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[lovingmyhens]

Thanks! I can't believe how big the Marans are-they were hatched may1, went totally free range at 6 weeks and hold their own when I put treats out!

 

[Brookshire11]

The marans are only 8 weeks!!

They're so big!

How do you like your BA?

 

[lovingmyhens]

Love her! She's so sweet and is a good layer. Most of the time she squats for pets when I go outside!

 

[Brookshire11]

Love her! She's so sweet and is a good layer. Most of the time she squats for pets when I go outside!

They're on my list but, like all the other ones I like, I have a hard time finding them anywhere other than a hatchery.
It's easier to find eggs, maybe I'll hatch some of those out too!

 

[lovingmyhens]

She's a hatchery!

 

[henless]

You can try again now for a fall harvest of sunflowers.

It is so funny your chicks won't roost. How old are they now? Do you have some lower perches? Maybe they are afraid of heights.

They will be 19 weeks old this Thursday. They get up on the roost during the day and hang out all the time. They just prefer to sleep on the floor at night, LOL

Ok I know Laurie post recipes all the time so I thought y'all might like this one. Well that is if you like Lemon.
Yum Yum!!!

This looks yummy!!

Okay so I'm not trying to be braggy but I have to tell SOMEONE.
I was just talking about chicken budgets..

And my boss called me in and told me I got a raise! Second one since I started last September! $4k more a year!

Yay for the raise!!!

These are my girls! In the top left are the 2 EES, and right below them is my BA. Below her is my splash Marans, and right above her is the black marans, then the cuckoo marans, and at the top in the middle is the black copper. On the rt hand side is the mean PR-she lays double yolkers. Missing are the two other free loading PRs.

Your babies are so big! They all look like they get along well. Did you have any trouble adding them to your flock?


I checked on my chickens this morning, and all 8 were still on the roost! Hopefully some will get up there on their own tonight.

 

[TexasLisa]

Look what O has done now. This is so wrong. I think everyone here will agree with me on this too.

Add that to the long long list of wrongs!

These are my girls! In the top left are the 2 EES, and right below them is my BA. Below her is my splash Marans, and right above her is the black marans, then the cuckoo marans, and at the top in the middle is the black copper. On the rt hand side is the mean PR-she lays double yolkers. Missing are the two other free loading PRs.

Very nice! I love the Australorps too.

Lisa

 

[lovingmyhens]

So, this is the coop that I bought for the first chickens. It has no roost bar and really was only big enough for 4 chickens squished. Today, I cleaned it all up and gave it to my rabbits who have previously, for a year and a half have had to make do with a guinea pig cage covered with wood and towels. It wasn't the best.

This is the coop I got when my friend gave me the production reds. 6 will fit on the roost comfortably. Can you see the really nice nesting box on the side? Well I think it was Harley who told us about these. So about 3 weeks ago I went and bought one, nailed it to the side, put some shredded newspaper in it and waited. Nothing. I even put them inside it when they were trying to do their business. Nothing. Until today!!! We got a blue egg which means one of my EEs I guess got tired of waiting her turn.
I just got back from TSC and got two more nesting boxes. I'll put them up tomorrow so they can, hopefully, use them.

This is my ummm compost thing I just built with pallets. I put the pine shavings from the coop turned bunny hutch in there and as you can see, the chickens are tearing it apart!

And these are two of the rabbit hutches. I've got another one behind me in the picture that you can't see.
2 months ago this was all behind the original fence. Yeah!!!

 

[lovingmyhens]

They will be 19 weeks old this Thursday. They get up on the roost during the day and hang out all the time. They just prefer to sleep on the floor at night, LOL

This looks yummy!!

Yay for the raise!!! 

Your babies are so big! They all look like they get along well. Did you have any trouble adding them to your flock?


I checked on my chickens this morning, and all 8 were still on the roost! Hopefully some will get up there on their own tonight.

You know, I only had them separated for two weeks, and they kept escaping their run area. So, I let them out and besides a very small, I mean small!!, pecking and chasing, there was no problem! They all hang out all day over on the side of the house by the air conditioners. I'm just tickled pink! Now, I have someone making another, larger coop similar to the white one in the pics I just posted. But until that is done the littles sleep right by the back door, in a box i put there for them!!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

I ned some prayers.
Nathan is supposed to pay me rent (he's 20 and has a job) but he recently decided he wasn't going to pay me anymore because he needs his money. He is not good at budgeting I guess - he eats out almost every meal...
Well I need his rent money and he doesn't get it. Every time I try to talk to him he leaves and says he doesn't want to talk about it.
I have given him an ultimatum...pay up or get out.
I brought some boxes inside tonight to start packing him up. He won't pack. He has it pretty good here. He has to know this. He doesn't even do anything to help out around here, except run the very rare errand for me.
Please pray he will pay his rent (he owes me for June and at least half July) and if he decides he isn't going to pay me pray that he will move out peacefully.
I don't need this stress. I have enough already.