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[lovingmyhens]

I just need to find a guy to bankroll my whole operation.  Can anyone say Sugar Daddy?  

I am roasting tomatoes in the oven so I can use them in bread later (tomato basil bread). I can't begin to tell you how good the house smells right now. I coated the grape tomatoes with Mediterranean Spiced Sea Salt and olive oil before putting them in the oven. Oh my!  YUM!! 

Mm mmmm good!!!

 

[lovingmyhens]

I see y'all are talking about the cost of raising chickens. I figured out what it cost me to raise the turkeys at $3 a pound just for feed and the cost of the chicks. Now for the chickens I am feeding a 50lb bag a week at $16 a bag. I don't even want to add it up cause they are still a long way from laying any eggs. I know this just to pay for they feed they will eat while they are laying I will have to get $3.25 a dozen on the eggs. That is knowing that my feed bill will double when they get to laying age. Right now I have 15 RIR , 14 BR hens. At least that's what it looks like no roo signs from any of them as of yet. I also have what looks like 8 EE hens and 1 roo there from the ones I got from canton. Here is a few new pics I took yesterday of the EE.

this is the roo

Aww they are so cute!!!

 

[henless]

Very nice! EE's can lay all different colors, maybe hers is tan.

That is the egg I'm leaning towards is hers, the darker one. I'll try and snoop around this weekend and see who is laying what. So far, that is the only dark egg I have. Of course, they are not even near as dark as Kimberly's!

Nathan stopped by to pick up some stuff. One box only. :/ Sasha hardly gave him the time of day. I thought that was odd. She is so excited she about jumps out of her skin when Trevor comes over and she doesn't really like him even. When he gets angry with me and yells at me it scares her so she doesn't like him much. Dogs are quite interesting.


The sermon I think this Mom will never forget...
This particular Sunday sermon...'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward Heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without You, we are but dust...' He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

Dogs are very smart, so are cats. They can sense things long before we notice them.

Thanks for the funnies. I had a rough night last night and these made me laugh!! Specially the last one. I have one from my granddaughter. She stays with us sometimes and gets to sleep with DH and I in the bed when she sleeps over. This next part is a little personal, but we all do it, so... DH farts a lot. Specially at night. He did it one night when my granddaughter was sleeping over. She said,"Pappy! Stop that!! Your going to rot my bones!!!" I died laughing. I have no idea where she got that. She's 4.

 

[A1momof3]

I just need to find a guy to bankroll my whole operation. Can anyone say Sugar Daddy?

I am roasting tomatoes in the oven so I can use them in bread later (tomato basil bread). I can't begin to tell you how good the house smells right now. I coated the grape tomatoes with Mediterranean Spiced Sea Salt and olive oil before putting them in the oven. Oh my! YUM!!

If any thing happens to my DH I plan on finding me one too!! LOL

It's such a shame to have to feel like that! I would love raw milk, but everything is so far and expensive. I'd do a cow share in a heartbeat, but I can't seem to find any close...

Yum!!
You laugh, but there IS a Sugar Daddy dating website. My roommates and I used to go on and giggle at all the ridiculous ads.
$13k a month? Sure! Oh wait.......You're 72, have a foot fetish, and want me to call you Papi?....maybe not worth it.

Maybe somewhere out there, there IS a decent breed of Sugar Daddies who REALLY only want you to go to dinners and operas with...

I see y'all are talking about the cost of raising chickens. I figured out what it cost me to raise the turkeys at $3 a pound just for feed and the cost of the chicks. Now for the chickens I am feeding a 50lb bag a week at $16 a bag. I don't even want to add it up cause they are still a long way from laying any eggs. I know this just to pay for they feed they will eat while they are laying I will have to get $3.25 a dozen on the eggs. That is knowing that my feed bill will double when they get to laying age. Right now I have 15 RIR , 14 BR hens. At least that's what it looks like no roo signs from any of them as of yet. I also have what looks like 8 EE hens and 1 roo there from the ones I got from canton. Here is a few new pics I took yesterday of the EE.
this is the roo

Hey they look great!!! I think your roo is going to be very good looking!!

