They're coming!
The day is fast approaching for us to collect the Adorable Trio. We'll be going up to Santa Clarita probably Saturday so we can stay the night, pick up the cats from the way station around 1 PM Sunday, and zoom back home. My dear cousin in Albuquerque has been, and continues to be, awesome. She's set most of this up and reassured me that the cats
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Sad about your cousin, but at least the cats have found a new kingdom to rule. Long may they reign.
In July, the duck business had failed, taking away all my profits and then some. I had to wait until they were big enough to slaughter and gave them to my cousin. My chickens decided in that time that sharing their food and pen was a good excuse to slow production. I had 11 chicks and 6 bantam chicks coming up. Throw in unexpected bills, mom's insurance dropping her (the bitch who got the company it's insurance deal got it for her and her age group, pushing people over 45 into a higher bracket, so mum's insurance wasn't actually covering her) and I just had no money for anything. So, ducks went to slaughter/breed on my cousin's farm. That was a $165 in birds there. I sold 14 hens, 2 muscovies, and 1 pullet for $5 a piece, half the price they were worth for feed and food money.
Come last month, I had 3 big roosters, 1 midget rooster, and 6 pullets from the 10 chicks I had left. The pullets should have been laying, they weren't/still aren't. My brother has a roach problem on his property/house, so I asked if he wanted my roosters. Over the fence 3 went. I gave him 2 pullets to start a small flock and keep his birds over there since they weren't doing shit for me. 1 was white, and white birds get eaten around here, so it was a double whammy for me. He has 1 hen left, and it isn't the white one.
The one big rooster I kept for breeding purposes started attacking my banty pullets. These aren't regular sized banties, they are golden Seramas, the tiniest friggen bird. (Not those ones that look like someone jerked the head back, that's hideous, they're just freaking tiny.) His dick, if he had one, would skewer them. So, he got locked away until mum decided going to the farm swap was too much hassle for her (it wasn't something she wanted to do, so it won't happen). So, over the fence that fucking rooster went. The midget rooster made a reappearance and I kept him. If he grows big, however, he goes back over the fence, literally. That's how I reintroduce them to their environment, rooster tossing.
For my birthday (thank you, btw!) I got 6 copper marans. The day after, 2 chicks hatched, a cross between my bantam rooster (a serama/dutch mille fleur cochin mix) and my regular hen (welsummer/ameraucana mix) and the second looks like a cross between my bantam rooster and...I have no idea. The chick came from a large brown egg, so...my jersey giant/ameraucana hen? Thing is, the second chick is yellow with brown stripes like the golden seramas I have looked as babies. Only, regular sized. We will see if they are roosters and what they look like as adults. The welsummer mix looked like her chick does as a chick herself, but the chick also looks like my mille fleur bantam roosters did as babies too. I'm hoping it will be a hen. It has these feathers up and down the legs, sooooooo cute!
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