I've read posts on here for a while and just read about 4 years of posts on this thread. I live in the outskirts of Weston but there are no zoning laws here which in one of the reasons we bought the place. My 95 year old neighbor loves to hear my roosters crow....everyone else....not so sure. I built a 6x8 coop this fall to put all my chickens in together. I will build the run in the spring. My avatar was killed in September by a hawk. She was a silver duckwing OEG bamtam hen I hatched out the previous year. My pet... She was the first casualty. I stopped letting them out so much. On my birthday in October, I let out my 3 Ameraucana hens because they are old and have been roaming for a couple of years now. Well, I came home from work to find the hawk eating my favorite one... It's a small hawk and the name escapes me at this time but it was too small to carry off the OEG hen which only weighed 20 oz. So I rushed the coop and now they are all in one place.
I am looking to add a few big hens to my coop. I noticed someone has blue turkens. I would very much like to have 1 or 2 pullets/hens or a half dozen eggs to hatch. My
Brinsea holds 7 large eggs and 12 bantam eggs.
Does anyone have any Blue Jersey Giants? I would like some eggs to hatch. I keep an eye one
ebay and will wait until spring but I purchased 6+ blue/black/splash bantam ameraucana sq eggs last spring and only one hatched. The one time I actually wanted a rooster and I got a little black pullet (Her name's Raven). She just started laying in November. So I also am looking for a bantam Ameraucana (EE)rooster/cockerel. If he has a little blue in him or just a solid color, that would be great.
Has anyone ever dealt with Dunlap Hatchery? They have bantam turkens and I would like to have some. Anyone on here have some?
I have had two dealings each with Murray McMurray and Ideal and both were positive. I loved my bantam Partridge Rocks from Murray but out of the five chicks not a single rooster...
My chickens are pets, I'm not looking to profit off of them. I just like variety (I really like blues and light reds - NHR color) and hatching them. I usually take them to the Tyler County Fair in early August and sell the ones I won't have room for in the winter and for very cheap. I don't think I've ever asked even $5 for a chicken and on occasion, I've even given some away. I like spreading the joy of keeping chickens. I will pay a reasonable price for a chicken I want though and travel to get it!
I would like to make everyone aware that Locust tree leaves are poisoness to chickens if they eat them... The first year I moved to this house I found out the hard way. In my second order to Ideal, I ordered 5 Blue Laced Red bantam Wyandottes. I sold two at the fair and kept a trio. Well, when I got home from my week at the fair, I let the young chickens out to forage in the yard - under the locust. They lose their leaves in late August/early September. Long story short
... I lost the two Wyandotte pullets but was able to nurse the rooster back to health. After some research, I found the locust's leaves to be the culprit. That tree is now firewood...
If you made it this far... I guess I had alot to say in my first post...
OH! And I cannot wait for the Chickenpaloozas to start back in the spring at the
Tractor Supply in Bridgeport!