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[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah I'm going to be looking for eggs soon, will likely do the NYD hatch.

Someone a bit further south than me has silkies with 1 out of 4 being showgirls. I don't think I can take another showgirl and I'm not a big fan of silkies. Miss Piggy is very needy.

Spent all day in a stenciling fabric class... apparently I signed up for the wrong class because it was not what I thought it was going to be. Sigh. Well at least it will make a nice christmas present. But sheesh, pay attention to the task at hand so it's what you expect, SCG.

Have you considered Chanteclers? They would be perfect for your climate. Silkies not so much.

aside from breeds DD usually means dear daughter DS dear son DW dear wife DH dear husband GD grand daughter etc. SO significant other MIL mother-in-law

FIL father in law SOS - shoot,shovel, shut up

shoot, shovel, shut up is SSS

BTW = by the way TMI- too much information (especially of a personal nature)

TMI as in bodily functions

I know Aussies call chicks chooks and I believe in UK they are the same

I think they call all chickens chooks.

Hello all!
Cynthia lovely olive egg and the hen is just beautiful.

Well we finally got to peak color here in PA. Actually we were just past peak considering all the leaves that were down. I am hoping next year the temps will drop earlier so all the trees change at the same time or at least closer to each other. I was still able to get some lovelies yesterday. DH got home Friday evening and I drug him around with me yesterday morning for a few hours. I found a new area SCG and I can explore the next time she comes this way too.

Gorgeous pictures. It's weird here because it has been so warm so trees are changing at different times.

My olive eggs.

 

[getaclue]

dsq, the places in your pics look so serene. Nice!

 

[getaclue]

Today is coop deep cleaning day. DD#2 is going to help me. With my respiratory issues, it was difficult for me to just keep them fed, and watered. Now, I'm significantly better, and have been taking over all the main chores, but today I want to rake out, and turn the dirt in both sections of the coop. I know I can do at least 1 section by myself, but I'm not sure I can do both, so her help will enable me to get it all done.

It won't be much longer, and we will start building my coop here on our own property.

 

[Bunnylady]

@dsqard Lovin' the pics, as always!

If you want to talk weird, how's this - I have a plum tree that is full of blooms, courtesy of Matthew.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I'm usually referred to as diva but, sometimes they write DD but, I am not a darling daughter. Yes, SCG probably because it's so long to write superchemicalgirl, a pharmacist not a druggy.

Thank you for the very important clarification.

Have you considered Chanteclers? They would be perfect for your climate. Silkies not so much.

I actually have a pair (white). They're decent birds in weight and they're pretty calm birds. The girl is not laying. In fact I got zero eggs yesterday. No one is laying, it appears. The duck might still be laying sporadically and I think I saw a white leghorn in the nest box today, so I'm hopeful. I still have a broody turkey hen

Surprisingly the "not for northern climate" birds do pretty well here. We have a nice large, insulated coop but the "inappropriate birds" seem to not mind winter too much. The banties, the showgirl and the leghorns will be outside in significant sub-zero temperatures, while the big girls that are more suited to the climate sit inside the coop and look forlornly outside or stay huddled underneath the coop. I don't worry too much about "appropriateness" of breed anymore. I've had nothing freeze to death and relatively few comb/wattle frostbite cases (mostly wattle from dipping in the water and then freezing solid on the wattle almost instantly). Miss Piggy (the showgirl) gets a case of diarrhea or two during the winter for some reason for which she has to come inside and get a bath in the kitchen sink. She really likes the water sprayer on her butt as long as I get the water a nice warm temperature. She doesn't mind the hair dryer.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

And a public service announcement: change out the batteries in your smoke detectors today, y'all.

 

[microchick]

@dsqard your pictures are absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. We didn't have half the color that you have in our trees. DH was flying one of his FPV airplanes the other day and I was wearing the goggles for it. From the sky our timber is beautiful, decked out in bronze, red and gold but from the ground not so noticeable.

I did the fall coop clean out about the time the leaves started turning and falling so I could add them to my deep litter. Glad I only have to do that 3 times a year is all I can say.

Every time I see Olive colored eggs I find myself saying "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I am!"

 

[Beer can]

@superchemicalgirl
Pop in over on the naked neck turken thread, sure someone there would have eggs available for nyd hatch. Draye has some pretty cool different color projects going on, Nava breeds to standard colors, thinking of down the road getting her whites to add to mine. I'd send you some eggs for cost of shipping and handling but they aren't laying yet.
Dunlap hatchery is about the only hatchery that sells turken eggs, and about the only hatchery that sells them at reasonable prices, $1.40 ea and $14 shipping $4 ea dozen sh after first dz.
I'm thinking of getting a dz of theirs in the spring, would only be $30, and they have the S&G hatchery production broiler stock of turkens. I should just stick with what I got but it's very tempting. I wanted S&G birds but they only sell 100 chicks min or 5doz eggs when they did sell them.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Thanks for the reminder on that thread. I was on it a long time ago when I was doing project turkens. Then I found out no one around here wanted to purchase the extra birds, and stopped those projects.

I posted, and we'll see what comes of it.

I have a ton of incubator space, but I'm limited by my chicken coop and run size along with a current flock of mostly elderly hens. However, the 7 year olds are starting to die at a pretty fast rate now and I've got space to comfortably add a dozen or so birds. I will be trying to find some mutt eggs to hatch, too. I love the different colors (I enjoy being able to identify each bird on looks) and I might try to find some more pekin duck eggs to throw in there. The fox has not been good to us as far as ducks go, and I'm down to 2 girls.

I didn't hatch last year/this year and am regretting it.

 

[perchie.girl]

@superchemicalgirl
Pop in over on the naked neck turken thread, sure someone there would have eggs available for nyd hatch. Draye has some pretty cool different color projects going on, Nava breeds to standard colors, thinking of down the road getting her whites to add to mine. I'd send you some eggs for cost of shipping and handling but they aren't laying yet.
Dunlap hatchery is about the only hatchery that sells turken eggs, and about the only hatchery that sells them at reasonable prices, $1.40 ea and $14 shipping $4 ea dozen sh after first dz.
I'm thinking of getting a dz of theirs in the spring, would only be $30, and they have the S&G hatchery production broiler stock of turkens. I should just stick with what I got but it's very tempting. I wanted S&G birds but they only sell 100 chicks min or 5doz eggs when they did sell them.

Wow just peeked in to Dunlap Hatchery and am very impressed on just about everything.....

deb