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  1. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    thats to bad. I'm all the way in oswego, north of syracuse. To long a drive for me.
  2. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

  3. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Anyone had trouble mixing 2 different age groups of chickens together? My big girls (8 SLW) are around 18 weeks old, while my little girls ( 1 columbian and 4 GLW) are maybe 12 weeks old, and I tried putting them together and the big girls attacked the first one they saw. I then put them in a...
  4. elroddo

    Best chicken for the apocalypse?

    Wyandottes are a good breed if your in a cold environment. They grow to be good sized, are docile, mine seem to fly well and at least the GLW is dark enough to camoflage well. they are good egg birds, 250+ a year per bird and roosters can be up to 8 pounds, with the hens about 6.5. Small combs...
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    multi strain meat bird breeding mix

    Makes sense. I'm raising wyandottes for egg birds, and I'm considering breeding my own, so if I get the room I'll end up with roosters that'll need culling. I'm wondering how good they would be for making a meat bird hybrid. They seem to grow fairly quick, and are really winter hardy so are...
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    multi strain meat bird breeding mix

    Has anyone tried throwing a jersey giant into the genetic pool to see how it would do? I mean for truly large birds they should be up there, maybe breed them to a fast grower to see if you can get huge size with faster growth over the standard Jersey.
  7. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    I knew how to shoot before I knew how to ride a bike. I got my first gun at age 9, a 22 for my birthday. By the time I was 10 I was hunting squirrels and rabbits by myself. At 11 I was using my dad's 243 to hunt deer. In my family hunting was just part of the growing up process. I wasn't allowed...
  8. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    When I was a Kid we used to shoot woodchucks out the living room window. Was a big field, and they always burrowed in one of 2 spots. Probably killed 10 or more every year. Our living room window folded in, and you just took the screen out and put a pillow on the window, and poked the gun out...
  9. elroddo

    my pet chicken reviews

    from my pet chicken
  10. elroddo

    my pet chicken reviews

    I recently ordered 8 birds, 3 died within 2 days of delivery. I got the same BS about how they would reimburse me only if I ordered again. I'll never order birds again, if I can't drive to get them I won't be getting anymore birds. Their customer service was horrible, the representative I first...
  11. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    I ordered 8 from mypetchicken 3 weeks ago, lost 3 of the 8. They have an issue with shipping where they get stuck in cleveland, I won't order from them again. When I told them that I lost the birds I had to e-mail because it was after hours, and it took 5 days for them to respond, only to tell...
  12. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Been working on my coop, my bigger girls are gonna be happy when thats done I bet. Right now the 8 of them spend the day in a 3'x9' run, and at night they have about 12' square foot of floor space in a wooden crate thats maybe 2 feet high. not ideal, but they are thriving. They are 9 weeks old...
  13. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Yeah theres no way i'm ordering birds from anyone. if i can't drive to get them then I don't want them.
  14. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Can anyone suggest a place to get bulk feed and possibly pine shavings or straw in oswego, cayuga or onandaga counties? I know I've asked about feed, but any responses were buried. Mypetchicken responded to my email 5 days after I sent it, despite claiming to respond within 2 days to all of...
  15. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Rancher I've been fermenting feed, and its super easy. You want a container with a lid, your normal feed and water. I got a 5 gallon bucket and a lid. You want your first batch to go 3-4 days of fermenting, after that you can backslop. So you put some feed in your container, say a weeks worth...
  16. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    i have no way of hatching them. Also any roosters i ended up with I just know my wife would want to keep as pets and I don't want any roosters. Also thank you for the offer. maybe next year when you hatch if your interested in selling some chicks I'd be down. Maybe by then I'll want a rooster.
  17. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    could be different in different states also. I know hes got brown and white egg birds. coulda sworn he said both were leghorns.
  18. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    that might be a chipmunk. rancher they are all leghorns, half white and half brown, i guess the whites have white eggs, the browns brown eggs so he has all the bases covered. They are no longer caged, so he can sell them as free range, although they are all still in a barn (or 3).
  19. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    Rancher columbian seems to be the third most common variety of wyandotte behind SLW and GLW. buff and partridge I've only seen a few hatcheries have, including the hatchery in the finger lakes. I've also seen white and black, and some other varieties I'm not familiar with the names of. They are...
  20. elroddo

    NY chicken lover!!!!

    And yes the blue laced reds are absolutely gorgeous. probably some of the prettiest birds I've seen regardless of species.
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