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[pennyJo1960]

Morning pond we have a beautiful sunny day trying to be here also Sour and good gosh Roomy bet that egg came from a marans x ?

 

[Alaskan]

As of yesterday one of my newbie pullets is a Big Girl (20wks almost on the nose.) I'm not sure yet who laid it. It could possibly be the RR or the Marans/mix. I was hoping the MM would give me a classic Marans red egg, but its possible the red was mixed out. Its slightly too dark for the RR but I'm hoping its hers so that I still have a shot at red. Its still a very pretty shade of dark brown. Even my Wellie laid a lighter brown than this, so I'm not complaining.
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Looks like a very dark egg to me... very nice.

 

[pennyJo1960]

okay 1 hour on the phone with dish tv they mailed me a remote with google assistant I said I am not that senile I can still push buttons but by heavens I am not going to allow a remote hear me cuss every morning going to my music channels now this morning old remote did not work they asked is your internet satellite unplugged ? yes never was plugged in hopper does not get our internet and google is not living in the house here we talked about cats and chickens told my old remote to take back over it has now live is good mallet the new remote

 

[Alaskan]

Howdy all


Cold...cold...damp cold

 

[Alaskan]

@bobbi-j not all people are kind or patient. Treasure those who are and surround yourself with them.

Like... uh.... keep them in a locked box???



One with ice cream maybe...

 

[Alaskan]

Ah...slaughter day....

Interesting what my grow outs look like... these are from the small set of eggs from before the extra males were taken out of the flock... so interesting genetics.

The cockerel in front must be half Spitz... very cool comb. Ended up almost a buttercup comb.

The one in back with the arrow might be male... but is clearly a mutt, so it is getting butchered too. Not sure what cross though... I -think- the only fuzzy faced standard chicken I have are 1 blue Ameraucana, and maybe 3 Leghorn x Ameraucana. Anyway... way too mutt for me to keep, male or female...

Then I have 1 extra dark brown cock... but both are about equal fault wise.... couldn't decide which to get rid off...which is why I have had 2 for so long. . But it is full on Fall/almost winter... so I have to cut back as much as possible... I told the kids to just grab one of those. Luck shall choose.

I do have 1 dark brown cockerel growing up that might be better... too young yet.

I wanted to also cull a few dark brown and a few white leghorn hens... but I refuse to kill the white Leghorn hen that is my best broody...and now that her chicks are grown...I can't tell which she is! So all white Leghorns get a reprieve.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am selling the three I do not like I have 4 I bought at auction 3 of them look like cockerel but no spurs but one was sold at auction as pullet just 3 bucks so told one of the workers at the tree farm next door he can have them 5 bucks apiece he is picking them up tonight

 

[room onthebroom]

Morning pond we have a beautiful sunny day trying to be here also Sour and good gosh Roomy bet that egg came from a marans x ?

I think it did too. I saw her sitting when I left earlier. So much for my red egg, eh, maybe next time.

 

[room onthebroom]

Howdy all


Cold...cold...damp cold

min dying here. 98* here. 105* in the coop no AC in the house or the car. Kids got me running them all over in the heat. Crazy drivers, local fire stinking my house up. Still have to do one more kid pick up in the middle of traffic & duck pools & dinner. CALGON! TAKE ME AWAY!!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ya well we went picked up pumpkins for Halloween said I wanted the seeds there is outfit like 10 miles away they do a haunted forest and sell gourds and pumpkins for a few weeks each year made 40 buck on us again this year but got 4 big ones and one big blue noby then one one tiny white pumpkin also