California - Northern

[OR4-hmom]

What are the 4Hers looking for?  Do they only show cornishx for meat birds?  Those things are so weird looking and it makes me sad that they don't/can't have truly normal chicken lives.  I will have eggs from some lovely heritage dual purpose and hybrid/sex link dual purpose birds but I don't think there is a market for them in the show world.

So don't know if I can help at all. I will have New Hampshires and Delawares but Better New Hampshires and Better Delawares are available from other people on this thread.  I do think it's a great idea though

It has been years since there were meat birds at our county fair. The last ones auctioned up here went for $50 per pound, that is not a typo! He paid over $1,500 for the 3 birds, he was given an out on the purchase but admitted he knew the rules but forgot that he was placing a per pound bid.

I would like to have birds for the kids that aren't from Ideal or Dunlop hatchery. I don't have anything against hatchery birds for egg production, but confirmation is rough with so much leghorn in the mix. Most of the kids have family layer flocks so LF would probably be OK. Each year parents are asking me where they can get "purebred" chickens, aka heritage. When we went to Red Bluff Marian was amazed by the color and size difference on some being shown, wink-wink debs-flock, and she has had the most exposure to different breeds.

It would also be nice for the kids to know what they are getting. This year we had 6 Japanese entered, 4 were Columbia wyandottes, the silver penciled hamburg was a silver sea right.

In years past chicks were ordered and the cold of shipping killed many of them, it's so sad to open a box with dead babies, it's still sad when they don't hatch but for me it's easier. I'll hatch if they will brood them.

 

[debs_flock]

Welcome Back Deb!

Liz from Modesto is looking for Barred Plymouth Rocks,

Bantams? My LF aren't in a breeding pen.

Thanks all. I actually jumped the "pond" for a couple of weeks. I decided against the egg smuggling operation,

or you'd see new line CCL and Cemani in my brooders next month

I did leave some eggs in the Brinsea when I left and this morning I've had 3 Iowa Blues hatch and about 5 more CCL pipped so far. I may be listing them if anyone is looking for chicks right now.

 

[gryeyes]

One of my " blue" (look lavender to ME) Orps, Sister 1, has hatched three chicks from eggs brooded by Monica the bantam Dark Brahma mix. Monica either gave up or Sister1 forcibly "took over" the nest. I suspect the latter.

Flock eggs, no clue of the chicks' parentage yet. Two are black and one is so light yellow it is almost white.

The nest was one of the ten "roll out" ones which Monica had managed to block somehow, hiding eggs underneath her which DID NOT roll out into the tray. I just saw her there every day, brooding away on what I thought was air. Wish I'd gotten a photo of her, because I could only see her eyes and the top of her head over the edge. Evil "You can't keep me from hogging this nest even if the eggs roll out" glares. She had the last laugh - almost. Then I saw Sister 1 jammed in there, so I picked her up and chicks fell out from under her wings!

I put her back. The next day she had the chicks on the coop floor; she can't get them back up into the roll out nests so she has made a nest hollow in the coop bedding in a corner. Monica is back up in the same nest, peering evilly over the edge.

 

[tommysgirl]

Well I hope to have eggs from one of Deb's NH pullets covered by my hatchery NH roo who is pretty but not SOP My Del cockerel is already bigger and more impressive looking. I think getting eggs from Deb if she has em would be your best bet

I will have eggs from my Dels from Kim as well as maybe on offspring of theirs. These are good Dels that she has been working on breeding to SOP but her new birds from Kathy in Mo are even nicer.

Eggs from my birds would, I assume, lead to chicks that are nicer than the hatchery

Both breeds I think would be nice for 4-Hers because they tend to be docile and easily handled. Also like a lot of us, I believe it would be great if dual purpose heritage breeds would one day become the norm again and those poor cornish x followed the natural selection path that commercial chicken producers are circumventing.

Don't mean to offend anyone who raises CornishX. I am sure they can be lovely birds it is simply MO that we all would be healthier and feel better about what we eat if we returned to a pre-WWII diet that includes home grown chickens from a flock that can breed naturally.

 

[tommysgirl]

It has been years since there were meat birds at our county fair. The last ones auctioned up here went for $50 per pound, that is not a typo! He paid over $1,500 for the 3 birds, he was given an out on the purchase but admitted he knew the rules but forgot that he was placing a per pound bid.

I would like to have birds for the kids that aren't from Ideal or Dunlop hatchery. I don't have anything against hatchery birds for egg production, but confirmation is rough with so much leghorn in the mix. Most of the kids have family layer flocks so LF would probably be OK. Each year parents are asking me where they can get "purebred" chickens, aka heritage. When we went to Red Bluff Marian was amazed by the color and size difference on some being shown, wink-wink debs-flock, and she has had the most exposure to different breeds.

It would also be nice for the kids to know what they are getting. This year we had 6 Japanese entered, 4 were Columbia wyandottes, the silver penciled hamburg was a silver sea right.

In years past chicks were ordered and the cold of shipping killed many of them, it's so sad to open a box with dead babies, it's still sad when they don't hatch but for me it's easier. I'll hatch if they will brood them.

This is what my above post was responding to. Forgot the quote

 

[ronott1]

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Originally Posted by ronott1

Welcome Back Deb!

Liz from Modesto is looking for Barred Plymouth Rocks,

Bantams? My LF aren't in a breeding pen.

She was going to send a PM. You probably have a ton of those though.

Your LF are great!

 

[chiqita]

For probiotics a silkie breeder recommended raw honey over yougert. There is some controversy and some specialist chicken vets don't like to use it ( organic only if you do) raw honey especially local has the stuff from your local soil too.

 

[member 142084]

Quote: lol it is.. ha ha you should Moooo.

 

[alibra]

My chick is peeping bloody murder... she's lonely I hope the other 4 eggs hatch....


if not.... does anyone have any brand new chicks or any due really soon? She'll need a friend.

 

[ronott1]

My chick is peeping bloody murder... she's lonely I hope the other 4 eggs hatch....


if not.... does anyone have any brand new chicks or any due really soon? She'll need a friend.

I hope you get one more at least!

No chicks here.