Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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What color of peas does your friend have? The man I trade my buttons to is going to give me some Black Shouldered peachicks as well.

What kind of chicks do you got hatch'in?

~ Aspen

 

[vintage00gypsy]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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What color of peas does your friend have? The man I trade my buttons to is going to give me some Black Shouldered peachicks as well.

What kind of chicks do you got hatch'in?

~ Aspen

I have three barred rocks left - we'll see what happens... I wasn't sure if they were good or not so just left em in there. Most succumbed to high humidity levels and varied temps the first couple weeks of incubation. I hope I get better at this... lol. I have four guinea left in the bator but they didn't have much space in there when I candled last. We lost one the first day of lock down that had already started pipping in the turner but way too early and very weak. upon inspection, I am scared that we will have problems with the others. The humidity is high in there now, so I hope they don't have as dry of membranes as that one did... we will see I guess. uhg.

I am not sure what kind of peacocks he is giving me yet. I don't even know that HE knows. LOL He has a few and all are different and laying, stealing eggs, setting, who knows. He has had very poor hatch rate so he said I may as well give it a shot myself. I will deff post when I get them and, of course, any that pull through (and make it through the incubation of doom bahaha) ... he has a lot of cool birds. I have been offered lots of things lately but I am not set up for wintering much more than 20-30 birds.​

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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What color of peas does your friend have? The man I trade my buttons to is going to give me some Black Shouldered peachicks as well.

What kind of chicks do you got hatch'in?

~ Aspen

I have three barred rocks left - we'll see what happens... I wasn't sure if they were good or not so just left em in there. Most succumbed to high humidity levels and varied temps the first couple weeks of incubation. I hope I get better at this... lol. I have four guinea left in the bator but they didn't have much space in there when I candled last. We lost one the first day of lock down that had already started pipping in the turner but way too early and very weak. upon inspection, I am scared that we will have problems with the others. The humidity is high in there now, so I hope they don't have as dry of membranes as that one did... we will see I guess. uhg.

I am not sure what kind of peacocks he is giving me yet. I don't even know that HE knows. LOL He has a few and all are different and laying, stealing eggs, setting, who knows. He has had very poor hatch rate so he said I may as well give it a shot myself. I will deff post when I get them and, of course, any that pull through (and make it through the incubation of doom bahaha) ... he has a lot of cool birds. I have been offered lots of things lately but I am not set up for wintering much more than 20-30 birds.

Sure hope you have a better hatch rate this time!

If you end up wanting somemore Guinea eggs to hatch, give me a shout I have some available.

I have a friend that has been having coyote problems and might want somemore chickens, I'm going to contact her and see if I can't fix her up with a nice assorted flock. I'll be helping her, and me. I really need to cull down on somemore mutt chickens.

~ Aspen

 

[JohnCT]

Hi, I'm John, I have a problem, I want more chickens, and this time I want to hatch eggs. My wife is just going along with it and I'm not sure if that is good or bad?

AND I did a little looking, we are zoned "FARM" so I don't even have to keep it a secret, I was getting a few hens anyway, but now I can go wild and it's legal.

I'm scared.

I wonder how many birds you can have on a 1/2 acre?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Welcome John!

Welcome to the addiction!

~ Aspen

 

[gryeyes]

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A lot. A whole lot.

10 square feet of outside space, minimum, for each standard chicken. Lessee, an acre is 43,560 square feet, divided by 10, so if you packed 'em in to their own 10 foot square parcels, you could keep 4,356 chickens. Half of that is 2,178 chickens.

Whew! I have just under two-thirds of an acre, so I can still get more chickens!! And more ducks, and geese....

 

[Cass]

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Far more than you can eat the eggs of, that's for sure.

 

[Muggsmagee]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

Pictures as Promised

These are the three Serama chicks I hatched out this past week. The brown one is Bugzy, haven't named the other two yet.
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I snapped these pictures yesterday evening of my 4 IB peachicks chill'in out in the bird bath.
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This is my favorite peahen
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If this face doesn't scare you, I don't know what will!

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A few weeks ago I traded all of my Button Quail (a.k.a Chinese Blue Breasted Quail ) but three for these two White peachicks.
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This is a picture of my very naughty white peachicks, that scared their momma half to death!

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I have to lock up the peachicks earlier than the other chicks because right about 6:30 they try and fly out of the yard. Anyway to make a long story short I had caught the 4 IB's and locked them up and then I started to look for the white peachicks and couldn't find them anywhere! I looked everywhere, but I just couldn't find them. Finally after searching and searching I found them roosting in the Apricot Tree!

~ Aspen

They are great!!!!​

 

[Muggsmagee]

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A lot. A whole lot.

10 square feet of outside space, minimum, for each standard chicken. Lessee, an acre is 43,560 square feet, divided by 10, so if you packed 'em in to their own 10 foot square parcels, you could keep 4,356 chickens. Half of that is 2,178 chickens.

Whew! I have just under two-thirds of an acre, so I can still get more chickens!! And more ducks, and geese....

Heck yes!!!

Great math Linda!!!

 

[Muggsmagee]

How are you all holding up in the heat?