A Note of Caution

[perchie.girl]

There are several dual purpose that also go broody on occasion. Silky hens are difficult to find, most hatcherys dont sex them because they are considered bantam.

My goal was to have about thirty guineas and ten or so each of three breeds for eggs Dark brown egg layers, Blue egg layers and White egg layers. But there seems to be a Chicken Boom going on in San Diego..... The county just changed the rules on keeping Chickens Goats and Bees. Its legal now. So Craigslist here is LOADED with chickens..... And goats and Bees..... hee hee. so now my poultry idea is going to be scaled back to just what I want.

Soon as the Wellies are bigger I will probably sell off a few to get the little flock down to about ten or twelve. then the rest will just have to come later.

deb

I've been considering Silkies for broodies, and some kind of docile/easy going laying Hens for eggs when my Guineas aren't laying, they'd just need their own coop/run/yard where the Guineas can't access and can be free ranged separately (add yet another project to the list, lol). But... I'm afraid once I get into "collecting "chickens" I'll go crazy like I did with Guineas!

Thanks for the chart

 

[damselfish]

... and even then I had one that got both feet tangled up in a ball of wadded up horse tail hair that I had brushed out of my horses one day (it was in a bucket, sittin' up on the tail gate of my truck so the birds WOULD NOT GET TANGLED IN IT! Dang nosy birds!). The bird was hopping around like a kangaroo rather efficiently, took me over an hour to catch the dang thing

And people call me crazy for doing a roll call with my birds AM and PM, lol. (I'm actually checkin' for idiots!).

This made me laugh and read it out loud to my husband. Hoppity, hoppity, hoppity...that must have been a sight to see.

They are a bunch of doofuses (don't you think the plural of doofus should be doofi, like cacti?), but on the other hand they just hawk-alerted 10 minutes ago and saved my chickens for the thousandth time. Gotta love 'em.

 

[BritinMO]

"This made me laugh and read it out loud to my husband".......................I am always reading things off this forum to my husband, and he laughs so much too, the guinea insanity has changed our lives completely!