I have had no chickens for almost a year...'possums ravaged my flock...I trapped 11 of the ugly things in a 2 week period and have seen no more of them...I have fortified my coop...I have 20 geese and am down to a scant 14 ducks and have had no predation for a while...so...I have ordered 25 chicks to be shipped mid month in October...15 boys for fryers and 10 pullets for eggs...I ordered 5 Delawares and 5 White Leghorns...I just want the eggs from the ladies and the roos of course will go to freezer camp...I ordered from McMurrey again as I have always had very good luck with birds from them...I ordered my first chickens from them 25 years ago...I have 6 Toulouse geese from them and 4 Cayuga ducks at the present...I don't show birds or anything of that nature...they are just here for eggs and entertainment...my Toulouse geese are the biggest busy bodies I have ever seen...they have taken down all my cds that they can reach, dismantled my solar night lights, removed all the pipe insulation around the water taps, taken down a shade tarp, munched all the leaves off the young peach trees I THOUGHT I had safely fenced up...they follow me every where and whatever I do, they are inspecting it to see if it is possible for them to duplicate what I have done or at least mess up what I have done...they are a little gang of juvenile deliquents...
But I am excited to be getting a few chicky girls again...woo hoo!
But I am excited to be getting a few chicky girls again...woo hoo!

