I replace the tires on the Airstream every 5-7 years, because it doesn’t get used enough to worry about wearing down the tread. My only concern is sun damage and just plain deterioration from age. I’m pretty serious about this, because with a dual axel trailer, you can have a tire go flat and still […]
For my next trip of the season, I headed out all by myself for the first time ever! Dave was doing a play, and I already had this club rally scheduled, and I wanted to go. I feel like it’s not fair to make Dave feel bad because I have to just sit home when […]
About a week after returning from Camano Island, I had fixed up the problems I found with my remodel (all minor), and we headed back up North to Rockport, WA for a Vintage Airstream Club rally. It was at Howard Miller Steelhead Park, a beautiful county park right on the Skagit River. We had two […]
Our first planned trip with the newly remodeled trailer had to be scrapped because the Flex broke down and was in the shop having it’s rear end worked over. But finally we were able to make it out and try somewhere new – Camano Island, WA. Because it was close to July 4th, Scott & […]
It’s rare that advertising works on me, but I saw an ad for this planter online and within ten minutes I had hunted down a seller (the ad was from a shady source) and bought it off of Etsy. After all, a Samoyed is essentially just a big Eskimo. I had to have one! I […]
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lol! Yep I see the roo. It's cool that you've got so many chicks. Are you selling them this Spring or are they going back into the flock or egg production or for the freezer?
That photo of Mama hen is awesome!
My broody hen, the Japanese Silky is very protective, too, and will come after me, but in the flock she is outranked by some of the older hens who will come after her right back if she threatens to protect her chicks.
~Lisa
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No one is going to freezer camp at my house – we didn't care for the taste of the rooster we cooked this winter. I got the chicks because last winter we had no eggs, and neither did our friends and everyone was asking if I had any young hens to sell. So I figured if I was going to get 4-5 for myself, I might as well get 15 and sell the extra. It's as much trouble to raise 5 as 15! Then Mama hen went broody and added another 8 I wasn't planning on – well, having chicks around is so much fun, I don't mind a few extra!
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hehe! I hear ya.
John thinks I'm crazy to order 25 chicks next month, but like you said it's just as easy to raise 5 as 15….or 5 as 25. And they grow up so fast, so it's not a long term commitment to raise chicks.
Like you we've had friends ask us for eggs but we've barely had enough for ourselves. So I want to raise enough to have eggs for us and to sell. And I plan to sell some of the chicks as pullets…..if I can bear to let them go. lol!
~Lisa
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The best part is that if you can raise them up to be friendly you can ask more money for them. Last year I got $25 for the friendly ones you could just pick up and hold, and only $15 for the wilder ones – and they were only about 10 weeks old!
Going price around here is $20 for a laying hen, I'm sure the city folks who want a 'pet' hen (they can only have 3 hens total) would gladly pay $30 for a super-tame one 🙂
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