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by MommaChick
Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:59 am
Forum: Event Discussion (Sales and Shows)
Topic: Mount Forest Fur and Feather sale
Replies: 21
Views: 10502

Re: Mount Forest Fur and Feather sale

I'm going and looking for something fun to sneek home. :) Anyone have any Black Silkies? Exhibition quality?
by MommaChick
Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:50 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: End of an era.
Replies: 31
Views: 10286

Re: End of an era.

My boss just sold last april. I cried when I cleaned the parlour for the last time. We use the cows as nurse cows and raise veal now. Quota is a the only thing keeping Canadian Dairy Farmer afloat in my opinion. Hydro, fuel and feed are through the roof, equipment is astronomical. I bought 1 cow and...
by MommaChick
Sun Mar 25, 2018 1:01 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Fraudster in Owen Sound
Replies: 20
Views: 7812

Re: Fraudster in Owen Sound

We have a crap load of farm equipment I have to post on kijiji in the next month. I am not looking forward to it at all. I might just put my phone number in the add only. Scammers seem to really like to hide behind thier screens. My sister almost got scammed for a Boston Terrier puppy up that way la...
by MommaChick
Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:44 am
Forum: Brooding and Broodies
Topic: Fondue is in labour
Replies: 7
Views: 4024

Re: Fondue is in labour

Congrats!
by MommaChick
Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:42 am
Forum: Chickens
Topic: Various Chicken Breeds
Replies: 4
Views: 6979

Re: Orpington, Marans, Favorelles, Wyandottes

Hey there, can you shoot me your contact info? My friend was looking for some Favorelle eggs, I could pass your info along to her.
by MommaChick
Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:30 am
Forum: I'm New Here Introductions
Topic: New from york region...
Replies: 27
Views: 11495

Re: New from york region...

Welcome to the forum. I grew up in York Region and we still have family there, not really that far away actually where we are now. I hope your health improves, or you at least find ways of dealing with your illness so that your avle to enjoy the critters more.
by MommaChick
Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:46 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Chicken Buyer Etiquette 101
Replies: 31
Views: 10023

Re: Chicken Buyer Etiquette 101

Tis the season for sellers to rant about buyers. Don't take it to heart and FB is the worst! I left all the FB Pages and my blood pressure is wondefful now. Even if you fimd a great breeder with wonderful pullets, anything can happen when you bring them home. Everything will be different for them. W...
by MommaChick
Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:35 pm
Forum: Poultry Breeding and Projects
Topic: if you could magically create any new phenotype what would it be?
Replies: 16
Views: 6973

if you could magically create any new phenotype what would it be?

I would want a chicken that was Liver Chestnut. Its my favorite colour in horses because they almost always shine and alwaysnlook clean. Maybe Inam just sick of white ponies, white rabbits, and white chickens? I guess thats a pretty boring wish, but thats mine. The tuxedo colouration sounds nice too...
by MommaChick
Sat Feb 18, 2017 10:08 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: This should stir the GM pot....
Replies: 15
Views: 4656

This should stir the GM pot....

I see why everyone is cranky, but just because we are interested in preservation doesn't mean the big guys are. Because of commercial animal keeping, we have lost tons of great bloodlines. When the big guys are breeding in the thousands and we are breeding in the hundreds (if that) per year, we are ...
by MommaChick
Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:29 am
Forum: Incubating and Hatching
Topic: Early Spring??? Incubators Loaded
Replies: 21
Views: 9506

Early Spring??? Incubators Loaded

Nice station! You just gave me a great idea for my set up. Thanks. Good luck to you and your peeps.
Im just going to wade out through 2 feet of snow now and start my truck.

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