The Old Folks Home

[hennible]

RUN Polish RUN

 

[Amberjem]

OE is olive egger--chickens that lay olive green colored eggs.

These are Cream Legbar X Crele Penedesenca:



They lay:

ohh ty so much for explaining sorry got distracted and walked off to warm up

 

[Alaskan]

totally understandable.


I 'warmed up'. Amazing..... but it looks like I can still type coherently. Dudes, I ROCK!!!!!

 

[tridentk9]

Hey Felix- is this gonna be the new puppy's job?

 

[Alaskan]

 

[vehve]

k9, no, Kiusa does that already. I send her in with toilet paper for Karin, I don't dare go myself...

 

[Double Kindness]

Bama- my ac are so young, they aren't thinking about laying any eggs yet. Plus it's crazy cold, expect they would crack in shipping. If they were even laying. And I read where one shouldn't hatch the first few months of eggs anyways? Believe me, I wanna hatch some of the eggs too. I'm asking santa for incubators and brooder stuff. And ahem, more baby chicks in the spring. I'm definitely adding svart honas, another ac line and another white bresse line.

My roo in my layer flock is a pretty salmon favorelle x wellsummer x light brahma, I have mostly ee's, a polish, a rose comb leghorn, and 3 bantam ee's. I wanna hatch!! Buuutt, my bf is right. I need to concentrate on my ac and bresse and phase out my laying flock. I assume that to mean sell them for a few dollars in the spring to move either my ac or bresse into that coop/pen. So much for pretty colored egg baskets for me anymore. Pppfftt. Unless we magically happen to find our dream homestead here in CO, with gold claim and water etc. And the money to buy and build out said homestead. I'm obviously not into chickens for money, but my attraction to particular breeds. My bf joked with me saying oh I thought you did all your research before getting your first chickens and knew which breeds you wanted. Yes, but that was b/c the breeds I really wanted (ac, sh & white bresse) were (are) expensive breeds and seemed unobtainable, which happens to not be quite the case when one gets sucked into the dark side of chicken keeping and find those to enable the chicken madness by hooking one up with fancy chickens and vets to do crow reduction surgery. That kind of stuff can't be anticipated to happen, so while I dreamed of black fancy chickens, I was realistic and got ameracuna and easter eggers, my fancy splurge was a polish geesh. But I met my friend at a chicken swap who has the same year/make/model benz station wagon we have that has beautiful chickens like dwarf olandsk, ac, orpingtons of many types jubilee, mottled, red laced blue, red, white, black, chocolate bantam etc etc. So that is how I got sucked into these breeds. Because they became available to me.

This morning we woke up to crowing contest at 630. Not good. At all. Today if it warms up, I'm grabbing up a bunch of roosters and putting them in the barn in the greenhouse to withdraw from food. This must stop. Especially since our neighbor was so awesome to shovel our sidewalk 3 times in 24 hours. I think he would appreciate some korean fried chicken "superfan". Speckled sussex rooster number one, superfan 2 apparently is in my backyard. I suspect speckled sussex crow like excited sports fans. WHOOO HOOO! WHOOO HOOO! over and over non stop. Yes, this must end. Whoo hoo indeed. I love fried chicken.

 

[Wisher1000]

My ferocious LGD has made his first kill. He is 10 1/2 weeks old.

My house dog, Paisley, was digging after moles in the yard and managed to unearth one. Paisley takes it upon herself to protect the household from loathsome moles and homicidal squirrels. They are stealthy and cunning and she rarely catches them but this day she was victorious. She flung it aside to sniff and nose prod it a bit, as is her habit, before she applies her ninja death flea. The LGD pounced, taking the spoils of her hard work in his mouth, and making both DH and Paisley angry. They both felt that the house dog should have had it. She, after all, dug it up! So he chased the pup, who was trotting around happily with live mole hanging out each side of his mouth. DH caught the pup and had to pry it's fearsome jaws apart to release the prize. When the mole was released and fell to the ground, DH let go of the LGD pup to retrieve the mole for Paisley, but he was too slow. The pup was on the mole in a flash and this time swallowed the wicked beast whole. DH and Paisley looked on in bewilderment and the pup sported a look of triumphant satisfaction. Paisley stayed mad at DH and the pup for several hours. It does not help her ire that every time she finds a secluded spot to do her business and the pup notices her in mid evacuation, he runs full speed and bowls her over! She snaps and snarls and tries to reset to continue, but he does it again.

 

[hennible]

Lol wisher

DK I'm loving this brinsea bator I got.... But I'd go for the brinsea 20 advanced if I could change my mind now... Not that there's anything wrong with this little one just a digital readout to know what's going on inside would've been helpful...

 

[chickwhispers]

Hennible after your hatch please post your pros and cons of your model. I hope to get one next year but don't want to underestimate bells and whistles nor do I want to go overboard. But less work is better.