I sold some fertilized Americuana eggs to a lady about six months or so and she called me today.  She said she had hatched out some eggs for a friend and had extra that she didn’t want.  The chicks were one week to two weeks old and there are thirteen.  And she gave them to me.  Hopefully, most of them are hens.

So I have another Barred Rock chick, five Americuana and 7 mixed Rhode Island Red/Buff Orphington.  I just love chicks.  I had to put them in my bathtub for now.  I segregate them for a few days just to make sure they are healthy before I put them around my healthy chicks/chickens.

I was sad to lose one of my Silkie roosters the other day.  He was just lying in the chicken house dead…I saw nothing to determine why he died.  I was thinking maybe the roosters got in a fight and he lost but there is no sign of blood or damage to his body.  Strange.  Occasionally, I find a chicken dead.  I guess there could have been something wrong with his internal organs.  Who knows?

So, now I have 120 chickens.  All these babies will someday grow up and I will have bunches of eggs every day.  Actually, as they get a little older I can see which ones I need to get rid of to keep my flock proportioned.   I only need one rooster for every 8 or so hens.  I know I need to get rid of two black Silkie roosters because there are three and I have only three or four hens that are black.

I can’t wait until the cooler weather so I can spend more time outdoors.  It is just so dang hot in Florida right now.  With my husband retiring soon, I am thinking about moving closer to my family back in NC.  Or maybe to the mountains in Tennessee.  I guess then I will have a new set of problems with my chickens.  I will have to build better houses that will keep my chickens warm during the winter.   If I move closer to my grand children, maybe I won’t need any chickens to mother.  lol