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[kathyinmo]

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That is spring hatching season, ya know. I guess I will have to bring ya some newly hatched chicks, too!

 

[kathyinmo]

We could make it a week long vacation .... with a day or two at everyone's house. Ohhhh, wouldn't that be fun!

 

[NellaBean]

Whoo hooo, building party! My car can make it up near Lexington on autopilot these days. I have tools and ideas and brainpower and manpower and I can bring everyone a pair of bantam cochins as a gift! LOL

 

[kathyinmo]

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No chicken nuggets .....

 

[NellaBean]

I'm tired of watching my chicken nuggets get eaten by hawks, so I am trying to downsize from a 40 piece chicken nugget bucket to maybe a 10 or 12 piece meal.

I used to put bantam eggs under my broodies....now I'm back to putting large fowl. At least there is a market for large fowl birds....bantams are ridiculously hard to 'get rid of'. Doesn't anyone want any bantam cochins?

 

[kathyinmo]

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I always wondered what the attraction was to bantams. I mean, what do you do with all the culls? Not enough meat on them to eat, is there? Do they lay average sized eggs? Well, I guess my Silkies are bantams, and they do lay pretty descent sized eggs.

I didn't know they were hard to get rid of though. Especially those little cochins .... honestly, they are so very cute!

 

[NellaBean]

This is my first year with bantams.....i didn't understand the attraction to them before either. But they are darn cute.....sucks you right in. And the girls are usually super sweet......I'm sure I could easily sell my bantam GIRLS, but nobody wants to take boys with them. If I could get rid of the boys, I would go ahead and sell some girls individually. But I have 3 extra gold laced boys and 4 mixed color boys. Plus a partridge and a mottled. I need to keep my mille fleur and Mr Mottled. But pretty much the rest of the bantam boys can go.

I don't process my own boys.....they would actually probably be a perfect sized meal for me! ha! But I just can't bring myself to do it. I would give them to someone else to eat if they wanted them. But nobody wants to bother on the bantam boys.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

 

[NellaBean]

Hey Cyn, did you buy the firetower coop or build it? What are the basic dimensions? I know because of the shape it would be hard to give "real dimensions" but just curious on the general size.

 

[speckledhen]

We built it from scraps from a nearby log home under construction. The widest point of the hexagon is 6 feet across and the floor space is probably about 27 sf. Here is the way we started:

That's our building inspector, Lexie.

Am getting a headache, so have to sign off in a few. Have a great Sunday, everyone!

 

[NellaBean]

Wow, that's a pretty impressive build! Mine are all very basic squares and rectangles. Maybe someday I will get brave and try something 'crazy' like that! ha!

I added up the cost of the double brooder unit.

Not bad for about 50 bucks! Wonder what someone would pay to buy one of these prebuilt? I want to build like 20 of them now.......