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And I need to add some more color to my egg basket ... anybody have any blue eggs they can bring for hatching ... or chicks. Rocky Rhodes ... do you have any blue egg layer pullets/chicks left?
 
Flower it sure sounds like our dh's would give is out of every animal
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First time ever making ribs that didn't just have to be heated up- these are from our hog. They were so delicious! I had seen folks on the coast doing ribs that way so that's what I did to make sure they were done. Homemade bbq concoction was awesome according to the family. Give me a good way to cook em and I'll try it out. I'm jealous of everyone in Ga that can get together and enjoy chicken/farm company! Nobody does that around here. I've made my way into the local chicken circle but I'm the only female amongst old timers. It's all good cuz I "spit my 'baccer' just as well as they do
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I hope everyone has a great time...and everyone should end up with what they are looking for it sounds like!
 
Cknldy said:
Flower it sure sounds like our dh's would give is out of every animal
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First time ever making ribs that didn't just have to be heated up- these are from our hog. They were so delicious! I had seen folks on the coast doing ribs that way so that's what I did to make sure they were done. Homemade bbq concoction was awesome according to the family. Give me a good way to cook em and I'll try it out. I'm jealous of everyone in Ga that can get together and enjoy chicken/farm company! Nobody does that around here. I've made my way into the local chicken circle but I'm the only female amongst old timers. It's all good cuz I "spit my 'baccer' just as well as they do
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I hope everyone has a great time...and everyone should end up with what they are looking for it sounds like!
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We're only 90 or so minutes from the Tennessee line.... surely you're not that far away.... come on down.
 
not particularly a happy camper this evening.

for the last several days, I've been working on my old farm tractor. A year ago I pulled all the sheet metal off of it, and it's taken me this long to get it all stripped down, and painted. Add in buying a 90 year old house that I spent 3 months remodeling, and of course building our coop and buying some chickens. But when we moved, we downsized, house and storage buildings. I also built another storage building. it came time to get the tractor back together, because the parts all over are seriously hindering getting everything organized and put in it's place. So that's what I've done the last several days. Making progress on it, and for anyone who's interested when I finish, I'll post before and after pics, but I digress.

I said all that to say that other than checking feed and water, cleaning the poop tray and getting the apron down around the coop and run, I haven't spent any time with the chickens. Well except for going down each night to make sure they were all inside, and up on the roost.

So this evening, while I was in there, I decided I'd check them over good, since I haven't done that in a while. I knew when I bought the straight run blue ameraucanas there was a 50/50 chance of roo/pullet. So out of the 8, it does indeed look like I have 4 and 4, though I'm still not convinced on two of them, LOL. BUT the white leghorns and black australorps were all supposed to be pullets I picked up at TSC......appears that one of each of them is also a rooster, more plain on the aussie than the leghorn, and I'm not happy. so out of 14 chickens I have 6 roosters. I am keeping one blue, donating a rooster to my grand daughters flock. I expected all the TSC chicks to be pullets. ok, if ONE of them wound up being a he, well ok it's only 95% , but 2 out of 6........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I guess this is going to give me room to add a few other breeds once I thin them down. I'm tempted to keep the aussie rooster, I've read breeding a brown egg gene rooster to a white gene egg hen will give me pink eggs, anyone verify that?

here's a couple pics, for what they are with it dark and an iphone camera:

the leghorn. Can't tell it in this pic, but smaller body, much longer tail. This is at 8 weeks and I do believe those are the wattles coming in? Tho it doesn't seem to have much of a comb yet





now the australorp, definitely a comb and wattles, and this one is supposed to be 7 weeks:
 
This is too dumb not to share.

I was on the phone with a new love interest. Lotus was apparently jealous because she jumped up on my legs and flaps my cigarette into my eye. I just got home from the ER. The lit part of the cigarette burned my cornea.

It was unusual enough that the ER doctor used it as a way to train a new nurse.

I used to work for a local shelter and had to put down fighting roosters-never got a scratch on me. Yet a laying hen sent me to the ER. The irony is not lost on me. lol
 
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This may be an idiotic question but.....

I have my candling license but can't remember if this was ever covered. I read the regulations but can't find the answer either...

Can I sell eating eggs that may be fertile?

We have a young roo that started mounting our free range girls. Can I sell their eggs for consumption? Or do I need to separate him so the eggs are unfertilelized...

Does my question even make sense?
 
Papa I have zero experience with leghorns but that doesn't strike me as a rooster by comb alone. The Australorp is more believable.

Unless Leghorns are just really slow-growing, if expect much more action in the comb/wattles at that age on the white.

Just my opinion. It's your AM I REALLY want to see pics of! My boy is sooo obvious and had been for a few weeks now.
 
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