Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[fisherlady]

What sad news Tom was truly always willing to help, and give advice, I depended on him many times in the beginning.
Condolences to his family, he will be missed here!

I agree, I am still just having trouble realizing he passed away.... he will be greatly missed, I always looked forward to his input on questions and pictures and conversations....

 

[fangedknight]

Dear lord! I'm gone for a couple of days and there's people and puppers gone! I'm so sorry for everyone's losses, I didn't know Tom but he will be missed, we're all a big family here on the thread and just the thought of us losing one of us makes me sad.

I feel obligated to cheer everyone up at least a little bit. So good news! The outside crew is getting used to going outside on their own! I still have to herd them and possibly throw a couple out of the coop, but they're making progress! And on Sunday my mom's priest (who's a friend of mine) came over and had mass outside next to the coop and we blessed it! It was hilarious.

Also, Tucker (our giant German Shepherd on a diet) has lost more weight! We went from 151lbs to 147.4!! He's looking much better and I'm super happy!

Also... Coop pics! (They're still trying to understand the poultry cups anddd that ya don't sit and poop on top of the waterer)...

We haven't started working on the run yet so I'm using a couple x-pens put together and just supervising when they're out.

Yeeeeaaaaahh I'm constantly shooing them out of that corner.

 

[flowerfaeiry]

Very sorry to hear of Tom's passing. A dear old friend will be truly missed...

 

[FluffyButt789]

I'm sorry to hear about those who have lost puppies. And I'm sorry that the PA thread has lost a wonderful friend. I will also miss his "two cents"

 

[FluffyButt789]

On happier news, our broody hen Tiny is doing wonderful for her first time! She is laying on 5 eggs, all from our EE. She keeps somehow stealing more eggs but I take them from her as I only want a few EE chicks. She has plucked out all of her feathers on her belly, and when she gets down to eat, she stays puffed up and gets extremely mad at anyone near her. It's so much fun to watch her. I candled the eggs last night and 3 look like they have veining now! I have no idea how old the eggs are so one day I'm going to walk out there to see chicks under her!



Once she hatches her eggs, I want to move them all to the dog cage we have. The little Barred Rock chicks will then go on the perches with the adults, as they tried to last night. The only issue we have are the 2 horribly mean orpington roosters. I want to butcher them soon but they are still so scrawny. What age is good for butchering them?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

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.

 

[BullChick]

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.

I just... oh my goodness! I!
Wow.
I'm not taking his number out of my phone. It is too final.

 

[gonehencrazy]

I let the little out into the big run. I wanted to wait a little yet as three of them are still quite tiny and go through the fence. I thought this would "fix" my problem of them escaping their temporary run. Nope. Five of them were free ranging in the grass Yesterday my puppy caught one of the OEs. I hope they figure out soon to stay inside

These two have the same mom and dad. Go figure. Genetics is a weird thing. Cockerel looks like a CL and the pullet has a rose comb and dark coloring of the rooster

 

[dheltzel]

I Need some shamo hatching eggs

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?

 

[dheltzel]

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@dheltzel. Any idea what kind of chick this is? She is gorgeous, and she came from some of the eggs that you and @Auroradream26 gave me to put under broodies. Is it possible I got a penciled rock?

If she hatched from eggs I gave you, then she is a Silver Ameraucana. I can't tell if she has muffs and a beard. If so, then Ameraucana, otherwise perhaps a Rock.