"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[topdog24]

Hey yall!! Just joined from Calhoun, La!! Looking for a Americana, Easter egger, or Olive Egger cockerel if anyone has One! TIA!

Hello kirstiedanielle, i am in jena, i have several to choose from if you are still needing one of these roosters, look me up on FB, or join (elcamino everything poultry and livestock) i have friends in Calhoun, Ruston and area.

 

[cajun chicken]

Mrs. Terri,

How have you and your family been doing? When I came and bought that Octagon incubator a while back, I remember you saying you had raised Heritage RIR but had to give them up. I'm looking for some myself now...do you know where I can find some quality birds? Would prefer chicks.

Thanks

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Mrs. Terri,

How have you and your family been doing? When I came and bought that Octagon incubator a while back, I remember you saying you had raised Heritage RIR but had to give them up. I'm looking for some myself now...do you know where I can find some quality birds? Would prefer chicks.

Thanks

Not sure anymore; I've been out of the loop too long! but you might contact some of the people in the RIR thread - I know there are several there that raise to the standard & show their birds.

Ended up not getting the guinea keets. I just don't have the time to spare right now. My 85 yr old Mom & my husband are having some health issues & they keep me on the hop. Maybe down the road I can get back into it. I miss my peacocks most of all this time of year - they were so pretty fanning & dancing. People used to stop & take pictures of them.

 

[lakones]

Mrs. Terri,

How have you and your family been doing? When I came and bought that Octagon incubator a while back, I remember you saying you had raised Heritage RIR but had to give them up. I'm looking for some myself now...do you know where I can find some quality birds? Would prefer chicks. 

       Thanks

Good to see you getting back into chickens again!

 

[rmramos72]

Hey! Living in Luling. St Charles parish. No chickens yet but have been researching the idea in these forums for the last week or so. Thinking of starting a 3 chicken coop maybe 2 ducks. Mainly for the eggs. I have approx 1 acre lot off of river road that has about 3/4th of it just open grass (fenced in) trying to read up if I should do a coop and small run or just a coop be let them free range the yard. Plan on having a couple raised veggie garden boxes though. Would the chickrns mess with them?

Anyways! This forums a great find!

 

[cajun chicken]

Good to see you getting back into chickens again!

Thank you! It was a really tough decision to cull my entire flock of 40 and start over. I was really discouraged and didn't want to get any birds for a while after that but after a few months of looking at my pen sitting there empty I had to get more. I took it as a lesson learned the hard way about biosecurity. I don't go to swaps anymore and I'm careful about adding birds now. I bought a few layers last spring and things have slowly escalated from there and now I'm up to about 35 or so again. Have a good mix of hatchery layers and some breeder quality birds as well.

Have you been able to recover from the flood?

 

[cajun chicken]

Not sure anymore; I've been out of the loop too long! but you might contact some of the people in the RIR thread - I know there are several there that raise to the standard & show their birds.

Ended up not getting the guinea keets. I just don't have the time to spare right now. My 85 yr old Mom & my husband are having some health issues & they keep me on the hop. Maybe down the road I can get back into it. I miss my peacocks most of all this time of year - they were so pretty fanning & dancing. People used to stop & take pictures of them.

I'll keep looking, thanks. Good luck with your mother and husband hope all goes well. Hopefully one day you can get back into it!

 

[lakones]

Thank you! It was a really tough decision to cull my entire flock of 40 and start over. I was really discouraged and didn't want to get any birds for a while after that but after a few months of looking at my pen sitting there empty I had to get more. I took it as a lesson learned the hard way about biosecurity. I don't go to swaps anymore and I'm careful about adding birds now.  I bought a few layers last spring and things have slowly escalated from there and now I'm up to about 35 or so again. Have a good mix of hatchery layers and some breeder quality birds as well. 

Have you been able to recover from the flood? 

I'm still working on our house. I did my mom's place first and I've helped a couple others along the way so it's taking a little longer to get ours done. Almost there tho. Tks for asking. My chickens are still at a neighbor's place, I'm anxious to get them home.

 

[cajun chicken]

Hey! Living in Luling. St Charles parish. No chickens yet but have been researching the idea in these forums for the last week or so. Thinking of starting a 3 chicken coop maybe 2 ducks. Mainly for the eggs. I have approx 1 acre lot off of river road that has about 3/4th of it just open grass (fenced in) trying to read up if I should do a coop and small run or just a coop be let them free range the yard. Plan on having a couple raised veggie garden boxes though. Would the chickrns mess with them?

Anyways! This forums a great find!

Welcome! North of Baton Rouge here. 3/4ths of an acre fenced would be plenty of land for chickens to free range during the day but I would definitely have them a place to be locked in at night. Not sure if you've had ducks before but they are messy compared to chickens. If you're planning a garden, free ranging them may not be the best idea unless you put a fence around it because they would love to get in there do some damage. I had to put an electric fence up around my garden to keep them out.

 

[rmramos72]

Thanks! I was worried about that and wondered if I should fence off the veggie garden. I'll definitely do that then!

Question about getting chicken back into the coop. Do they automatically go in at days or I have to round them up. If they do automatically go, what round about time? Once it's dark?

Welcome! North of Baton Rouge here. 3/4ths of an acre fenced would be plenty of land for chickens to free range during the day but I would definitely have them a place to be locked in at night. Not sure if you've had ducks before but they are messy compared to chickens. If you're planning a garden, free ranging them may not be the best idea unless you put a fence around it because they would love to get in there do some damage. I had to put an electric fence up around my garden to keep them out.