South Carolina

[RedBugPoultry]

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Some of us were just built to be fertile and have babies!

All this talk about babies made me dream last night that I popped one out. A little girl, no less. Man, do we chat about a bunch of stuff or what???

I will know I am in trouble when I start dreaming I am hatching chicks from sitting on eggs though!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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I have been thinking there may be a blackmarket (no pun intended) for dressed out silkie birds around here ( the Fugi folks?!?)

If you want to sell them for meat birds then you need to advertise them as BLACK SKINNED, dark meat birds. The Asian people seem to love them. I have Asian egg customers that ask me to raise the silkies for them but I won't do it. They don't recognize them when called silkies. But in China the silkie is a delicacy. There is market for them, also for black chickens in general for some reason. You need to word your ad differently so they know what you're selling.

I really had not tried in a while to get rid of them. We do not invite people from Craig's List to our home(which is my main form of selling this time of year) and a $5 or $10 rooster is not worth fighting my daughter to get her in the truck to drive somewhere to sell one. Or the gas. That is why fertilizer is starting to sound good.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Jackie B. :

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The only hatching eggs I have available is the Frizzle and Sizzle eggs and one pen of Cochin that is just a color project right now. All my other eggs have waiting lists and I am selling as hard as I can go. I ship out about 5 boxes a week of hatching eggs and am amazed that here at Christmas people still have money to spend on hatching eggs. But hey, more power to them. I have to make a living somehow! LOL And if the birds will pay for their own food then I can work harder to produce better birds.

I saw on the FB SC Swap page that someone was selling out their POL Leghorns in Pickens. If I had the money right now I would buy all 18 of them as I think they only wanted $5 each for the pullets. What a deal!

Hey how do you get added to that group? It says it's a closed group.​

There should be a request to join button....i just added you though... it has to be approved by admins

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Jackie B. :

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The only hatching eggs I have available is the Frizzle and Sizzle eggs and one pen of Cochin that is just a color project right now. All my other eggs have waiting lists and I am selling as hard as I can go. I ship out about 5 boxes a week of hatching eggs and am amazed that here at Christmas people still have money to spend on hatching eggs. But hey, more power to them. I have to make a living somehow! LOL And if the birds will pay for their own food then I can work harder to produce better birds.

I saw on the FB SC Swap page that someone was selling out their POL Leghorns in Pickens. If I had the money right now I would buy all 18 of them as I think they only wanted $5 each for the pullets. What a deal!

Hey how do you get added to that group? It says it's a closed group.​

Jackie, there should be a little square at the top of the page near the search bar that says "join" . Oh, mute point! Hope to see you there!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

I hear peeping coming from you incubator--what a wonderful sound. This is our last batch of black copper marans. The person that we bought our second batch from and our third(none of which hatched) sent Lydia a free batch, so I should say Lydia's batch of marans chicks are hatching. Not very many of these eggs looked to be developing either but they were free so we will see how it goes. We only have 3 pullet from this breeder so far--hopefully we get a few more.

Well, not much action on here so I am off to figure out something for supper that calls for eggs!

 

[Jackie B.]

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Hey how do you get added to that group? It says it's a closed group.

There should be a request to join button....i just added you though... it has to be approved by admins

Thanks boo.

 

[emptynester]

Jackie B. :

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There should be a request to join button....i just added you though... it has to be approved by admins

Thanks boo.

You're approved

 

[Jackie B.]

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Thanks boo.

You're approved

Thanks very much!

 

[Joycats]

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DH said it will be a girl to punish him for being such a little s@#t when he was little. Awesome. Super pumped about that.

Oooooh - scary pregnancy and baby stories.....I've got lots to share!

I was sick, sick, sick the whole 9 months with my first. I lost more weight than I actually gained. Lost 12 pounds the first trimester. Baby was 2 weeks early (my husband didn't believe I was in labor and left me home alone). No matter though as it was a 21 hour labor! I had complications during delivery and I had a very difficult recovery. I was sick the second time too but it was different. I had reflux, baby was born with reflux. Both of us still have issues with it today. Anyway, the deliveries couldn't have been more different. Second baby my water broke at home (at 10:00 p.m.) and he was born at 5:28 a.m., it was a very fast delivery. Much easier than the first even though he was a bigger baby. Although I must say both babies were high maintenance, lactose intolerant, zero sleep etc. Neither of my boys slept through the night (6 hours) until they were 3 or 4 years old. Which would explain the 9 years between them in age. I also have twins in heaven that I will meet someday. They made me so very thankful for the 2 babies I'v had the opportunity to love, even on the sleepless nights. And my boys have guardian angels watching over them. When Noah was 2 years old he had imaginary friends, he called them his babies. He would sit and play and talk to those 2 babies.....he was 10 years old before he knew that I had lost twin babies.

Anyway - enough of that talk! Jackie, this is going to be a wonderful adventure. Enjoy every minute of it as it will go by fast. And it won't be long before you'll be sharing your stories and we will laugh (or cry) with you. And girl or boy, it won't matter - this will still be the most beautiful baby you've ever seen. Oh - my cravings held true to the kids. With my first it was sub sandwiches with extra pickles and black olives. Noah LOVES black olives and sub sandwiches. With Jonah I craved milk and fruit (and I'm not a milk drinker). He still loves milk and any kind of fruit we can get.

 

[Jackie B.]

I love all the pregnancy stories! Keep 'em coming! The women that sits next to me at work said she craved pickled herring. Uh sick!

Was anyone completely mental during their pregnancy? The remote met the back of my dear sweet DH's head the other night for laughing when I involuntarily gagged at something on the TV. WHO AM I? I don't throw things at people. And then I cried about what an awful person I was until I went to bed. At 7:30.

I don't know how he puts up with me between my chickens and the Cletus Fetus (my husband's name is Cleve, so we call it the Cletus Fetus).