The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

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Hey all!

I finally caught up again!

Friday was DH2B and my 4 year anniversary! Wow when did 4 years happen? lol guess we must like each other a bit
Saturday was a date day and massive amounts of running around.

Sunday in spite of waking up to temps 15+ degrees below what the weather said they would be and wind that just about blew the whole county away we processed birds and had our first fully successful uses of our whizzbang plucker.

We managed to only subtract 4 birds before cold and wet drove us inside. That afternoon grocery shopping. It was a busy weekend.

Monday we had a blizzard. Must be March in Wisconsin.


Curiosity question of the day..........

Do you all get that panicked look when a NON chicken person asks how many chickens you have? :lau (I know I do)

Yep. I've recently been working on a list of our flock. Something I've neglected since fall, with losing my Grandpa and then everything else we didn't get all the subtraction we had planned done. We all know non layers(cockerals, roosters, chicks and juveniles) don't count in chicken math. Lol

Anyhow I was quite shocked to get a better estimate.

My mother came over(she likes the birds) I asked how many she thought we had. Surrounded by most of the flock she replied about 60.... I had expected her to guess high and tell her we had less. I sure wasn't going to tell her the other direction. Especially not that much in the other direction.

We didn’t get around to the pig until today. DH and my brother are taking care of the actual killing right now while I hide inside with my coffee. My job is packaging and cooking. Got my freezer paper ready and the oven preheating.

Yep that's where I would be for the killing part.


While we are waiting, enjoy some baby pictures!View attachment 1284175 View attachment 1284176
Cadbury Easter egg bunnies!

Awww!!!! What breed? Do you guys raise them for meat?

My splash and blue Marans eggs are in the mail with a delivery date of 3/8, and they will be set 3/9. I'm soooooo excited! However, I really don't have room for the Bielefender eggs I was planning on hatching... But I may do it anyway. I haven't decided yet. :oops:


You can send those bielefelder eggs right to me. ;) I have room lol.

Yep, me too. My husband has dreams of a barn full of tractors/cars, but I dream of a barn with horses, turkeys, chickens, ducks, etc.

rofl
Yeah those pesky non-chicken people have the strangest wishes don't they?

LOL I'm lucky that my DH2B isn't completely one of those people although he is a farmer and does like tractors trucks and cars he also loves animals and livestock.

I know I'm a lucky woman. I still am going to have a hard time getting him to agree to goats too. Apparently the goats they had when he was a kid were terribly naughty.
 
You can get such great breeds!

Can you get Pita Pinta eggs? Hurry before Brexit! Spain and Germany should have them if not the Uk

I can’t find any Pita Pinta eggs or birds here at all in the U.K. :idunno

Don’t get me started on Brexit! It’s a crock and it’s not going to end up what we voted for in my opinion. So could probably get eggs sent over even after Brexit.
 

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