YO GEORGIANS! :)

[mrsdszoo]

I have six new brahmas too! They're really cute (but we haven't been able to do a photo session yet with all the new chicks)

 

[carcar80]

I have six new brahmas too! They're really cute (but we haven't been able to do a photo session yet with all the new chicks)

What type of Brahma do you have?

 

[GAMarans]

What type of Brahma do you have?

This kind:

 

[mrsdszoo]

. So sorry about your roo. I might be interested in an EE. Once my breeding pens are set up, I want layers of all colors in the hen house.
. See, I kinda think I might look less nuts if mine joined. He could read posts in this thread and think "OMG that woman has 200 chickens! My wife's not that bad". And "Oh Honey, you only have one incubator...and it's an LG. You've shown such restraint...Let me build you something awesome!" Or "those ducks and turkeys sound cool. You should get some". That's how Hubby joining plays out in my head. Maybe I am nuts lol.

I wish my husband would interpret things that way, lol! He thought he "liked animals" when were dating, but it turns out he really only had one dog for a few years when he was younger, and didn't do much with it. Since meeting and marrying me, the learning curve he's been on is huge!! To be fair, I don't understand more than two or three words when he's on a conference call for work (internet security), so I take care of the zoo and he takes care of the computers (we have a bunch of those too, lol). Oh, I do have to give him credit for helping me to build two coops though.

 

[mrsdszoo]

Speaking of wild turkeys... Guess what I almost hit while out in the mail truck today? And if that wasn't bad enough, on my way TO work, a guinea from down the street ran out in front of my car as I was doing a good 35MPH. Dumb birds!

I have heard that guineas are great at standing still in front of moving vehicles . So how's the mail truck to drive, now that you've tested it on the turkey-slolem course?

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

This kind:

Since she's stealing my photo!!

LOL! Apparently that means she's got light Brahmas too

 

[carcar80]

This kind:

$^^@£+@$$ Take your time translating that one.. Wouldn't want you to hurt yourself

 

[mrsdszoo]

I hope everyone is staying warm tonight, and that the birds and all are tucked in snugly for yet another below-freezing night. Blech.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the new bunny babies; we are having problems with babies getting dragged out of their nest boxes after mom nurses them; they end up chilled on the wire cage floor, and we lost several from the last litters that way. I thought it was because the boxes were too short, so i gave them bigger ones this time. I still lost five babies when the doe who was dragging out her labor left half of her litter close to the front of the box after I left her for the evening, and one from the other ten when it got dragged out of the nest. Argh. I have drop-down nest boxes for the New Zealands, and I will definately be putting them in for the other girls too.

 

[GAMarans]

Since she's stealing my photo!!

LOL! Apparently that means she's got light Brahmas too

Well yes I do but she was asking you what kind you have and I was being a smarty-britches

 

[mrsdszoo]

OH!! I just checked my eggs in the new LG incubator after all the talk about the humidity in the new model, and... we have an early bird! They're due to hatch Friday, but my temps must have been a little high, because I already have one external pip -comeplete with peeping! I bought a cheap reptile hygrometer, and I set the humidity at 50-55% with both plugs in, so that I can take them out if humidity spikes during hatching. Sound good?