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Auroradream26 said:
It's crunch time here and my coop is bursting at the seams! Over the past month or so, I've been taking groups of older chicks out to the main coop to integrate them. They stay seperated for a few days before I release them in to the general population. So far it's working out fine but wow, I have more than I thought! The chicks from Sally are all out now, along with all the silkies and the RSL. I just moved the Marans from their cage in the turkey coop to the main coop. They'll get released with everyone in a few more days. The little buff turkey poult that was in with them was crying his little heart out when I took his friends, so I left him loose in the turkey pen. He's been loose for about 10 minutes now and is happily wandering among the older turkeys, weaving through their legs and munching on food. They don't seem to mind him being there at all. That just leaves 1 group left to integrate (lavender ameraucanas and a couple young legbars). We have less than 3 weeks til we leave for Oregon and I need to have everyone out and in a routine before my BIL starts caring for them for us. After we get back will be flock slimming time. I have to decide which cockerels will stay and which ones will head off to freezer camp.
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I can't get over how much time it takes to prepare for a trip. I often opt out. If I do go, when I get home, at least one or more birds are lost or dead.

This year, I tried something different, I added a $100 bonus if ALL animals were accounted for when I got home. Worked like a charm
 
Blarneyeggs said:
I can't get over how much time it takes to prepare for a trip. I often opt out. If I do go, when I get home, at least one or more birds are lost or dead.

This year, I tried something different, I added a $100 bonus if ALL animals were accounted for when I got home. Worked like a charm
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That sounds like an awesome incentive! My BIL is getting to use our Prius and eat whatever he wants while he's here. He also fears what I'll do if he loses any of my animals. Not that I'm even remotely scary lol.
 
Auroradream26 said:
Onyx and his girls. He does have some red in his wattles but I hope to correct that in future generations.

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Very pretty!
Our AC used to lay regularly and now hasn't laid for 2 months. I checked her over, no lice or mites, no worms in the poop, ACV in the water, no signs of molting, free ranges all day but I can't for the life of me find any secretly laid eggs. Her eggs are bright white so would be easy to spot. She's very sociable and roams around with the rest of the flock, everyone roosts together.
 
dheltzel said:
Another shipment from Sandhill arrived today. Sorry @AnneInTheBurbs, it did not include any creme brabanters. It did have:
Anconas
Sicilian Buttercup
Buff Minorca
Black Leghorn
Mille Fleur Leghorn
White Leghorn
Black Crested Blue Polish
Blue Polish
Black Shamo
Flame Jaerhon
Norwegian Jaerhon
Golden Campine
Golden Erminette
Golden Lakenvelder
Silver Lakenvelder
Golden Penciled Hamburg
Silver Penciled Hamburg
BBR Kraienkoppe
Partridge Barnvelder
Red Pyle Cubalaya
Wheaten Marans
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Wow great list, thanks for the google holiday @dheltzel :)

Here's an update on the White Minorca and BLRW you kindly sold us. They are doing great and love to venture far and wide with their Ameraucana sibling we picked up at the same time from Pickering Farm and Feed.

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Blarneyeggs said:
It is with a very heavy heart that I tell you that our dear 'Stake' -Tom Egan is gone. I heard from his father today (we grew up in the same small town -Ridley Park, PA). He passed from Lung Cancer last Monday. Those of you that don't know him- We, here on the PA Thread, were family to him. He never married and had no children, his animals were his children. His profile pic is of a rescue dog that passed years ago and that he still agonized over loosing. He spent hours with his birds, knew each and everyone of them and their quirks intimately. He made the BEST Hard Cider you've ever tasted -MotorcycleChick and I can attest to that. He was extremely humble, NEVER giving advice without making sure that he did not offend by ending with 'my two cents' and I will miss him fiercely.

True to form, looking through his last posts here - ALL were responding to someone with a question or concern, offering help or his 'two cents' of advice. I wish there were more like him.
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So sorry to hear that. I took a lot of 'two cents' from Tom and my son and I went round to his house to say hi. We both live in Malvern, PA. RIP @stake
 
kie4 said:
Wow great list, thanks for the google holiday @dheltzel :)

Here's an update on the White Minorca and BLRW you kindly sold us. They are doing great and love to venture far and wide with their Ameraucana sibling we picked up at the same time from Pickering Farm and Feed.

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You rather "lucked out" getting 2 pullets from 2 straight run chicks. I had 2 Exchequer Leghorn chicks in that batch, which I kept in hopes they would be a pair, but it was not to be. I set the 2 cockerels free on the farm yesterday.
 
Welp, Klaus is definitely right at home in the coop, he's actually been helping Mississippi break up squabbles with the girls! I'm actually hoping that I have at least 1 rooster out of the straight run bunch (fingers crossed) since I realized that my GLW that died was actually my other rooster.... But so far so good, everyone's still kinda segregated but I'm sure soon enough they'll all get along. It's hilarious though, he'll chase the hens around if they so much as squawk the wrong way.
 
dheltzel said:
Where are you? I have 2, 10 week old Black Shamos I want to sell cheap to make room for other young birds. I can't sex them at all, but they look identical to me, so likely 2 of the same sex.
This is for anyone local to me -- if Roger is too far, anyone else interested on 2 black shamos?
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