Anyone planning any big changes for your flock this spring?

[chicks for better health]

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Why not just build a small breeding pen for the sub roo and a few hens.

I have the same problem so I am going to make a 3 x 8 pen in the coop for 3 hens and a roo. I'm going to leave the 3 hens in there alone for 3 weeks to make sure they haven't been fertilized by a different roo. After 3 weeks I am going to add the roo that I want to be the mate.

Then with a little luck I will be able to hatch a bunch of nice Silver Laced Wynadottes. I might even have some hatching eggs to sell. We'll see what the demand is for them.

Good Luck!!!

 

[patandchickens]

My DH has given the go-ahead for trying a few turkeys, yay. Also will try red broilers instead of CornishX.

I'm building an incubator and plan to hatch out a dozen or two dozen of our speckled sussex eggs, keep the best few birds and eat/sell the rest.

And I want to get half a dozen or more EE or Ameraucanas, something that will lay fairly well and not brown eggs (hm, I really need to get off my butt and start asking around about that, don't I).

The buff chanteclers will be movin' out (i.e. for sale) to make room for the EEs.


Pat

 

[thedeacon]

I started last spring with 6 RIR and 6 BO. The dogs got 3 BO and 1 RIR is a roo. Soon I will be ordering a variety of 25. A few more brown layers and some white layers. About 10 hens and 15 different roos. I will then decide which roos to keep and which to seel or put in the freezer. I looking for colorful chicks and then egg production. I plan to end up with about 15 hens and 2 roos.:

 

[sara]

I just plan to continue to spend money for feed for my birds who may or may not lay many eggs. To reward them for there lack of effort I'm going to build them bigger better coops.

But I sure will enjoy them.

 

[snowydiamonds]

Thanks, Sara

ChickenToes, depending on the size of your coops, last year we put down scrap pipe and rolled the coops to where I wanted them, the boys and I pushed while we took turns running from the back to the front with the pipes, didn't tear anything up and it was done!

Gritsar, I keep culling my big black beauty EE roo...he's a caveman to most of his ladies so I grab him and put him in the duck coop off and on to give the ladies a rest. He must know I have a very soft spot for him cause he just sits on the perch (he's got the entire middle and top landings w/straw and perches) waiting for me to change my mind and bring him back to his ladies, and I do

Now, his lil son I hatched out and is half grown is pecking me once, every time I go to get the straw out of their water container- I was thinking one of his son's would be more gentlemanly but obviously they are more Conan the Barbarian types in his line...I sincerely hope the lil son of his from the BLRW hen that I recently hatched from the beginning of this month is the odd man out, he's a real looker from the moment he hatched!

Guess I'd better add my newest plans: Bantam Orps and bantam EE/Ameraucana's, along w/two lines of RIR bantams And Pilgrim goslings and Am Buff goslings for my flock of six to raise this year.

 

[chickenbottom]

well im not doing it in the spring im doing next week building a 10x10 foot coop with a 16x8 foot run i cant wait my babies need a new home before tehy get to big even though they arejust a few days old my other two reba that i got yesterday thanks to dixiechick and furngully and clairese are staying in small coop and run that will hold up to about 5 chickens and ive got 24 so i needed more room

 

[Cats Critters]

This spring I'll be hatching chicks for the first time on my own!, we hatched chicks in 6th grade my egg didn't hatch

, but in total 8 chicks hatched but the 8th needed help out, it was defored (three-legs and some other stuff) and it died, that was when I first wanted chickens sorry I'm in a story teller mood.

 

[JennsPeeps]

I'm getting 3 chicks, breeds TBD...

For sure:
BO

Possible:
SLW
Polish
EE
Welsummer

We only have room for 3 more. I'm having a tough time deciding! I ruled out an astralorp b/c they're just slightly too big for our coop.

 

[JustChicky]

I am adding 10 layers, maybe 20+ if Ideal lets me change my order on Monday. I will be building new coops, making old coops bigger and adding 2 runs (1 for the roosters and one for the big coop).

I also want to get an incubator and hatch eggs this spring... we'll see. I was going to do this last year, but it never happened. Thought I was getting a bator for $30, oh well.

 

[swampducks]

I'm hoping to add some dark cornish to my little flock of buckeyes, glw's, BRs and guineas. I'm trying to get my FIL interested in buying some birds with me to defray costs. His white rock layers are getting a little long in the teeth.

Haven't decided on any meat birds yet, still need to get DH to build me a chicken tractor. Keeping them in the garage is NOT going to happen this year!


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