Picking up chicks
It's becoming a bird world around here. Last month, Anne Marie camped out on EggBid and bought both a pair of Silkies (chickens mentioned here before) and the pair of Lady Amhearst Pheasants pictured here.
These are the first pairs of birds we've had (and the first rooster -- and the rooster has not been crowing too early or too loud, thanks for asking), so we've had our incubator in the ready waiting to make fertile eggs into chicks. The Silkies have been the first to give us eggs, so we now have two tiny eggs in our large incubator. There's sure to be pictures when they hatch in 21 days.
Even having lost 2 chickens this winter, there will easily be a dozen birds on the farm soon. Since Anne Marie is a Cancer with a very strong maternal instinct, I figure it's better to handle a dozen birds than a dozen children. 
However, last month when Anne Marie was on her EggBid binge, she jokingly entered the room saying "Honey, I ordered some Emu eggs," to get a rise out of me. We laughed about it then, but, a month later, she told me she has 2 Emu eggs and 6 Partridge Cochin chicken eggs on the way and she isn't kidding!
Oh, now Anne Marie has had me send payment for six Bantam Black Sumatra eggs. She says this is the last purchase of the year. I reminded her to call someone to build a new, larger chicken coop.
Comment by Michael — 02/26/2005 9:53 PM
Yes, you'll definitely need a slightly larger coop to house emus. It's too bad the Aepyornis is now extinct. That would be a cool bird to have runnung around on a farm.
Comment by Tvindy — 02/26/2005 11:49 PM
that's so cool you're getting emus! i'd really like to come see them, but i don't know if i could resist the urge to chase them around, even though when i was a toddler i got mauled by a goose for chasing it around. ahh, yes, how the clever learn
Comment by ross — 03/02/2005 1:21 PM
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Pingback by Following Edge » Spring is here — 03/03/2005 8:51 PM
[...] I should tell you that our house has become a pheasant production line. I had mentioned that we got our pair of pheasants, Lady and Mr. Amhearst, back in February. I had mentioned that our first baby pheasants arrived as "birthday pheasants" in June. I even mentioned that, by July, the young pheasants had to go outside. But, I haven't mentioned all the other ensuing steps from the production line that once was our quiet house. [...]
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