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

[Beekissed]

Bad Ovulator, Big Overeater, Blonde & Overeager, Bustin' Out....all appropriate for the BO as well.

Pardon me, DragonLady, I just couldn't help myself.

I know it means Best Option at your coops.

 

[HiddenChicken]

you are giving NU Stock a whole new meaning!

Thank God I have some NuStock on order!!

 

[NanaKat]

Now more than ever I want Bee's recipe for home made Nu.stock

No, really how do you make it with the sulphur?

 

[bruceh]

if you want to know the web address for offspring would be . here it is http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator. it has english. just plug in the hen and rooster color and bingo.

 

[Mountain Momma]

Bad Ovulator, Big Overeater, Blonde & Overeager, Bustin' Out....all appropriate for the BO as well.

Pardon me, DragonLady, I just couldn't help myself.

I know it means Best Option at your coops.

I thought it meant buff orpington. All this time I thought everyone thought buff orpingtons were the best option for their coop! Ive been looking at breeders of them and everything.

 

[Mountain Momma]

Oh Fred, it's easy.

First, choose the male and female colors. It's easiest to go to the little colored comic-book-style pictures, or more technically, a "basic representation of the phenotype." Disregard the fact that very few of the colors look like actual chickens.


I chose the black patterned silver transverse pencilled daddy and the black patterned silver duckwing momma comic-book chickens and got these results:

ERe+ co+co+ Dbdb+ Pgpg+ ml+ml+ Cha+Cha+ mh+mh+ di+di+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ i+i+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+b+ SS Choc+Choc+
Gender = Male, Ratio = 1/2 = 50%, minimum of animals to breed: 2
black patterned silver incomplete transverse pencilled

ERe+ co+co+ Dbdb+ Pgpg+ ml+ml+ Cha+Cha+ mh+mh+ di+di+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ i+i+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+- S- Choc+-
Gender = Female, Ratio = 1/2 = 50%, minimum of animals to breed: 2
black patterned silver incomplete transverse pencilled

I disagreed with the Dbdb+ but other than that was in agreement with the results.

Easy-peasy!

(Full disclosure: I chose two pretty colored comic-book chickens, clicked Calculate, and ran screaming from the room.)

You just scared the pizza out of me! Holloween is over put all your scary stuff in the garage until next year!

On another note: Some friends came over (hubbys are hunting so chickeners are out of the coop!) This week, no lie, my friend's 2 year old was in the coop with her and the chickens and the chicken came over at him and pecked his eye. So it just goes to show that the OT are right. Get a chicken close to your face and get your eye pecked out! He is fine, he did call her (the chicken)a stupid chciken and is on antibiotics to make sure....I laughed pretty hard when she told me though.
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[Pozees]

I think it is the home made nu stock she just mixed, along with some free range roots she found in the woods.....If you do wake up to Brad Pitt I'm definitely gonna try some on mine. I'm hoping for George Clooney and a clean house!

I'd be happy with just the clean house LOL

 

[Pozees]

Well here it is Friday and I just cannot decide which of these roos need to go to soup pot, so here they are none showing aggression the game/bantam is pretty cocky but typical of the breed, the 2 cochin bantams don't even crow and hang out mostly with my 2 little bantam girls, Henry likes them all, the only hen off limits is Lydia, our oldest game hen no one can touch her but Rufus. None are going to give me meaty birds they are just too small being bantams. I can only keep one.

I guess I would refer back to a recent discussion about rooster selection and plug in your own needs. Do you need a roo that keeps close watch over the girls? If yes, which have you observed doing so? Is there one that feathered faster, eats less, is simply more robustly healthy? Are you keeping one so you can have eggs to hatch? Do you know for sure there are no fertility issues? Are they both gentlemanly with the ladies? Do the ladies like one more than another?

The style of a game cock is about as opposite a cochin as I can imagine, so if they both seem equal in all aspects, you will have to pick based on the direction you want to go. I am no judge of chicken flesh, so I can't look at your pictures and tell you what the best roo is from a SOP perspective. Any moment now, Fred, Bee, Bruce, Al, or one of the many others with loads more eye than me will have recommendations.

I guess the worst that can happen is you aren't happy with the one you keep, and start with a new roo in the spring. I still see people offering free roosters near me.

 

[thedragonlady]

Not only did Nu stock and ff transform her folk but look what it did for her coop. Just rub a little on the outside wood.

Must have put too much on the roos ! They all had chicks!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I finally found some NuStock locally yesterday... Might try some on the hubby, if I've got half the luck of Bee, I'll wake up to Brad Pitt tomorrow morning!