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[La Casa de Pollo]

Sphinx-Good Luck on those eggs! If two is all you want ultimately, you have GOT to get that many, right? How fun to watch them and wait for the babies to pop out.

Bird-man, we also have a garden....big....one of our poplar trees is getting so wide it is making some shade on one corner so I am thinking I might grow some greens for my girls in that area. I love my garden, and really we buy hardly any produce from July to November, we have a lot of fruit trees too, the biggest problem is the time to process it all as the kids are starting school. I am exhausted my mid September! I am thinking this would be a great place to post my excess goodies to share with my local chicken friends. This year I gave several boxes of apples, beets for pickling, carrots to neighbors and such. We could have a garden swap. I also was thinking this year I would grow some of the black oil sunflowers at the end of my chicken run for shade and treats for my girls. That stuff is too expensive at the feed store.

One thing I have LOVED, is my chickens like to eat up my outdated food storage. I hate throwing things out, and I am a food storage maniac like no one I have ever met haha....so I keep buying new and could not figure out how to bring myself to throw out the older stuff. But my girls love the cream of wheat, oats, cornmeal, cracked corn, and I have cooked up barley, rice and wheat to soften it and they eat that pretty well. Saves on feed too...so long as I do not mess up their diet too bad

We also bought flax seed because it is so heart healthy but me and my DH cannot gag those seeds down so my girls get to be the healthy ones I suppose...same thing with quinoa.....at least it will not go to waste

no chicken heart attacks at my ranch haha!!

 

[PoultryPedia]

When you feed flax seed, if you can--grind it up into flax seed meal (You can use a coffee grinder, or I'm sure there are other ways). Whole flax seeds pass through the body's system with little digestion. If you grind up the seeds, the body can digest them much, much better. However, flax seed meal goes rancid faster than whole seeds. It helps to keep it in the refrigerator & use it up within 3 months or so of when you grind it.

I bought some flax seed meal in the bulk section at Winco Foods for my chickens who've had health struggles. I think they're not really fond of it, but do eat it in the food mixes I give them.

I've tried the flax seed meal, & think it is soooo yummy on raisin bran cereal!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

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Thanks for telling me that! I never would have thought to grind it. For them OR for us

I could throw them in my wheat grinder, or coffee bean grinder....I wonder if my DH would notice the ground up version on his oatmeal lol. I will do that for my girls too, if we cannot eat them I would much rather my girls have them in a healthy form than waste them. Good idea

 

[Cynthia12]

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So sad I hope your dog gets through ok! Yorkies are so adorable..you should share a pic of your dog AND your partridge rock.....then we can see the whole family

I love that your mom's name is LeVerne! That worked out great lol! I want to try NH too, I read from another BYC'er that they lay great like the sex links but in her flock she has to cull the sex links after 18-24 months and the NH in her flock go 5 plus years. She has been raising chickens for over 20 yrs I guess and says her fave for longevity and great laying are White Rock, NH, and BA. Sounds like she knows her business, so that is where I got my wishlist, I thought I would try those breeds out when we get more chicks in the Spring. I hope you have good luck with yours! They are pretty, like the red hens in the kids stories my Grandma used to read me

It is so fun to have different kinds and be amazed at how different and pretty they all are...I am like a kid in the candy store and I want one of every flavor. It is so addicting

I have to share! I candled my NH tonight..all 13 are still going strong..and..something that I have never seen before...a heart beating! It was fast. I've heard of others talking about it, but this is my first time after all this time of incubating. It was pretty cool, had to call my teen in to see.

Wed. is lock down.
Ok, have to ask, what is BA? Don't laugh...I will..lol...I've heard that white rocks are good layers too...I love a white chicken in my yard, with a black.

My black "girl" is growing big time. She's already bigger than my little lavender cochins.
I will have to get a picture of my Dallas...that's my Yorkie. I have one of him as a pup, but not a recent. He is a big Yorkie. Won't have much hair. All the things I wanted in a Yorkie. They come with a lot of hair, and small, or not so much hair, and larger. The up keep won't be too bad when it comes to hair cuts.

My sis has the long haired one..oh boy, not for me. Our guy is only 7 months old, and he will be a while before he gets more silver on his back, it's just starting to come in. More on his head. Scott calls him..Skunky Monkey. (white stripe)

Black Australorp!

I knew I knew it!!

 

[Cynthia12]

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Hi Speckled! I do have some flax seed in my refrigerator right now! Does it have to be ground to be given to the chickens? It's pretty small.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

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Good job haha! You are so funny

This post made me laugh, truly, out loud haha! That is exciting about your eggs. I wish I lived closer, I would be driving over for a look

It is especially cool they are hatching just in time for Christmas. You should name them, prancer, dancer, comet, vixen......lol

 

[Cynthia12]

Here's a few pics of my little guy that just cried and cried when we went into the vets this morning..he knew something was up..this was taken at the last part of last month, he has new brown leather collar now..

He has some silver/blue, coming in on his back finally.. I guess that takes time..

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

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HE IS ADORABLE! You have good taste in pets, both dogs and chickens included

 

[Sphinx]

He is very cute!


Yeah, I figure if my ultimate goal is 1-2 pullets, and there's 12 in the incubators, I may get what I want. I hope! Maybe it's because I've heard such bad things about shipped eggs, but I'm not feeling terribly optimistic. I'm wondering if I can hold off and not candle at all until day 7. I think I can wait til day 4, but day 7? Tough.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Here are a few pics of my Chabo. Sorry it took so long, I am still looking for my camera so here are some from my phone

She is going to make me crazy being broody all the time, but she is really cute so I try forgive her. I might try to put some fertile eggs under her this Spring. Cynthia, does this look like your neighbor/friend's? They are crazy little things.

She is showing off her tail:

Claiming her stake on this bale of straw:

She won, the BO is jumping down

My violet, she is the sweetest of them all. She seriously comes up and rubs her head on my arm or leg
like a dog does. She also comes to the back patio glass door and pecks on it to try and convince us to
let her in. The others would never dare go up to the people house like that.