The cruelty has started!

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I received 5 more seed catalogs today. Havent signed up for any chicken catalogs though. The seed catalogs are tempting enough!
 
Ok....I feel BETTER! I've been DROOLING over all the seed catalogs and one of my broody pullets had JUST hatched some fertile eggs. So I have discovered the JOY of broody pulllets (got two more broodies - one sitting on eggs....and ordered more eggs for the other one!!!)

I'm in the 'fantasy' stage of "discovering" all the hatching and sprouting possibilities! The WORST catalogs are the ones with the AWESOME photos! I too have been drooling over my chicken breeds books....figuring out how I can fit a couple more here or there! (Just like the 'garden'!!!) Man on man...this is the WORST part of Winter....when you start getting all those glorious catalogs....and start dreaming of the new season...and it's still 10 degrees outside!

But having lived in a "nice" year-round climate, I prefer the COLD of winter to remind me to ENJOY the beauties of the warmer times! (Plus...it's hard to drool over catalogs if it's a great beach day AGAIN!) Enjoy my chickies.

Now...off to look at more catalogs...the garden porn awaits!

(my husband gets his car parts catalogs...and it's the same with him - carporn!)
 
Ok, I have what may seem an obvious question. What do you all DO with all those chickies once they arrive? I started out with 20 domineckers with 12 hens and one decided to go broody and hatched a surviving 7 more hens.... kept one rooster, sent the rest to freezer camp. But now, in the middle of winter my birds aren't molting???? (although their plumage has turned brownish no feathers are falling out) . The older ladies' production is lower but the new girls have started to lay. As a result, I have a refrigerator full of eggs! If you keep buying more and more birds every year, what do you do with them? I would think you would have chickens coming out of your ears!
 
I don't have any roosters so fortunately I don't have oodles and oodles of fertile eggs! I only have 6 pullets and my broody is just a 'surrogate' to the hatchlings. I don't have the space for gobs of chickens so that's my solution. (She only hatched 2 eggs...and my broody is sitting on 3 right now). They'll probably be given back to the WONDERFUL person who bestowed me with the eggs! (That or sold to people who're interested in breeding them.)

Also...Chickenstocks help too!
 
Uh-oh! Dangerous times are ahead! I'm definitely breeding some seramas on my own already, but what I'm afraid of is the feed stores.
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Once spring hits and the feed stores start stocking different breeds, and I go in "just to look"... Gulp.

I don't have room in my coop to be adding more than two or three more!
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I know I'm going to get my brother a new bantam cochin (his bantam cochin died of heat stroke last year
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), other than that I'm going to try very hard to resist!
 
heh, i've been getting my seed/plant catalogs, but i haven't seen any for the hatcheries yet!
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i think my dh is hiding or throwing them out on me if they've started coming in.

i just have to remind myself that i've got a couple more weeks and i can get those hatching eggs i've been drooling for!
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(hatcheries don't carry what i want! banty salmon favs!)
 
^ You and me both... it's no big deal right now. No one HAS chickies.
But come spring... I'ma have to avoid the feed store like the plague until I've got a coop.

Assuming of course I ever make up my mind... the threat of Denton has me reanalyzing my original idea.
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Rebel, you are a cruel cruel man
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... to humans anyways.
Sheesh, why the heck didn't B warn me about this?!?! Egads!
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