The Quack Shack

Trimurtisan · Jan 21, 2020

quackiemama said:
Chris glad to see you back. We have missed you! The life of a parent, huh?

Did you mention petite dish life?

How is your day going?

Miss Lydia · Jan 21, 2020

Trimurtisan said:
I'm in the Longwood area, maybe 30 minutes east of Apopka. So probably not to far from you. I'd be more than happy to spread some of the GL chicks around.

Nice choice in eggs! I totally understand getting order happy. Chocolate Cuckoo huh? I might know a guy interested in some of those if they're sold. He's got an addiction to anything... well feathered, fluffy, and different than what ther next guy has. I'll go ahead and tag him now...
@Trimurtisan

These are from when she decided to quite the breed. But you can see it was not even a month ago. She might have more available.
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I knew it!

Trimurtisan · Jan 21, 2020

Tooshay89 said:
Hah! You sound like me - addicted to anything farm related. Poultry is seriously a gateway farm drug. Is that how the saying goes? I don't know. Anyway, I started with chickens a few years ago when we lived in a neighborhood in the city where everyone had chickens. Then we bought a house in a snooty HOA neighborhood (which we didn't find out was snooty until AFTER we bought it, obviously. It was in the HOA documents originally that we could have chickens. And I did. So they changed the rules and made me get rid of them, because they didn't want anyone having chickens. It was a whole thing.) So in a revenge type of red-head rage, I bought 10 acres directly across the street from said neighborhood specifically to move my chickens to (and eventually live and build a house on.) We finally moved over 3 months ago, and it's glorious. Our old snooty neighborhood can hear our roosters, so that's a plus. Okay, now I'm off topic again.

I'm in Leesburg (smallish town about 45 minutes north of Orlando.) Google maps says Longwood is about an hour and 12 minutes from me, not too bad! I'm guessing I'll have a ton of chicks in about a month, most of which will need homes. I'm trying to add about 10 new layers this spring, but that's about it. I usually end up giving away extra chicks that I don't need to other farms or 4H kids since a friend of mine runs their school's 4H program.

I pre-ordered Welsh Harlequin eggs and some Saxony. So I'm hoping those will come in in either February or March so I can incubate those and start on my duck adventure. My husband veto-ed a miniature cow, so I went with ducks.

So yeah, in all seriousness, golden laced orpingtons are on my high priority list. I'd typically have one of each "color" of orpington in my flock, but I'd really like to have a golden laced rooster and some more GL hens.

Haha, that's got to be one of the better revenge stories I've read recently. I love it. We got lucky here. I'm on county land, and have pretty awesome neighbors. So far nobody had complained about crowing.

Tooshay89 said:
other farms or 4H kids since a friend of mine runs their school's 4H program.

I have 2 French Golden Cuckoo Marans cockerels that are ~2.5 weeks old. They come from a private breeder and the parents are pretty large. I was going to list them on mewe, but if you or a 4H student could use them I'd happily donate them.