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[FirewifeJess]

You guys!!!! She did lay her very first egg. It's the most beautiful blue egg I've ever seen!! I love it so much! Nobody else lays a true blue egg, all my EEs are green egg layers, even Martha with her very light Green-Blue egg. Sigh. I'm gonna spend the afternoon retrofitting the coop I guess!!

 

[FirewifeJess]

Gah!! Today is just full of surprises. DH just went downstairs and yelled "There's a chicken in the house! Ike (the cat) is guarding her!" LOL I left the door open when I went out to check for Thelma's egg, but when I did a scan of the basement upon walking back in I didn't see anyone so I went upstairs. Oops! Apparently Louise is good at hiding because she was down there for a good 10 minutes with the cat. hehe

 

[Stumpfarmer]

OK guys, how BAD of me would it be if I took back the offer of my Easter Eggers off CL. I have someone who wants to come today for Thelma, and the little girl is sitting in the nest box on some already-been-laid eggs for the first time today!!! GRRRRR. Now I really want to keep her, or charge a lot more for her. I really don't want to regret getting rid of her...would rather hurt myself fixing the coop up so she can stay than let them go. WDYT? Should I tell the guy I promised her to that I've changed my mind? I feel like a total jerk!!

I don't see how it would be a problem if no money had crossed hands. Just take the ad down.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

to the new peeps. Nice to have ya here. Don't worry about trying to read ALL POSTS as long as ya read the most important ones! MINE !!!

Hatch update !!!!! As of this morning I have bunch of chicks in my spare bedroom. OK so there's only 9. There are 8 BCM and 1 OE. 2 of the BCM are from ultasol eggs the rest are ayeupchuck. Still have 13 eggs left.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Yeah I just sent an email apologizing profusely for changing my mind and telling him I'm not selling her now. I feel like a schmuck but what's a girl to do? I am sick thinking about actually selling one of my pets, espeically one that's now "pulling her weight"; her egg is gorgeous!!

 

[SweetSilver]

I should warn the darned Golden Crowned Sparrows who go into Ian and Sylvia's cage and the Hamburg cage. They're risking their lives!
(need to get finer mesh wire over the woven wire and yard fence- well, need to get finer wire over the woven wire and finish the Hamburg extension, but the fates have not been kind).

Hey! I'm only 200 posts behind this time!

Golden Crowned Sparrows were nothing but mischief in my garden come spring. Besides eating the chicken feed, which didn't bug me, they ate every green thing in the yard. Dandelions, yes (thoughI like my dandelions) but also my garden sorrel, all the early primroses, every sprout everywhere. I grew to hate their arrival, and rejoice when I noticed they were gone, because then and only then could I plant seeds in the veggie garden!

 

[SweetSilver]

Guess what I found in the nestbox!?!

A WHITE egg! Our very first! From one of our Brabanters!

So excited!

My girls can't wait to get white eggs. They are always so amazed at the entire dozen in the package at grandma's house!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I should warn the darned Golden Crowned Sparrows who go into Ian and Sylvia's cage and the Hamburg cage. They're risking their lives!

(need to get finer mesh wire over the woven wire and yard fence- well, need to get finer wire over the woven wire and finish the Hamburg extension, but the fates have not been kind).

Hey! I'm only 200 posts behind this time!

Golden Crowned Sparrows were nothing but mischief in my garden come spring.  Besides eating the chicken feed, which didn't bug me, they ate every green thing in the yard.  Dandelions, yes (thoughI like my dandelions) but also my garden sorrel, all the early primroses, every sprout everywhere.  I grew to hate their arrival, and rejoice when I noticed they were gone, because then and only then could I plant seeds in the veggie garden!

I only have this flock in the winter, when they come and clean up under the blackberries; in spring and summer I've got a resident breeding pair, but just after Hallowe'en I get an unknown very large number more than twenty and fewer than... seventy? mabye? They're good clean-up artists and quiet, unlike the freaking starlings and redwinged blackbirds that fill the oake trees and deafen me in their thousands some days.

I still want to electrify the suet boxes so I can shock the starlings, although either the Sharpshin hen or the Cooper's Hawk tercel came through on Friday when the starlings were gorging on suet and whacked one, and scattered the lot. I often go out and try to figure out how they fly through here at speed: there's no path more than a foot wide, and none of them straight, but they power on through too fast to track and the tweety birds don't have any warning.

 

[Farmin Momma]

You guys!!!! She did lay her very first egg. It's the most beautiful blue egg I've ever seen!! I love it so much! Nobody else lays a true blue egg, all my EEs are green egg layers, even Martha with her very light Green-Blue egg. Sigh. I'm gonna spend the afternoon retrofitting the coop I guess!!

That is so great! Even made me realize that I have 4 chicks left that I hatched out of eggs from 4Hpoultrymom a while back. There were 14 that hatched BLRWs and OEs, sadly hawks got most o them so I only have 3 OE pullets and a OE cockerel left. But they are 22wks now. Should have some pretty new eggs here in a few weeks.

 

[TacomaFarms]

We've got quite a few folks in the Tacoma area that can fill you in on the best places to buy stuff, etc. Enjoy your chickens, they are a lot of fun!

Hi There Andie!!!

I'm afraid I can't answer your questions but others here will jump in soon I'm sure.

Thank you for the grand welcome!

I finally finished my tractor coop, except I need to put the wheels on it! It is exciting! My ladies are now safe and sound in their own little hen house. Q1: How do I get them to coop up at night? I don't think they've ventured "upstairs".

I've had a visitor all weekend! Apparently, the people who lived behind me moved out and left their poor lady in the shed with no water and a handful of cornflakes!

My inner fire raged at that. She wants in with my pullets in the coop, follows me around cackling at me until I pick her up. lol... she's almost like a dog. I can't tell, being uber newbie, how old she is or what she is! Q2: Can anyone help me? She's fully feathered, her coloring is still spectacular (no bleaching), her vent appears moist and pink, but her breast bone is rigid, and we found no indications of eggs in her abandoned coop and she hasn't laid any in my garage (where's she's made a new roost on top of my shelf).



Any ideas?

Speaking of: can I put her in with my pullets?