California - Northern

[Hangtown Farms]

Wow! Your Crele looks a lot like the Marraduna Basque Hens. Marraduna don't lay that dark of an egg.

Very nice, congratulations on having them!

Ron

Thank you.. also the little cream orange and brown guy on the front right kinda under the grow up coop is available.
Cream Legbar x welsummer/penedesenca cross... He will be stunning if he keeps at his handsome pase

 

[chickee]

Love that Crele Pendesenca rooster COOPER12

His color is similar to the Golden Cuckoo Marans, which is on my list of must haves.

Here is a picture of my BLRW Rooster and 5 wk old BLRW chicks. Momma started laying again and wasn't being a good mom with sharing food so she got put back with the other chickens and dad took over

3 of the rooster chicks are available

Anyone for Bantam Polish (I think mostly girls~ 4 wks old) or 3 eight wk old pullets from my buff Ameraucana project to improve egg color? Full sisters lay a turquoise egg! You can see my ad and more pictures under "Chickens 1 week to 8 weeks old" on BYC.

 

[zooweemama]

Love that Crele Pendesenca rooster COOPER12

His color is similar to the Golden Cuckoo Marans, which is on my list of must haves.

Here is a picture of my BLRW Rooster and 5 wk old BLRW chicks. Momma started laying again and wasn't being a good mom with sharing food so she got put back with the other chickens and dad took over

3 of the rooster chicks are available

Anyone for Bantam Polish (I think mostly girls~ 4 wks old) or 3 eight wk old pullets from my buff Ameraucana project to improve egg color? Full sisters lay a turquoise egg! You can see my ad and more pictures under "Chickens 1 week to 8 weeks old" on BYC.

Gorgeous birds and eggs. I am a sucker for the buttery Buff colored birds. Those eggs are stunning!

 

[rowlow]

Hey everyone! Im from Sonoma County California. Just wanted to say hi! BYC is fun!

 

[ronott1]

Hey everyone! Im from Sonoma County California. Just wanted to say hi! BYC is fun!

Hi rowlow!

BYC is fun!

There is a lot to see and learn. It's great to have a place where people don't think you are weird for talking to chickens.

Ron

 

[Happy Chooks]

so to keep the production up you need to switch out your layers every two or three years.

Or just hatch more.

Chicken math at it's finest.

My oldest hens are 3 1/2 years old and most of them are still laying really well. The ones that aren't laying the best still give me about 3-4 eggs a week.

 

[ronott1]

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so to keep the production up you need to switch out your layers every two or three years.

Or just hatch more.

Chicken math at it's finest.

My oldest hens are 3 1/2 years old and most of them are still laying really well. The ones that aren't laying the best still give me about 3-4 eggs a week.

Exactly! I was trying not to get more of us addicted to hatching. I tried to join a support group here called Incubators Anonymous but they kept offering to send me hatching eggs....evil....

My wife got back from Missouri and was wondering where I had hidden the chicks. I told her I was going cold turkey. I am starting to get the shakes though..

Tomorrow I will be picking up some eggs to hatch but luckily they won't be for me. It's great to get to hatch them for someone else--helps with the with drawl symptoms.

Yes, I talk a big talk about swapping out the layers but I still have one hen that has not laid an egg since last fall. I am very good at Chicken Math.....

Ron

 

[zooweemama]

Hey everyone! Im from Sonoma County California. Just wanted to say hi! BYC is fun!

Hello and welcome!

 

[zooweemama]

Hi rowlow!

BYC is fun!

There is a lot to see and learn. It's great to have a place where people don't think you are weird for talking to chickens.

Ron

I talk to my chickies and I love snuggling with my Samson. I hope he turns out to be an ok lookin BCM roo because I love that little guy.

Anyone have 2 males housed in the same house with little issue? I would so love to keep my Orp roo too. But I don't really want to manage 2 coops. I already have a duck coop.

On a different note- my baby geese are now sharing the yard with my 4/5 wk olds chicks. Sooooo far so good. The chicks are curious about the goslings which scares the geese (who cry for me all the time wahhh) but no meanies yet. The chickens mostly stick together and occasionally want to drink the same water and they ate all the goslings waterfowl food. Hope that won't hurt them. I gave them fresh food and just offered flock raiser this time.

OH and Samson was so adorable this morning. 530am you hear errrr-ah-errr-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and he cocks his head to the side trying to get it all out. It's a silly sound but he is trying to crow. SO cute!!

 

[zooweemama]

Are there any proficient bantam layers out of curiosity? I don't want any but I was looking up productivity and they only get 'fair' marks. Do you find this to be true? Do any of you raise banties for eggs? What breeds do you find to be the more decent layers of the bantams?