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I did it again!
I really shouldn't go to the feed store this time of year. Went to get chicken feed today...."accidentally" came home with 3 more chicks I just can't help myself!
ksbmom- Posts : 144
Join date : 2011-10-26
Location : Central Florida, zone 9a
Re: I did it again!
So cute! Some folks I know raised pheasants last year. They were pretty happy with those birds. Do you have any other birds beside chickens?
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
I'm probably better off raising worms....
They're much easier for the ignorants like me to manage. Too bad I've got to drive an hour south to get free range eggs.
tomperrin- Posts : 350
Join date : 2011-03-20
Age : 82
Location : Burlington, NJ Zone 7a (2012 version), in the hollow, surrounded by trees.
Re: I did it again!
I know the addiction well. We used to have over 200 at one time when we lived in the county but since we moved to town we can't have any and I really miss them.
westx- Posts : 52
Join date : 2011-05-27
Location : Ellis County, Texas
Re: I did it again!
Just the various ducks on our pond, which aren't really "ours" (but we feed them sometimes). My husband wanted to raise turkeys, but we couldn't find chicks for a reasonable price. I really want cows and goats, but I think the neighbors would have a fit.....camprn wrote:So cute! Some folks I know raised pheasants last year. They were pretty happy with those birds. Do you have any other birds beside chickens?
ksbmom- Posts : 144
Join date : 2011-10-26
Location : Central Florida, zone 9a
Re: I did it again!
I am glad this was about chickens, I was afraid I was going to open up a Britney Spears video
ashort- Posts : 518
Join date : 2011-02-17
Age : 56
Location : Frisco, TX zone 8a
Re: I did it again!
Of course its the most difficult thing to resist the "cuteness" lolol Love it!
Ha-v-v- Posts : 1119
Join date : 2010-03-12
Age : 64
Location : Southwest Ms. Zone 8A (I like to think I get a little bit of Zone 9 too )
Re: I did it again!
I bet the chicks were like that Swiffer advert. They just latched on to you. Like Velcro.
Re: I did it again!
Exactly! (Couldn't have had anything to do with my three kids going "Oh pleeeeease mommy can we get some oh pleeeeease?!")Kelejan wrote:I bet the chicks were like that Swiffer advert. They just latched on to you. Like Velcro.
ksbmom- Posts : 144
Join date : 2011-10-26
Location : Central Florida, zone 9a
Re: I did it again!
ksbmom wrote:Exactly! (Couldn't have had anything to do with my three kids going "Oh pleeeeease mommy can we get some oh pleeeeease?!")Kelejan wrote:I bet the chicks were like that Swiffer advert. They just latched on to you. Like Velcro.
Think of it this way.. You'll never be an empty nester when you get new chicks every year .
I kind of said that to Alison ..... that I was , " Thinking of get a new chick this year " ... Her reply is unprintable
All joking aside I just love the smell of new day old chicks .. as a kid we had 2,000 of them each year on our small holding /farmstead.
There was much excitement as we unpacked the boxes from the hatcheries and tried to sort out which were the cocks or hens . Nowadays it mostly already done for you by specialaists at the hatchery
plantoid- Posts : 4095
Join date : 2011-11-09
Age : 73
Location : At the west end of M4 in the UK
Re: I did it again!
plantoid wrote:
All joking aside I just love the smell of new day old chicks .. as a kid we had 2,000 of them each year on our small holding /farmstead.
There was much excitement as we unpacked the boxes from the hatcheries and tried to sort out which were the cocks or hens . Nowadays it mostly already done for you by specialaists at the hatchery
Not a 'specialist' by any means, but that was one of the jobs I was trained at on the goose farm during hatch........how do you put THAT on a resume? I love the little fuzzballs on hatch day as well!
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Goosegirl- Posts : 3424
Join date : 2011-02-16
Age : 59
Location : Zone 4A - NE SD
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