Today I sold my Blue Rooster.  He was my favorite for quite some time with his special silver coloring as a chick and perfectly sweet eyes.  He was picked on, the outcast for quite some time.  And one day, I came home and he was gone!  I couldn’t find him anywhere, and so I promised that if he came back home I would keep him safe.  He did come back the next day, must’ve spent the night out in the woods.  And I put him in the hen house with my flock of ladies and hoped he’d get along with the immature cockerel already there and he did.  He made a home, took care of all the hens all winter long, some more than others  and now, he is off to live in a new home.  I had to do it! I want to make room for the White Orpingtons I want and I’m waiting waiting waiting for some new Blue’s that won’t leak with the rust like my guy did.  He went with 5 SLWs that he enjoyed spending time with very much.  They will all be very happy together I suspect. We had to move our first hatch of 09 into the living room due to freezing temperatures.  After the first night I just go too worried that the lamp might go out and they would freeze to death before I even noticed anything happened.  So we now have a jumbo XL dog crate in the living room with 7 adorable and active baby chicks in it.  The cats & dogs don’t seem to mind too much although they aren’t used to the randomness of chick behavior.  They sleep for 10 minutes, hop around like popcorn for 10 minutes cheeping and chirping and then suddenly they are asleep again!  It’s funny really and something everyone should experience at least once, chicks are unique.

Incidentally I’m changing the breeding pens around one last time before they get too settled, and I’ll have that done by tomorrow night.  I’m going to move the broody hen and finish her eggs in the incubator, and just go ahead and put all the black orpingtons together in one pen.  I’m also going to wait on hatching any Buff Orpingtons for springtime and instead wait till fall to do a few of those I think.  That means a little more moving around and we’ll be done for a few months.  That’ll leave the other two pens available for the Gold Lace Orpington Project, everyone will settle down and we can get on with breeding season I hope. I have to update other parts of this website to reflect the removal of blue & his silver lace girls, and will get that done over the next couple of days.  SPRING is coming officially on Friday…  and I can’t wait.  I didn’t get my seeds started this weekend due to other things keeping me busy, but will do so tomorrow or the next day.  I can’t wait to eat fresh veggies and fruits!