California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

I figured most people in California are amazing . what kind of chickens do you have and how many ?

This is the best thread on BYC!

uh,,, If everyone answers this you should be prepared to hear just about everything and many you never heard of before

I have 2 Australorps, 2 Red Stars 3, Delaware Hens 1 Delaware Cockerel, 2 Icelandics, 2 Easter Eggers, 1 each of the following Dorking, Polish X Dorking, Barnyard mysteryx Australorp, Chocolate Plymouth Rock, Olive Egger,, California Grey, Speckled Sussex and Barnyard Mystery.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Oooh, I missed that question.

I have 8 Easter Eggers (Americanas), 1 Isbar Rooster, 4 Swedish Flower Hens,2 Copper Marans, 3 Lavender and 5 Black Split Ameraucanas (the real ones), 2 Silver Phoenix, 2 Partridge Wyandotte Bantams, 1 Light Brahma Bantam, 1 Sumatra, 6 or 7 mixes from the bantam pen, 5 Adult Silkies 1 Sizzle and a whole passel of chicks (Double Laced Barnvelders, Wellsummers, more Silkies, Isbar x EE crosses, Olive Egger, Sumatra, Speckled Sussex, Partridge Wyandotte Bantams, Frizzle/Sizzle crosses) and 32 eggs in the incubator.

Just fair warning - if you start looking up these birds you may find your small flock expands exponentially. I had only Easter Eggers and a few oddballs before I started reading on BYC....

 

[gryeyes]

I have about sixty-ish chickens of many different breeds, a Midget White turkey pair, a BBB turkey hen, a Narraganset turkey poult, two ganders and three goslings (all Toulouse), 27 Cayuga ducks & drakes, and one Call drake.

Let's see if I can name the breeds from memory: Barred Rock, Black Australorp, Buff Orpington, Dark Brahma, Cochin, Easter Egger, Golden Lakenvelder, Icelandic, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Cuckoo Marans, Silver Sebright, Salmon Faverrole, White Leghorn, White Rock, Delaware, Dark Leghorn, Welsummer, Speckled Sussex, several bantam versions of EE, Cochin and Brahma, and lots and lots of mixes. Oh, and a House Silkie.

There are also some "lavender," Lemon Cuckoo, Black and splash Orpingtons.

If I go outside, I bet I'll see a breed I forgot to mention.

 

[AlpineButterfly]

I figured most people in California are amazing . what kind of chickens do you have and how many ?

Introducing my six pet girls!

Rosie, Buff Brahma Bantam, 10 weeks:

Elanor, Buff Brahma Bantam, 10 weeks:

Follow along on their photo album: https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6439286/buff-brahma-bantams/

Mary, Easter Egger Bantam, 6 weeks:

Edith, Easter Egger Bantam, 6 weeks:

Sybil, Easter Egger Bantam, 6 weeks:

Follow their photo album here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6451923/easter-egger-bantams/

Violet, Black Frizzle Cochin Bantam, 6 weeks:
Poor Violet has a cross-beak.
Her photo album is here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6451919/black-frizzle-cochin-bantam/

 

[chiqita]

Is Jub short for jubilees? I have a blue orp from Molly that has the jubilee genes in him. He's gorgeous. Ironically he's the most flighty (if you catch him be will let you hold him and pet him) ou of our four boys. I wonder if there's a good method to gaining chicken trust. 8/10 I our chickens will come over and hop in our laps want to be pet.

Yes ( calling you this afternoon Molly) I have 2 girls I hatched from Cheryl Cohen, they need them a man! theya re getting HUGEEE and they only like each other, no other chickens, so they will be fine in a trio coop, I think.

Nope, they don't know the difference. Although I suspect they would eat the bacon eggs if you put them out there - they are omnivores!

I have had a few sillies try to hatch the fake eggs too. I left them in there just long enough to determine if they were really serious - then I switched them for real eggs so they would actually hatch a chick - instead of a rock...

When we were on the way home from Superman I was telling Mario Someone should do a cartoon with a silkie, with little golf clubs, geodes, trees, and clouds following her. ( can you guess what she was sitting on to hatch those?)

 

[Farmer 87]

so I went out this morning to feed and water .and my hin would not get off my eggs . I assume its time to have babies . just when I thought the roo was too lazy

 

[Farmer 87]

I love all of these breeds Calithis is great . anyone got some Cornish X or just meet Birds

 

[ronott1]

I love all of these breeds Calithis is great . anyone got some Cornish X or just meet Birds

Several of us have Bresse, French Meat Birds. I have a couple eating Milk soaked Kamut scratch for two weeks. They started this morning.

The Breeds that I have are in my signature.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I have more than I care to count. Besides, I have a bunch of spare cockerels, so they don't count anyway.

I breed welsummers and barnevelders.

 

[gryeyes]

Ron, did you happen to see my "fail" at processing on the Help Us Deal with it thread?

On the flip side, I have 8 Cornish X carcasses in my freezer, now, 'cause they continued without me. (We went in on bunch together; I paid for the chicks and contributed feed whilst they were raised and butchered at my friends's place.)