California - Northern

[Parkmule]

Yup! we eat ours too! Marans are the table bird of France...and now I know why.

 

[PetRock]

We have a pen of grow out roosters at the farm just waiting for processing day. My friend has the whole set up including a plucker. The last processing day we processed 42 chickens and 1 old tom turkey. She is planning another processing day in the next month or so and then another big one later in the summer. Is anyone interested in a processing workshop? She has done a co-op before where you pay a certain amount and help with the processing then you go home with several chickens bagged and ready to be chilled then frozen. She might also be willing to have you come help with the processing and bring your own chickens to process. The farm is just outside of Brentwood. I'm just tossing the idea out there to see if there is any interest.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

We did a ton last year and ill tell ya, I plucked 6 by hand and skinned the rest lol!

 

[chiqita]

I'd be really interested if I get enough breese. My grow outs need another 2-3 weeks min for the first batch. The breese are younger they would be late summer. I send out a lot of those eggs so have less for me! Have you hatched any yet pet?

We have a pen of grow out roosters at the farm just waiting for processing day. My friend has the whole set up including a plucker. The last processing day we processed 42 chickens and 1 old tom turkey. She is planning another processing day in the next month or so and then another big one later in the summer. Is anyone interested in a processing workshop? She has done a co-op before where you pay a certain amount and help with the processing then you go home with several chickens bagged and ready to be chilled then frozen. She might also be willing to have you come help with the processing and bring your own chickens to process. The farm is just outside of Brentwood. I'm just tossing the idea out there to see if there is any interest.

 

[Ali707]

it looks great! my friend Henry, who built my chicken coop for me as a gift, also added an external nesting box several months later -- he built the box as a stand-along thing in his garage, then came up here to install it -- i'm not sure i can explain any of it (i'm construction-challenged myself), but have a few photos in case those are helpful:



that wall was originally just a solid panel -- so he put in that 2x4" as a "shelf" for the nesting box (on the left) to sit on



now the box is in, and he added that vertical support to both attach it to (as well as on the sides) & also provide structural support



view of the boxes from the inside -- love that perch he made for them!



view from the outside, finished! the girls love them, and when the broodies were sitting in them, they couldn't steal eggs from each other...

Thanks! It does help some and it seems complicated!!! lol I need a Henry.

I will want a roo or so;-) within the next few
months. What breeds do you have and ages?
Kandi

Wow you asked the million dollar question here it seems.

Hmmm I am sure I have boys of the Millie Fleur Leghorn, and English Black/Blue Orps, a Double Laced Blue Barnvelder some Wheaten Ameraucana's and I think my one Basque egg to hatch is a boy darn it! OH, and one Welsummer boy. Mine were 3 weeks old yesterday.

I'm so excited!! cj silkies had to get rid of her flock, and I have 6 showgirls coming tomorrow! Been trying to organise it for a few weeks. Ended up with a lot of white instead of partridge, not sure how in the world that happened, lol. I blame my rooster flame, who KNOWS i want to replace him...

We will see if they get here tomorrow...

Why did she have to get rid of her flock?

No, no, no.............I always have roos and I already know where you live, LOL

Unwanted Roos as soon as I know they're Roos for sure they go into their own pen or if they're mixes they go on a long walk with my husband and the mama fox gets them

Can I ask why you put them in a separate pen? I don't think I have a momma fox handy, but I do have Raccoon's around, however; I don't want to start feeding them at ALL!

We have a pen of grow out roosters at the farm just waiting for processing day. My friend has the whole set up including a plucker. The last processing day we processed 42 chickens and 1 old tom turkey. She is planning another processing day in the next month or so and then another big one later in the summer. Is anyone interested in a processing workshop? She has done a co-op before where you pay a certain amount and help with the processing then you go home with several chickens bagged and ready to be chilled then frozen. She might also be willing to have you come help with the processing and bring your own chickens to process. The farm is just outside of Brentwood. I'm just tossing the idea out there to see if there is any interest.

I would probably be interested ummmm maybe. I am not sure yet. I want to and yet I don't want to. Maybe by then I will be happy to!



Chiquita you mentioned Heritage are 4-5 months before processing. Why so long on Heritage? Are they slow growers? Also, I can't have crowers, so I will need a solution before 4-5 months for sure.

 

[PetRock]

I'd be really interested if I get enough breese. My grow outs need another 2-3 weeks min for the first batch. The breese are younger they would be late summer. I send out a lot of those eggs so have less for me!

Have you hatched any yet pet?

I have 2 that are due to hatch this next weekend and I just put 12 more in the incubator on Sat. It is going to be a staggered hatch but none of the shipped Langshan eggs that were also due to hatch this weekend developed. They were shipped from AZ in the middle of that heat wave so I'm thinking that really messed them up.

I was so disappointed to not get any of them to develop that I went ahead and loaded up the incubator with Langshan and Bresse eggs from my birds.

 

[Ali707]

I have a genetics question for you. If you get DLBB or Blue Orp eggs, and the chick hatches out the non-blue color, what do those chickens then become?

To clarify my question a bit.... If I hatched Blue Orp eggs and the chicks grow out Black, is that chick then classified as a Black? or Blue still even though it is black in color? I would think it still carries the blue gene somewhere? Or am I completely wrong there?

 

[Chickengirl1304]

I have a genetics question for you.   If you get DLBB or  Blue Orp eggs, and the chick hatches out the non-blue color, what do those chickens then become?  

To clarify my question a bit.... If I hatched Blue Orp eggs and the chicks grow out Black, is that chick then classified as a Black? or Blue still even though it is black in color?  I would think it still carries the blue gene somewhere?  Or am I completely wrong there?

I put them seperate because 1. They get used to other Roos right away, in case i decide to keep them. 2. They eat different than my girls.

 

[Nikon]

That varies, county by county. My county (El Dorado) used to have both open and youth, in poultry, beef, sheep, hogs, goats........ Now we only have youth shows.

The only poultry thing I can enter in my local fair are eggs and that's through Home Arts. But it's okay for me, I'm a canner, baker, photographer & tatter................I get out my competitive streak!

You didn't tell me you are a photographer!

 

[ChickNmamma]

I have a genetics question for you. If you get DLBB or Blue Orp eggs, and the chick hatches out the non-blue color, what do those chickens then become?

To clarify my question a bit.... If I hatched Blue Orp eggs and the chicks grow out Black, is that chick then classified as a Black? or Blue still even though it is black in color? I would think it still carries the blue gene somewhere? Or am I completely wrong there?

If it grows out black - it doesn't carry the Bl (Blue) gene. None of its chicks will ever be blue. Blue is dominant - if its there it shows up. It would be classified as "Black".