Texas

[TexasLisa]

linky in my siggy...

Somebody's husband is home and she is slap-happy!!

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Happy Birthday RachaelS! Age is just a number, it is what you have upstairs that counts!

Lisa

 

[Kilsharion]

sounds like a party in the making!

You know it!! Looking forward to seeing y'all. My step-son may be accompanying us.

 

[Kilsharion]

Kilsharion--- how long have you lived in Texas? ;-)

Longer than anywhere else in my life. Considering all the places I've lived, that's saying something. Yeah, yeah - also consider where in Texas I live....we just moved to GTown in December. Otherwise, it's been Austin. That's part of why it cracked me up so much.

But, we have quite a few on here that are relatively new to Texas, so...wanted to make sure any of them might not be unknowing as to what university he was talking about.

BTW - bit of trivia that really doesn't matter to anyone except my husband.......his family - three of the four lines - goes back in this area to pre-Texas days. And that fourth line was here pre-Texas, they just bailed and went to Oklahoma two generations before he was born. We find it too funny. His great-great-grandfather owned the property that the Texas capitol building sits on. His family cemetery is ~15 min north of us in Jarrell, Texas....his family donated the cemetery to the town to use. Just absolutely amazing...I see all these bumper stickers of "Born in Texas" or "Texas Native" and I want to giggle. Hard to believe my husband wound up right back in his family's stomping grounds without ever planning it.

 

[Kilsharion]

Okay so today is my Birthday. Was kind of depressed did not want to do anything, but my DS had a baseball game, did not want to go at ALL, wanted to stay home. I have to say now I am SOOOOOO happy it was today. It pulled me out of my funk and made me realize as much as I hate getting older, I LOVE watching my kids grow.

For some reason my "decade" birthdays don't bother me, it is the ones that end in 5, they REALLY get me down!!!!

Happy birthday, hon. It's never been my birthdays that bother me. It's been my son's birthday; and, now days, my grandbabies. Grandbaby number 10 is due around my birthday this year....Like you, I love them to death - especially because I got to bypass the whole "rearing them" thing and was able to go straight to grandma (I have six step-children and, obviously, 9 step-grandchildren). It's absolutely awesome. I wish you could adopt grandchildren...that's totally the way to go. You get to experience their good sides and send them home for their bad sides

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[Kaugomu]

Hello Texans, I am in San Antonio and looking for a breeder for any of the following chicken breeds and I am willing to drive up to 5 hours to pick up birds.
Blue Copper Marans
Welsummer
Olive Eggers
Araucana (true rumpless and tufted)
Blue Laced Red Wyandot
Coronation Sussex

Please PM me if interested Thanks

 

[Kilsharion]

Hello Texans, I am in San Antonio and looking for a breeder for any of the following chicken breeds and I am willing to drive up to 5 hours to pick up birds.
Blue Copper Marans
Welsummer
Olive Eggers
Araucana (true rumpless and tufted)
Blue Laced Red Wyandot
Coronation Sussex

Please PM me if interested Thanks

There's a Blue Copper Marans breeder in the Austin area. Let me see if I can find their information. And, you can always contact April (https://www.facebook.com/AustinsBestPoultry) at Austin's Best Poultry. She's the Marans Chicken Club representative for Texas, I believe. She'd know who would have the Blue Copper in their breeding pool.

We have a BLRW gal here on this thread (TexasMja). Not sure about the others.

 

[Kaugomu]

There's a Blue Copper Marans breeder in the Austin area. Let me see if I can find their information. And, you can always contact April (https://www.facebook.com/AustinsBestPoultry) at Austin's Best Poultry. She's the Marans Chicken Club representative for Texas, I believe. She'd know who would have the Blue Copper in their breeding pool.

We have a BLRW gal here on this thread. Not sure about the others.

Thanks so much!

 

[TattooedKeeper3]

Happy birthday, hon. It's never been my birthdays that bother me. It's been my son's birthday; and, now days, my grandbabies. Grandbaby number 10 is due around my birthday this year....Like you, I love them to death - especially because I got to bypass the whole "rearing them" thing and was able to go straight to grandma (I have six step-children and, obviously, 9 step-grandchildren). It's absolutely awesome. I wish you could adopt grandchildren...that's totally the way to go. You get to experience their good sides and send them home for their bad sides

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That is to funny, I turn 31 next Sunday. My Mother and Stepfather moved in with my Grandmother to help her with the care of my Grandfather. Anyway, this Thursday my Grandmother is going to spoil me at a book sale in the Woodlands.

Thirty-One years old I still enjoy that kind of stuff with my Grandma. We are going to end up getting in trouble being unleashed in a book sale. I love books. We are going to try not to get gardening and chicken books.

Will we succeed, lol.......probably not

She says her favorite time of her life is when all of us started arriving, there are only 4 grandkids....all girls. I am the oldest. She still loves telling my Mother, "Because I can, I am Grandma" I just have to sit back and try not to crack up laughing watching my Mom pretend to get mad when she says that. My mom is one of the sweetest people and so is my Grandmother so it is hilarious watching them pretend to be irritated with one another, they aren't very good at being mad.

 

[Kilsharion]

Thanks so much!

Sure thing. TexasMja's birds are gorgeous:



I don't know if she sells chicks or hatching eggs; but, they are certainly worth anything she'd ask, in my opinion. Been tempted to ask, myself....but, I have enough projects going....maybe if I could get two or three to add to the menagerie........

Mike would kill me

 

[bnjrob]

Sudden drop in temps here in Dallas, keep 6-wk old chicks inside coop shelter?

Yesterday it was 83, this morning it's in the 40s (feels like 35). Should I keep the girls locked up in their coop shelter today? They're still having a hard time understanding the concept of the ramp: they know how to go down in the morning, but still haven't figured out how to go up at night. Thus, I'm concerned if it gets too chilly for them, they might not figure out how to go back in.

Thanks!

As long as they have a covered area to get out of the rain, let them out.

Chickens body temp is around 103* - their bodies operate better in cooler temps. What is chilly to us is not that chilly to them. Here in TX, chickens do not need supplemental heat even in the dead of winter unless they are chicks that are not feathered out.

To help ease your conscience about them being "out in the cold", you can offer them scratch/grains that will help keep them warm. You'll start finding that in winter when it is coldest, chickens will eat more than the do in summer - eating helps them produce body heat.

If they aren't figuring out to go to bed as soon as you'd like, you can try getting a flashlight and putting it in there with the beam on just before dark. As it starts getting dark, they often will gravitate towards the light. Throwing in some scratch can also give them the hint about getting back inside.