This is my new Silkie House! It is built with 98% scrap that was in my garage. It cost me under $30.00, including paint, hinges, latches and vents. It took about a day and a half to build and about the same to paint. I didn't have any plans, just an image in my head after looking at what I...
I am new to chicken keeping. But have become ADDICTED! I spend every evening with my gals, just chillin and relaxing. I am always doing something to their coop or run. I always find something to modify or to just make it more comfy for them.
Here is my mixed flock...
Lil' Red our Rhode Island...
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Positive she is a Mallard. She is a hatchery "Wild" Mallard to be exact. As for the eggs... We found that they make the BEST French Toast!!! Thanks for the info on the egg count, I am glad to hear that they lay all year long. I was waiting for her to stop laying soon.
I have a Mallard duck in with my laying hens, they've been together since they were chicks. About 3 months ago,mid-May, she(the duck) started laying, and has laid an egg EVERY day since!! More than my best laying hen! I thought that ducks laid seasonally and only a clutch at a time. Is this...
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AWESOME! EE over your Silkie/EE hen? Cool! I like that one you had running around that day. Yeah bring what you got/don't need. The plastic egg trick backfired on me...both my silkies went broody! My girls wanna have em hatch something, so anything would be cool.
OH Yeah, is Chris...
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AWESOME! EE over your Silkie/EE hen? Cool! I like that one you had running around that day. Yeah bring what you got/don't need. The plastic egg trick backfired on me...both my silkies went broody! My girls wanna have em hatch something, so anything would be cool.
OH Yeah, is Chris...
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Just a reminder to you that I will have at least 6 bbr-oegb eggs for you (punkrockchicken), too.
Thanks!
YES! The pullet, and a few eggs. How much for the eggs again?
I need eggs! just a couple, don't care what they are just as long as they a fertile. CHEAP or FREE would be best. I have 2 broody silkies that have stopped laying that I can't break, just want to give em somthing to hatch.
OK...I/we just picked up 3 Showgirls at the Waldo flea market last weekend. Sorry to all you ladies that LOVE them, but, I HATE them! LOL! They give me the willies! As do all naked necked birds! But the wife LOVES them too. So any ways, we found them, she wanted, she got. Not just the one I...
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I agree that it is good to have a list and post what you are bringing, but don't think it would be wise to remove when someone calls dibs. The reason is there have been many times when a person calls dibs and then doesn't show up to get the bird, or change their mind when they see it...
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Yeah...that's a good idea. I will do that, too, when I get a chance. Just to re-iterate..you ARE FOR SURE BUYING my bbr oegb pullet, right? Cuz, if not, I am only going to sell her w/ the little bbr cockerel. They make a cute pair
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Yes I am... You wanted $5 right? I am...
We use this thread to negotiate who has interests in what, who wants what...and post it on your list on the other thread? Do I make any sense? Not sure if I am explaining it very well? Or if everybody would even be interested in doing it. Just think it would help out.
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I agree that it is good to have a list and post what you are bringing, but don't think it would be wise to remove when someone calls dibs. The reason is there have been many times when a person calls dibs and then doesn't show up to get the bird, or change their mind when they see it...
Great work/pics! I am uncertain on "pithing" though? I see you put them through a bleach bottle upside-down with their head poking through the bottom, and you have the knife in their mouth, right? Do you just push through to the brain? How does this help in plucking? I have a couple I am about...