calling any one from missouri

[harryhoward]

$1.50 - $2.00 a dozen. I am selling almost all I get at $2. selling mine at work in Joplin. Also a few at my wife's work in Nevada, she has trouble at $2, sells more at $1.50.

 

[elorraine52]

anyone on here have an idea what I can use to kill/repel ticks? I don't want something that will poison the ground as we will be moving chickens/guineas to the area soon, but meantime we have to work/camp in the area to get ready to move in....

 

[alldembirds]

best thing to kill them is guineas lol, some controlled burns help a little, good quality tee tree oil applied heavily to your shoes pants socks etc will help keep them from climbing on you.

 

[elorraine52]

thanks, alldembirds, we can try the tea tree oil....but we really wanted a quick fix for until we get established.....

 

[CGinJCMO]

I use Sevin dust and liquid in and around my coop. Depending upon how soon the chickens will be in the treated area, it might be safe enough.

CG

 

[elorraine52]

Thanks CGinJCMO, that might be the ticket....the grass is very green there now and growing, don't know how a burn might go,so will check out the sevin liquid, and see how quickly it breaks down, might have to keep chooks penned up until it is safe for them, and getting keets there ASAP and takes awhile to grow them out enough to turn loose! Thinking of making a spray out of the tea tree oil to spray on our boots and pants too....

thanks again guys for the answers!

 

[littlechickies]

My daughter with one of her new babies

Here in columbia, wanted 3 new chicks to make my layers a total of 10 and 3 roosters. Made the mistake of getting my kids and hubby on board and now I have 6 new chicks. Moved them from the dog crate in the house to the coop about 3 days ago, and of course we had a major storm and got soaked getting the babies out of the rain when they hung outside the coop with the big girls. It only took one night of us putting them in the coop for them to figure out to go in when it gets dark. I can't wait to see what they finally will look like when they are all grown and when they start laying.
This is the new chicks

 

[potagergirl]

My daughter with one of her new babies

Here in columbia, wanted 3 new chicks to make my layers a total of 10 and 3 roosters. Made the mistake of getting my kids and hubby on board and now I have 6 new chicks. Moved them from the dog crate in the house to the coop about 3 days ago, and of course we had a major storm and got soaked getting the babies out of the rain when they hung outside the coop with the big girls. It only took one night of us putting them in the coop for them to figure out to go in when it gets dark. I can't wait to see what they finally will look like when they are all grown and when they start laying.
This is the new chicks

too sweet! It's great getting the family involved at the same time I've noticed the numbers adding up as yours have.
Hubby has me looking for a dog, he thinks I need a pal to walk around the homestead with and to work chores
with me lol. I'm looking at Second Chance right now, not sure if they have one that will let us into its life but it
never hurts to try. Just imagine if we get a dog we will be pets again!

My concern is getting a dog that will ignore the chickens that will eventually be on the land. I don't mind training
at all I found with our last that past away in November I am rather good at training.

So far on record chickens 0- May 19th will have 15. Guineas 0- June 19th will have 15. Dogs 0- in the next month maybe 1.
Huh and we haven't officially moved onto the homestead yet! lol

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Gotta love chicken math. As long as its going up not down.

Just a heads up. If anyone is watching CL for birds Columbia area has a lot... of bad birds listed. Rather sure its all same person. They will only text or email no calls. Not even worth the trouble to text. http://columbiamo.craigslist.org/grd/4399951107.html they have a few different listings. Not a pic of actual birds. They found a stock pic of a red and used that. Went down Saturday night to look and get some. Those are NOT what the people have. Was afraid I would bring back something that would devastate my flock just being there. I would suggest making sure that looking into anything birds related you can hear the sellers voice (These people were foreign, nothing against them as a whole but some still don't believe USA has standards for livestock, pets etc.) and see where/how animals were being kept (100+ birds in a plastic hoop type house 6x25 no water that I could see and only given dog food. And felt like at LEAST 4 inches of manure w/o bedding)

On the plus side of things I might have a bunch of BPR chicks coming in a few days. Talked to lady today and chicks are due tonight. They are SR but that's fine by me. Wanna replace my SL roosters. Better prices than hatchery and I can pick em up. She just a back yard hobby breeder but rather that I get birds from someone I know knows about birds and cares about them. Had a 1/2 convo with her today. Seemed like a wonderful and knows her birds. I can mix these with my BPR blood and keep a nice blood line I think.

My current goal is in a couple years phase out all but 2-3 breeds and continue a good production farm for local customers. Mainly focusing on BA, BPR and BSL. But might keep RIR also because A I have almost always had a few when I had birds and B Roosters can be used in the sex link cross also. Anything pure and being kept for breeding is getting tagged so I don't mix up anything when I split flock for breeding. Right now everything has open house free range.

Maybe I can get some of the largest birds of the breeds I have and make a decent DP flock that will get the size wanted for Meat as well as eggs. I have laying machines now (90-100% productive now) but nothing the size a DP should be. All my DP breeds are small as LH or smaller. Couple of my SL males are very nice sized, but not as meaty as I would prefer. Oddly enough my largest roo is a BA x LH. Anyways I will try keep up on thread this year. Last year a lot went sideways on me and my family.

 

[SternRose]

What's chicken math? Lol