Utah!

[corvidae]

I just checked the raffle winners list from chickenstock (it's on the chickenstock thread)--looks like I won some hatching eggs for Lemon Orpingtons! Ack! Now I have to build ANOTHER coop!!!

 

[Sphinx]

Love the pictures Cynthia!!!

I was off at girl scout camp so I didn't get a chance to miss you guys.


So after a very protracted hatch, Fred finally hatched at 8:30 this morning. I happened to find a hot spot at camp and was able to watch. Now it seems the camera is off air, so I haven't been able to see if his legs are ok or not.


I'm dying to hear about chickenstock.

 

[slvrphoenix]

I just checked the raffle winners list from chickenstock (it's on the chickenstock thread)--looks like I won some hatching eggs for Lemon Orpingtons! Ack! Now I have to build ANOTHER coop!!!

And the treats to give them congrats.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Hi my friends

I missed you guys today! Donna----no chickens on your list, sorry! Actually there were not hardly any chickens for sale....i was really glad I went, to meet people, but the chickens were mostly pre-arranged sales and not much shopping. LOVED riding with Sasha, we talked about everything under the sun, it was tons of fun. We had a nice Cinco de mayo lunch with my youngest son that rode with us. The Blue wheatens are beautiful!!! Love the birds...Cindy's is definitely the most gorgeous....Sasha and I both loved that one...it is a Splash Blue Wheaten. I wanted it....but I had committed to taking the older ones so I did...Red's little chicks are ADORABLE teeny little cute babies. Pretty sure there is one of each. Only one girlish left in the three to choose from, i am pretty sure the other one may be a boy. But you never know! Had the best visit at Slvrphoenix and blujems house. Cute baby goats, way smaller than I thought, I got to feed one a bottle, how fun was that! And got to visit with my good friends Loved it. Will post a pic of that when I can get it off my phone. Seemed like there were goats everywhere. And chickens lol. That is one of the sweetest families I have ever met. Always love visiting out there, they just really need to throw me out when I stay so long!

Birdguy is awesome. Big family, he now has my lav roo Fonzie, and many leftover 4-h chicks. The 4 h kids had a great turnout, just not as much chicken swapping as we had hoped. A few of the fun breeders could not come, so maybe next year! We met rfunnyfarm too, she was supernice.

Here is the bummer. Sasha came over to my house afterward, we got her chicks loaded (2 hatched today total, still 4 eggs in bator, one chirping) I dusted the two new pullets. Took them out of the box and guess what? One has completely curled in toes. It walks really low to the ground and hobbles around. It's feet are really wrong---when we picked them up they were all four together (My 2, Sasha's and Cindy's) and they looked so pretty, but I never noticed the feet. They were in a kennel and this one was sitting on the floor so it just never occurred to me to look at the feet. I am bummed out about it because the last thing I wanted was to buy one that would need to be put down....it will never be able to run or get away from the bigger girls so I do not know how to ever introduce it to the flock....


What do you guys make of this? Seller is from Montana--pretty hard to return it. They come from the most beautiful blue eggs, and the hatching eggs I picked up are really nice. I am torn--I was so excited, and now I am so bummed out Could this be an injury from transporting ? I was thinking this is a birth defect, but tell me what you know!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Oh also---you guys may have surely won raffle prizes----I had to have the numbers to check to see the winners, Birdguy had a master list of each number and who it belonged to but it would have been a real task to go through the list of each person, then match the names all up with numbers. so I gave up! But you can check the chickenstock thread to see. have not gone there yet but i saw a post that it was up. I really wanted to check and let everybody know but it was too complicated with the numbers. Sasha and I both won a 19.95 gift cert to a chicken online store, cannot remember the name. We were supposed to pick the gift cert up at Birdguy's house but he had bunch of chicks and I got distracted and forgot, imagine that! i was trying to talk myself out of getting that third icelandic, if they looked more girlish I would have likely done it

Edit---Donna I checked that list and saw your name two times! yay!

 

[Cynthia12]

Hi my friends

I missed you guys today! Donna----no chickens on your list, sorry! Actually there were not hardly any chickens for sale....i was really glad I went, to meet people, but the chickens were mostly pre-arranged sales and not much shopping. LOVED riding with Sasha, we talked about everything under the sun, it was tons of fun. We had a nice Cinco de mayo lunch with my son. The Blue wheatens are beautiful!!! Love the birds...Cindy's is definitely the most gorgeous....Sasha and I both loved that one...it is a Splash Blue Wheaten. I wanted it....but I had committed to taking the older ones so I did...Red's little chicks are ADORABLE teeny little cute babies. Pretty sure there is one of each. Only one girlish left in the three to choose from, i am pretty sure the other one may be a boy. But you never know! Had the best visit at Slvrphoenix and blujems house. Cute baby goats, way smaller than I thought, I got to feed one a bottle, how fun was that! And got to visit with my good friends

