I'm hoping for the chick's to have the cleaner neck's.
First babies of the new year!!!Ok about an hour ago, I put NN hatching egg's from my flock into the incubator, so they will be my first chick's for 2020. I've been good in leaving the incubator empty for this long, but now that it's going again I feel so much better!
I plan to avoid the feed store when I know they are getting baby chicks In!Hello Everyone!
I don't know if this has been done already but I thought it was a good thread idea!
With 2020 fast approaching, what are your plans with your poultry for next year?
New birds, new coops/runs, hatching or breeding, showing, trying something new? Whatever it is you have planned, share and chat about it here.
Feel free to ask questions or give out helpful tips and pointers!
Next year I've got plans to get my breeding shed fully set up and in working order and also to improve my breeding flock/line of Silkies.
I've got new breeding birds on their way and an extra incubator ready for use. I'm hoping for many healthy hatches in 2020!
Good luck in the new year to everyone!
So...there are two of us. Myself and Cheryl. We've been lusting after chickens for the last 2 years, while we saw to selling our Portland house and moving down to Lakeside, OR, where we have planned to keep our first chickens, having gleaned all sorts of information from this site and all the kind, experienced chicken keepers. So here we are - moved onto a double lot with most of the "but first"s done or underway. Had the house made and moved here, had the shed/garage made and electrified, had the 6ft fences built. Lo, the winter is deep with atmospheric rivers and wind and the wildness of the Oregon coast. But hark! January is a few weeks away, and Cheryl (who will take the head on the chicken project while I spearhead the rabbit one) is girding her loins (I'm sure...she doesn't say much, but I know that set to her jaw after 33 years together) to begin the Great Chicken Experiment! The coop has to be made, then the run, and then we give into the temptation of the feed and hardware stores and OH MY GAWD LOOK THEY HAVE LIVE BABY CHICKS!!! LOOK AT THAT ONE - HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SUCH CUTE LITTLE....OMG IT'S GIVING YOU THE STINK EYE! GET THAT ONE!...and...and...yeah.Hello Everyone!
I don't know if this has been done already but I thought it was a good thread idea!
With 2020 fast approaching, what are your plans with your poultry for next year?
New birds, new coops/runs, hatching or breeding, showing, trying something new? Whatever it is you have planned, share and chat about it here.
Feel free to ask questions or give out helpful tips and pointers!
Next year I've got plans to get my breeding shed fully set up and in working order and also to improve my breeding flock/line of Silkies.
I've got new breeding birds on their way and an extra incubator ready for use. I'm hoping for many healthy hatches in 2020!
Good luck in the new year to everyone!
YES!!!! I am actually banned from TSC (and any other chick-enabling enterprise) for the duration of the Spring hatching season. If, for any reason, I absolutely HAVE to go, I am required to have supervision in the form of one or both of my children. In a dire emergency, I am allowed to take our chicken-chasing dog, as they know that I can't have both Skye and chicks in the car and still drive.
So...there are two of us. Myself and Cheryl. We've been lusting after chickens for the last 2 years, while we saw to selling our Portland house and moving down to Lakeside, OR, where we have planned to keep our first chickens, having gleaned all sorts of information from this site and all the kind, experienced chicken keepers. So here we are - moved onto a double lot with most of the "but first"s done or underway. Had the house made and moved here, had the shed/garage made and electrified, had the 6ft fences built. Lo, the winter is deep with atmospheric rivers and wind and the wildness of the Oregon coast. But hark! January is a few weeks away, and Cheryl (who will take the head on the chicken project while I spearhead the rabbit one) is girding her loins (I'm sure...she doesn't say much, but I know that set to her jaw after 33 years together) to begin the Great Chicken Experiment! The coop has to be made, then the run, and then we give into the temptation of the feed and hardware stores and OH MY GAWD LOOK THEY HAVE LIVE BABY CHICKS!!! LOOK AT THAT ONE - HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SUCH CUTE LITTLE....OMG IT'S GIVING YOU THE STINK EYE! GET THAT ONE!...and...and...yeah.
*ahem*. *deep breaths* so...yeah. This is The Year of the Chicken!
I've managed to stay un-banned from feed stores by feigning rehabilitation. Little do they know... I have a list.YES!!!! I am actually banned from TSC (and any other chick-enabling enterprise) for the duration of the Spring hatching season. If, for any reason, I absolutely HAVE to go, I am required to have supervision in the form of one or both of my children. In a dire emergency, I am allowed to take our chicken-chasing dog, as they know that I can't have both Skye and chicks in the car and still drive.
{{... Sigh ... }} That leaves me with just one option ... home hatching. Since none of my ladies are even remotely broody, that means waiting until the weather warms up enough to keep their eggs from getting icy before I can incubate them. Sometimes, Life just doesn't seem fair, does it? ... Let me repeat myself: {{... SIGH! ...}}
I'll buy them!
Every animal I bring home is defiantly! Dear Hubby can't understand the chicken math yet!
ha,ha!
