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BackwoodsDiva

BackwoodsDiva

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Jul 4, 2012
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Hi all...confessed lurker here....did lots of research on my obsession before i got my first chickens and did quite a bit of it here....i have already lost two so i am in a period of mourning, but i eagerly await my first egg. As a family we are going to cook it and split it amongst the 8 of us..hahaha. worried about my first winter, worried about my feeding style....new mom jitters....give a shout out, when you can....
 
Welcome from NW Indiana.
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Worry, worry, worry, yeah I know. It's just as bad as 'Mother's Guilt' isn't it?!!! LOL

Our first ever flock is almost 18 weeks and I'm driving myself nuts[and everyone else] looking and hoping to find that first egg.

Cooking and sharing it--that's a cool idea! We have a big family too so I can only imaging how funny it would be to cut that egg into 8ths. My kids would die laughing.

We might just have to borrow your idea if you don't mind.
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Chicka bambam: New mom jitters....hahaha (o.k. i did go out the first night they moved into the coop after everyone else went to bed and checked on them...o.k. I did it more than once.....) With regards to the first egg, we are figuring each of us will get about a teaspoon....i have already told them they will have to chew slowly and smile. I have one girl that is getting broody so perhaps she will gift us soon. Feel free to use it as your own. i take no ownership. :)


question: how do you like your orpingtons and jersey giants? they are interesting to me......

thanks again for the welcome...
 
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Welcome!! This is my first year with chickens too and all I have done is worry...well, in between having fun! Everything they do I feel the need to look up and make sure it is normal. I did lose one of my original group (known as the OG's) at about 3 weeks, but everything has been fine since, and we also added an additional 5. Thank goodness for this site....it helps ease my mind!
 
Mainechick168 said:
Welcome!! This is my first year with chickens too and all I have done is worry...well, in between having fun! Everything they do I feel the need to look up and make sure it is normal. I did lose one of my original group (known as the OG's) at about 3 weeks, but everything has been fine since, and we also added an additional 5. Thank goodness for this site....it helps ease my mind!
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LOL thanks.

My Buf Orp is fun. She is definitely in charge of things in the pen. She talks a lot, always has and has to know everything or try to be involved in everything I am doing. When I fill the gallon waterer she is right there drinking out of the steam of water like a dog would. The magenta gardening gloves I usually wear outside got traded for brown jersey because I apparently represent food to her and my walking, stooping, reaching, etc with hot pink hands was getting way too much of her attention.

That Jersey Giant is beautiful and getting so tall. To me he is intimidating. He has always been freakishly opposite of all the others, was always the last caught, slept near them but with his head facing the other way, etc so we kinda figured in his early days he might be a roo (had a pullet only purchase) so the name the kids gave him was changed to OutKast.

He is good to the pullets though and is 'protector/Mommy' to our White Rock. She was given to us on Father's Day and was only 6 wks old. We play penned her but she continued to escape. The Buff Orp was very mean to her, the Red Star ignored her and at first the Jersey Giant was aggressive initially BUT on that Thursday after only 4 days of her pen she was found out foraging in the main pen with the others and would hide until the tall roo whenever the Buf Orp started to peck too much. He yanks on her neck once a day- usually in the morning but after that they are buds and she is wherever he is. The Buf Orp still chases her away from food but she does that to all of them.
 

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