Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

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Wow - I don't even know where to start. I've been away from BYC for 2 days, and I come back to find myself 350 posts behind (took all afternoon to catch up, but it's a good way to pass a snowy day), and to find the ONLY OTHER thread I read locked and Bee gone! I'm over 120 posts behind there, too. Whatever happened, I hope Bee will come back to the OT thread soon. The reason I love the OT thread - the realistic approach to chicken raising. I've had chickens off and on for over 25 years. Other than an unsupervised 10-month old lab puppy (ours - lesson learned), owls one year when the chickens chose to roost in the trees and coyotes one year (after they cleaned out all of our barn cats) we haven't had alot of losses due to predators and none to disease. Then I started reading BYC and learned of so many other things that I'd never seen or heard of. As far as I know, we've never had a huge problem with worms. No respiratory issues, or bumblefoot. They didn't freeze their feet when because they couldn't cover them on a 2x4 roost. I live in MN - if they were going to freeze their feet it would likely happen here. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I appreciate all the good information here.

I was reading a few pages back about breeding, leg-banding and toe punching. I'm going to breed my Buckeyes this spring, but my plan is so much more simple than all I've read here. I'm not breeding for anything other than to have some eggs and meat, so my plan was to band my current hens and rooster. Process their offspring for however many years my hens keep laying and then start over with fresh hens and maybe rooster if I need to. Does that seem like a reasonable approach for what my goals are? I have 6 hens and my rooster will be coming soon. I do have some other chickens running around that I will also be using for egg production.

Thanks again Al, Walt, Fred, and especially Bee for your valuable advice.

PS - Fred, go for the pink incubator! It's so cute!
 
Bobbie, all in and all out has been a great program for many respected chicken ranches. It has a lot of good things going for it and it really keeps cross contamination down.
 
I hope the new posters do go and read and understand the first OP post, that thin skinned Unicorn
That's just so, so mean!!! Here I was all set to get you and Kathy new incubators for Christmas and now? I'm so tore up about all this, I can barely type this reply through the tears. I was going to have a blue haired pony on yours and a red haired pony on Kathy's. Now, my plans are ruined. I'm so upset.
Now Fred a gift is a gift and it's great you think of me getting in touch with my chickens femine side, Iam almost tearing up OMG, what a sweet gesture. Ok now back to reality, I think I may have just thrown up a little in my mouth LOL.
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Clean up on isle 1.

Please review the rules in the mean time.

Thanks all!

Update 6:10pm 12.15.12:

The status of this thread is under discussion. After some clean up here, it appears this old timers thread has become mostly drama, chat, and random ramblings.


Update 9:05AM 12.15.12:

Still under discussion, upon some private questioning, I am posting here to say the drama/chat/general items leading to the closure of this thread have been edited out of the thread so the thread may remain open for archival reading. Ordinarily, threads are simply removed as a whole.
 
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