Loved it. Will post a pic of that when I can get it off my phone. Seemed like there were goats everywhere. And chickens lol. That is one of the sweetest families I have ever met. Always love visiting out there, they just really need to throw me out when I stay so long!
Birdguy is awesome. Big family, he now has my lav roo Fonzie, and many leftover 4-h chicks. The 4 h kids had a great turnout, just not as much chicken swapping as we had hoped. A few of the fun breeders could not come, so maybe next year! We met rfunnyfarm too, she was supernice.
Here is the bummer. Sasha came over to my house afterward, we got her chicks loaded (2 hatched today total, still 4 eggs in bator, one chirping) I dusted the two new pullets. Took them out of the box and guess what? One has completely curled in toes. It walks really low to the ground and hobbles around. It's feet are really wrong---when we picked them up they were all four together (My 2, Sasha's and Cindy's) and they looked so pretty, but I never noticed the feet. They were in a kennel and this one was sitting on the floor so it just never occurred to me to look at the feet. I am bummed out about it because the last thing I wanted was to buy one that would need to be put down....it will never be able to run or get away from the bigger girls so I do not know how to ever introduce it to the flock....


What do you guys make of this? Seller is from Montana--pretty hard to return it. They come from the most beautiful blue eggs, and the hatching eggs I picked up are really nice. I am torn--I was so excited, and now I am so bummed out

Could this be an injury from transporting ? I was thinking this is a birth defect, but tell me what you know!

How old is that chick? I would try doing the black electical tape on it. Although, it does look older from what I can see..may not work now. Chickens walk around just fine with "ugly" toes. lol..It does walk ok doesn't it? That's all that counts, but, if it isn't walking well, that is a different story. Sorry.

Sounds like you had a blast. It's always fun to meet new people. I still say, since I started raising chickens, that I have met the best folks ever!

 

[corvidae]

Lisa-- You can coban that chicks legs (wrap them so it supports the joint) and you can try making splints for the toes with pipe cleaners and tape wrapped around. It is a big pain in the butt, and I've only had it help once. However, you saw my son's bird "Gimpy". She gets around just fine, lays a nice light blue egg and seems to be Second-In-Command in the coop (though the Andalusians are trying to stage a coup). Might be worth a try...

The boys will be very happy we won something in the raffle--I never win ANYTHING! Not sure what i will do with Lemon Orpington eggs, though. Sounds very intriguing, but I really would have to build yet another coop. Maybe I will try to hatch them out and sell most of them? Keep one or two? I dunno!!! Sheesh, I am such a hatchaholic, I'll probably end up just adding yet another chicken variety so I can breed them!

Sphinx-- I hope your late hatcher is doing okay! I tried to look on the web cam, but, as you said, it ain't showing anything, dagnabit! You'll have to update us on Monday.

I hope they have another Chickenstock next year--if I plan it better, I can request that time off and take a bunch of chicks up to sell/trade/bribe with!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

How old is that chick?  I would try doing the black electical tape on it. Although, it does look older from what I can see..may not work now. Chickens walk around just fine with "ugly" toes. lol..It does walk ok doesn't it?  That's all that counts, but, if it isn't walking well, that is a different story.  Sorry.

 Sounds like you had a blast.  It's always fun to meet new people.  I still say, since I started raising chickens, that I have met the best folks ever!

It does not walk well at all. It wont standup tall--it crouches low and crawls/waddles. It looks to me about the same age as the lavenders...3 months, maybe a titch older. I do agree on the chicken friends, they are the best

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Lisa-- You can coban that chicks legs (wrap them so it supports the joint) and you can try making splints for the toes with pipe cleaners and tape wrapped around. It is a big pain in the butt, and I've only had it help once. However, you saw my son's bird "Gimpy". She gets around just fine, lays a nice light blue egg and seems to be Second-In-Command in the coop (though the Andalusians are trying to stage a coup). Might be worth a try...

The boys will be very happy we won something in the raffle--I never win ANYTHING! Not sure what i will do with Lemon Orpington eggs, though. Sounds very intriguing, but I really would have to build yet another coop. Maybe I will try to hatch them out and sell most of them? Keep one or two? I dunno!!! Sheesh, I am such a hatchaholic, I'll probably end up just adding yet another chicken variety so I can breed them!

Sphinx-- I hope your late hatcher is doing okay! I tried to look on the web cam, but, as you said, it ain't showing anything, dagnabit! You'll have to update us on Monday.

