Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[Werforpsu]

It's very real. Keep an eye on the thread.

I'm just imagining philly to pitt and back again. Or a circle. Philly to pitt on rt 30, up to i80 and east on 80 before going back down to philly.

 

[Lelanae]

I'm just imagining philly to pitt and back again. Or a circle. Philly to pitt on rt 30, up to i80 and east on 80 before going back down to philly.

We are near-ish Dennis and drive to Michigan every summer for a week--I have conductor potential!

 

[Werforpsu]

I'm near the fort littleton exit on the TP.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

We are near-ish Dennis and drive to Michigan every summer for a week--I have conductor potential!

Yes, you do

Speaking of the chicken train, has anyone heard from @emorems0 in a while? She seems to have dropped off the thread.

 

[dheltzel]

You don't necessarily have to drive all over the state.... If the chicken train happens to be running through, you can just meet at a certain spot and pick up birds that have been added to the train by others along the way

Well, you should have some very colorful egg laying chicks available next spring also. You have some of every breed I have (not all the color variations perhaps). If you can get them in breeding pens and get hatching early, you have a pretty captive market out in your area. And maybe the chicken train will deliver some eastern PA eggs to central PA too !

 

[dheltzel]

Speaking of the chicken train, has anyone heard from @emorems0 in a while? She seems to have dropped off the thread.

She stopped by a few weeks back to get some pullets, but didn't have extra room then. I'm guessing she's busy with family things.

 

[hyzenthlay]

I love the sound of this chicken train! I'm definitely going to keep an eye on the thread!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Jaebles was limping and just acting low energy so I brought her in. She is eating and drinking. There is a sore looking spot on her leg but I haven't seen an actual wound. Right now she is napping so I don't want to disturb her. Nochi didn't know what to make of it.

Glad she is back and safe.

Dennis--How old are the olive eggers you have for sale? I am going to need another roost in my hen-house lol!

Haven't we all said that a time or two? Heck, I had to move to buy a house with more land!

Stake, wish I knew! I can tell you that your CCL has similar feather development at 2-3 weeks to the CCLxWelsummer I got earlier this summer--and the lav orp and BCM I got at the same time. They had feathers coming in over most of their wings, but chick down over the rest of their bodies. It's the OEs that look to be ahead of the curve for 2-3 weeks, to me. Is it possible they are a week or two older? Not sure about the relative sizes. Does anyone on this thread have Ameraucanas within about 100 miles of Pittsburgh? I'm not necessarily in the market now, but I'm thinking about the future. I have one Blue Ameraucana from Meyer Hatchery, but I'd be interested in different color pullets.

I will have lots of Ams in a few months. Along with Olive Eggers, Jill Reese Cream Legbars (from Greenfire Farms), and Welbars. Ams are impossible to sex by color when hatched, though I also make a black sexlink from the black Ams that are sexable and overall better egg producers, while still having that "Ameraucana look" (dark legs and muffs of feathers, in an irridescent black). The Am colors I have are black, silver, lavender (large fowl, bantams, and silkie feathered) and maybe wheaten and/or blue wheaten. Can you tell I really like Ameraucanas?

Those Black sex links are intriguing. I'm sure the others will be as well, but they are still small. The California Gray is still not looking great, but she has times where she preens or looks for food, so I am hoping for the best, now that she is being treated.

Jaebles is eating and drinking ok. Poop looks ok. She stood up a little taller for a while then went back to sitting. I think she just has a boo boo but no major injury. The sore spot looks more like feathers coming in there. I think she likes the room service.

Lol, Chicken room service. That's a new one...

I apologize for going on about these birds... Wingtip, thus named for the white tips at the end of each wing, escaped the coop, but is still hanging around the yard and woods near the house. We've made food and water available for him/her and the still MIA EE, Gladys, and have seen it hanging around the coop where the rest of the flock is kept. We're pretty confident that Wingtip will stick around, and are trying to be optimistic about Gladys finding her way back to our yard (as opposed to the woods beside the neighbors yard), but would still like to try and integrate them with our crew at some point, so we would still need to catch them. Does anyone have any suggestions for this? Since they are essentially wild and very people shy, we don't want to do anything that is going to frighten them farther into the properties around us, and we certainly don't want to try anything that could cause potential bodily harm. Thanks!

Don't apologize, we all go on about our birds. I would just make sure you have food and water close to the coop area at all times. And if you can spoil them all with treats/mealworms, they will probably get the idea to stick around. If they're trying to free range themselves, this is probably the best time of year since it is still warm. Hopefully they will eventually settle into the flock and follow them into the coop at night.

You don't necessarily have to drive all over the state.... If the chicken train happens to be running through, you can just meet at a certain spot and pick up birds that have been added to the train by others along the way

Wait, there's a chicken train? If that's a real thing, I want to see the train schedule!

The schedule changes frequently, you have to keep reading....

 

[Blarneyeggs]

When I first got chickens, I used to go out and stay with them during storms. The area that I have been using for a number of things, used to be set up like a living room. Chair, footrest, end table, magazines (poultry and TSC catalog) an alarm clock radio and refrigerator. I even had a rug.

So I realize we've never 'met' for real, but I can totally see you doing this.

Quote: Ha! No surprise that you can translate for MCC, I believe you speak the same language.

 

[BullChick]

So I realize we've never 'met' for real, but I can totally see you doing this.
Ha! No surprise that you can translate for MCC, I believe you speak the same language.

Haven't we? I don't remember anyone I met at the get together, but I thought you were there. I know Chad (The Chad that used to scare me) was there, because I remember he wasn't scary at all. I remember Sally was too sick to come. I remember LMP because she came with me. That is it.

Hey! I don't speak minion!