Anyone planning any big changes for your flock this spring?

[AtRendeAcres]

I am seriously thinking of just going to bantams myself (aside from original girls left)

they are much easier to take care!

& we were thing of getting some turkeys to breed (I think less work for more meat)

 

[tackyrama]

We are going to fill my big, just built coop to capacity. My wife ordered SL Wyandottes and GL Polish. That will be her project. Mine will be to fill the freezer! I don't like the idea of rock cornish store bred birds with their broken legs and heart attacks. I will stay with more traditional meat birds such as Buff Orps whic I already have on hand. Maybe a pair of geese.

 

[redoak]

We have ordered more chicks and expanding our flock of 8 hens to 23 hens. We also plan on making a greenhouse that will double as a chicken run in the winter. We currently have 2 roosters, a buff orpington and a buff rock. The buff rock was a hatchery mistake and was supposed to be a buff orpington. We like him but can't use him for breeding so might find him a good home. If not we'll make another bachelor pad for him and use his existing bachelor pad for extra space in our coop.

 

[crazyhen]

I am adding a large run 12x48 run for my spoiled hens to be in.. I have 6 spoiled bo's that are 12 weeks old and two laying brahma mixes. I also am going to put some tin on part of the run so they will have a place for shade and out of the rain. There are several other things I want to do as well. I want a tractor house for them to be in my garden part of the time. I want to make it the width of my paths between rows. AH! free weeding.. I want to get some of cyn's blue orps and delawares when she is better. We were hoping for late Feb. I will be fine for later though. they will be worth waiting for. Jean

 

[Rufflemyfeathers]

Since I have only been at this since November and have few different breeds I may get this spring a couple silkies or so..by time my roos are 16 week old they will be in my freezer exception of a couple to keep for breeding and my listening to rooster crow..I love that. My winter has been an expensive one just getting started so will be nice to not have to keep buying..just got to keep what I want and butcher the rest.

 

[chicken stalker]

Starting my Ameraucana projects in the spring (I CAN'T WAIT!!!). So I will probably triple my flock, build another coop and a large covered run next to my garden so we can flip flop when the picking gets down in the run and gardening season is over. Ohh and maybe a couple goats

 

[chicks for better health]

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That might be a possibility in the late spring early summer.

 

[gritsar]

I am thinking seriously of culling my alpha rooster. Note: the word "cull" means "remove from your flock", not necessarily by eating. My other roo is much closer to the breed standard, really an awesome looking roo and he's the one people want fertile eggs from which is not likely to happen with the current alpha around. I don't want to break up the flock just to get hatching eggs from my sub. roo.
My SO is trying to talk me into waiting until spring to cull him. He thinks that with only one roo we should stop free-ranging and wants to build them a run instead. I'm still up in the air about it.
We won't be adding more chickens in the spring. If I can time a visit to the feed store just right and catch my SO at a weak moment, I may be adding about 6 runner ducks.

 

[ChickenToes]

I love hearing what everyone else is planning on doing this spring!

My only other big change (besides from downsizing the chicken flock) is that we are moving the chicken and the duck coop to the other side of the property. I am not exactly sure how we are going to accomplish that, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be difficult and messy and it just might tear my lawn apart.

Ah, the things we do for our animals...

 

[magikchick]

I'm adding blue LF cochins. I'm also starting a breeding project with my bantam cochins. I want to breed crele coloring. I have a barred roo comming up now. I'm looking for red-brown or partridge hens.

I want to build some breeding pens and have started plans for a new coop.

My dream is a large red barn, but that's on down the road.