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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Gosh when I post photos like that I realize how messy my room is.

Okay, I let the pen of layers out to free range. They are absolute hussies. A bunch are going over to outside Quincy's pen and squatting. He is doing a beautiful dance - inside the pen.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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Yup!

Voltron and Anthea:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15879_voltronandanthea.jpg

What breed are these?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

22F here over night, 30.1 right now, which may mean my cunning plan to go out in my storm housecoat (full length heavy weight polar fleece) to let Ian and Sylvia into their run may be scrapped, as even that and my work coat is not warm enough to survive thawing waterers.

On the other hand, I don't have to thaw watering troughs, which is the worst of all the bad routine farm jobs in winter. (Not saying what the worst emergency farm job in winter might be. No matter how bad it is pulling a calf in the field in an ice storm or any of dozens of bad memories, worse is not worst and I don't want to be shown how absolutely terrible worst might be.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Sadie, They have to be from the BCM. The Golden Cuckoo I had were not that dark and crossed with the Sussex would lighten them even more.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I think my birds are clas D and I am not sure that I can table top show class D. The cockerel is a little over 20 oz. But I need to reweigh, as my scale may have not been right. Comparing to the birds at the Chehalis show...he does not look that much different in size. But then again ...1 or 2 oz is probably hard to really see much difference.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Yup!

Voltron and Anthea:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15879_voltronandanthea.jpg

What breed are these?

Seramas. Lovely, people friendly birds. No bigger than 20 oz (for showing). Great pets. There are Malaysian and American varieties.....personally I like the American. I have one on my lap right now pecking at my robe. She likes to "help" me type too.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Could be much worse. I had all the catalogues and slippery Christmas sale mailers stacked to be recycled and Stewie and Lana decided to go sledding with them; they've figured out how to open my step-on-to-open metal wastepaper basket and spread that all over the floor, and got in the receipt box and through six months worth of grocery receipts all over. just to be getting on with.

Maybe I could build a Christmas tree enclosure out of cage wire? I've got 100ftof the good stuff and it would be just like making a dunce cap out of paper, right? Otherwise no tree this year.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Could be much worse. I had all the catalogues and slippery Christmas sale mailers stacked to be recycled and Stewie and Lana decided to go sledding with them; they've figured out how to open my step-on-to-open metal wastepaper basket and spread that all over the floor, and got in the receipt box and through six months worth of grocery receipts all over. just to be getting on with.

Maybe I could build a Christmas tree enclosure out of cage wire? I've got 100ftof the good stuff and it would be just like making a dunce cap out of paper, right? Otherwise no tree this year.

LOL...fun.

 

[RedReiner]

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oh cool!! get to see how it they do it now!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Could be much worse. I had all the catalogues and slippery Christmas sale mailers stacked to be recycled and Stewie and Lana decided to go sledding with them; they've figured out how to open my step-on-to-open metal wastepaper basket and spread that all over the floor, and got in the receipt box and through six months worth of grocery receipts all over. just to be getting on with.

Maybe I could build a Christmas tree enclosure out of cage wire? I've got 100ftof the good stuff and it would be just like making a dunce cap out of paper, right? Otherwise no tree this year.

LOL...fun.

Oh, they are FUN cats, no doubt about it. Stewie has decided that the way to get me out of bed in the morning is to lean on my bedroom door and purr loud enough that I think he's in the bedroom. He also gets all snuggly and purr-y when he wants fed: drowns out the TV, he does. I'd forgotten what cats who were brought home as tiny kittens were like. Lana was a little older, and is a little more standoffish, but like Bumble her idea of fun is sitting on the back of the office chair and typing people's hair in knots. He's over ten pounds now, and not even a little done growing; she's 8 1/2 pounds and just finished removing all her own stitches from being spayed.

Here they are in their favorite crash pad. I have no idea where they found the cushion, which I searched the house for when I rearranged the furniture a year ago.