I hope they have another Chickenstock next year--if I plan it better, I can request that time off and take a bunch of chicks up to sell/trade/bribe with!

Thanks for the info. Will get it out in the yard tomorrow and see how it is doing. I really do not think you should sell a chicken like that without saying something...a little disenchanted with the whole bit. I thought maybe it got injured during transport---but it really looks like they have grown that way. I emailed the seller to ask, we will see. Maybe she truly did not notice...

It definitely would have been fun to have more chickens. Hopefully next year! i would definitely go back, esp if there were a few more to look at Sorry they did not have any goodies for you Donna. There were a few welsummer chicks in the free 4-H bin, but that was it, I think just hatchery birds. My son got to pick out a free chick---so he found a feather footed black copper marans, but Birdguy said some were crosses so we will see. It did not have the yellow chest, more gray, looked a little different so I am guessing it is a cross breed. Will be fun to see what happens with it. Really sweet little thing., seems really mellow.

 

[SashaT]

Hi my friends

I missed you guys today! Donna----no chickens on your list, sorry! Actually there were not hardly any chickens for sale....i was really glad I went, to meet people, but the chickens were mostly pre-arranged sales and not much shopping. LOVED riding with Sasha, we talked about everything under the sun, it was tons of fun. We had a nice Cinco de mayo lunch with my youngest son that rode with us. The Blue wheatens are beautiful!!! Love the birds...Cindy's is definitely the most gorgeous....Sasha and I both loved that one...it is a Splash Blue Wheaten. I wanted it....but I had committed to taking the older ones so I did...Red's little chicks are ADORABLE teeny little cute babies. Pretty sure there is one of each. Only one girlish left in the three to choose from, i am pretty sure the other one may be a boy. But you never know! Had the best visit at Slvrphoenix and blujems house. Cute baby goats, way smaller than I thought, I got to feed one a bottle, how fun was that! And got to visit with my good friends

Loved it. Will post a pic of that when I can get it off my phone. Seemed like there were goats everywhere. And chickens lol. That is one of the sweetest families I have ever met. Always love visiting out there, they just really need to throw me out when I stay so long!
Birdguy is awesome. Big family, he now has my lav roo Fonzie, and many leftover 4-h chicks. The 4 h kids had a great turnout, just not as much chicken swapping as we had hoped. A few of the fun breeders could not come, so maybe next year! We met rfunnyfarm too, she was supernice.
Here is the bummer. Sasha came over to my house afterward, we got her chicks loaded (2 hatched today total, still 4 eggs in bator, one chirping) I dusted the two new pullets. Took them out of the box and guess what? One has completely curled in toes. It walks really low to the ground and hobbles around. It's feet are really wrong---when we picked them up they were all four together (My 2, Sasha's and Cindy's) and they looked so pretty, but I never noticed the feet. They were in a kennel and this one was sitting on the floor so it just never occurred to me to look at the feet. I am bummed out about it because the last thing I wanted was to buy one that would need to be put down....it will never be able to run or get away from the bigger girls so I do not know how to ever introduce it to the flock....


What do you guys make of this? Seller is from Montana--pretty hard to return it. They come from the most beautiful blue eggs, and the hatching eggs I picked up are really nice. I am torn--I was so excited, and now I am so bummed out

Could this be an injury from transporting ? I was thinking this is a birth defect, but tell me what you know!

What Lisa said!

I had such a good time today, visiting with Lisa, meeting new friends, seeing a few chickens-there really were not very many there. Shawn had lots of chicks at his house and Lisa and I really had to restrain ourselves, but did so successfully! The sweet, adorable baby goats that Slverphoenix and Blujems have though...gosh, we might have some goat math going on, and I'm not just talking about me!

I brought home 7 chicks. 2 of mine that hatched at Lisa's this morning, 2 Icelandics for Red, 2 Polish for my DH and a beautiful blue wheaten pullet, a sister to Lisa's new girls. Lisa! I'm shocked about that pullet's feet! I never noticed anything was wrong with her.

Which girl is it? I DE dusted the Ameraucana and the gold laced polish when I got home. The Ameraucana already has a name. Hedwig.

We have chicks everywhere here! My teens are the only birds left undisturbed, for now. I put the baby Icelandics in the brooder with my new hatchlings (Red, they are SO cute!). The Polish chicks are in with my 2 cochin frizzles and they are all doing really well. The Ameraucana is a little lonely by herself, but better to be safe and quarantine her than to potentially be sorry!

I'm so tired and have a headache, probably from lack of sleep and allergies (the show barn was very dusty!) so I'm just rambling. I apologize.

I'll post some chick pics (and maybe a stray goat pic or two) tomorrow.