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ChristyinGA said:
Guess who is hearing "peep" from an egg on day 20? THIS GIRL! I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it!

Re: rabbits for eatin' - the hubs and I are in discussions about this right now and we are not sure we can eat a rabbit. Where can I get a rabbit that is ready to throw in the crockpot? We haven't killed a chicken yet, so we're not ready to kill rabbits. (We DO plan to kill some chickens in about 9 weeks though!)
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You are taking cats to @mrsdszoo , right? If so, why not ask her for one while you're down there, so you can learn to cook it and see what it tastes like? She may have one ready.
 
So, I have caught chicken math!!!!!! Went to TSC to pick up some pine chips and it happened, they had buff chicks!!!! I had no self control what so ever. I told my daughter, don't let me do it. She picked them out. :P
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debgal said:
Went out to check on my girls and took some pics of the access door that is inside the barn, which I'm going to trim out and re enforce. also some of inside coop. What do y'all think? Any advice or improvements?



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I did NOT mean to skip this, by the way. I read it this morning from bed, and completely forgot to add the response when I got on the computer!

My only suggestion would be to skip the straw, and go for Hay or pine shavings instead. Straw just gets so messy so quick, and doesn't absorb moisture at all. As a matter of fact, as soon as it gets wet, it's like a child's Slip-N-Slide game - which is difficult if you're merely trying to walk on it!
 
LTygress said:
I did NOT mean to skip this, by the way. I read it this morning from bed, and completely forgot to add the response when I got on the computer!

My only suggestion would be to skip the straw, and go for Hay or pine shavings instead. Straw just gets so messy so quick, and doesn't absorb moisture at all. As a matter of fact, as soon as it gets wet, it's like a child's Slip-N-Slide game - which is difficult if you're merely trying to walk on it!
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X2. I'd go for pine shavings. I use hay in the run, but the shavings smell better inside.
 
LTygress said:
You are taking cats to @mrsdszoo , right? If so, why not ask her for one while you're down there, so you can learn to cook it and see what it tastes like? She may have one ready.
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I am taking cats!

Can I get past the sweet bunniness and learn to appreciate the yumminess?
 
Yeah after reading what everyone was saying about straw vs pine shavings vs sand. I decided to go get the pine shavings. That's when it happened, chicks. :)
 
Only bad part I HAVE to fix is the access door, my big butt needs a little more room. Easy fix with power tools ;)
 
Alright, planning out my chicken pens now - to include the few mixed breeds or extras that I have just sitting around taking up space. Thankfully, they're all female.

But here's my dilemma: I have three breeds coming from McMurray hatchery as pullets-only, and I don't have roos (of those breeds) to put them with. So I'm wondering if I should just put them with other breeds, or if I should get roos for them and breed them as purebreds.

The breeds are Silver-Laced Wyandotte (3), Cuckoo Marans (3), and Barred Rock (2).

abmaddox gave me four BLRW eggs to hatch, so the SLWs may end up with a rooster after all. I could probably ask her for some BCM eggs, and cross the Cuckoo Marans with Black Copper Marans.

That leaves me with the barred rock. There's only two of them coming in, so going through the trouble of getting a roo may not be worth it. In the meantime, I'll have a Phoenix roo with only two hens of his own, LF Cochin with possibly 2 roos and 3 hens (unless McMurray is nice enough to send the SL Cochins as two hens and a single roo), and the Sumatra roo with 4 hens. So the barred rocks could EASILY go into any of these pens. Or I could get a roo and breed them as pure. Which option do you all think I should do?
 

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