Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[cheeka]

I'm laughing - really hard! first, Scrambles with her comment that Rumples is a "vicious little snake... Bless her feathered heart" then Whoops' Astrid and "his special feeling"

today was great despite the snow! lots (but not all) melted by 3 so I had free range - the road in front of the house had a strip that was absolutely wriggling with worms! not sure if they were flushed out of the lawn by the sump pumps chronic running. they had a blast gobbling them all up! I didn't like that they were in the road tho', so I had to stand there until they were finished. anyway, it was nice, if chilly... and we hung out for about 2 hours.

BIG NEWS:

31 Eggs Today!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

I guess you forgot the time I gave Big Broody that grasshopper?

You also gave her Little Roger after less than a week. And there were two grasshoppers and you gave her the one that was missing a leg and both wings. If you could have swallowed them both at the same time she would not have got that either

 

[chickenlindz]

Cute chicks!  I like the grey blue ones especially.  Not a clue on boys vs. girls.  Astrid made it pretty apparent from, like, day three that she was a he.  And George has always looked like a girl.  Pink combs before four weeks of age seem an indicator. 

George hangs more and more with the flock, and has no concerns with flying up and roosting right in the middle of everybody at night, so I am no longer worrying about her.  Hattie still likes to bully her, and George runs behind Astrid, who faces off against Hattie, then gets that special feeling and mates Hattie, which just destroys Hatties streed cred.  They broke the hanging feeder today with their shenanigans. 

The eggs are being egg like.  I so hope they hatch. 

Hahaha!!!! A little lovin goes a long way!!!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

I'm laughing - really hard! first, Scrambles with her comment that Rumples is a "vicious little snake... Bless her feathered heart" then Whoops' Astrid and "his special feeling"

today was great despite the snow! lots (but not all) melted by 3 so I had free range - the road in front of the house had a strip that was absolutely wriggling with worms! not sure if they were flushed out of the lawn by the sump pumps chronic running. they had a blast gobbling them all up! I didn't like that they were in the road tho', so I had to stand there until they were finished. anyway, it was nice, if chilly... and we hung out for about 2 hours.

BIG NEWS:

31 Eggs Today!

THIRTY ONE

THIRTY ONE.........Today We Laid THIRTY ONE EGGS..........

 

[cheeka]

Quote:

Come to NY Roger, we've got worm covered roads! plenty! you don't have to share! and in another week the crickets and grasshoppers will start to pop out all over!!!

 

[showbarnmom]

  Can we have some Chick-a-Palooza pictures please?!! 

You said you were selling most of the chicks you've hatched this year.  I was wondering how you found buyers, and at what age did you sell them? 

Local feed store and craigslist. And 1 day old and up.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

It was 84 degrees here on Sunday. Monday night the roof of the house was covered with snow. But slowly crawling back up to those warm spring temperatures. Hope everybody is doing well. Nine...

NINE.........Today They Laid NINE Eggs. Roger sang the "egg song"......ate PIE........And sat in the nest box all day (when she wasn't eating) with her enlarged crop. No eggs from HER

 

[Scrambles55]

It was 84 degrees here on Sunday. Monday night the roof of the house was covered with snow. But slowly crawling back up to those warm spring temperatures. Hope everybody is doing well. Nine...

NINE.........Today They Laid NINE Eggs. Roger sang the "egg song"......ate PIE........And sat in the nest box all day (when she wasn't eating) with her enlarged crop. No eggs from HER

ROGER is a poser. Are you sure that she is a hen?

 

[lindz8504]

We packed the babies up and took them to my aunts last night. I will be getting the little silkie mix back when my Salmon Faverolles hatch...





And the littles have decided that they aren't little anymore and are roosting in the big coop with the big girls and roos! No light or anything!

 

[Whoops]

BIG NEWS:

31 Eggs Today!

Congratulations!