Chantecler Thread!

[hellbender]

You've got some nice yellow legs on those boys Ron!

Thank you...they have very nice yellow skin too and are delicious. I butchered the cull cockerels and a few that really could have been used in a breeding program but I don't know anyone in my state who has (or wants) Chanteclers and the one forum the state has to sell poultry and other livestock stopped advertising chickens when the AF problem arose elsewhere. Perhaps they will lift their ban by next year and I might have fewer to eat...

 

[RiddleMe]

Lol I just butchered 15 birds yesterday, mostly Chanteclers and Chanti cross cockerels. Nice big birds, I like when you pick them up and immediately think "now that's a bird worth eating!"

 

[bruceha2000]

Of course I'm not in your state but I expect to hatch out several chicks from 4 of my 10 pullets in the Spring of 2016. I can sex them at 3 to 5 days of age and would gladly work with you if you haven't found some you like closer.

How are you sexing at 3-5 days? Are they "feather sexable"? If so the guy I was dealing with certainly could have given me birds long before they were housed in the non predator proof pen. And, given there is an ABSOLUTELY no roosters policy, and a no eating the chickens policy here, how accurate are you at 3-5 days?

IIRC you are WAY south, much too far to pick up chicks and at 3-5 they are past the "easy shipping" age.

We need the "chicken express" delivery service!

 

[hellbender]

How are you sexing at 3-5 days? Are they "feather sexable"? If so the guy I was dealing with certainly could have given me birds long before they were housed in the non predator proof pen. And, given there is an ABSOLUTELY no roosters policy, and a no eating the chickens policy here, how accurate are you at 3-5 days?

IIRC you are WAY south, much too far to pick up chicks and at 3-5 they are past the "easy shipping" age.

We need the "chicken express" delivery service!

They can be feather sexes...likely at or 2 days. I got mine at three days of age and I only had two of 25 incorrectly sexed. I had 13 cockerels and 12 pullets. I'm glad I was wrong...or I would have had 15 cockerels.

My daughter will be exhibiting dogs Vermont and Eastern Canada over the summer...prospects?

 

[bruceha2000]

They can be feather sexes...likely at or 2 days. I got mine at three days of age and I only had two of 25 incorrectly sexed. I had 13 cockerels and 12 pullets. I'm glad I was wrong...or I would have had 15 cockerels.

My daughter will be exhibiting dogs Vermont and Eastern Canada over the summer...prospects?

Oh, could be!!! Especially since she is coming to Vermont. I could meet her wherever she lands.

Dare I ask what sort of dogs?

 

[hellbender]

Oh, could be!!! Especially since she is coming to Vermont. I could meet her wherever she lands.

Dare I ask what sort of dogs?

Working breeds, hounds and terriers. She is a professional handler, taking client's dogs to venues or meeting them there with their dogs. She is working toward all-breed.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

 

[bruceha2000]

Working breeds, hounds and terriers. She is a professional handler, taking client's dogs to venues or meeting them there with their dogs. She is working toward all-breed.

Must be rich folk if they pay someone to drive their dogs while they fly!

With regard to your White Chanteclers, I apologize for not having paid enough attention in the past but:
Are you breeding for show or production? I don't have an interest in showing birds, just having some that will lay well, lay in the winter and don't think they should sit on plastic eggs or in empty nests so they can "hatch" ... nothing.

Both of my Partridge Chanteclers (from Ideal) were broody as all get out. One was a phenomenal layer ... when she wasn't broody. She laid really well her first 2 winters, slacked the 3rd. But then all of the girls did well the first winter. Only 1 of the 2 Black Australorps has been good in the winter (*). She didn't have her first moult until late January 2014 when she was 19ish months old. Kicked back in gear the end of March. Last year she moulted in mid October, started laying again in early January. She is moulting now, started a week ago. So I guess she will start laying again around early February. The other girls have historically restarted in late February/early March but they knock off in October. Good thing my June pullets are starting to work!

* or, in reality good all around, the other is broody but she did a fine job of raising the June chicks from Meyer.

 

[Folly's place]

Happy Thanksgiving! Tonight I finally weighed my Chanty cockrel, hatched early April; he's Walter's hatchmate, and weighs eight pounds. I have never figured out what 'cockrel' means in the standard; how many months old? Anyone? Mary

 

[hellbender]

Happy Thanksgiving! Tonight I finally weighed my Chanty cockrel, hatched early April; he's Walter's hatchmate, and weighs eight pounds. I have never figured out what 'cockrel' means in the standard; how many months old? Anyone? Mary

From hatch to age 1 year.