Colorado

[suncatcher]

Yeah, with my luck, 40 cockerels and 10 pullets LOL

Oh, I hope not!

My luck with SR is TERRIBLE, I bought seven SR many years ago, my first experience with chickens, six were roos!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

LOL you two are so contributing to my delinquency   Going to seriously consider it.  Timing is awful, but the price is so good.  I am trying to imagine what I could end up with.

Timing may not be great NOW but it will start warming up in March so... You just have to get MORE to be absolutely certain everyone stays warm enough. Easy solution.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Oh, I hope not! 

My luck with SR is TERRIBLE, I bought seven SR many years ago, my first experience with chickens, six were roos!  

I always suspect hatcheries of throwing sexed males back into the unsexed chick bin before filling the straight run orders. You never seem to hear about anyone ending up with seven hens out of ten chicks, just visa versa.

 

[suncatcher]

I always suspect hatcheries of throwing sexed males back into the unsexed chick bin before filling the straight run orders. You never seem to hear about anyone ending up with seven hens out of ten chicks, just visa versa.

I think you may be right. My son in law bought ten SR from the feed store, nine roos and ONE hen! They ended up going back and buying ten pullets, and ended up with nine pullets and one roo!

 

[Pozees]

I have almost always ordered pullets only, the price is worth it to me. The chicks on sale are strictly straight run, which for Bantams is almost always the case anyway. I have never ordered from Ideal, anyone care to share their experience with them?

 

[megshenhut]

I have ordered from Ideal a couple of times. I like their birds for hatchery stock. I have OEGB creles from them now. Their birds have done well, better than some other hatcheries. When the creles came I lost a few in shipping and they were good about replacing or refunding. They have always sent packing peanut birds. With the creles I got 10 barred rock cockerals extra. They did fine and made quite a few meals. But if you're getting a special from them and have 25 or more coming, that may not happen. My creles were SR of course. I got 9, 3 cockerals and 6 pullets. You can tell the sex at hatching so I knew that right away. However, I doubt the ratio is always that good on SR.

 

[wsmith]

Well, I looked at my latest pay statement. Looks like I will have to find about $125 in either new income, or cut that amount from my budget per month.

Thank you government. Thanks for the opportunity to pay for more entitlements and silly programs. Thanks for allowing me to let my family scrimp some more in order to pay for uncontrolled spending. Thankyou. Thanks for being honest during the campaign saying I won't pay more taxes because I don't make whatever amount was being thrown out. Thanks to all those Americans who voted for idiots who raise taxes and don't cut spending. Thanks for reminding me that it is people like me who can't spend if we don't have the money avialable, and that you in government apparently know better than me. Thanks again.

And thus ends my rant. Thanks for listening.

Back to chickens. I will have to sit with my chickens for hours to get through this one. Therapy chickens. I wonder if we could get a government grant (using hard earned money taken from other folks like us) to study the concept of therapy chickens.............

OK. I'm sorry.

 

[wsmith]

LOL. I just found out that our Colorado Chickens .com site is now blocked while at work. Too funny.

 

[Mtn Margie]

All hail to the therapy chickens !

Gotta love 'em.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

WEIRD dream last night. I was trying to build a chicken coop out of large pieces of cloth and 5-50 cord. And I had all 3 of my original girls that I kept trying to round up and keep from wandering down the street.

Wendell, I feel you on the the taxes. What really kills me is how much aid we are giving to foreign nations. Billions could be saved right there.