Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

[Celie]

i can see them kids as teens on jerry springer. the episode called " my mom raised me as a chicken "

 

[Celie]

Well folks, it's going on 2am here and this old girl has the grandkids and their friends comming for 9 so it off to bed to get my beauty sleep! Goodnight all !

 

[bruceh]

yep it's true bee. i gave a chicken or 2 away from the last batch of cornish x. now i sold 16 from this batch of 32. right now i can't sell many eggs i need them. i have 3 free loaders of the human species living here plus 2 dogs and 2 cats. which all eat eggs. the human free loaders go through about 6 eggs a day. the other species about 2 a day. so with the slow down of eggs i don't have many to spare. when i sold eggs they were 2.00 a dozen. my chicken goes for 1.50 per pound if you buy 3 any less it's 2.00 per pound.
once the clientele picks up the prices go to 2.50 a dz and 2.50 per pound for chicken.

 

[Leahs Mom]

yep it's true bee. i gave a chicken or 2 away from the last batch of cornish x. now i sold 16 from this batch of 32. right now i can't sell many eggs i need them. i have 3 free loaders of the human species living here plus 2 dogs and 2 cats. which all eat eggs. the human free loaders go through about 6 eggs a day. the other species about 2 a day. so with the slow down of eggs i don't have many to spare. when i sold eggs they were 2.00 a dozen. my chicken goes for 1.50 per pound if you buy 3 any less it's 2.00 per pound.
once the clientele picks up the prices go to 2.50 a dz and 2.50 per pound for chicken.

Wish I lived in your area...I'd buy your chicken for sure at that price!

 

[Briezeechicks]

Yep..exploded chicken time in my coop as well.

We are seeing lots of feathers in our coops in the last week or so. I thought they were either too young, or had already molted. I never dreamed it would all happen at once! They are sure looking sad, compared to when they first came! I'm glad to know this is a natural state that they will get over, soon, and not my horrible chicken keeping practices. A load off my mind!

Brie

 

[unkadan]

Alot of you may not know it but the Federal Gov't has a program that pay's you not to plant corn, their effort to keep prices propped up. They offered it to me and I don't even plant corn as I am still on a 5 yr CRP rotation. So your president is artificialy keeping prices high for corn and ethynol in support of the greener energy initiative.

fact check, Al I will read and appreciate your advice on chickens but this statement is completely wrong.

Currently subsidies are paid to the "corporate farmers" to plant corn, soybeans, sunflowers, all sources of bio-fuel. I think we(as a nation) made some poor choices when the ethanol industry wasn't pushed to use sugar cane (example Brazil) but at the time the big farmers in the grain belt needed financial help.

Are you also one that suggests that the drought in the mid west is also the President's fault?

I'm not wanting to get into a political discussion it's certainly not the forum for it, please don't drag poor/bad info here to try and encourage the current trend of"lying being acceptable" as demonstrated daily in this election cycle

for those of you that care to read some good info on this topic here's a few links:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fresh-fruit-hold-the-insulin

http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Ethanol_Biofuel_Pros_and_Cons

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/20...r-subsidies-as-senate-farm-bill-debate-begins

FYI, there is no current farm bill in affect thanks to the "do nothing" House with it's current anti bi-partisan majority

I for one hope we stick with the topic as expressed in the name of this forum so all of us can learn about chickens

Dan
(a small market farmer just trying to make a living in the far north)

 

[normanack]

I come here for information about chickens, not political commentaries, particularly when they are finger-pointing rather than fact-based.
Can we please keep the discussions on subject? Thanks.

 

[galanie]

This Florida. I expect a slow down in eggs from mid Dec to mid Feb. Not in September when it started.

Even so, the slowdown in egg laying is due to shorter days, not cooler weather.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Politics (neo-political topics) often result in heated arguments that gets threads locked for cleanup.

BYC rules strongly discourage political or religious discussions for this reason.

Move on. The ethanol/corn/prices/subsidy issue is hotly debated everywhere. Not here.

Thanks

 

[Kansas Prairie]

Thank you Fred!! FRED is Right!!