Comments on My life, under the microscope...: chickening part 1: what I got

I won't be in Fresno :-(.... I will be in Aust...

2010-02-04T21:38:56.908-08:00

I won't be in Fresno :-(.... I will be in Australia until the 21st! I don't have anything worth showing right now, anyways, and I have everything in breeding pens already. Turned on my incubator yesterday and the humidity won't stay consistent (of course, being fully functional is much too convenient), so I've got to tinker until I can get it right.

Hope you win big...good luck!

Mike, I'm definitely not quitting entirely. I&...

2010-02-01T22:41:33.497-08:00

Mike, I'm definitely not quitting entirely. I'll still have some! Less will be nice! Besides, I can only hatch chicks if I am home to deal with them... daily. So if I have to travel then I can't have chicks on the ground. Last year that meant waiting til late June to hatch. This year it might have to be even later. That's just not conducive to hatching show birds. I know lots of people are hatching now, but it's muddy and gross and chicks are the LAST thing I want to deal with this time of year!

Yeah, I have entire empty coops... weird.

See you in Fresno?

Wow! Your birds look great as always. If I counted...

2010-02-01T20:39:38.054-08:00

Wow! Your birds look great as always. If I counted correctly, looks like somewhere in the upper 60's! I have 26 now (and some of those are laying hens)... and I think I am going to stay around there and hatch around 50 every year. It is so nice only having a handful --- with our set up we can feed everything in just a few minutes if we don't have time. The hard thing is with those colored varieties you have to hatch so much more to get decent birds! It feels weird having empty cages everywhere, but it's also nice when I want to separate stuff! I'm glad it doesn't sound like you're quitting yet!!!

Boy, I bet they were giving you the stink eye that...

2010-02-01T07:16:33.940-08:00

Boy, I bet they were giving you the stink eye that day! -BMc.

I guess you would say mine are hobby chickens. We ...

2010-02-01T05:24:11.115-08:00

I guess you would say mine are hobby chickens. We do not eat our chickens.(Quite often they find themselves sacrificed to nature's predators.) I raise them for their eggs and for the beautiful lawn ornaments they become. Even the guinea fowl are for entertainment. We supply family and friends with free-range chicken eggs and do not charge for these eggs. But I depend on serious chicken raisers like you to keep me in birds.