Pendergrass Ranch - Big changes!

[PendergrassRanch]

Well I traded the Sicilians for 3 Marans and a Polish crested hen. It was strange because I had to go back to exchange one chick for 2 more. The breeder was nice but totally creeped me out. When I got home, he called me and talked to me for 25 minutes about how he really liked me and would give me a key to the ranch and rent out his trailer to me for 400$...needless to say...I won't be going back to the that guy. Even if my chicks are all roosters, I don't need to trade creepiness for chocolate speckled eggs...lol

Anyway this is what I got out of the trade.

First Cuckoo Maran (hen hopefully)

Second (I was told a rooster on BYC so we will see, I am hoping for a hen of course!)

Third (probably a rooster)

Polish crested black hen about 6 months old. She is a sweetie but Fonzie the silkie won't leave her alone! He instantly was enamored by her.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

oh and my other babies are looking so good!

My Partridge Cochin is a very strange looking baby but I don't show them so I don't really care how perfect they are. As long as they lay eggs

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Nice find! I love looking at pics of everyone else's animals. Yeah, that guy does sound kind of creepy. I had one like that---went to go buy some a few RIRs from someone I met at TSC who had a few hundred of them, and then the he would not stop calling me to check up on them. Ya know, there are so many weird people out there I sometimes wonder if they are actually the weird ones since seem to more of them than folks I'd call normal.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Well not sure how long it has been since I posted (few days perhaps?). COnstruction started Monday on the house. They are doing a number of small things. Retaping the garage, restrapping the water heater, patching drywall, texturizing, new slider and window in the master bedroom. Finishing the master bathroom remodel, replacing siding, fixing down spouts...etc...

Anyway, today they were replacing the sliding glass door and I noticed that the chickens had made themselves quite at home with the workers

One of the salmon faverolles is looking VERY pretty, a ton of deep coloring is coming in and she will be stunning. I am worried that one of my Ameraucanas is a rooster. It has a crooked beak so I will cull it if it is a roo. I hope its not because her coloring is coming in very pretty as well.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Home Depot drives me nuts!

I needed to order 36, 12x12 tiles for our bathroom. They come in boxes of 5 tiles so I needed 8 boxes. Well I screwed up and ordered 7 boxes. SO I call to change the order literally right after I sent the order online. They canceled that order and made a new one for 8 boxes.

Guess what showed up at the house today? 15 boxes of tile. They didn't cancel my first order! LOL. They refunded the money for the first order and are scheduled to pick up their 7 boxes.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Oooohhhh, house remodeling! My kinda thread----I have seriously been remodeling our house and barn for 8 years now. As soon as we get done with one thing, I am on to the next. Keep the pics coming---maybe I can get my fix from you instead of tearing into another wall or roof.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

We aren't doing a crazy amount of remodeling. Its mostly small stuff that you don't notice (like the new slider and window). The master bathroom is really the biggest remodel because its getting new tile, toilet and little extras like a light.

Bathroom when we moved in...

Heres is the bathroom as of yesterday.

The tile I ordered. Good thing they sent extra! Some are broken!

Siding that they replaced on the garage.

I really love our contractor. It doesn't hurt that hes cute LOL and his workers aren't too bad either

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Lost 5 birds last night thanks to the neighbors dog. Pretty pissed about it. We weren't even home but heard all about it from our good neighbors. AC is coming out this morning.

Lost my 2 buff hens, my white hen, my big rooster and my blue rooster.

 

[Southern by choice]

so sorry about your birds. Very sad.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

so sorry about your birds. Very sad.

Thank you.

I am livid and really upset about it. It was not fun walking the property last night with a flash light trying to track down my sweet chickens. I found one live one still in the barn and a rooster hiding in the empty pool. Both of them scared out of their minds. The dead ones were scattered all over the 2 acres. I still can't find one buff hen.