We were thinking about just doing bought chicks raised for a few weeks then selling them so she can make more than incubating eggs. We live near rural areas where lots of people have coops surrounded by wealthy areas that allow backyard chickens.We have the materials for raising chicks on hand...
Sounds great. We might hatch them or we might buy them as babies and raise them until they are 4 weeks-9 weeks. We figured it out and our daughter could make $150+ a month or $900-1000 over the summer after expenses raising 30 of them at a time February thru end of August. I told her after she...
My daughter wants to start incubating chicken eggs to sell the chicks for money. I would love recommendations for a moderately or low priced incubators that works well.
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We are thinking about hatching mix breed chicks that will carry the lavender gene. Daddy is a lavender Orpington. Their mom's will be Polish, Barr Rock, Easter Eggers, Rhode Island, Australorp, silver laced Wyandotte and Bramha. We would raise them to 4-9 weeks old and sell them. Have any of you...
Yum! I'm making lemon pepper chicken, garlic mashed potatoes and fresh baked bread.
Sometime soon I'm making a big pot of my Mama's chili and freezing it to enjoy all winter.
So glad to hear they survived! We have fort Knox so predators typically cannot get in. We had one 6-7 month old possum get into run when chickens were asleep and locked in their coop. It was a young one. Needless to say it did not make it out.
Congrats! She is beautiful. I agree likely the one in the front of the picture. We get brown, dark rose pink, light rose pink, hint of green and hint of blue.
Woo I have 2-3 layers now! I have 3 distinct types of eggs. Light brownish pink, light brown and pointy and 1 that is between a cream and a light green. Woo hoo!
Woo hoo got our first egg today. All I know is that it came from either our Barred Rock, White Brahma, Silver Laced Wyandotte or our Australorp. Woo hoo!!!! It was a light peachy brown :)
It is official my Lavender Orpington is a rooster :)
Today I heard a cock a doodle doo coming from the chicken run and Amethyst was on top the coop crowing away :) Also whenever he went by some of the hens would lay down. I'm thinking eggs any day.
Our chicken is a Lavender Orpington. We thought she is a she but now she is towering over all of other chickens. Is she a she or he? I attached 2 pictures from different angles. I am starting to think a rooster since the ear waddles starting coming in.
Do you have a covered run? If you do I would say no. If you don't I would say yes but make sure you know what you are doing.
We have a 10X10 covered run that is 6 feet tall. Our chickens enjoy flying. We often watch them fly around the run, resting on the top of the coop and flying up to a...