Utah!

[RedIII]

I was up there the weekend before. Had an awesome time! It would be fun to be snowed up there if you had enough food/bait

That's great! I'm glad you got to go. We would have stayed if we didn't have to be back for work this week. They weren't going to push the roads for a couple of days, though, so we had to leave when we could.

Teria, lovely egg rainbow

RJ, I am looking forward to pie day, but for a different reason.....it's our anniversary

Welcome, cheepcheep! I hope you enjoy your stay here and can find some eggs to take home. Perhaps someone with some knowledge of breeders in the Sandy area will pop in by tomorrow?

 

[Spinning Carrie]

@RJSorensen - I teach sixth grade, the first year they actually use π in math class. We have a π day celebration where students bring in pies, and we eat them! They get extra bonus points if they have a note saying they helped to bake it (real life use of fractions, weights and measurements . Really, I love any excuse to bake and eat!

Carrie

 

[RJSorensen]

I do enjoy your name, the spinning part is intriguing, do you by chance 'spin' wool or othernfiber? or is it as in bicycles… perhaps other. A fun handle nonetheless. Were I not a Chicken George, I might try yours instead. And Pie Day is very important. Thank you for teaching…

RJ

 

[Spinning Carrie]

Thank you for the compliment, I do spin! Wool mostly, sometimes with other fibers such as angora and mohair mixed with the wool. I spin by both drop spindle, and wheel. I have always been fascinated by handcrafts, since I was little. I am pretty sure I was the only girl in my sophomore year of high school who had a quilting frame set up in her bedroom! If it weren't for my love of indoor plumbing, I would say I was born in the wrong time.

I love to teach, I have a great time with my students. In fact, I make them try drop spindling when we do our medieval unit, and I currently have a Cornish game hen mummifying in salt in my classroom for our Egypt study. We also bake bread (microorganisms and heat), and the students start seedlings in a greenhouse I got with a grant to plant in our school flowerbeds (heat and light energy). I'm trying to work out a tie to my curriculum so I could keep chickens and bees on the school premises, but haven't figured it out yet.

Carrie

 

[crazy Sandy]

Hey I'm from Texas but visiting family. Do you guys know where I can get chickens around Salt Lake or Sandy by Friday?
The breeds I'm interested in are
Wellsummers
Easter Eggers
Favacaunas
Trying to get some color in my egg carton. Thx!

chicks or full grown I have hatched favacaunas and olive eggers and wellsummers mix with goldencoukoo marans.(3 weeks old) and more hatching tomorrow I also have some 15 week old specaled Sussex , and Australorp

 

[lizardandchicks]

Awesome experience yesterday. I volunteer on Tuesdays at Peterson farms, and they usually have me collect eggs. I did that, and they had a broody, so I checked the eggs like I always do with their broodys (they have at least 5 roosters, so it is possible). They usually don't have any development, but this time when I candled them (just with my phone flashlight), I could see veins in them and large black forms. I had collected all eggs last week, so they are less than a week, or a week old. Because I didn't think there was anything in them, I had jostled them a ton, and they were away from the heat for 5 minutes, more or less. I put them back under, and when I told farmer Luke, he just shrugged, and asked which nest box she was in. As long as I didn't kill them, and nobody else takes them out from under her, they might have chicks in 2ish more weeks. It was cool to see that as I have never candled developing fertile eggs. Just thought I would share my excitement.

 

[RedIII]

Thank you for the compliment, I do spin!  Wool mostly, sometimes with other fibers such as angora and mohair mixed with the wool.  I spin by both drop spindle, and wheel. I have always been fascinated by handcrafts, since I was little.  I am pretty sure I was the only girl in my sophomore year of high school who had a quilting frame set up in her bedroom! If it weren't for my love of indoor plumbing, I would say I was born in the wrong time.

I love to teach, I have a great time with my students.  In fact, I make them try drop spindling when we do our medieval unit, and I currently have a Cornish game hen mummifying in salt in my classroom for our Egypt study.  We also bake bread (microorganisms and heat), and the students start seedlings in a greenhouse I got with a grant to plant in our school flowerbeds (heat and light energy).  I'm trying to work out a tie to my curriculum so I could keep chickens and bees on the school premises, but haven't figured it out yet.  

Carrie

Okay, that is all cool. Why couldn't you be my teacher in grade school?! I love that you know how to spin. It seems like such a useful and awesome skill

 

[Cynthia12]

Okay, that is all cool. Why couldn't you be my teacher in grade school?! I love that you know how to spin. It seems like such a useful and awesome skill

X's 2!

 

[Cynthia12]

TSC is getting some chicks in on the 15th. We finally have one of those stores down this way.

 

[rcstanley]

So I candled my eggs yesterday (just under 3 days) and was slightly bummed because I only saw 1 egg with any growth. I candled again today and it looks like a few more are showing signs of life. So if you're wondering if a day makes that much difference, it does.

Now back to waiting for day 7 when I'm actually supposed to candle...