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TomK · Post by **TomK** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 6:59 am

Well, chicken math insanity has taken root....got around to moving the broody into her own digs, mainly to save the hatching eggs i was so graciously given..yes, theres an egg eater in the coop...ugh...so here's hoping four hatch out next week late...
When i hatched the two in my home built bator, i was sure the gimpy one wouldn't thrive so i put the call out for a few chicks just to keep the possible survivor company...i got four from a gal near Stittsville, six from another near Kemptville and just last week got three one weekold leghorns from a gal near my old stomping grounds in North Gower...MJ thinks i've lost it
Sooooooo, what do i do?...well, get more chicks of course....ten RIR poults and ten black sexlink pouts from Freys came in yesterday...it's cheeping mayhem in my basement...i may have to set up a cot near the brooder..
Nuts, I tell ya...

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 8:25 am

Morning everyone!

rain!!! yay! okay, some thunder and lightning in that there rain, but at least the ground is getting wet! we sooooo needed the rain again. the garden is finally PLANTED! in entirety! whoo hoo! only took me 3 weeks longer than usual. oh well. had some spinach from it last night, and strawberries-a nice spinach and strawberry salad with dinner yum the asparagus is now growing out for next year, we have loads of it this year, just awesome. i have little green tomatoes on several of the tomato plants, and flowers all over the peppers....the beans are short this year, they came up but first leaves are only about 2 inches off the ground! hopefully they'll stretch up a bit...otherwise the wind will blow my mulch right over the top of them! some of the new banded chicks have lost their bands...hm....definitely not too big for them. oh well. i can still see the marker on most of them, i'll just have to spend some time colouring again i guess LOL soon some will be going (once i can sex them) to a farm up near wyoming, and others are my next generation breeder potentials for my project lines. have some other birds need to go when i travel out east later on this summer. we are very hopeful about making the piknik date, i need to check out the "what is everyone bringing" list....see if i can't brush up my cooking skills a bit and bring something yummy and/or chocolate (or both).

I think this weekend if the weather is good we are going to keep working on cleaning out the old driveshed and drying barn that will be torn down, and then replacing some more screens in the doors in the loft where the chickens were pecking them. so much to get done now! and it's nice to be able to plan now! yay!

i have 7 eggs left in the hatcher for clawton-some guineas and ducks of some kind...."due" sometime between friday and sunday (guineas are never at 21 days for me!) and then those units will be moved to make way for remodelling of the front room. not sure quite yet where to put the incubator and hatcher, maybe upstairs somewhere....somewhere i can get to them easily because they run from february through october LOL.

hope everyone has a great day! congrats to everyone with new fuzzybutts!!!!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 9:34 am

That is an amazing and scary story Sandy, what a great young man, he made a huge difference in somebody awful day.
...stress comes with the mothering job, but boy sometime I used to wish they didn't tell me everything.

Post by **Killerbunny** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 10:13 am

Good job to Josh. He likely would have felt terrible if he'd left them to carry. Scary though. Well Kathleen, my Mama turkey is conflicted. She found the egg pile from the others and last night she decided they needed to be sat on. Her kids will be 5 weeks at the weekend and are pretty independent now. She kept 2 with her on the eggs overnight and the other 4 trooped off with their "other" Mama who only has 2 much younger babies. They've been hanging out together regularly so other Mama took them for the night. I sure hope she changes her mind on the broody thing although she is a great Mama (for a turkey).

Seastar · Post by **Seastar** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:57 pm

We have 1.9 inches of rain so far. I hope everybody else is getting their share.

ross · Post by **ross** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:30 pm

1/2 " here .

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:54 pm

Zero here ..been watering the garden and new fruit trees for a couple of weeks steady ...supposedly Tuesday...hope springs eternal or so they say

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 6:33 am

OMG OMG OMG! I'm going to the auction! YIKES!!!

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:30 am

Oh, and my bee hives are ready for pick up Wednesday evening! Woohoo!!!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:56 am

So yup Kathleen is broody again. Didn't take kindly to us trying to stop her sitting so we left her as she was clearly stressing.