Texas

[kenmlang]

soumds good

OK. Got them secure. Watered, fed,... did I forget something?? LOL!! Trying to get a friend to come and check on my girls tomorrow. Will be worrying if they have enough water. ****!! they are worse than kids!! Have to come up with a better watering system. Got one in mind, will work on it when I get Lacy home. Sorry, thinking out loud. You will find out tomorrow, I am just a little crazy, but the good crazy.

 

[SlipsWife]

We have a CL rooster and LOVE him. Seriously, love love love love love love love him. He came from GaryDean. Usually everything I've read on CL cockerels/roosters they are pretty nice BUT I have an opinion on that...

Since they are a sex link breed, pretty rare in the United States, a lot of breeders are selecting for quality traits and paying a lot of attention to their flock. If a cockerel shows his arse, most breeders will send them to freezer camp and chose another to work with. Personality does vary bird by bird but honestly, we've had a few cockerels/roosters and by far, I could NEVER imagine sending ours to freezer camp, ever. He's that awesome.

My favorite chick so far this year is an EE that was suppose to be a pullet...and isn't...he was sooooo sweet, amazingly so until a week ago. He has bit myself and my daughter numerous times and we tried moving him into freezer camp pen but because he hasn't been in there, they all tried to kill him. Its sad but I love that we have an amazing rooster and don't have to worry about it.

 

[kenmlang]

OK. Got them secure. Watered, fed,... did I forget something?? LOL!! Trying to get a friend to come and check on my girls tomorrow. Will be worrying if they have enough water. ****!! they are worse than kids!! Have to come up with a better watering system. Got one in mind, will work on it when I get Lacy home. Sorry, thinking out loud. You will find out tomorrow, I am just a little crazy, but the good crazy.

Just look at my avatar, I kinda look like that. Are you sure you want me coming to your house? Bwahahahaha

 

[Starfire669]

They have great dispositions they've been hand raised some of them are supposed to be show quality.They come from Peggy Taylor she shows her birds and she has Wade Jean blood lines.I personally don't care about that I just think they are pretty birds and great layers they lay the dark brown eggs.Whenever you want one is fine I'm in no hurry.Thanks 

Where are you located?

 

[crazychickenhug]

That's fine whenever.

 

[TherryChicken]

OK. Got them secure. Watered, fed,... did I forget something?? LOL!!  Trying to get a friend to come and check on my girls tomorrow. Will be worrying if they have enough water. ****!! they are worse than kids!! Have to come up with a better watering system. Got one in mind, will work on it when I get Lacy home. Sorry, thinking out loud. You will find out tomorrow, I am just a little crazy, but the good crazy.

haha all good

 

[crazychickenhug]

I understand I had great hatches I have almost 90 chicks.

 

[Starfire669]

I can hold him for you if you'd like

I am very tempted to ask you too. But 2 weeks is a long time to ask someone to hold a chicken, feeding and watering it. If you have a buyer, go ahead and sell him. I can get another from you later. A CL sounds like a possible candidate for my ladies, but I believe they are a little smaller than my ladies. What I would really truely like is a Barred Rock rooster. Same size and the Rocks have good temperaments too.

I can and will keep in touch, I am more interested in your CL Roo than any other at this point, but would feel awful if you held him for me and I found a Rock from a good healthy source. I have a month or 2 before my ladies start laying. Ideally I'd have a Roo before that, but since 6 pullets are joining the main flock I have to wait a couple weeks for them to resettle their pecking order before throwing another new bird in the mix.

On top of all that, 1 of my 2 youngest goslings is showing signs of perosis. I have been integrating them into the goose flock slowly, and noticed the limping, swollen joints, and slight inward twist to her leg last night. I am treating her and Ebony with a vitamin and mineral supplement. But I have my hands full with 2 limping ladies, a batch of ducklings, and integrating 2 chicken flocks and 2 goose flocks into 1 flock each.

 

[TherryChicken]

Wow poor you and its no prob

 

[Starfire669]

Wow poor you and its no prob

It's not that bad, just very busy. And I am the only one who knows everything going on with all the animals. I know who gets what supplements, got niacin/Brewer's yeast for the young waterfowl, vitamin/mineral supplement for the gosling and Ebony, and Blu-kote for my injured hen's eye. Figured it wouldn't hurt Ebony while she is healing. Ebony actually gets niacin and the vitamins, lol. I do fermented feed for my entire flock, which is rather interesting during breakfast and dinner, lol. My chickens get their 2nd de-wormer soon, as a precaution before egg laying starts. Currently am adding in the last 6 pullets to my flock of 19 chickens, the pullets are 7 weeks old. Am adding the last 2 geese to the older 6 geese. By the time this is all settled, my ducklings will be 3 weeks old and I will have to start planning their integration, lol.

I also do all my dogs maintanance, nail trims, foot pad shavings, grooming, monthly flea/tick medicine, and their food and vitamins. 4 siberian Huskies require a lot of care, the Rottwieller and Belgian Malinios not as much. I monitor my outside cats, and give them de-workers regularity since they eat mice and snakes, and set traps to catch feral cats for spay/neuter. I also have a rose garden that gets leaf spot from time to time. A strawberry patch I just finished weeding out and feeding to get them flowering again. Raspberries and blackberry plants just starting to fruit now, and just put in 2 grape plants yesterday. I need to go buy some more mulch, ran out halfway through the job, lol. planted a bougainvillea, it's suppose to be pretty for me and cover for the chickens when it gets bigger, lol. I need to weed and feed around my 4 new wisteria, and my gardenia. And replant some of my herb garden that the chickens destroyed before I fenced it off.

Basically I am kept busy. But it is much better than sitting on my rear feeling sorry for myself, letting my back pain control my life. Everyday is painful, but I get through it and have a sense of accomplishment because I was able to take care of things. My only complaint now is I wish I had a lot more land, then I could increase my garden and have more animals!