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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
I am SICK.
I've been fighting off a cold for a couple days now, and today I just feel sooo BLAH!
Only thing I've accomplished so far is I got one order of eggs shipped. I have two more orders to send out today, and I think once I have them out, I'm going to take a NAP.
Well, that's what I want to do, but I have eggies to move from incubator to hatcher first. Always something to do here
I had two of the 3 silkie eggs hatch. Candled the third, and doesn't look like there's any life in it. I ended up with one blue and one splash! Which makes me happy, and I hope at least one is a roo!!
That only puts me at a count of 4 silkies! I don't want/need anymore silkies than that.
I really don't even want silkies, period, as I've not bought into that addiction. I only have them so I can hopefully have hatching eggs from my silkies to sell next year. Or eggs to hatch out and sell BBS Silkie chicks!
A couple weeks ago I got a blue slate turkey from Becca. Keeping in with my medievel/knights etc theme, we named her Saphira, after the Dragon in the Eragon books. My Royal Palms are a year old, and Saphira is nearly as big as Lance, my RP tom! Lance just loves Saphira! If anyone tries to pick her up, he attacks! Gwen is setting a nest of 15 pure RP eggs. I'm looking forward to them hatching in about 3 weeks. Late clutch for her, but since I know these are 100% pure poults, we plan to raise them up until we can sex them and keep the best for our breeding pens and sell the rest off in pairs or trios or what have you. Means they will probably be at least 4 months old or so before I let them go.
My Speckled Sussex eggs from bargain on BYC are due to start hatching tomorrow. I'm super excited for them. I had 9 of 12 eggs make it to the end
that at least half hatch. I could really use another roo, as I think the last Sussex I had hatch from bargain is another pullet, and I'm happy to add more pullets/bloodlines to my already small Sussex flock of 6 hens and 1 roo.
Then I have some mutt eggs from my own girls and 3 BLRW eggs from my own flock due to hatch. Soon as the eggs in the 'bator are all out to the hatcher, I plan to start filling my incubator up with my own BLRW eggs. Plan to raise some up to sell at the October swap, and keep some for my own breeding pen.
And, of course, if my dear friend keljonma gets the local house and moves her flock over there with her, I hope to send a BLRW pullet her way.
but shh don't tell her! We'll make it a surprise for Christmas!
I don't know how many of ya'll realize it, but during the Holidays last year, keljonma and her husband gifted me the five chickerdoodles...I recieved Monroe and Elizabeth, cuckoo marans, and Polk, Quincy, and Louisa, all cochins. Cochins were one of the breeds I'd been wanting soooo badly, so she really blessed me with her gift. Monroe and Elizabeth were originally for my mom, but once I saw them, yes, I became greedy, and wanted to keep them. My mom was fine with that, and I have so enjoyed them!
We've really been blessed in the friends we've made through SS, both the ones we've met and have living close by (or moving closer lol) and the ones we haven't met. We all are walking different paths, and some of us have different beliefs, but ya'll have been a wonderful group of friends and support for Ernie and me this year. I cannot thank you enough for the prayers, the encouragement, the laughs, and even the occassional tears...
Like now...I'm such a sap I made myself cry. lol
I hope that all of you, my fellow SS friends, are the recipients of many blessings. While we may have had a lot of things going on for us this year, all in all, it was all worth it, all of it provided blessings in some way or another. I wouldn't change anything that's happened to us so far this year (not even the CPS visit! because there are blessings coming our way from even that!). I can only give the credit and glory to God, who's never faltered or failed me, my husband, or my children, even though we've stumbled several times along our way.
Oh and one more thing, we're going redneck! We were offered a free swimming pool!!!!!!! So, how redneck is THAT? No running water, but we'll have a POOL! and we can have the fire department fill it up
We figure we'll set it up this year, but not fill it till next spring...and maybe we'll have our well by then, too.
Hugs to ya'll, and I hope ya'll have a great day!!
I've been fighting off a cold for a couple days now, and today I just feel sooo BLAH!
