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[Imp]

Nice job on the coops Dave. Is Dave, Velvet Fog?

Sorry Teva, about the chickens flying off. If you know where they are can you mount a search party at dusk?
Hope you get them back.

Russ

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Quote: Wow, I'm either very tired or my brain is primed to chickens when I'm here. I wondered what layer hens had to do with what CL needed to wear!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Blackberry and Blueberry both have a chick this morning!

Too cute Dawn! Love all these babies with their broody mamas.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Okay - Here are many views of my new VF coop. I hope today's build up north is going as well as ours did. I am eternally grateful to Dave and Debbie for giving up days of their time and all of the hard work that has gone into the building of our coops and runs.

Thanks for posting these, SadieSue! We worked on CFlaming's projects today so I won't get to see my coop being built, since I have to work tomorrow. Since yours is the same as mine, I have an idea of what it will look like.
Special thanks to VF and DW for helping out so many of us, and being so gracious and generous throughout it all!

 

[lillypad268]

Look at what showed up with Mama Kate this morning!!





From my research I was pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to sex them for about 3 or four weeks......but it is pretty obvious that the barred wings are boys! Three boys and one girl, looks like!

So I am pretty proud of myself, I have never had any baby chicks of ANYTHING hatch before! So neat!!

Yay momma Kate came back with her babies

 

[Sudsy Chick]

So here's the new run and coop. It's not painted, but it's completely finished. Just need to add sand to the run!
Two parallel roost bars on top of the poop tray

Under that is the nesting boxes Dave built way in the back, they'll love the darkness back there!

Run, with a roost along the right side, hanging feeder and waterer on the back left:

Wow - looks great! Hope Ricky is doing well!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Look at what showed up with Mama Kate this morning!!





From my research I was pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to sex them for about 3 or four weeks......but it is pretty obvious that the barred wings are boys! Three boys and one girl, looks like!

So I am pretty proud of myself, I have never had any baby chicks of ANYTHING hatch before! So neat!!

Aw, so cute!

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: Wow, I'm either very tired or my brain is primed to chickens when I'm here. I wondered what layer hens had to do with what CL needed to wear!

I am not sure many got my pun, or they didn't think it was very funny. But cracked myself up so that's all that counts right?

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Quote: Wow, I'm either very tired or my brain is primed to chickens when I'm here. I wondered what layer hens had to do with what CL needed to wear!

I am not sure many got my pun, or they didn't think it was very funny. But cracked myself up so that's all that counts right?

I had to think...and think...to figure out what the pun was

Yah, it's a chicken site but I'm slow

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Today's bee extraction went pretty well. While we found no brood I did get a few thousand bees and about 40 #'s of comb loaded with nice honey. The bees have been added to hives at home and the honey will become bee food and a little "beekeeper reward". I got stung first thing. I took a total of 14 to the area around my right elbow! The black patches you see on us is all bees.
Here is the platform we worked from.


The only possibly viable queen cell we found. see it? Looks like a little peanut.


Just a few unhappy bees around me.


Here I am preparing to hand down a nice slab of beekeepers reward. Yes that is a solid slab of honey. some will be eaten by us and the rest will be fed to the bees.


The resident treated us to fresh still warm cinnamon rolls.


And here is the chicken related part. While we were taking a break Norm decided to become chicken whisperer to this lonely hen. he was sharing his cinnamon roll and all was good until Norm got distracted and Henny Penny decided he wasn't feeding fast enough. She jumped up and grabbed the whole roll and ran.