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Hey
everybody! I have some awesome news!
Moonfrost and I have to do a summer project so we don't spend the entire summer
on the couch reading (XD), and I decided to do something I've always wanted to do:
Start a buisness! A chicken buisness!
So, (and this is really really awesome, if not slightly off topic) in the last
few weeks of school we learned that the people who lived in our old house were
selling their chickens. Now, we actually left them some of our original
chickens when we moved three years ago. And two or three of the ones we left
them, as we found out, were STILL ALIVE!!! So when we went back (it was very
nostalgic going back to our old house...) we recieved a bunch of new rare breed chickens and got our old ones back!
Which is super exciting! After we got those chickens and added them to our
flock, we had like a million chickens, (just kidding, but we do have a lot) and
I figured I had plenty of chickens to breed.
Anyway, I've kept our lavender orpingtons together for almost three weeks and
throughout the last week or so I've been collecting their eggs, and also I've
saved a bunch of other eggs that are mixed breeds (since they have a lavender
orpington father and an unknown mother) and I put them into the incubator
today! So in about 21 to 22 days, I'll tell you what happens.
I really hope these little guys hatch! I might even post pictures of them if they do hatch! 'Cause chicks are just so super cute!!!
submitted by Micearenice
(June 22, 2016 - 4:44 pm)
(June 22, 2016 - 4:44 pm)
In our pecking order, we have one Orpington who is SUCH a little bully if she doesn't get enough attention. Our two Red stars have bald spots, we don't think the orpington gave them the bald spots, but she does peck at them now their here. I want to knit one of the Red stars a scarf, but she'd probably hate me forever if I did that to her. There's only so much a chicken can stand.
(June 27, 2016 - 9:36 pm)
Micearenice, that is an amazing idea to start a chicken business! You will be very successful, indeed. Out where I live (tiny, tiny farm town in the middle of nowhere) we aren't allowed to have chickens. But I have some friends on the outskirts of town who's families run successful farms with food canning, chicken eggs, and the likes. I wish you good luck on your business, Mice.
(June 28, 2016 - 8:47 pm)
Thank you, Ashlee!
(June 29, 2016 - 7:27 am)
I candled the eggs on Wednesday, when they'd been in for a week. So far, only one embryo is visible! I really hope that's not the only one that's growing.
(July 1, 2016 - 10:54 am)