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[Chickielady]

Oh goodness... sigh - those "lovely" chin hairs. Thank goodness someone invented tweezers.

Good for meal worms too !

 

[T Hi]

OK nobody get all bent here. But the rally monkey is my attempt to get the WA thread BACK to the fun friendly way it was not long ago. I think when we make that happen many folks will see what an awesome group of elderly old codgers we are and hopefully people will also feel more comfortable to join into the group as it is. 

Uh excuuuuuse me!!! You are the ONLY "old codger" on here mister!!!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: You should be able to. Do you see this when you do a reply???

 

[cheryl98117]

I am here trying my bestest to catch up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just jumped in about 20 pages back and started reading! lol There is NO way I am reading through 4 months worth of posts to get caught up!

But Im back. Life has slowed down into a steady pace and I can actually breath easy for now. lol

 

[Chickielady]

I've given up on my chin hairs.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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[Hinotori]

Quote: They posted a list of what breeds they were getting for the spring chick season, I wonder if you could find out if they will have Light Brahmas this time around.
I just had a goofy thought...if you get more pullets, you will have a bunch of "drama queens"!

Hopefully not really though, considering all you went through with Drama.

The ones I've had I've really enjoyed. Very good foragers for me and don't care about the rainy drizzle until it starts getting heavy. Even as baby chicks they wanted to forage.

We picked up 6 more 10 weeks ago. Sexed pullets, but one turned out to be a cockerel. He's ruled by his stomach and follows me begging for treats. We'll see how he is when he gets the testosterone poisoning. DH is very much hoping he stays nice.

The surviving brahma hen from last year is the one who just hatched out the chicks for me. I'd give her eggs again. She was very careful getting on the eggs and she's very, very protective of the chicks. I couldn't check them last night. She tried to rip my hand off and strikes as fast as a snake. A few grapes this morning reminded her that I'm her friend and she allowed me to pull them out from under her so I could check them for any issues. 8 little easter egger chicks. Looks like we will have all sorts of combs on the. Two have 5 toes, and one has black skin. I cannot wait to see what colors they turn out to be.

 

[cheryl98117]

Yeah .. New Hampshire. That first cross will produce sex-link offspring. Take the males from that hatch, and put them over NH Hens. That will give you 4 colorings. Take the proper males and the proper females from that and breed them. In the end I hope to have a line of sex-link, dual purpose birds that breed true.

I can buy some Hambar hatching eggs.. but they are 55 bucks a dozen, and I'm not ready to pay that much for eggs.

Well thats interesting. Ill have to do some of my own research. lol Im perfectly capable of answering my own questions with a little bit of work. lol
Now I need to see a picture of the proper coloring that your aiming for. I do like a heavy bodied dual purpose bird.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

WILCO FARM STORE

If anyone is near the new Kelso store, they have a sale on feed during the grand opening. http://www.wilco.coop/stores/current_specials/

They also have a Chicken workshop, starting Sept 4th. See the link for which stores will have and the dates. (http://www.wilco.coop/events/details/chick_owner_workshops_starting_sept_4th ) with 25% off of chicken supply items (not feed) after the workshop.

Here is their "Chickville" area and they list what is going on- regarding chickens (http://www.wilco.coop/stores/chickville ). The really cool part is that they post photo's, of the Breeds they carry-- adult photo next to that same chicken as a chick.

Sheila

The scary part is they are too close to me and I (think) I heard on the radio that chicks are bogo. That could really spell trouble!!!!

 

[itsren]

I'm sorry Renee that you have had to deal with judgmental people...your sons are very lucky to have you as a mother and a supportive family. I don't know that the other kids are necessarily trying to be mean, they may just be curious, and it might be an opportunity to educate them so they grow up to be more tolerant and understanding. (I realize it's stressful for you and I'm not the one whose kids are in the situation, so you can tell me to go take a running jump) Every summer I work as a camp counselor for a week and we usually have a couple campers who are on the autism spectrum. We'd have other kids want to know why certain others always had outbursts, or what was wrong with them, etc. They were genuinely curious and if we explained what was going on, they were surprisingly patient and understanding, even protective, of their autistic peers.

I know that most kids are just curious. As a mom, I want my kids to fit in with other kids, and sometimes, that just doesn't happen.

Sometimes strange things happen - the worst situation was when my oldest was in 1st grade. He only had one *friend*. I didn't know most of the year what that boy was doing to him. I volunteered at a school function and saw this boy walk up to my son, grab him around the neck, choke him, hit him and then take his food. I stopped it and then asked my son why the boy did that. My son said "if I want him to be my friend, that's what he has to do to me." I was PO'd beyond belief! I was so relieved to find out that boy was expelled from the school and never allowed to come back.

My boys are very high functioning now. But, even today, they struggle with making friends. We basically put them in the situation where they interact with kids (Scouts, etc.), but they really don't make friends on their own.