Colorado

[Pozees]

This is my 1000th posting!

You mad poster, you!

 

[pichuris]

Hey everyone,
My shift got changed at work and have little time to be on the computer. Whew thirty pages since i last was here. You all have been busy.

I hate to see people over pay for feed. Google grain elevators or bulk chicken feed. If you can store the minimums that they ask you to purchase go for it. I live an hour from Greeley but its worth the drive. They make/mix what you like... errr what your chickens like lol. They have a nutritionist that you say what you want and they make it. Im sure you coulld find something closer to you if greeley is too far.

Ordering chicks? Im in just dont tell my husband. I just might be moved out to the chicken coop. Im managing four different flocks right now. But i can justify for next spring... hehehe.

Happy chickening!
Rosalie

 

[marlo1968]

contact Millonig,Sarah <[email protected]> or Pabilonia,Kristy <[email protected]> they cover the whole state.

Thank you sir

 

[warbirds]

Doc, any way we could get you to post pics of the chickens you have for sale right now? I have thought about Swedish Flower Hens off and on, and I love Sussex. I know others here may be interested in the Isbars and etc. as well. Do you ever have predator issues with white chickens where you are?

Don't think I'll have the time to go chase down the available kids and get photos with a house full of grandkids for the next few days. There are photos of juveniles and parent birds on the site, however. I haven't finished the Isbar page yet..............hopefully in the next couple of weeks.
I don't have predator issues here (knocking on wood real hard and loud!!!). All of my livestock are protected by some very serious LGD's. They don't tolerate a creature out of place, including critters that fly over. Each and every bird is in a pen with a wire cover, so the flying predators don't have a chance at a snack.

Lemme see if I can get a couple of Isbar photos to load.................
This is one of the many breeding parent groups



These are some juvenile Isbars


These are some fresh hatchling Isbars



Hope this worked right!!!

 

[wsmith]

Sharon ( gardendufus) and one of the kids' friends came over this morning, along with my bro dave and my 4 kids, and we processed the 12 remaining roosters; 4 Doms and 8 EEs. what a difference 2 weeks made. The breasts were all nearly twice as big as the ones we processed two weeks ago!

 

[wsmith]

I am unfamiliar with Isbars........

 

[wsmith]

So Beth gave me permission to hatch out a batch of Domineggers next spring. Only one batch though.

 

[Pozees]

I am unfamiliar with Isbars........

I found this description online (Credit Buck n Run Ranch):

In the 1950′s and 1960′s Martin Silverudd, a Catholic Monk in Sweden, toyed with chicken genetics to create a number of new breeds. One of those breeds was the Isbar (pronounced “Ice Bar”). The Isbars were cold hardy, great for free ranging, beautiful, and somewhat auto-sexing. The hens produced 150 to 200 moss green eggs per year, which can be solid in color or spotted. The Isbar is the only green-egg-laying single combed chicken breed in the world today.

More, with pictures, at http://www.bucknrunranch.com/blue-isbar-2/

Very pretty birds. Guess another one to put on my wish list

 

[Pozees]

So Beth gave me permission to hatch out a batch of Domineggers next spring. Only one batch though.

I cannot WAIT to see what you get!

 

[wsmith]

I cannot WAIT to see what you get!

I'm thinking funky looking easter egger looking birds that have cuckoo barring. I think.....

The barring pattern seems to be dominant. Don't know about the sex link gene or the comb, We will probably keep one or two for egg production, the rest will be sold or butchered.