Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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Ooh...post pics so we can see them when you do! I'm not familiar with the speckled genes.

I would get eggs from you if it worked out though.

 

[daisychick]

Yeah I have no idea on the speckled genes. But I love how pretty my SS girls are. They are just starting to lay. They are my favorite out of my layer flock. Wonder if the chicken calculator has speckled in it. Must go look.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Wow that is CUTE!!!!

I would call it cocoa puff.

I am rehoming 8 of my OE chicks today and keeping a few for myself. Keep your fingers crossed that the ones I keep are girly girls!

Went to TSC today for feed and saw the chicks.. A huge pile of Cornish X and two sad little pasty butt possible leghorns (in the 'pullet' bin). One elderly lady was checkign out the cornish X and musing how she could get one for her grandson.. I pointed out that they make you buy 6 AND that Cornish X are probably not what she was looking for.. They did also have duckies!

I am dragging patootie today. At some point I am TSC bound today and I am DREADING it! I have 3 brooders full of gorgeous chicks, and I will have to avoid the chick displays there at all costs. I'm a sucker for baby chicks.

Isn't it funny how we need to educate people when they are picking out chicks? Not all chicks are the same people! I'd feel really badly for that woman's grandson to get a Cornish X.

Do the employees at TSC know they should look for pastey butt?

 

[daisychick]

ughhhh! People soooo need educated! I just had a terrible experience at the feed store. Our feed stores are so old fashioned and ignorant on things. I have been reading on care of goslings and they need niacin for strong legs and feet. Most chick starters don't have the right levels. So you are supposed to add Brewers Yeast to their feed. I simply asked the owner if they carried it and he was all grouchy and gave me the lecture about "Mam the people who make these feeds have been doing it for years and I am sure if it needed to be in there it would be." I tried to explain to him that chick starter in for chickens and not for goslings. He was such a grouchy old fart and rude too! Our stores never carry what I need. So I am just venting. I was also looking for a rabbit hanging feeder for my quail. The feedstore person was like why would you use a rabbit feeder for a bird?? Because idiot I have done my research and it works good for them so they don't kick all of their feed everywhere!!!! Ughhhhh!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Ewww. Set in their ways mentality grates me too! Chandra, check a whole foods/natural foods store. Usually they carry Brewer's yeast (I assume it is not the same Brewer's Yeast you would use for making wine). I hope you find it!

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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I know! Last time I went to the big feed store (the little local one sells no chicks or the oyster shells that I needed) there were 4 tiny Sicilian Buttercup chicks that had SO much poo stuck to their fluffy butts! Poor things!

I was temped to pull the little buggers out of the cage and wipe off their butts with my shirt.

 

[gryeyes]

I have made a break-through in my addiction today. I actually TOOK three of my barely week old hatchlings to my favorite feed store and SOLD 'em to an employee! (The feed store doesn't carry Cochins.) I only sold 'em for a buck, just a token, to see her reaction. I could have sold them for $3.00 apiece, apparently. She offered to show me her home flock, to make sure I knew they were going to a good home, but I trust her. We have talked about my TJs chicks, shown each other photos on our phones of our various favorite chickens, etc.

It was really, really tough, though. I had told her I would bring four, but only four silvers hatched, and the fourth was shrink-wrapped and I rescued it. It's tiny. I couldn't give it away.

It WAS fun to show up at the counter and say, "I have a Cheeper Delivery for Amy." She couldn't keep them with the hatchery chicks, of course, but she had a nice box and a warm place to keep them until she got off work.

So. I have given pullets away to BYCers, and now chicks to another person.

<*wiping brow*>

P.S. - This is a great feed store. I should have taken pictures of the chick cabinets, with the lights, nipple waterers, glass fronts for looking not touching, etc. The employees, manager and owner are very knowledgeable, helpful and sincere people.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I love it!!!

 

[featherz]

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I wish I had a feed store that would take chicks.. That said, I ALSO sold chicks today. I let eight of my month old OE's go to a very nice couple that I referred over here after I found out the last person that sold them chicks sold them all boys and told them they were girls. How rude!

At least I admitted that two of the ones they were getting were boys (the rest have pea combs and could go either way, but the two straight combs were already pinking up).. I kept a couple for myself, but now my brooder has room again - they were getting a little cramped in there..

Planning to start a hatch next saturday. Picking up eggs friday night from another byc'er and planning to throw in some of my mutt eggs.. Plus I may look for either EE or turken eggs if I can get something inexpensive by saturday!

Hatching is so much fun.

 

[gryeyes]

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Actually, the feed store does not take chicks from customers. It only gets them from hatcheries, and this one, from Belt Hatchery in Fresno. I was just lucky enough to strike up conversations with an employee who has black LF cochins in her home flock and REALLY wants a frizzled cochin. (I have two.) Then I told her I was hatching some silvers and golds, and she asked if I would sell her some because she wanted something other than "the standard black" Cochin to add to her flock.

But congrats on your sale! It DOES free up space in the brooder!

I have more eggs in the 'bators too. And other chicks in the brooders....