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[Chickielady]

So this is 3 labels from feed I got today, and let me tell you how wonderful and fresh this feed smells vs. the feed (Purina Sunfresh) I have been buying..It is nutty, like fresh chopped walnuts and sunflower seeds...I like it ! I gave it to my birds and they seem to really like it, in a smaller gring, it should be better absorbed .It is ground well, but you can still see bits, I love the way the layer has oyster in it, often my birds pay no attention to oyster shell.....I also want to tell you that the price for this feed is soo worth the trip.
Chicken Rustler has not done enough to brag about this feed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW, Mr & Mrs Rustler gave me one of their few bottles of golden HONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited, it is bee-utiful!!!!!!!!!
And what an awesome gift and I know they did not get so very much on their first year of bees...let us all say a prayer after the Italian Honey Bees and hope they survive whatever is harming them.....I want some next spring~~More BBS Marans in the bator....
P.S. Illia:: The layer has a nice copper level !

 

[Chickielady]

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YES we can tell, and sheep are wonderful but they can eat 2 acres of grass down to mud in about 2 days, right down to the roots.
Like 2 sheep.
You sound like when 'I get outta jail!'

Some times it feels like that

You gotta come visit, and see ?
I told ya we need little hobbit house retreats out here, and on the other hand, Phil told me if you came out here to the Farm, that you would never want to go home !
OK...another daughter !!!

 

[fdnick]

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haha.. On Probation?? okay there is a story here!!!!! (at least its javas, they are pretty cool)
I actually sent rare feathers a message but no response yet.. am on Hodges waiting list too all thier LF lemons are molting (If i tell the hubby i am molting can i get out of cooking tonight???

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I begged after Heather a few days ago after she posted she was letting the flock go...and she said some woman had shown interest (like I never did)and this person has "firsties" on the flock,,, and she also said she had no hatching eggs either...weird ?
I love her Lem,Blues !!! Have you seen them on her web site ???

YES!!! I love her Rooster.. he is drop dead gorgeous.. I keep hearing everyone talking about thier chicks.. guess i should un-pack my bator and get my fix..

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Yes, I'm selling them...I e-mailed you fdnick...(through BYC)--did you not get it?

This other person, I just emailed photos of them to her again--so we'll see...it's not by any means a done deal--I just have almost sold them to her before and then I changed my mind last time...

and she's been on my waiting list for quite some time. Unfortunately,
they're not laying now...they're all molting and it's been in the low 30s here at night lately and 40s during the day...so now eggs now for several weeks and before that, I was battling broodiness with BOTH Abigail AND Mildred.

And the laying/selling season is already over for me until spring of 2011. It's just getting too cold over here and the days are getting shorter.

The lemon blues need a lot of work and I will only part with them to someone who is dedicated to continuing to work on the color...I've put too much time/effort/energy into this project to have it fall my the wayside. My other option is to hatch out some chicks next spring and find someone else who wants to work with me to get them to where they need to be...and then I don't have to dedicate 4 pens to them.

I have room for my breeding trio (barely) but no room for all of the chicks I'll need to start cranking out to get serious about this color...

Clarence had a little frostbite last winter:

 

[fdnick]

HI, Rare Feathers i did not get your email

but very interested.. just pm me if she does not work out.. i am very interested in working with the color... I have 3 (yes you heard right folks

3 open pens

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thanks
Denna

PSS.. just pm'd you our phone number and email

 

[Chickielady]

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I begged after Heather a few days ago after she posted she was letting the flock go...and she said some woman had shown interest (like I never did)and this person has "firsties" on the flock,,, and she also said she had no hatching eggs either...weird ?
I love her Lem,Blues !!! Have you seen them on her web site ???

YES!!! I love her Rooster.. he is drop dead gorgeous.. I keep hearing everyone talking about thier chicks.. guess i should un-pack my bator and get my fix..

maybe, but she told me she had no eggs to sell at all...bummer

 

[Chickielady]

My full comb roos all got frostbite when I lived over there , all except my bantam cochin roos....hey, it got doe=wn to 30 below in North Idaho the LAST year I lived there...16 feet of snow, maybe Terrie remembers.......I had to surgically remove 3/4 of my PBR roos full comb...and sere it with a hot nail...he had so much septicemia from necrotic tissue.
Hey, on that subject, have you ever heard that roosters will not sleep with their heads tucked under a wing ?
Hens will ?
That is why they supposibly get frostbite ?
I have heard this from some old people, older than me

And I have checked on my roos, and they are alert...
Still, I think the reason why they get frostbit, is because it is COLD...and having a heatlamp on in the hen house does not work...MrRoo has busy things to do, and out he goes, and he gets frostbit...

I will keep my full cob roos inside in deep cold, from now on).........that is also what controls his sperm production,, when the comb is too cold, sperm production stops, it is like a sperm production beacon sticking up there...testing the temperature.
Proof that the male noggin is firmly attached to the gonadies, if ya know what I mean........

 

[fdnick]

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love that last line!!!!
We close everyone up at night and keep them in when the snow is deep, we have a large area under a roof outside they are corraled in when it snows ;-).. We have never had frostbite on the combs, have had chickens the last 4 years only had a couple weeks though of really cold weather each year and we keep everyone locked in under heat lamps

 

[Chickielady]

Good night all, I have my own personal monster to deal with here..

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But I also wanted to say that Patriot Farms also has awesome hay, alfalfa and straw !!!
It is Soft straw, not tree trunk stiff straw
The girls will love making their nest out of this soft straw...
And in square bales at $4
Big round bales for the rest and he said he is running low on the little bales! ~~Stock up~~~

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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It has been very cold here, but not quite a 2-dog night, any snow at your level yet?