Time to change our flock around. This year we will still be hatching BBS Silkies and White Silkies. We will be adding a few Bourbon Red Turkies and BBS Orps. We decided to get out of Buff Orps. and Silver Laced Wyndottes. I am hopeing that our sizzle flock really gets going and we should have some chicks to offer.
Well now we can say winter is definitly here. Today is our first real snow fall and my flock hates it. When I went to let them out today noone wanted anything to do with it. They all made their way to the doors but were not about to go out in it. They just stood in the doorways telling me how they really didn't like it. Egg producion of course went down so we are limited on what we have to offer at this time. If there is anything you are looking for just let us knwo and we let you know what we currently have. Hope everyone stays warm...
Well today was another great day at Tim and Susies. We went there with a truck load of nice chickens and only came back with a few. I ended up buying two beautiful partridge silkies to add to our up and coming Sizzle flock. I really enjoy going there because of all of our regulars and all of the great birds that everyone brings.I hope that you all could attend September 18th and come see us.
We had a terrible loss last night. Every night we put our chickens up and lock the doors since last year after we lost so many chickens to a possum. Last night while Jeremy was grilling out we decided we would wait till after we ate to put the chickens up so when he finished eating, he went outside to put them up and dead chickens laid everywhere (in a 20 min time frame mind u). We lost 5. :( I am so upset over this, we were lucky that my lil hand raised Pe' Pe' wasnt one of them, he had a few feathers plucked out and now he is having issuses with coming out of the hen house this morning but other than that he is okay...So what do we do now, we put out the live trap and of course make sure our chickens are up before dark but i dont know how we are gonna catch it....
Its been a great month for us! I am out of school for the summer and passed all my finals woohoo and Miss Hannah completed her first year of school with her class celebrating with a luau which was alot of fun. We have hatched out all kinds of new babies and have bought some new babies also...We now have a pair of baby Geese born this past Monday. We went to Tim and Susies and met some new Chicken lovers which is always awesome..We have also started selling here at the house. Its going great, meeting alot of nice people and have a great time doing it (some of the chickens we have sold have moved away, some to New Jersey and others to Louisville) ..Last but not least we are also now hatching some eggs for other people...Turkey and Guniea (hope that is spelt right) ..I am so looking forward to going to Tim and Susies again in June..Hope everyone has had a great month, thanks for stopping by..See you soon,
Windy Well we had a great day at Tim and Susie's Hen House, took some of the chickens over there and sold everything and came back with some new stuff and some new and fresh ideas. We never really thought about selling farm fresh eggs but we may start next year. Cant do much of anything right now because of Nursing school but next year is a whole different story. Jeremy makes his incubators and that is another idea. Hmm we will see. Any way what a great way to spend the day...No off to study for a test.. Hope everyone has a great week!!!
We had a new hatching of babies today they are just so cute..Will get pictures and post on a warmer day. Miss Hannah is sick, bless her heart so this week has been kinda hectic. I and her both have missed some school this week. I dont know if we can make it to the swap meet in Scottsville this weekend, I was soo looking forward to it, we were gonna take the splash silkes to sell and I was gonna do some shopping of my own..I would like 3 more buff orphingtons. I also wanted to hit all the amish goodies if they are set up there..If you havent heard of it its a Small Animal Swap Meet at Susie's Hen House in Scottsville, the sell a little bit of everything as long as its small plus the amish sell bread and cookies and different kinds of homemade items, its awesome. Check it out here is a link to the website http://timandsusiehenhouse.com/index.php. Well I hope everyone has a great week and take care...
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