I sold 4 others, but the lady is still on vacay in CO until next week. I expect it to be just as nice a place. Spoke with a man today that wants 6, he just wants to decide with his wife which breeds. He will call tomorrow. All my chickens will wind up living less than 5 miles from one another! HE is talking about getting more chicks. One sale paid for my original order, plus some. Now they are paying back feed and the coop. So maybe another 8-9 groups like these and we will be talking profit! That's before they've laid any eggs. I'll believe it when I see it!
That's awesome! I try really hard to pay off my birds and their feed, but I don't think I will ever be able to pay for the cool little barn with its own evaporative cooler. But hey, hopefully when we finally sell the place someday, it'll add value as a nice little work shop for someone!
So, every time I finally let a group of young chickens out to free range, they almost always spend a few weeks glued to their coop and run. They will make occasional forays out, bit not too often.
Yesterday I left the gate open for the youngest group of East Frisian Gulls while I did some cleaning. They wandered out and seemed to just be hanging out around the coop so I left it open. In almost no time, though, they wer out free ranging with the best of them - like this is what they were born to do! So interesting! Now if I can just keep them out of the trees as it gets dark. Guess I'm on "tree patrol" tonight!View attachment 1111838
I'm not sure if i mentioned Tara, my last surviving golden comet, the oldest chicken I still have. She was at my farm, and i had moved one of my "un-needed" roosters with her after she lost her rooster. Still had 3 or 4 sisters left at that point. But anyway, since Tara and Armand were the last 2, i decided to bring them home, and open up my double coop/run the entire thing for my lav orps.
Well Tara has been a long time free-ranger, automatic door on dusk/dawn sensor, had run of the whole farm. So now that she is at my house, she doesn't understand the yard fence. Lol!
Hubby was out at his garage (detached, a ways away from the house) and he saw her go under the gate. The neighbor was chit-chatting with him, and gets a kick out of my chicken addiction. So hubby yells for Tara. Neighbor says "this chicken is not going to come to you" ... Wrong! She ran right to him.
The bad news is, my other young "yard birds" are starting to follow her around, i found them digging and dust bathing in my flower bed.
Here she is, out by the flag pole, all by her lonesome.
she comes inside if a door is left open, and demands a bowl of food and water
We had some Ragdoll x Snowshoe crosses we called Snowdolls. Huge, long haired, floppy love bags. People actually bid against each other for them! Too bad they were accidents and we didn't plan on becoming creators of a new designer cat breed.
Here is Cosmo. He's the one we kept. About 25-28 pounds of pure unadulterated love for everyone.
We had some Ragdoll x Snowshoe crosses we called Snowdolls. Huge, long haired, floppy love bags. People actually bid against each other for them! Too bad they were accidents and we didn't plan on becoming creators of a new designer cat breed.
Here is Cosmo. He's the one we kept. About 25-28 pounds of pure unadulterated love for everyone.
Aww, Tara! How old is she? I have a few I bought before I knew about the "production breed" issues. Besides that, they are super personality packed little things, and I could totally see myself letting them live out their "golden" years inside the house!
This is Delilah - right now I'm doing "get your little self out of that tree" duty, so I'm spending some time with my chooks.
And I've watched this poor little 55FH cockerel follow all the girl groups all over the yard tonight, only to be rebuffed every single time. Poor dude.
That's before they've laid any eggs. I'll believe it when I see it!
Tara is my kind of chicken!
