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I don't think there's anything cuter than a hen with chicks..... Congrats! Thanks for sharing the photos!
 
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And if you have kids that take a liking to having chickens then your numbers increase too!!
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Nope - we "are" the kids. DH loves them as much as me though, and is looking forward to learning the incubator, too. We just need to research, figure out what we want, and commit. He already has plans for converting part of our barn into "chicken habitat"...

that's great, our DS(9) was the one to ask if we could get some chicks and it built from there and now each of the kids(3) have picked out a breed to work with and I added a couple myself so we have 5 breeds. Of course DD(11) wants to be able to take all of them to fair! DH is also hooked
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built us a bigger coop and helps with them.
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Nope - we "are" the kids. DH loves them as much as me though, and is looking forward to learning the incubator, too. We just need to research, figure out what we want, and commit. He already has plans for converting part of our barn into "chicken habitat"...

that's great, our DS(9) was the one to ask if we could get some chicks and it built from there and now each of the kids(3) have picked out a breed to work with and I added a couple myself so we have 5 breeds. Of course DD(11) wants to be able to take all of them to fair! DH is also hooked
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built us a bigger coop and helps with them.
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It's a family affair! Very cool!
 
Batch 1 of Wellies are feathered in now. The blonde chick is almost solid brown color. Feathered in VERY DIFFERENT from all the chipmunk colored Wellies. Little Cassidy is still hoping along on her one leg and the other hangs off to the side and makes life difficult for her. I can finally feel a proper knee joint though. Will have to read the podiatry section and see if there is any hope for stretching that tendon out many times a day and lengthening it enough to finally get it to pop onto the knee joint. The process has never worked yet, nor all the splints, etc. She is going to have to go to freezer camp by the time she is another couple of months old. I guess we will just get to see how well she feathers in. Looks like a proper Wellie compared to all the second hand breeder to breeder to me Ideal Hatchery line Wellies.

Batch 2 of the Wellies are out of the small brooder and into a large cardboard box. That last pullet's egg chick is TINY.

Batch 1 is set up in a 2 foot by 7 foot run along the basement wall with pine shavings and a chicken wire barrier. The high basement window is open above them, so OF COURSE the temps went from 95 days 75 nights down to 58 degrees this morning! At least they are a month old and well feathered in and the size of double fists together. I was surprised at how big they got this last couple of days!

The TSC MT HEALTHY NHR and Gold Comets (5 girls 1 boy) went to join the 4 layer hens in the pit green house. The hens are taking turns keeping them cornered! I had to sit with them and set up barriers, but those hens scare the bejazzes out of the younguns even though they are nearly the same size. The TSC ones are REALLY SWEET cause I spent so much time with them. I can pick them up and hold them and pet them and the layer hens just run away and squawk. This is day two. I'm thinking of putting up a MAZE to confuse those layers a bit. BIG MEANIES!

Sheared 17 alpacas yesterday. Lovely time shearing, not at all stressful. Outdoors and 85 light breeze. There were several cuts and bleeders though and a couple had to get stitches. Not in as good of 'condition' as they should have been. Shearing my herd of 26 just 2 days before, the alpacas were in better flesh and skin wasn't loose from weight loss and no nicks from the blades at all. We are looking into possible reasons as to why the herd of 17 are in that shape. Hay wasn't as good as last year, possibly too much copper, only major change I saw there was the use of OLD CISTERN WATER for their drinking water all winter. The hydes were very THIN as well. Skin should have been a bit thicker. This is all not a good thing as I have 3 of my alpacas there!

Got another 6x8 section of ragweed pulled up and cleared off of the garden bed area, finished up just as the downpour hit. This is great because the top layer was all alpaca manure that had rotted all winter and that needs to get really soaked and rewet. Now I can go out with the shovel and turn that earth over and it will really do a better job of holding the moisture in at the root level. My fines sand drains and dries out REALLY FAST.

Anybody in NORTHWEST OHIO know of a farm house rental with small barn/pasture, prefer Sandusky County, I am looking to move by Sept 1st!! Cheers all.
Bonnie
 
Collecting eggs to ship to McSpin. Eggs for Vanalpaca are on day 10 in the incubator. 7 welsummer hens giving me 4 to 5 eggs daily. It's been hot but has started to return to more normal temperatures. Life is good.
 
Wanted to update on these 2 chicks on page 450 - post 4500. They are now 3 weeks old and the only slight difference when I posted the 1st photos was the eye liner on 1 was just slightly lighter than the other. These are pics I took today, the chick with the bigger comb is the same that had the slightly lighter eyeliner. No question now that I have a pair
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So cute!
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