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[jockeyeba]

Just sitting in my chair or here in the chicken pen watching the Turkeys chase the dogs it of here lol The rooster I was given is doing better I lost four chicks to the cold yesterday morning last nightthe lamp in the outside brooder went out lost one of my polish chicks and the other is in pretty rough shape. Found it and it barley moved have been keeping it warm I'm my coat with me for an hour and now it's moving a bit and is opening it's eyes and chirping And that is my cake I made last night just thought I would show it off

How pretty is that cake! It looks delicious.

Beautiful cake

 

[jockeyeba]

My hubby decided to surprise me with a new brooder, today...he just sent me a picture of it....

So glad he feeds my addiction....

 

[yinepu]

Quote: He actually emailed me, today, and told me to stop by the store on the way home and pick up four more guinea fowl. Not chickens **le sigh**. However, considering I have 41 eggs in the incubator, 13 chicks I'm picking up tomorrow, 24 eggs to arrive March 25th (

) and...that's it for right now....I guess I can be cool with four more guinea fowl. Especially at $1 a guinea.

just get some assorted color guinea eggs...

 

[jockeyeba]

Yeah I saw that they could cross also the other day and some of the pics I saw makes me think only a face a mother could love!!! Right now I have the keats with the baby chicks but I'm gonna seperate them in a couple of weeks. Darn sure I don't want any little accidents! Cause knowing my luck it will be like when the neighbors sorry looking longhorn bull got in with my cows and I found out 10 months later that he bred 3 cows in 3 days while apparently my high dollar registered bull layed in the shade! Lol!!!!'

Sorry I know it's not funny

 

[yinepu]

my DW is slowly coming around...i just make sure and bring home the chicks that she thinks are pretty!......"But baby, they are the silver laved w-breed (she had a hard time with wyandotte at first, lol) you know the ones you said were pretty!" and "these will lay you some pretty greenish blue eggs" and "these have the crazy hair-do's you like (polish)" lol!

eventually she will either break down, or catch on....not sure which one though!

You don't want to know the final total of eggs my husband got me for my birthday

he likes the birds ok.. but in a different way.. not that they are"pretty'.. but "how soon can they be dinner" kind of way.....

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Our feed store. When the keets get to be about a week or so old, they drop the price so they can move them faster. That's when I try to buy.

BTW - check this out: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Guineas/BRKGuinHybrid.html

I was considering roost training the keets so they would come back to the run at night to be locked up safe from predators...so, I wondered if Guinea Fowl and Chickens could cross breed....cuz if they could, I'd want to keep them out of my breeding lines pens....and...what do you know....apparently, they can indeed cross breed.......I'm still feeling rather befuddled by that.

yeah they can.. and can also cross breed with a few other types of birds as well

Yeah I saw that they could cross also the other day and some of the pics I saw makes me think only a face a mother could love!!! Right now I have the keats with the baby chicks but I'm gonna seperate them in a couple of weeks. Darn sure I don't want any little accidents!

Cause knowing my luck it will be like when the neighbors sorry looking longhorn bull got in with my cows and I found out 10 months later that he bred 3 cows in 3 days while apparently my high dollar registered bull layed in the shade! Lol!!!!'

I dunno.. I think some of them are kinda cute...

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not only is the crossing rare.. but the offspring tend to have very short lives.. most never make it to a year of age

 

[Kilsharion]

just get some assorted color guinea eggs...

ooooh.....I likey.....wait!! Is this an enabling moment?

 

[yinepu]

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ooooh.....I likey.....wait!! Is this an enabling moment?

a... what???.. enable???.. ... me??... nah..... you're just thinking of someone else.... yeah.. that's it....

 

[KnobbyOaks]

Hey all!

Good news; DH and I just rented a house on 1 acre in Conroe!

I have never had chickens, but am excited to get some once we are settled. Any people in Conroe out there? Where do you get your chicks?

Welcome to Chickendom.

 

[KnobbyOaks]

My hubby decided to surprise me with a new brooder, today...he just sent me a picture of it....

So glad he feeds my addiction....

That's really nice. Lucky you!!!!

 

[Kilsharion]

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Thanks...not bad for scraps put to good use.......he was driving down the road and saw a construction crew. Stopped and asked them if they had any scrap they were tossing. They did. He got it all for free. Had some scrap wire around (we have tons of the stuff)....and viola...a hour or so of labour and a "free" brooder was "born".... He's the king of scrounging, I swear.