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[rancher hicks]

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Congrats on the A's you deserve a party.

Kathy all I can say is oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh. The islandic is so cute. As for BR's I've got to get some eggs. I think Scott said he'd send me some for the shipping is it to cold. I'm hatching now. I need to get a grip before I have a house full of Dels and no DW.

 

[Cetawin]

Tim...hand her a lap full of Dellie chicks and tell her that she MUST look them in their cute little eyes...they will take care of her for you. *snicker*

 

[NellaBean]

Well gosh darn it, I'm missing a chicken. My little partridge cochin. I have someone who wants to buy her so I looked for he tonight to get pix....no bird! I looked around the yard with a flashlight and didn't see anything. I'll check again tomorrow. But I had the dogs out with me tonight and they didn't find anything.....once i think back on it, I don't remember seeing her the last couple days. Hmmmmmmmm.....maybe she found somewhere to go broody? She has been broody here before. but I doubt it. Sigh.

Collected 9 bantam girls and stuck them in the carport brooders so the family can visit them tomorrow and pick out their chickens. Have a buyer for my mottled pair...and a backup buyer for my cochin girls.

Thinking about pulling one of my sale girls and putting her with LH's evil bantam rooster as a pair. Cause I sure don't want him! LOL

The rir/cochin broody was back in the coop tonight. I love how they can be out of the coop for months and I just toss them back into the yard one day and they remember where to roost at night. The frizzle is definitely broody. I will move her to one of the carport brooders tomorrow. YAY ME, MORE BROODIES. She is young and small and I will just get her maybe 3 or 4 eggs. I don't really want any more chicks. It might be time to move the silkie hen outside too.....then I gave group her babies with the rir/cochin babies. SO MANY OPTIONS.

I counted 42 birds in the big coop tonight. There was quite a bit of empty roost space. I am impressed by the downsizing. That isn't counting my 9 girls I pulled for the buyer to look at, but I expect to have them all sold within a week.

 

[Cetawin]

Well shoot Nella I hope you find her.

The weather has been too nasty for her to decide to go broody somewhere outside. egads

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Congrats on the good grades Nick!

Happy Birthday too

Nella, I hope you find your missing chicken

Kathy congrats on the adorable babies

 

[kathyinmo]

Laura, You forgot one thing there .....

How many chicks do you want? Hmmmm, just how many???


Nella, I sure hope you find that girl. She must be hiding somewhere. I would bet she has that disease that is at your house ..... broody-itis!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Me forget something????? Never!

I just had to turn down my DIL's mom, she is giving away all of her chickens. They are all under 2 years, some are just at the POL. She just has too many irons in the fire to be able to keep them. I think my BIL will be getting them though. I have to make sure I have room for the delawares I plan on hatching in the spring.

edited to add... I just made my 1600th post

 

[kathyinmo]

Ohhhhh, yes .... be sure to have room for the Delawares! That has to be a priority!

BUT, if you use speckledhen's chicken math ..... heck, you can always make room for one more, and one more, and one more....!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Well first priority is to keep DH happy since he provides all the feed and such for the gang

he was happy when I went from 40 chickens this summer down to the 22 we have now. Even happier that they are all in one coop. But he does like those delawares!

 

[NellaBean]

I need to start "culling" boy chicks. Or not culling, rather picking them all out and putting them together......If I have a large group of chicks, I like to split them up by sex. I think the brooders work better that way. I have a MILLION boys so far. SIGH.

I think I have about 10 girls give or take a couple, in the young groups. I have a lot of definite boys and "some" definite girls. Some REALLY pretty girl chicks. A gorgeous splash, a nice white with blue feathers scattered here and there, a semi-wheaten marked girl and a beautiful laced light light blue girl. And a a couple solid blues or blacks. I need to get new pictures of them all. They're so cute!