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[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Well...I dinna wanna be picky...but I was hoping to be able to get the duckles on a Friday, so I can lock them up during their first day, everyone will be housed together that night, and then I can supervise their free ranging for the first time the next day when I'm off work....

eta: doesn't have to be this friday...
Sorry but I be not able to keep till next since be gone wiff one of my girly friends. Yeah sorry the Blonde one!!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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I hope so too! They were most definitely nervous today, but better than yesterday. They weren't screaming anymore, and barely any sound actually. Just quiet and reserved. They also finally left the wide open run today and ranged the entire half acre together! I did manage to get the Maran to eat out of my hand. Willow won't come near unless I corner her. Basically I only nabbed her today to put her to roost. I won't force it, for her sake. I hope they both lay again soon. Willow quit so far, Marans layed yesterday but not today. Are both of them pretty reliable generally? One last thing...how old are they? I don't know if I ever got an approximate from you.

I've been disappointed in one of my EEs lately, she's only laying every other day, and her egg is the prettiest. I hope she kicks it up a notch soon. Today was disappointing. 5 eggs out of 11 girls. Hopefully after a few days of adjusting to new flock mates everyone will be back at it.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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And....did you like it? Was your son prepared well for 2nd?

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

These are absolutely beautiful!!!
By the way, what are those wonderful orange-yellow sunflower or daisy like flowers in your front yard? I thought they were very attractive.

First, thanks everyone for the compliments.

Dana: You got that right! Mistress Quickly is a character in a few of Shakespeare's plays.

Robin: I'm not sure if you mean the tall ones (perennial sunflowers which I believe are "Lemon Queen" http://www.perennials.com/plants/helianthus-lemon-queen.html) or the shorties (Black Eyed Susans http://etc.usf.edu/clippix/picture/characteristic-sunflower-species.html).

I sometimes think a whole hedge of Lemon Queen would be so much fun. Let me know if you want a start. I'll be dividing these in Spring 2013.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

I hope so too! They were most definitely nervous today, but better than yesterday. They weren't screaming anymore, and barely any sound actually. Just quiet and reserved. They also finally left the wide open run today and ranged the entire half acre together! I did manage to get the Maran to eat out of my hand. Willow won't come near unless I corner her. Basically I only nabbed her today to put her to roost. I won't force it, for her sake. I hope they both lay again soon. Willow quit so far, Marans layed yesterday but not today. Are both of them pretty reliable generally? One last thing...how old are they? I don't know if I ever got an approximate from you.

I've been disappointed in one of my EEs lately, she's only laying every other day, and her egg is the prettiest. I hope she kicks it up a notch soon. Today was disappointing. 5 eggs out of 11 girls. Hopefully after a few days of adjusting to new flock mates everyone will be back at it.

I'll need to look at my old records. Seems to me they are both about one year or almost one year old. Neither lays every day, just more days than not. Both are very steady and reliable.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Great, thanks! Whenever you get a chance to look at those records you can just PM me what you have on them. I'd love a hatch date but I know that's probably not going to happen

 

[FirewifeJess]

Renee - I know your kids love Star Wars like mine do. We also LOVE the Piano Guys here, and here's the best of both. Enjoy!

 

[UrbanEnthusiast]

Well, my BF and I drove all over Seattle yesterday in a pickup truck we borrowed from a friend, hauling scrap lumber from various sources for our new coop! Speaking of which, big thanks to the lovely Hallerlake! First fellow BYCer I've met. Super fun to meet someone who's just as crazy about chickens as we are! Her birds are absolutely freakin' gorgeous!! Now we have about 25 pallets at my BF's place, I believe, plus a fair amount of plywood and various types of posts, some of more considerable length than others. Going to pick up some cinder blocks from a friend on Friday, but I don't know if it will be enough. We still need roofing/flooring materials and hardware cloth, none of which we'll find for free, I'm guessing. I don't know where we're going to scrounge up the money for the rest of the materials we need, but I'm determined to make it happen! And SOON! My BF already has a rough design of the coop, which he drew out for me and it looked totally awesome! Our girls free-range 24/7, so it is just going to have a small run (which will also be attached to the separate brooding area), and if I recall correctly, the roosting area is going to be above the run. He also wants to build a storage closet onto one end. So excited!!!

Still no eggs from my two Leghorn pullets. At five months old, I really thought they'd be laying by now, as Leghorns are known for laying quite young. One of them doesn't even have much of a comb - it seems to be sort of stagnant and not really even developing anymore. The other one has had a huge red comb for several weeks now.

 

[chickenjane82]

And....did you like it? Was your son prepared well for 2nd?

Not really. I like the layout of instruction, how it was a pretty simple "heres what you do" BUUT I felt like it was too easy for him. I guess I just didnt really feel like it was as academic as I was wanting for him. We did a lot of supplementing to make sure he didnt fall behind

We went with moving beyond the page for 2nd grade. This year we will use some of moving beyond the page and bits and pieces for other stuff. I dont know that there is a FULL complete curriculum that will satisfy me

 

[Rainwolf]

Anybody coming down from up north any time soon??  RainyDayChicken has 2 girlie ducks for me, but it's 3 1/2 hours one way for me to go get them.  She's in Port Orchard.  I can make it up to Chehalis and back during the day while my son's at school, but that's about it....?????  

CR is going to the auction... anyone psossible to take them to the auction then you can pickup from cr?