The lack of rain is very much appreciated today, as it seems as though it has rained for weeks! We haven’t yet gotten as much rain as “they” those weather people seem to think we need, but the lake is up, the rivers are running strong and I really want to get dried out!
Between the garden, and the many new chicks we’re brooding or growing out, we’ve stayed very busy! I haven’t hardly had a moment of free time, but it’s all exciting! Today I took an order for 15 Black Orpington Chicks to be hatched and 10 White Orpingtons already hatched who will vary in age from 1 month to 3 months at the time of delivery, which is Father’s Day weekend! I’m very happy to be helping a family get started with their own chicken adventures, and likely breeding and a little showing as well. It’s a pleasure to help educate and supply starter stock, I really am enjoying what I’m doing!
The GLO project is SLOW going! Perhaps I should consider renaming it to the SLOW GLO Project . Turns out that not all hens like all roosters and not only that, but sometimes they might actually HATE eachother! Well.. mine are not that bad, but my 2 GLW hens definitely do NOT like Steve’s brother Bob, and it has taken a REALLY long time to get my Buff Orpington Hens to come around to liking Pierre the GLW Rooster! 2 MONTHS longer than I’d hoped, and honestly that seems like an eternity in this chicken world. Because of this, I will not be offering any more GLO Project eggs from this cross. Once (and if all goes well) I make my 2nd crossing, late in this year, I will then again be offering those eggs for others who would like to try.
Blue’s Mixed Mystery Chicks have brought around an interesting turn of events, and it looks as though I am going to try to head down that road and see where it leads me. Seems I have a lovely blue australorp looking rooster from my blue orp roo & black australorp hens.. as well as 2 black hens and an alternate black rooster.. all very australorp looking, with white wing tips and all. They are quite good looking and WONDERFUL temperments as they were brooded for WAY to long in our living room. I think I am going to collect a few more good production type Australorps and work them into this mix and see where it’s going to go. Blue Australorps are a thing to behold and Australorps in general are such good egg layers, I can’t see this being anything other than win-win.
Well.. on that note, I have to run off, the white orpingtons from McMurray hatchery are lovely and I am slowly but surely filling out all the breed pages on my site with new photos. I probably won’t be able to post too much this month as it’s a very busy time here on the farm, Strawberries are fantastic by the way, but I will try to post again around the 25th when I will set my first round of SLOW GLO Project Eggs as well as some Black Orpingtons for Alex and her family in Georgia!
See you then!