School today then have a potential buyer looking at our house. I also plan on buying some chicks to double the size of my flock.
Since this is now the chicken and agriculture thread...
My wife is the chicken farmer and I'm the "farm hand". Last year, she ordered 14 pullets (delivered one-day old). Two each Delaware, Dominique, Partridge Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red, Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, and Americauna. One of the Delawares turned out to be a rooster (the hatchery only guarantees 90% accuracy), and one Americauna died the next day. So, we decided to get a replacement Americauna since they lay the greenish-blue eggs and paid for two more to make it 3 young ones that were a couple weeks younger than the first batch. So we have 1 Deleware rooster and 15 hens of various breeds.
My wife hoped that at least one hen would go "broody" and hatch us some chicks, but that didn't happen. We're not willing (at this point) to incubate them, so she ordered 8 more chicks. This time around she decided on two each of Black Breasted Red Kraienkoppe, Silver Kraienkoppe, more Buff Orps, and more Americaunas. Supposedly the Kraienkoppes are a very broody breed and she's hoping that one of them will raise some chicks next spring. We'll see how it goes. And hoping none of the eight turn out to be roosters since that won't go over well with Delbert the Delaware.
And a trivia fact for those that weren't aware, Von Miller graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in Poultry Science (not poetry as one sports writer thought....the two terms are similar) and has a chicken farm near Dallas.
We now return to your regularly scheduled snark...