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Last Tuesday we picked up our first chicks!


5 Buff Orpingtons & 5 Americanas

They are all happier than clams in their set up in the house. I will post some pictures as soon as Rikke moves some of the pictures over to the farm website.


There are 5 black/copper marans chicks to be picked up on Friday!


They are so so so fun! and Fast too!

 

[herbandteas]

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That makes 3 Kitsap co people here

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hey guys! Just dropping in!

Been really busy...I went a little nuts with hatching eggs.

In the cabinet bator I have:

4 GL Cochins (1 shipment, only 1/3 of the eggs I paid for made and no response from seller)

9 RIR RC (2 different shipments)
24+ Bantam faverolles (3 different shipments)
12 Black Australorps (my MIL's birds)
3 bantam Houdans
9 Blue Wheaten Ameracuanas
9 bantam BLRW
7 LF BLRW
4 Black Sumatras (my own line)
7 Crevecoeur (new line)

In Hovabator #1

4 Giant Dewlap African goose eggs (candled Thursday night and all four are developing!)

4 American Buff Goose eggs (candled last night but they have only been cookin' for 3 days)
18 black Muscovy eggs (aka "wild" Muscovies)

Hovabator #2

6 white call duck eggs
24 lavender, silver, blue, chocolate, blue fawn muscovies

In the brooder:

1 GLW bantam chick
2 Salmon Fav chicks from cloverleaf (both appear to be roos!)

But one looks to be a really nice one!

Excellent toe spacing, full muff/beard! I'm excited about him.
2 Blue Wheaten Ameracuanas from pips&peeps not sure on the sexes but I'm guessing a pair...

That said--I'm hoping to have quite a few chicks available this fall, if anyone is interested in some of the above?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

18V nicads are only for me supervising; 18v Li are for rich people, so I got two little Ryobis and hope they last forever or I kill them when they're on warrantee, right?

Or as my PT says: light weights, lots and lots of reps.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Thought you probably weren't old enough; that was a long time ago. Uncle Fred would have turned 93 this year, a year younger than my dad. Welding apparently skips a generation as my cousin's son (other side of the family, though) is one of the owners at Zeigler's. I think all of it is magic, myself.

Got to get going. So much to do. So little energy. I was thinking last night how nice it would be to be able to turn the tangle of rebar in the yard into the frame for a one-chicken quarantine tractor, instead of a giant calthrop..

http://www.coopsplus.com/apps/webstore/products/show/2175301

I've decided to get a coop more or less like this. By ready made standards, it's a lot of coop for the money, and he's very accommodating about changes. For instance, he's going to make mine 6 inches taller so I can stand up in it, I'd rather put a chicken wire apron around the outside than hardware cloth on the bottom. Since I plan to shut the chickens in the coop at night, and my only real daytime predators are eagles, I will probably get chicken wire instead of hardware cloth for the run. Both those will save money. I'm thinking about getting two so I can keep the Brabanters and Spitz separate, and he'll give me a deal on two. He's going to put on corrugated roofing. I'll stain it something dark if it ever stops raining long enough. Scott wants them to more or less disappear. I'll put them under the conifers behind the garage.

I need to go lie down. I'm dizzy. darn Meniere's.

I looked at that, and thought it would work well as something to put in the old greenhouse, rather than as a stand-alone. And I'm going to make a hoop-house out of the pipe I bought last week instead of messing about with saws et'c and so on. After I finish lunch, change out of town clothes, and see if the lady w/the BLRW hen has written back.

Sorry your Meniere's is acting up. Maybe you should rest for all of us?

 

[SadieSue]

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Oh are those the eggs that hitched a ride home with me from Stevenson? That IS happy dance worthy!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

FREE COOP!

In Vancouver!

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/zip/2381245550.html

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Nice (big) nestboxes for $60

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/grd/2376918569.html

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Oh are those the eggs that hitched a ride home with me from Stevenson? That IS happy dance worthy!

They are two cute pies they are.

 

[hallerlake]

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http://www.coopsplus.com/apps/webstore/products/show/2175301

I've decided to get a coop more or less like this. By ready made standards, it's a lot of coop for the money, and he's very accommodating about changes. For instance, he's going to make mine 6 inches taller so I can stand up in it, I'd rather put a chicken wire apron around the outside than hardware cloth on the bottom. Since I plan to shut the chickens in the coop at night, and my only real daytime predators are eagles, I will probably get chicken wire instead of hardware cloth for the run. Both those will save money. I'm thinking about getting two so I can keep the Brabanters and Spitz separate, and he'll give me a deal on two. He's going to put on corrugated roofing. I'll stain it something dark if it ever stops raining long enough. Scott wants them to more or less disappear. I'll put them under the conifers behind the garage.

I need to go lie down. I'm dizzy. darn Meniere's.

I looked at that, and thought it would work well as something to put in the old greenhouse, rather than as a stand-alone. And I'm going to make a hoop-house out of the pipe I bought last week instead of messing about with saws et'c and so on. After I finish lunch, change out of town clothes, and see if the lady w/the BLRW hen has written back.

Sorry your Meniere's is acting up. Maybe you should rest for all of us?

Why didn't you think it would work as a stand alone? I think with roofing and exterior stain it should be weather worthy.

I've caught a nasty, nasty cold. Resting is not optional. If I can't stand up, I can't do much.