IdiotSavantTinker
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And here they are. My other half has talked about getting backyard chickens for years, and we finally decided to pull the trigger. We have all the supplies and everything built for them, and the wife is thrilled.
These four ladies are a cross between a Cochin rooster and a Barred Rock hen. They have an interesting silver coloration that I haven't seen on a chicken before. I hope they are able to keep the wife entertained, keep bugs out of the yard, and maybe give us a few eggs for several more years.
schroeder
Well played, OP. They're adorable.
theawake
Do be careful. The avian flu has been really bad lately.
UnitConversionBot
40 miles ≈ 64 kilometres
nimeton0
Yeah, pics of topless chicks in short skirts can get you lots of interweb points!
CypherMarz
Sniffmeenob101
Beautiful chicks
Chilichunks
MrsUnderstoop
You’re a man who knows what a woman wants.
IdiotSavantTinker
She was *so happy* when she came home and saw them all the first time. She sat right by them and talked to them for a half hour.
MrsUnderstoop
I’m so jealous
Slappydupappy
A sound financial investment
GrosseChung
Look out for raccoons. Mfs are ruthless if they can get at your chickens.
Lalael
Our rat population has increased significantly since so many people started keeping backyard chickens. :-/
Twinklepot
IdiotSavantTinker
Twinklepot
Targe0
woozle
Starlatan
You mess with the flock, you get the glock.
dubauchery
I got this made into a stamp that I use when a student clearly did not listen to or read instructions
SoberAndBored
This is from Ted McKeever's "Mondo" issue 2 page 11. Mondo is as anarchic and nonsensical as it looks
SolArchive
lewdcruderudebagofprechewedfooddude
There's a surprising amount of sex in that manga
SolArchive
Yeah, more than I was expecting
FetaForMoses
Bro, those are underage. I’m calling the FBI.
Like2Fox
Underage for what?
FetaForMoses
Laying eggs
Targe0
Would have been better to just say laying.
IdiotSavantTinker
Amousewithchees
they are adorable. Spoil them rotten op
Muunk
wings or wait for the full dinner?
IdiotSavantTinker
We're hoping for a few eggs, and for them to help keep bugs in the yard down. Chickens like to eat ticks.
Spinosaur
My mom had bantams mixed with barred rock. cool looking birds
electroman3278
Just a matter of time til you have 300 now. After that you'll try ducks...then turkeys. Sauce: me
IdiotSavantTinker
You're probably correct. Sauce: There's 5 of them now.
TheHomestarmy
I hope they were......cheep.
IdiotSavantTinker
3 bucks each. And $12 in gas to get there.
PolyTheWicked
I wish *my* husband would bring chicks home.
sudosuey
Chickens are the best. My chicks just had chicks of their own :)
IdiotSavantTinker
Look at them red feathers. I'm enjoying all the colors that chickens seem to come in.
sudosuey
They are majestic creatures. I'm interested in seeing what colors these chicks inherit from their father.
koalaeatinalldemleaves
You sly dog.
Flarty
Cluck bait
Cpthornswoggler
They're great. I've always wanted some, but we have a lot of foxes, plus some large birds of prey near me.
JohnSatclaire
Foxes and raptors gotta eat too.
UltraHellboy
I was going to mention this. You definitely need to protect against birds of prey, even if you’re in the city.
IdiotSavantTinker
The plan for these ladies is to put them in a thing called a "chicken tractor", which is a sort of small mobile enclosure with a coop >
IdiotSavantTinker
< built into it, so the chickens can eat everything off a section of the ground, then we can move the whole thing and the chickens to >
IdiotSavantTinker
< another spot in the yard.
SerenePrincess013
Goat. Get a guard goat. & no, I'm not joking. Our chickens were saved by a very mean nanny Pygmy, from being carried off by a hawk, foxes,>
SerenePrincess013
Several raccoons, & the odd coyote. Goats are also free lawn mowing. Hook her up to a lead rope to a tree/post, & wait a few hours.
horseman05
jonReremy9669
so he thought he would be applauded and praised for standing up for, and defending, his wife against meaningless harmless words¿!¿ k
DaveSamsonite
Like this?
