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[misschickenlittle]

I've decided to break up my Lemon Cuckoo Orp pen. Going to pull the LCO roo and replace him with my project roo that is simply beautiful. He needs to be bred. I lost his mate to our dumb dog just a few weeks after I got them. They were quite a pair! So now I have to start over with him... Really need a chocolate hen for him.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Good luck with the pairing Miss. Thinking of breaking my new leghorns into 2 pullet pens (2/3 I have 5). They are bred, for now were with roo until yesterday when I got them. And have them penned with other pullets and a immature cockerel. My idea was to do a rolling pen mating or clan style. But all chicks from these will be related thru the sire now. Might do this and then swap blood after a couple generations. To keep a slightly larger gene pool until I get more WLH blood. I do have an Austra-White Rooster that I can add into the blood if I need to later.

I have 3 pen projects at the moment, BSL, Austra-White x CX and the WLH with 3 RIR that were bred at same breeder all pure. My red pullets from last spring were suppose to be Red Ranger, but I thinking more RIR. Feed store had NO IDEA what they were doing. But they lay great eggs so I don't complain. Just never got any size to them beyond average hatchery DP breed.

I have 12 replacement cockerels brooding now. Only pure rooster I have at this time is 1 BA. Everything else is BSL from last year. And the 1 A-W. BO, RIR, BA, BPR. Some of these may be pullets though. I am betting 3-4 RIR are but I'll have to see. These are the 4 breeds I have pure pullets for. A lot of sex-links and a few mutts in the general flock but they supply the eggs I sell, 20+ dozen a week and still not meeting demand I have. But pay for feeding flock.

 

[katatonic123]

Great couple of days here in SW MO! Have had the girls out playing in their run. The love the grass.

 

[misschickenlittle]

Good luck with the pairing Miss.  Thinking of breaking my new leghorns into 2 pullet pens (2/3 I have 5). They are bred, for now were with roo until yesterday when I got them. And have them penned with other pullets and a immature cockerel. My idea was to do a rolling pen mating or clan style. But all chicks from these will be related thru the sire now. Might do this and then swap blood after a couple generations. To keep a slightly larger gene pool until I get more WLH blood. I do have an Austra-White Rooster that I can add into the blood if I need to later.

 I have 3 pen projects at the moment, BSL, Austra-White x CX and the WLH with 3 RIR that were bred at same breeder all pure. My red pullets from last spring were suppose to be Red Ranger, but I thinking more RIR. Feed store had NO IDEA what they were doing. But they lay great eggs so I don't complain. Just never got any size to them beyond average hatchery DP breed.

 I have 12 replacement cockerels brooding now. Only pure rooster I have at this time is 1 BA. Everything else is BSL from last year. And the 1 A-W. BO, RIR, BA, BPR. Some of these may be pullets though. I am betting 3-4 RIR are but I'll have to see. These are the 4 breeds I have pure pullets for. A lot of sex-links and a few mutts in the general flock but they supply the eggs I sell, 20+ dozen a week and still not meeting demand I have.  But pay for feeding flock.

Thanks 5 acre. I will have to post a pic of this roo. He lots his tips this winter due to frostbite. But he is still beautiful!

WHL is... White leghorn? I have no idea...

 

[rlh1]

Hello. My girls and I just moved here to Grandview MO. Unfortunately I had to leave my 6 girls in Las Vegas. I know I can only have two chickens here but I need a coop first. Does anyone have a chicken coop that will fit two hens for a reasonable price?

We are just renting right now. I can't wait to buy my own place and have a larger flock.

Thanks you,
Ricki

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Yes miss WLH=White Leghorn. What I use anyway. None of my roosters now are really outstanding ,Although my Austra-White Is really my biggest, which is part of the reason he is with my CX. The white feathers help also.

RLH- I don't know if theres any cheap mini coops around. A lot of people are coping designs from manufacturing companies and charging almost as much for them. In my area at least.

