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Confessions of a Poultry Addict

Confessions of a Poultry Addict

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Okay…you’d think after my recent raccoon altercations….. …..that I wouldn’t even consider ordering more chickens…(or ducks)….. You would probably think that…and that would be a reasonable and sensible consensus….. …..but you’d be wrong….. …..I did order more baby chicks…(and ducklings)….. I only purchased pullets (baby girls) and not cockerels (baby boys)…(except for one)….. …..(you know…to avoid that whole subsequent A.M. Rooster Cacophony)….. …..I even paid more for all pullets….. However…the mail-order hatcheries do…

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***Got ‘cha***

***Got ‘cha***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** So I started counting roosters….. …..I did start too late in the morning…they had mostly scattered by then….. …..but…there are A LOT of them….. I realized that the surplus of extra roosters can’t all be blamed on my newbie neighbors….. I think I know where some of the extra boys came from….. You see…over the summer…I was given a number of home-hatched Red-Laced Wyandotte chicks…by my friend…B.J….. I’m slowly realizing the extra boys…

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~~~Empty Nest~~~

~~~Empty Nest~~~

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* The little boopers have grown up….. They graduated from their heat-lamp-warmed plastic wading pool….. …..to the bigger dog kennel….. …..then the addition of a second dog kennel….. And now….. …..they’ve been moved outside to the turkey coop….. …..(our old Tom is not pleased)….. …..(he liked the peace and quiet in his Golden Years)….. …..(he thinks he’s well-beyond babysitting these silly adolescent chicklets)….. …..(he’s a grumpy old Tom)….. We only…

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~~Springtime and Chick-lets~~

~~Springtime and Chick-lets~~

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Our mail-order baby chicks have arrived… We went to our main post office to pick them up early in the morning… Last year I think we hatched out our own… I usually have to replenish the flock with purchased/mail-order baby fluff-balls…   *****Mail-Order Chicks***** It’s all about the roosters (or at this stage the cockerels)… Over the years I’ve found that you naturally hatch out at about a fifty/fifty split of pullets and cockerels when you let the hens get…

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