Nathan stopped by to pick up some stuff. One box only. :/ Sasha hardly gave him the time of day. I thought that was odd. She is so excited she about jumps out of her skin when Trevor comes over and she doesn't really like him even. When he gets angry with me and yells at me it scares her so she doesn't like him much. Dogs are quite interesting.


My mom sent me these in an e-mail. They are pretty cute. Although I do think a few were made up by adults, even though the email said adults weren't that creative. I beg to differ. I know several very creative adults.

JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister... After a while he asked: 'Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom good night. 'I love you so much that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window.'

BRITTANY (age 4) had an ear ache and wanted a painkiller. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: 'How does it know it's me?'

SUSAN (age 4)was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. 'Please don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'It makes my teeth cough...'

DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: 'How much do I cost?'

CLINTON (age 5) was in his bedroom
looking worried when his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, 'I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in it?'

MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: 'Why is he whispering in her mouth?'

TAMMY(age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a while and then asked, 'Why doesn't your skin fit your face?'

JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read:'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked:'What happened to the flea?'
Kids say the darndest things...

The sermon I think this Mom will never forget...
This particular Sunday sermon...'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward Heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without You, we are but dust...' He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

I love it!!!

That is the egg I'm leaning towards is hers, the darker one. I'll try and snoop around this weekend and see who is laying what. So far, that is the only dark egg I have. Of course, they are not even near as dark as Kimberly's!

Dogs are very smart, so are cats. They can sense things long before we notice them.

Thanks for the funnies. I had a rough night last night and these made me laugh!! Specially the last one. I have one from my granddaughter. She stays with us sometimes and gets to sleep with DH and I in the bed when she sleeps over. This next part is a little personal, but we all do it, so... DH farts a lot. Specially at night. He did it one night when my granddaughter was sleeping over. She said,"Pappy! Stop that!! Your going to rot my bones!!!" I died laughing. I have no idea where she got that. She's 4.

You know I haven't gotten any more dark ones this week. But I did take down their temp pen so maybe the stress of the move is an issue. I know they have to stay in the color part of the journey longer to get that darker color so we will see.

Ok so for 2 days now I have been finding miss fires, as I call them. LOL One of which I think is a hen laying on the roost!!! It has been in the same place both mornings, soft shells and the one this morning had no yolk. Both have been broken open of course. The hen are not bothering it in the mornings, no eating going on.... if they were I would never see it. So I am not sure who or why but I figure it will all straighten out during the next couple of weeks.

Well, I think coffee is finally ready, it's time to get started on my day!

 

[Brookshire11]

Maybe he was trying to tell her how to do it, and she kept telling him to get the poop out of her nest!!

Looks like he's going to be pretty!


Long day at work today. I'm tired, pooped and wore out.

I went to feed/check on my chickens and this is what I got today:



It's not much, but it is a start!


This is my total eggs so far:



The 4 in the back or my "dirty" eggs. They were the ones laid on the coop floor. No poo on them, but dusty from the the run. They have been rinsed off. The front 6 are my "clean" eggs. I don't plan on washing them until I use them.

All of them are small "pullet" eggs, except for the 2nd eggs from each on on the clean row. They are pretty good sized. No color eggs so far, except for the darker one in the back. Rosie, my gold EE has been squatting for a while now. Leads me to think she is laying but not giving color.

I love it! The eggs look good!
EE eggs really are a gamble lol. My Pearl lays petite little pale green eggs, but Little Hawk lays big, bright eggs...but ones been bright sky blue and the other was almost a dark seafoam...

That is the egg I'm leaning towards is hers, the darker one. I'll try and snoop around this weekend and see who is laying what. So far, that is the only dark egg I have. Of course, they are not even near as dark as Kimberly's!

Dogs are very smart, so are cats. They can sense things long before we notice them.

Thanks for the funnies. I had a rough night last night and these made me laugh!! Specially the last one. I have one from my granddaughter. She stays with us sometimes and gets to sleep with DH and I in the bed when she sleeps over. This next part is a little personal, but we all do it, so... DH farts a lot. Specially at night. He did it one night when my granddaughter was sleeping over. She said,"Pappy! Stop that!! Your going to rot my bones!!!" I died laughing. I have no idea where she got that. She's 4.

