Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

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yeah, we have the red buckeye up north, nice shrubby plant. I miss honeysuckle... we had that in our yard growing up... and rose hips. I used to eat those like candy...

Mylee comes back on June 2! we were talking on the phone about the trip and she was so cute saying "Omi! you're making me so excited!"

I can't sleep. it's pouring buckets. I can't stop thinking about the boys. tempted to go pluck them off their roosts and put them in the dome til morning, but that means getting outside before 5am to pull them back out...
 
Poor wet boys. Will they get hypothermia? Toss them in the clothes dryer!! We put a piece of wire fencing under the tarp for the run and bowed it up in the middle. Water ran off, no problem, and stayed put in the wind too. Hope everybody makes it ok.
 
i had stretched rope across the top, laid the tarp on top of that. it worked great, even during rain, but the storms we had following the tornado weather in the midwest was too much. stretched the rope to its limit sagged in all the squared off sections and bent the frames... I've had a few phone calls already this morning, kept thinking it was work... but it was friends calling to say they would be up early this afternoon to help get this fixed! I hope they don't get sick from all the rain and chill
 
5.7 magnitude earthquake in No. CA last night! W4W! I hope y'all didn't feel more than a rumble!!!!! heavy rains and flash flooding here... guess super storms is what we're in for on Earth from now on.
 
put the boys in the dome for the morning, it's so cold and still raining, they are drenched and didn't fight me one bit. so far, it's chilled out in the dome, it won't last... but I'll be home in less than 4 hours today to get them back out!

BIG NEWS of the morning: ONE egg is OPEN! Peach is hiding it, and I can't really hear it peeping over Pebble. 10 weeks old and still chirping like a baby.
 
cheeka said:
put the boys in the dome for the morning, it's so cold and still raining, they are drenched and didn't fight me one bit. so far, it's chilled out in the dome, it won't last... but I'll be home in less than 4 hours today to get them back out!

BIG NEWS of the morning: ONE egg is OPEN! Peach is hiding it, and I can't really hear it peeping over Pebble. 10 weeks old and still chirping like a baby.
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I told you that I had shut the door between the coops last night. This morning, the bottom of the door was shoved in, and there were 3 other girls in there. IDK if they were that determined to lay in there, or the door got like that from the roosters running around, and maybe body slamming it.
I want to have a rooster pen. 2 roosters are together, one is in a pen with his girls, 2 GLW chicks are roosters, and of the 3 BCM I hatched 3 weeks ago, I am pretty sure one is a boy (maybe all 3, but I don't want to jinx it!
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I need to know if it is safe for the BCM rooster that is separated with his girls. The chicks are too young to fight for dominance, so they just have to endure a little pecking order.
If it helps, here are the ages:
Rocky is 10 mos. Shadow is 11 months. They are together. Shadow is dominant.
BCM that I never named is ... I think 8 months.
The GLW are 7 weeks. I would add them later, maybe 3 months from now.
I hope to be rid of the BCM trio soon.
So, how big would the pen have to be to keep the roosters happy? Will they be okay withing seeing of the hens?
Does it matter if they can hear the hens? Will BCM be okay?
I am doing this because the girls need a break. Too much mating going on! I plan on having an area where I can let planned mating happen (Planned Parenthood here I come!). Otherwise, I may just sell the roosters to be meat. I don't like that idea.
 

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