Only thing I've accomplished so far is I got one order of eggs shipped. I have two more orders to send out today, and I think once I have them out, I'm going to take a NAP.
Well, that's what I want to do, but I have eggies to move from incubator to hatcher first. Always something to do here
I had two of the 3 silkie eggs hatch. Candled the third, and doesn't look like there's any life in it. I ended up with one blue and one splash! Which makes me happy, and I hope at least one is a roo!!
That only puts me at a count of 4 silkies! I don't want/need anymore silkies than that.
I really don't even want silkies, period, as I've not bought into that addiction. I only have them so I can hopefully have hatching eggs from my silkies to sell next year. Or eggs to hatch out and sell BBS Silkie chicks!
A couple weeks ago I got a blue slate turkey from Becca. Keeping in with my medievel/knights etc theme, we named her Saphira, after the Dragon in the Eragon books. My Royal Palms are a year old, and Saphira is nearly as big as Lance, my RP tom! Lance just loves Saphira! If anyone tries to pick her up, he attacks! Gwen is setting a nest of 15 pure RP eggs. I'm looking forward to them hatching in about 3 weeks. Late clutch for her, but since I know these are 100% pure poults, we plan to raise them up until we can sex them and keep the best for our breeding pens and sell the rest off in pairs or trios or what have you. Means they will probably be at least 4 months old or so before I let them go.
My Speckled Sussex eggs from bargain on BYC are due to start hatching tomorrow. I'm super excited for them. I had 9 of 12 eggs make it to the end
that at least half hatch. I could really use another roo, as I think the last Sussex I had hatch from bargain is another pullet, and I'm happy to add more pullets/bloodlines to my already small Sussex flock of 6 hens and 1 roo. Then I have some mutt eggs from my own girls and 3 BLRW eggs from my own flock due to hatch. Soon as the eggs in the 'bator are all out to the hatcher, I plan to start filling my incubator up with my own BLRW eggs. Plan to raise some up to sell at the October swap, and keep some for my own breeding pen.
And, of course, if my dear friend keljonma gets the local house and moves her flock over there with her, I hope to send a BLRW pullet her way.
but shh don't tell her! We'll make it a surprise for Christmas!I don't know how many of ya'll realize it, but during the Holidays last year, keljonma and her husband gifted me the five chickerdoodles...I recieved Monroe and Elizabeth, cuckoo marans, and Polk, Quincy, and Louisa, all cochins. Cochins were one of the breeds I'd been wanting soooo badly, so she really blessed me with her gift. Monroe and Elizabeth were originally for my mom, but once I saw them, yes, I became greedy, and wanted to keep them. My mom was fine with that, and I have so enjoyed them!
We've really been blessed in the friends we've made through SS, both the ones we've met and have living close by (or moving closer lol) and the ones we haven't met. We all are walking different paths, and some of us have different beliefs, but ya'll have been a wonderful group of friends and support for Ernie and me this year. I cannot thank you enough for the prayers, the encouragement, the laughs, and even the occassional tears...
Like now...I'm such a sap I made myself cry. lol
I hope that all of you, my fellow SS friends, are the recipients of many blessings. While we may have had a lot of things going on for us this year, all in all, it was all worth it, all of it provided blessings in some way or another. I wouldn't change anything that's happened to us so far this year (not even the CPS visit! because there are blessings coming our way from even that!). I can only give the credit and glory to God, who's never faltered or failed me, my husband, or my children, even though we've stumbled several times along our way.
Oh and one more thing, we're going redneck! We were offered a free swimming pool!!!!!!! So, how redneck is THAT? No running water, but we'll have a POOL! and we can have the fire department fill it up
We figure we'll set it up this year, but not fill it till next spring...and maybe we'll have our well by then, too.Hugs to ya'll, and I hope ya'll have a great day!!
None of my paying customers have complained, not once! I like the colors of my girls, and I don't care for the super dark ones where you can barely see their lacing. Mine have the proper combs and the lacing is very prominent. 
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