If any thing happens to my DH I plan on finding me one too!! LOL

Hey they look great!!! I think your roo is going to be very good looking!!

I love it!!!

You know I haven't gotten any more dark ones this week. But I did take down their temp pen so maybe the stress of the move is an issue. I know they have to stay in the color part of the journey longer to get that darker color so we will see.

Ok so for 2 days now I have been finding miss fires, as I call them. LOL One of which I think is a hen laying on the roost!!! It has been in the same place both mornings, soft shells and the one this morning had no yolk. Both have been broken open of course. The hen are not bothering it in the mornings, no eating going on.... if they were I would never see it. So I am not sure who or why but I figure it will all straighten out during the next couple of weeks.

Well, I think coffee is finally ready, it's time to get started on my day!

Halfway through my first cup! I'm not feeling it yet

 

[lovingmyhens]

Well my ten days are nearly up that my hoa has given me to get rid of my chickens. I have put off going to talk to my neighbor about taking them for a couple of months because I keep thinking I'll wake up and the hoa will have disappeared or at least the issue. So tonight I'll go talk to him for sure. Ugh
On a brighter note, I'm getting a concrete slab poured tomorrow. So I will have a porch in my backyard. I'm Really excited!!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

I got on here to write something. Only now I haven't a clue what. Trevor is staying here today. He went to the dentist this morning and got 7 fillings. You would think he just had major surgery! I got all side tracked helping start his laundry and making him a smoothie and forgot what I was going to post. lol!

I have my tomato basil bread in the oven. Boy does it smell good! I'm going to put the pounds on if I keep making bread and don't ride my bike enough. I was going to go this morning but Trevor doesn't have a house key. I also needed to get to the grocery store. I was just about out of toothpaste. Need that! I had a limit of no more than $50 imposed on myself. I did good! $46 and some change and I even picked up two very pretty purple coneflower plants - on clearance now!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Well my ten days are nearly up that my hoa has given me to get rid of my chickens. I have put off going to talk to my neighbor about taking them for a couple of months because I keep thinking I'll wake up and the hoa will have disappeared or at least the issue. So tonight I'll go talk to him for sure. Ugh
On a brighter note, I'm getting a concrete slab poured tomorrow. So I will have a porch in my backyard. I'm Really excited!!

That is so sad that you have to give up the chickens. Who turned you in? I was reading that quail are often ok with HOA's when chickens aren't. Not quite the same though.

I hope your neighbor will keep them for you.

Yeah on the porch! I need to reset the patio squares that the previous owner installed wrong. I want to get a better color too. Mauve/purple doesn't really go with terra cotta brick.

 

[jennfurtrombly]

Hey Texas BYC'ers! I figured I'd introduce myself here. I'm in Pipe Creek, TX (about 25 miles NW of San Antonio) and I have 12 hens and 2 roos. I have;

1 barred rock hen
1 barred rock rooster
2 americauna hens
1 americauna rooster
1 red star hen
2 white leghorn hens
4 australorp hens
2 rhode island red hens

 

[Brookshire11]

Well my ten days are nearly up that my hoa has given me to get rid of my chickens. I have put off going to talk to my neighbor about taking them for a couple of months because I keep thinking I'll wake up and the hoa will have disappeared or at least the issue. So tonight I'll go talk to him for sure. Ugh
On a brighter note, I'm getting a concrete slab poured tomorrow. So I will have a porch in my backyard. I'm Really excited!!

Let me know how it goes!!!

That is so sad that you have to give up the chickens. Who turned you in? I was reading that quail are often ok with HOA's when chickens aren't. Not quite the same though.

I hope your neighbor will keep them for you.

Yeah on the porch! I need to reset the patio squares that the previous owner installed wrong. I want to get a better color too. Mauve/purple doesn't really go with terra cotta brick.

What is with McKinney and the color mauve???

Hey Texas BYC'ers! I figured I'd introduce myself here. I'm in Pipe Creek, TX (about 25 miles NW of San Antonio) and I have 12 hens and 2 roos. I have;

1 barred rock hen
1 barred rock rooster
2 americauna hens
1 americauna rooster
1 red star hen
2 white leghorn hens
4 australorp hens
2 rhode island red hens

Welcome!!!!