Ohhh yesss! True heritage barred rocks, whiting genetic hackle and onagadori. I've wanted onagadori since I was a kid and finally have the means to get them! Got 3 incubators set up and have ordered a ton of fertile eggs. They are arriving this week!
Both! I am getting back into chickens. Since I left this page, I have moved, gotten married and had a baby! And I am very excited to have our own chickens again!
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There is a feed store in Fairbanks? where is it? i go there once in a while. i would rather pack light and fly it down in baggage than pay shipping costs to Dillingham the weight limit IS 50lbs right?
i would do anything to pay less, trust me!
cool! i've never seen it actually done but once i missed it by a second! chicken standing in the box, no egg, fill the water, turn around and there was an egg and no chicken! i was like "i'll be darned!"
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Holy Cow! My sister lives in Nikiski, not sure what she feeds hers but I do know they sometimes get dog kibble when she runs out. They also get a lot of scraps.
probablynot half as much as i do, on the west coast of alaska we get a LOT of price inflation because of barge fees etc. in...
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my dh made scottish eggs for us a couple of weeks ago and they were awesome!
hard boil the eggs and then pack sausage meat around the egg and either fry or cook them. i'm sure you can find a recipe for them somewhere.
that sounds delish!
not sure if this helps you, but the smaller, lighter eggs are from Egyptian fayoumis. the bigger brown eggs are from cuckoo marans, red stars and black stars.
fayoumi eggs are considered tinted.
he is SOOOOO CUTE!!!! those poor poor early birds. the first one out is always so lonely. how adorable! i'm glad he found a friend in you, and in the sock!
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yeah they just started laying a month or two ago. the cold doesn't seem to bother them so much, we had chickens before but lost them all to a dog attack, and before that from before the time i was born to when i was about 12, then we moved and had to get rid of them all over again...
I'm having a bit of a problem. No one is buying eggs! they all go to the other lady in town who has more chickens
so i have this HUGE excess of eggs. i get about 10 a day give or take and i do NOT want them to go to waste, and i don't want to eat nothing but fried or boiled eggs. my boyfriend...
a few of them do. my marans hen is little-miss-peck-everything-that-looks-weird and she got some of my black stars into it. she's the "lead hen" and the bug marans rooster's favorite so most of the hens do everything she does with as much enthusiasm as a chicken can express
the fayoumis are a...
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clever! i get 10-15 eggs a day. WAY more than my family can eat. i use a regular large plastic bowl
i am certainly getting a wire basket though!