OH Dear I am so Sorry Cheri. I am a self confessing ADD airhead extraordinaire. It is like talking about ADD, and Oh look there's a bunny! I am so easily distracted. I am going to blame it on DH this week, he is a big strong man, and he can take it, after all he is the one who started the bathroom remodel. (See what I mean)
Illa: I love the sonograms my first thought was "Oh it's a baby" sighed I with baby envy. Great pictures of them too.
Chickielady: I had 1 cuckoo Marans from a Texas Hatchery order that I placed last year. (They had a really pretty catalog) To say that I was not happy with the order is a BIG understatement. I ended up with 1 Cuckoo Marans pullet, no Lakenvelder pullets, and all Black Sumatra's died in the first week. I am also reasonably certain that the Jersey Giants where not...... , but any way i kept the 1 Cuckoo Marans pullet until she started to lay. She was a big bird and laid a brown egg that looked remarkably like a production brown egg. I felt that since I didn't get the eggshell color that I was really after and wanting that why keep her. I found too that I needed to reduce the numbers of birds, and I can only keep what I "really really" love so off to the auction she went. I felt kind of mean after all I had named her Celeste, but I also know that the girls I kept are a lot less stressed with the flock being kept to a more manageable size.
I got my Lakenvelder and Blue Marans hen the day that I rode shot gun with TomatoLady to Battleground. We went to pick-up a Black Marans trio for Viki, and I realized that the lady that we were getting those birds from was going to send my girls off to freezer camp. I just fell in love with them and couldn't let them go to camp so the 2 girls came home with us. I am so happy that they did too, they are 2 of the best layers I have right now.
LaSombra: "I named my salmon faverolles after types of salmon that live in the area".
What a great idea for names. As I said I am still looking for a few more names for the girls.
I am going to get rid of the 3 Welsummer hens. I am sure that one of them is laying fairly regularly, but its possible that they all laying inconsistently. I need to reduce my flock just a little more, and I would rather have one more Blue Marans hen than the 3 Welsummer. They are the Welsummer Chicks that I got from Royce aka Tailfeathers last September. I am thinking that I am going to ask 10.00 for each of them or I may just take them to the auction.
Oh Dear I just found this post and I didnt get it posted at 12:30pm like I should have. I think I was editing it when real life intruded. Or I am just really an aired head.
I got the dog poop picked up and the lawn mowed. I also did a quick clean on the big girls coop. I have been tweaking the meat birds brooder for what it seems like days. The original brooder was just too small. I managed to put the transition pen in front of the brooder and I cut out a chunk of wire out of both pens so that the bird can use both spaces. I have to say meat birds are really stupid and nasty looking. I also clean out the Java finch cage and I think I got most of the floor swept and vacuumed. To say the least I am really tired now and desperately need a shower. Goodnight everyone.