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[kathyinmo]

Maybe I could just sell off everything, but keep 2 or 3 girls of each breed... for variety. Forget about breeding anything. Maybe keep a couple roosters around.

Yeah, back to having just a layers coop with a couple roosters. I am gonna try working on that.

 

[NellaBean]

If you did that, you wouldn't have to separate them in different pens. Just a nice big happy family!

 

[kathyinmo]

OK, psychotherapy is over for this session. We have accomplished alot. Did alot of hard work and soul searching. Now, on with the plan ...

 

[NellaBean]

LOL.......nothing in moderation!

 

[kathyinmo]

I will be your competition for the title of "Queen of Downsizing," now.

 

[kathyinmo]

Here comes Amy ..... I see her coming .....

 

[NellaBean]

Bring it on sister! Don't feel bad, I'll always have more dogs and cats than you! I know no moderation when it comes to them!

 

[Serrin]

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And that plan would be...................

Dang girl! I'm completely confuzzled now! What about your Del project? What about your beautiful BR's and the NHR's that you bought just for the purpose of creating new Del bloodlines? Huh? Huh? Huh? What about all of that???

OK, if you're gonna start selling off your Ameraucanas, how much are you going to ask for them? And which colors do you have? How many are hens/pullets?

Ya know, I should probably just sew a button on this whole idea brewing in the back of my mind. I see the work and hassles that you ladies are facing with the size of your flocks, and I know I just couldn't keep up with that kind of a load. Either from a feed cost or a maintenance aspect. But, but, but, but

Ameraucanas!

Gawd Kathy! Ya really know how to hit me where I live, don't ya?!?!

I have an even two dozen birds now. That's a nice little number, don't you think? Four boys and twenty girls. Probably by the time spring rolls around, that number will be down to 23 or 22 perhaps. Clarissa is moving so slowly these days. She rarely comes out of the coop. Just to eat first thing in the morning and then back in she goes. I keep a small dish of food in the corner, down on the floor, just for her in case she didn't get enough to eat on account of all the other birds with their pushing and shoving to get at the food. Poor old thing. But she just keeps plugging away. She still makes me two or three eggs a week now.

Someday, I'll entertain the notion of adding to the flock. But I'll still need to save room for whatever Maggie might do this spring or summer! She's such a good mommy!!

I'd love to watch her raise another set of chicks from start to finish!

Oh Gawd! Kathy, why did you have to mention Ameraucana's!?!?!

 

[Cetawin]

Kathy is full of Buffalo crap

Kathy is full of it

ummmm those Blue Silkies do NOT need to come to Kentucky with you in May....HEAR ME?

*FALALALA LALALALA LAALALALA LLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!*

I am going to bed and forgetting I saw pictures of blue cuteness and read all of this treason you and Nella are speaking.

*pokes Amy* RUN NOW I WILL HOLD THE DOOR

 

[kathyinmo]

OK, Nella .... WoooHoooo, Nella ..... I figured it all out ....

*excuse me while I explain this all to my therapist, Nella*

I am gonna go from this:
Pen # 1 Roosters in waiting (New Hampshire, Barred Rock, 4
Pen # 2 Barred Rock roo over New Hampshires (project pen) 6
Pen # 3 Ameraucanas and Olive Egger 7
Pen # 4 English Orps 8
Pen # 5 BCMarans and 2 EE girls 14
Pen # 6 Lavender Orp projects 7
Pen # 7 5 Silver Laced Wyandottes and BLRW trio
Pen # 8 Icelandics 6
Pen # 9 Buckeyes (4) and 2 RIR girls
Pen # 10 Delawares 12 + 3 Light Sussex girls for winter
Pen # 11 Jersey Giants (Leggs and his Mrs) 3 in grow out
Pen # 12 Barred Rocks 8
Pen # 13 Coronation Sussex and Light Sussex 16
Pen # 14 Silkies 12
Pen # 15 Grow Outs .... English Orps, etc about 15
Pen # 16 Grow Outs ... Delawares, etc 10
Brooders galore ..... maybe 25 with more coming.

TO THIS:
Downsize to:
Barred Rocks: 6 hens + 3 roosters
New Hampshires: 4 hens + 2 roosters
English Orps: 6 hens + 2 roosters
BCMarans: 4 hens
Ameraucanas: 2 black hens + 1 LAV rooster
SL Wyandottes: 3 + 1 rooster
BLRWyandottes: 2 hens
Easter Egger: 2 hens
Olive Egger: 1 hen
Delawares: 4 + 1 rooster
Coronation Sussex: 4 hens+ 2 roosters
Light Sussex: 4 hens
Jersey Giants: 2 hens + Leggs
Lavender Orps: 1 black-split girl + 1 rooster
Icelandics: 3 hens + 1 rooster
Silkies: 6 hens + 1 rooster
Chicks (in incubator): keep BCMarans only (only a dozen eggs in there)
TOTAL: 54 hens + 16 roosters... plus brooder/grow-outs

Coop arrangements:
Coop # 1: Barred Rocks 8 (6 hens + 2 roo)
Coop # 2: Del project birds 5 (4 NH hens + 1 BR roo)
Coop # 3: Silkies 7 (6 hens = 1 roo)
Coop # 4: Roosters 7 (2 NH, 1 Del, 1 Lav, 1 Orp, 2 Coronation)
Layers coop: 38 hens + 5 roosters: Icelandic roo, Leggs (JG roo), Blue Orp roo, SLW roo, Lav Amer roo


When I am done with step 1 of the Del project, I will move the New Hamps in that pen.

WELL ..... will it work???