Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Wishing4Wings]

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Only two more? You just wait until you start discovering really cool breeds. And bantams. Bantams take up less space so you can get more! Build the larger pen as big as you can. So easy to fill it up!

 

[cheeka]

love the coop lindz! spectacular! I know they will love it,

W4W lol, the piggy bank... I have 3 in that corner, the tall spotty, a fat blue and a small yellow flowered... I like piggy banks. I use those for old coins. the tiny one has wheat backs and it's full to capacity. the fat blue has wheat backs that won't fit in the yellow one, and silver; dimes, quarters... the big spotty has dollars and half dollars. mostly silver, but some newer - Susan B's and Sacajawea... the slot on top is bigger than the hole on the bottom. big half dollars drop in but can't come out unless you can get them to slide back out of the slot, that, or break the pig.

I've got to get back out, it's almost 6... Esther was sitting at 4:30, so I should have her egglet, and maybe another if I'm lucky... have 13 so far...

ETA, 2 more in the nest, so 15!!

 

[Scrambles55]

I ... I seriously don't know what to say. The dogs aren't happening. I can tell you that. I did find a thread on here that said over and over no Huskies with chickens. But that isn't what did it. It was looking at the message between the woman and myself. She has been kicked off Facebook, and all of her posts have been deleted due to ... Well, I guess spamming people. I am just so... I don't know. Relieved? Upset? Numb? LOL! Confused!! I am confused!

Now I can move my house back to how it was. Oh joy!

Consider yourself lucky. Things could have gotten bad.

 

[Scrambles55]

W4W.... I would like to have more than two more, but I am pushing things with hoping for just the two. My DH knows how much I get attached to my animals and does not want me to get hurt if something should go wrong. Yesterday was a close one. I had feared the worse. After the pen is enlarged... I will slowly push for 2 more.

Rain... rain... rain.... made flock blocks to occupy the girls.

 

[cheeka]

MC, that's so... Confusing... I'm so glad you didn't get further involved and are essentially unscathed in the matter...! I can't help but be offended by people who scam. someday they will have to answer for their lies and way of life. wonder if they realize they won't be able to lie their way out of that one?

I opened up all the curtains to let the sunshine really pour in - omg...! my windows are so bad! the back picture window has hundreds of kitty nose marks and the front windows are completely smudged with Chester nose marks! guess I'll be cleaning glass tonight. got the satellite radio blasting upstairs and down, Coffeehouse Rock... so "blasting" simply refers to the loud volume, it's all acoustic music. love it.

 

[chickenlindz]

Thanks for the training reminders W4W! I had read those helpful hints but forgotten them as we have been carrying the puppy outside because of the stairs. But he has mastered the stairs and now waits by the back door.

Still waiting for that first egg!

But my second coop is finished and will hopefully be delivered this week!

Have to go to work tomorrow so puppy will be in the crate. Not looking forward to leving him. Thankfully I work from home 2x week and my mom will come over Thursday. So his crate days will be minimal.

Lindz-your coop looks great! Do you have any outside pics?

Scrambles- glad the girls aren't too traumatized!

MC-glad you found out now but I understand the let down! Hugs!!!

 

[lindz8504]

Lindz-your coop looks great! Do you have any outside pics?

This is the best picture I have right now.... The little one that the dog is looking at is the old coop. The big building down the hill a little is the new one that we have been working on. I will try to get some better and closer pictures tomorrow. The building was originally build as a workshop for my husband, but he decided it was too small.

 

[lindz8504]

Here is a new closeup of one of the BCM pullets..... I think we are getting close. I did see the cockerel mating one today, although I think it was actually more of a sneak attack.
What do you all think?

 

[cheeka]

she looks close, any squatting? my best guess is within 2 weeks. she's a beaut!

 

[lindz8504]

she looks close, any squatting? my best guess is within 2 weeks. she's a beaut!

Neither one is really squatting, but they are starting to be interested in the roos. They will go to him if he starts calling ect. They hadn't been doing that. I'm still impatiently waiting...... and the cochin girls don't look anywhere near ready.....