Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[okallthis4eggs]

Well the weatherman was wrong.... AGAIN..... We were only supposed to get flurries to a light dusting of snow, if we got any. It has snowed all day, is still snowing, and we have around an inch. It was snowing when the kids got on the bus, and they weren't at school 30 minutes before they were calling to tell parents that school was letting out at 10:00. They don't have school tomorrow either. There have been 30+ wrecks in the county, 2 of them fatal. We haven't had much snow in so many years that most people don't really know how to drive in it. I remember when I was little and we would get 6-12 inches a couple of times a year.... and sometimes even up to 3 ft. Now we hardly ever get more than 4-5 inches, mostly 1-2. Honestly, I've never had to drive in much snow myself... and I tend to stay off the roads when its yucky out.... Not necessarily because I can't drive in it, but because the other idiots on the road can't!

The chickens did not like the white stuff at all! They all huddled under the coop or in it, and wouldn't come out! I ended up moving a couple of the feed tubs underneath the edge of the coop so the snow wouldn't get in it, and they could reach it without getting out into the white stuff of death!

I also added another bag of leaves to the bedding, and threw some scratch in there. I got 10 eggs today. Not sure who is laying that pretty cream

egg, but I have gotten 3 of them so far! I also got 6 browns from the G.Comets and 3 green/blue from the EE's. I think I am going to try to get a camera to put down in the coop so I can watch them when they are laying!

Oh, and we pulled DD#1's tooth this evening..... So now she has a couple of gaps... One from today, and one from when she was 18 months old, and had the mini blind cord in her mouth and fell. It popped her tooth loose, and we had to go the the Children's hospital an hour away to have it removed! It even broke the bone of her face around the tooth socket! That was a nightmare!

Poor kid.....I bet that was rough on a 18 month old. She is a cute little girl.

 

[cheeka]

lindz, the news here just said that NC could get up to 6"! beautiful girl!

OK, mine peck my boots too, and they gobble up any snow that I track in. they don't really want to come out, but I have a handful of birds that like to come to the doorway and streeeetch their necks out to get the snow... so I scoop up a good ball and toss it in. it's gone in seconds...

 

[chickenlindz]

Cheeka good to know. I thought the feathers on the feet were abnormal for some reason... Not sure why I thought that!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

SIX

SIX......Today We Hauled Off And Laid A "Half Dozen"

Better Days Ahead, Springs Not Far Away
We Will All Join Hands For Our First "Perfect Day"
But For Now We Are Thankful, For Good Food And Pies
While We Sit Indoors, Listening To Roger Tell Lies

 

[okallthis4eggs]

lindz, the news here just said that NC could get up to 6"! beautiful girl!

OK, mine peck my boots too, and they gobble up any snow that I track in. they don't really want to come out, but I have a handful of birds that like to come to the doorway and streeeetch their necks out to get the snow... so I scoop up a good ball and toss it in. it's gone in seconds...

I was wondering. Feels like a bunch of woodpeckers around my ankles pecking the snow. Good idea about the snowball. I think I will build a 4 feet tall snow rooster in the run and watch Rogers reaction when she bum rushes the pop door to be the first one outside in the morning

 

[lindz8504]

Lindz the marans are about 13 1/2 weeks old.

You can't tell from the picture put my roo in disguise also is showing some beautiful copper on his neck.
I got him from MPC and he does have some feathering on his feat so I'm thinking he has some "other" DNA somewhere in his lineage.

I have to say if any one turned out to be a boy I'm glad it was one of the marans. Might try for some olive eggers in the future with him and an EE!

Yea I would definately say boy then! French Black Copper Marans are supposed to have feathers on their feet... All of mine do/did!

Pullet 16-17 weeks


Rooster 14-15 weeks

Rooster 15-16 weeks

Rooster 19 weeks

Rooster 19 weeks

 

[lindz8504]

Poor kid.....I bet that was rough on a 18 month old. She is a cute little girl.

She decked the doctor!

Thanks! She is great, and so mature for her age!

 

[cheeka]

 

[lindz8504]

I swear she did! They were trying to wrap her onto a papoose board, and she wiggled out and socked him one! I wanted to, because they wouldn't let me help hold her down AND made us leave the room, then sent like 10 people in there to try to hold her down..... SHE WAS 18 MONTHS OLD! That really tramautized her and we just have gotten to the point that the dentist isn't a huge meltdown..... and she is 7!

 

[showbarnmom]

squee! My first have 4 pipped too!