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And so very true.....

If you are going to Davis, you could maybe pick up some fertile eggs from Trader Joe's. I happen to know that particular TJ's carries them. White leghorn eggs. Fertile. Fun 'bator test, inexpensive additions to a layer flock. Just sayin'.

Considering the recent snowfall and subsequent icy roads, if I had waited just one more day before trying to drive anywhere, I MIGHT have not totaled my ride. However, as of yesterday, the ice on the road to Thistle Dew Ranch still had long stretches of ice requiring snow tires and/or 4-wheel...

Icy, mountain roadways sure are deceptive in their danger. I totaled my '99 Nissan Quest today. I am extremely lucky I was driving slowly and carefully - just not enough of each. :( Seat belts are designed to keep one from being flung about. You get out by pressing the button thingie at your...

Lately, I have developed a new friend (HHandbasket says it's wonderful to see me "branching out socially") who used to be a MAJOR parrot breeder. (Another side comment: I've told this friend she needs to join BYC and hang out in the exotic bird forums.) Anyway, she has use of her BF's four...

Started snowing here last night at six PM, at first those small flakes that almost puff into air instead of touch things, then more and more, larger and fluffier snowflakes. I was at The Pub - sold a dozen chicken eggs to a regular customer, two duck eggs to a server, and six duck eggs to the...

So glad to read your update, Deb! I slipped on the icy ground yesterday morning, after gathering the three measly eggs in the Homestead coop; saved the eggs but had to change out of mucky sweatpants and sweatshirt. Tailbone is tender today. At the Ranch, I closed the three windows (still plenty...

BCollie, I simply use a dog food dish to hold crushed oyster shell. No special feeder, just one of those heavy resin dishes set outside the coop. Inside, outside, doesn't matter. The hens scratch in it, the ducks bill some out onto the ground, it gets rained on, no problem. I just pour a scoop...

I am finally over my cold. It freakin' lingered! Then, after a couple of healthier days, my fibromyalgia decided to act up. Oh well. I am getting 2, sometimes 3 eggs a day from the home flock of twenty-some hens and laying pullets, and 4 eggs a day from the six girls at The Ranch - two of those...

Yes, HHandbasket and her DH, Farmer_Lew are my friends IRL. We just had dinner together at The Pub this evening. She has a couple MJ she got from another local BYCer, but they aren't in a breeding program. She is going to order some more White Faced Black Spanish this Spring, from Ideal...

HenSavers (found at source site www.hensaver.com and on Amazon.com!) offer wing/shoulder protectors on hen saddles. (Personally, I like to call them "aprons" instead of saddles because that's so much more lady-like.) Anyway, they protect wing shoulders very well. I have two Egg Skelters, a LF...

I only make Freezer Camp appointments for MEAN roosters. When one of my GrandChicks goes bad - and I mean MEAN nasty, not just the youthful and obnoxious exuberance of testosterone "poisoning" - then I will get rid of it. I have only done that a couple of times. Now, there have been some packing...

There are now fifteen cockerels and only nine pullets at Thistle Dew Ranch. Last night I took six cockerels - housed with HHandbasket's flock for the past three or four months - and two pullets from the Homestead to tuck into the coop in the dead of night. There are four more definite pullet...

Yesterday, I was feeling less than optimum, so I got a late start going to the Ranch. The young pullets in the "partial" flock there have started to lay just as the older hens at the Homestead are slowing down. I have yet to ask for friends to specifically assist me in "gathering" more hens...

Well, if you absolutely CANNOT find any, you could do what I - and others have done - by hatching some fertile (eating) eggs sold at Trader Joe's. They are White Leghorn eggs. My Josies are wonderful layers of large white eggs.

That is the same brand of auto-door sold by Foy's, to which some of us have mentioned already. Somebody should snap that up!

For Halloween (last night) I took the marvelous Extra Secure Long Sleeved Jacket made for me by another BYCer (superchemicalgal or SCG) to The Pub so somebody could strap .....er..."secure" me into it. Notice the straw in the mug o' adult beverage? Several other customers wore costumes...

1953 :plbb

The Pub at Fairplay, on Fairplay Road at Perry Creek Road opposite the Fairplay Hardware store and next to Winery By The Creek. (Perry Creek Road hits Fairplay Road twice... So drive past Pioneer Park where "the first" Perry Creek meets Fairplay Road.) Fairplay Road is off Mt. Aukum Road...

You are my hero, Deb. :bow A couple of regulars at The Pub have asked me if I was willing to sell some pullets and I started to hyper-ventilate. MY pullets? That I hatched? Or my hens hatched? My GrandChicks?!? Ummm.. Maybe in the spring... Right now I have to improve the roo/hen ratio some more....