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keyblader1985
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horseman05
newpotatocaboose67
Inflation chickens?
Targe0
Just be aware @OP there can be a high fatality rate with chicks. Sometimes you'll lose none, others many can randomly die. Good luck.
IdiotSavantTinker
That much I knew, my parents always had trouble keeping chickens but at least part of that was due to neglect. :-( You have to do more than>
IdiotSavantTinker
< just put food and water out for them.
feryooday
They NEED to be really warm. like REALLY warm. if they’re huddling, they’re too cold, no matter how warm you think they should be
Targe0
You should have better odds since you are getting them right from the breeder. I advise against ever getting mail order ones. Very ->
Targe0
high death rate for them. Mostly because they can go for days with no food or water in the mail system.
Hakunayatata
? I’ve gotten 40ish chicks mailed from a hatchery, only lost a few. They’re mailed day of hatch and can survive 72h np without food&water.
IdiotSavantTinker
My wife and I originally went to an Atwoods (farm supply store) and the only chicks they had that weren't half dead were 100% dead. >
Redshadow09
YOOO freshly stocked eggs no more needing to go to the market for it. I have a dream one day to do this and have goats, bees, and pigs
Redshadow09
Nothing to big or fancy I wish to have 1 cow for the milk but the goats will do, and bees for honey and mead.
IdiotSavantTinker
I used to have bees, and I'd like to have some again. They're awesome, and you can even tame them.
Redshadow09
Tame. Bees. Excuse me what? some Jupiter ascension right there
IdiotSavantTinker
No, it's actually easy. So assuming you've got a hive that's getting mean, or you've caught a wild hive, you can get them in a frame box >
IdiotSavantTinker
< and find the queen and kill her. Then order a queen in the mail, she will come with a little enclosure that the other bees can get her >
SomeGuyWhoSaysStuff
I used to go out every Friday and Saturday night picking up drunk women from bars and taking them home, my wife knew. I was an Uber driver.
IdiotSavantTinker
I did that for a while in 2017, it was more fun than I thought it would be.
SomeGuyWhoSaysStuff
I thought so too, but thought I should have been making more money doing it than I did. I felt Uber was greedy and don't miss that part
IdiotSavantTinker
Yup I definitely stopped because even with a really efficient car I was just wasting money driving. It's even worse now.
SomeGuyWhoSaysStuff
I drove once last year because they offered a bonus of $200 for doing 5 rides. I drove for a few hours and made $266 & haven't driven since
IdiotSavantTinker
Yup, those bonuses and quests vanish pretty fast, if you drive for 5 days straight they typically go away.
Copperbrat
In my experience, be mentally prepared for at least one of your hens to be a rooster. Don't get too attached - until they start layin'.
Copperbrat
I meant to say also, they're adorable.
IdiotSavantTinker
We actually just got done with dealing with that issue. One of them was a rooster, and more importantly had a band meaning he had been >
IdiotSavantTinker
< incubated for someone else. We returned him to the hatchery, and the woman there gave us two pullets as an apology. So now there are five.
onlyhalfghost
woo, free chicken
IdiotSavantTinker
Here's a pic from this morning. The new additions don't look a whole lot different.
ImNotReallyADoctor
With the price of eggs these days...
IdiotSavantTinker
I'm less concerned with the price of eggs than I am worried there just won't be any at some point. But this project has shown me that >
IdiotSavantTinker
< a LOT of people are having the same idea, so I'm going to be giving away any extra eggs to help crash the price of store-bought eggs.
kanybal
They won't be laying for quite a while though, they're really young. But yeah by the time they turn 1, times 4, you'll be drowning in eggs
Targe0
Shouldn't last too much longer, as the farms should be recovering from the bird flu eventually. Sadly, there are months of lead time to ->
Targe0
to replace a laying hen with a new chick. And this round of flu took out a lot of birds.
IdiotSavantTinker
But once the farms recover, will the price drop, or will they keep gouging like many other industries are doing?
Targe0
We will have to wait and see. Though, eggs have always been like milk and are loss-leaders. So stores undercut their price so people ->