 

[rlh1]

5 acre- thank you. I was thinking I would get some pallets and we what I can come up with.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Yeah I have access to pallets myself, if I get the time and help working the lumber free I could repurpose a lot. Since I am Mr. Mom 11/14 days in a pay period its not exactly easy. 2 and 3 y/o keep me on my toes. I have a few out buildings I should be refinishing for separate coops for future grow out as well as breeding coops. Not to mention my incubation/brooding room slated for the garage but these take 2nd place to kids. Maybe when schools out I can get a little help from older kids to free some time up.
Funding is also a problem for me. I recycle a lot and make do with on hand supplies. Sometimes it fine, others its a temporary fix. Wife is supportive, but not made of cash. $60 for 8 POL pullets was tough to talk her into. That's because other recent disappointments from poultry people. Had an offer today for 50 BPR SR chicks for $1.50/ea from a lady that hatches them and BO's but had to turn her down.
With current projects and eggs going into incubation would be strapped for room if I have even 50/50 fertility and hatches. Not to mention what I have cooking now. We have discussed selling started birds also which could net a bit of money later this year. We have 5 acres (Hence the name) and its ours. Horse did get 1/3 of the barn area we were planning on converting to layer housing but as it is with 50 layers in general flock we have room with current housing they use. 20 hens are in breeding pens and will be donating eggs for at least the next 3 weeks. 8 of them will then be moved to laying flock to boost table eggs, until a couple cockerels mature but that's about 4 months off. Unless of course I find a rooster prior to that I like. Depending on how my meat project works 4 more may go along with them.
Wife talking about adding buildings for more use with the birds but I would rather fix up/alter a few we have now. 1 needs roof repair (14x14 cement floor with cellar attached) and another is a 9x9 tin shed with cement floor. Both would need some interior framework and fencing to keep intended bird in, and a run added to them if not used for young grow out coops. We also have a 13x8x8 metal "cage" that was the frame of a pop-up camper I could turn into a tractor or movable coop. Would need my skid steer or truck to move it though. May use this for a tractor for meat birds I haven't decided.
And being spring we need to work on garden and possible feed crop if I can get enough ground tilled to plant some corn for silage/fodder. We put out tomatoes 2 weeks ago then got almost freezing temps and massive rain storms. We starting new plants since the 1st look pitiful. This year we were able to make some "chicken fences" to keep birds out of garden. The supplies we repurpose floor slats from hog barns that were refinished. Garden is a must this year because last year wife took up canning and is so into it. We sold jams/jellies/preserves/apple butter and got ahead from what was spent on supplies and fruit. Although 1/2 the fruit was free from our trees and some other apple and peach trees we now know of. Missed the pear crop though which mostly went to my birds but they loved it and was 5 bushels of free food for them. This year I will make time if I have to pick em at 2 am.
Busy busy busy for everyone it seems but more than eager to hop on here and ramble too much.

Good luck on your coop and hope you make it to a place you can expand your flock soon.

 

[DEBUS CHICKS]

5 acre- thank you. I was thinking I would get some pallets and we what I can come up with.

We made something like this for our first 3 hens, and now we use it for introduction when we add to the flock. You can move them around to new green grass, and works great in urban areas. We used plywood for the sides, and our run was longer.

 

[alldembirds]

Hello. My girls and I just moved here to Grandview MO. Unfortunately I had to leave my 6 girls in Las Vegas. I know I can only have two chickens here but I need a coop first. Does anyone have a chicken coop that will fit two hens for a reasonable price?

We are just renting right now. I can't wait to buy my own place and have a larger flock.

Thanks you,
Ricki

Have you searched a website called landsofmissouri.com for land? I found 15 acres for a little over 13k owner financed on there . If you watch regularly you can find some great deals. I am always looking for more land to buy near me, i just found 27 acres for 32K down the road from me, it even has a stream running across one of the corners.