I like your list, i was perusing available chicks tonight too... compiling a list... I would love marans as well ~ i like the cuckoos, love the dark chocolatey colored eggs. I heard both raves and boos about orpingtons... but they are beautiful, esp. the lav's and blue's.
I want more EE's, but those I can breed myself. I really need to get more hens for the # of boys... one of my friends wants to get red stars in the Spring, and was asking if I want to split the order with her... I would be interested in a few, but not 12... started pullets are a decent price at the hatcheries, but I might fare better with someone local. choices choices... I want geese and turkeys too...
ok, had an impulse control issue and momentarily lost my mind, but have already rationalized the whole thing as my Ultimate Birthday Present.
projected shipping date 12/3/12 !
Item Qty Unit Price Ext. Price
Baby Chick Vaccination 15
$1.00
$15.00
Easter Egger ($3.25)
--> Females (+$0.50)
15
$3.75
$56.25
Subtotal:
$71.25
Tax:
$0.00
Shipping:
$36.95
Total:
$108.20
can you imagine, after a day of climbing up and down mountains, you get to change a tire, take it to the station, only to discover there's nothing wrong with it! (Insert music from psycho here) fun. The way these hollows twist and turn, you'd never guess what's just over the ridge. I Love puzzles, the really hard ones. Fun to do with a few people too. Been looking for some when the g kids move here. Drats...I thought I might be onto something with the watercan. The paint might not stick real well to galvanized....but I might try it with one can. Where it sits it gets the first ray of the day, and the last one at night, they do have to go outside since I always slop it sliding the can back into place. The next thing today is to secure the tarp roof over the pop door, I am hoping for inspiration but it hasn't struck, so until then, just doing temporary things. Then I also get to dig some post holes for the front roof poarch, since I decided log poles would look cool, match the house. A miniature chicken cabin. I am hoping for broodies this spring (mostly hoping they decide to brood in the coop so i don't have to go find them) its a given they will start mulitplying in a few short months, and they are so good at hiding. Everybody has slowed dwn on eggs, must be that time, two hens have just started laying though. Then the hens spend the afternoon preening and snoozing inside the coop, I think they have started a bridge tournament. Occasionally a rooster will wander in and they make a big deal about it....out! Out! They squawk, and run him off. My rototiller hen followed me around yesterday, I was clearing up some old slab wood, semi stuck in the mud along the woods, and she'd goble up all the earthworms under it, I had other things to do but had to keep at it for her, then one roo decided to come over and take credit for the find...we knew better. Usually they turn up their beaks at earthworms, but that's about all that's left now. Well, back to work.
