Beautiful birds and charming pictures! I love the picture of Bear on the branch! What is her exact cross?--she is so pretty!! Is Brownie as sweet as she was as a chick? My girls from Dennis are a week or two younger than yours . I can't wait for that first blue egg!

 

[Lelanae]

I finally got some pics of my latest portable hoop house. It is 10 x 12 and has about 38 young chickens growing out inside.

Views on the inside:


And a few Ameraucana closeups
first a silver pullet

now a pair of lavenders

 

[TillyPeeps]

Beautiful birds and charming pictures! I love the picture of Bear on the branch! What is her exact cross?--she is so pretty!! Is Brownie as sweet as she was as a chick?  My girls from Dennis are a week or two younger than yours . I can't wait for that first blue egg!

Bear is a bielefelder and rhodebar cross. She looks and acts just like a purebred bielefelder:large and calm. She's supper soft too. Brownie is still the most curious chicken and friendly as she always being. Unfortunately, she is lower on pecking order now. The poor girl tried so hard to stay on top.
I'm sure your girls will star to lay soon.

 

[TillyPeeps]

Brownie was an experiment. I used a Wheaten Ameraucana over my flock of California Greys, expecting to get black sexlinks (since extended black should be very dominant over wheaten chick down). Instead, I got "brown sexlinks". I was worried about whether they would be sexable as chicks (blue sexlinks are very hard to sex accurately. for ex). It turns out I could sex them without a problem and the color of both chicks and adults is quite different than any other breeds I have.I hope to have a nice pen of Wheaten Ams and a few of the young Cali Grey pullets I'm raising now could end up in there to make more "Brownies" for next year. Hmmm, maybe I will call that hybrid a "Brownie" and post the story on my website, if @TillyPeeps
  is ok with that. She was a neat looking chick and shallow as it sounds, pretty chicks sell well. I know of no other brown chicken that lays a blue egg, though there are some Red Brown Ameraucanas, they don't really look like Brownie.

It is my pleasure that you want to call the hybrid Brownie. She's a great girl! Curious about everything and always let little kids pet her. All kids love her.

I'm sure it's dolly the Reese Legbar laid the eggs. Today I caught she ran out of coop excited again. And there is the second blue egg there. Slightly bigger than the first one. Her egg song is only soft kookoo voice though. I'll let you know how the other girls lay once they start.

 

[TillyPeeps]

Thanks everyone! I'm still trying to find a way to stay in the area. Anyway, the most difficult time has gone for us. The worst case is that we have to move.

 

[BullChick]