Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

I am new to the forum, will try to spice up, and beautify my profile at a later date. But for now I am looking for chicks somewhere in eastern Kansas, preferably within 40 miles of Ottawa. The breeds i am interested in are listed below. If anyone has chicks in any of these breeds for sale, please give me a yell.

Orpingtons
Marans
Delaware
Austalorps
Partridge Rocks
Sussex
Wyandotts

I currently have orpingtons: lemon Cuckoo and lavender and maybe a few exhibition orps. I also have Marans and sussex but don't have them separated to produce pure breed chicks at this time. I could separate a trio of them (one breed or another and do a custom hatch but it would be about 4 weeks before I could have them for you.

 

[ivyrash]

So what do you guys do with your young roosters? I don't have a problem with butchering them but it's a lot of work and not much meat on a lot of the birds I mess with. I would probably be willing to give them to someone for butchering as long as they were treated humanely.

It is raining up here this morning and I am very glad to have it. Later today will be a different story when it is 95 and steamy, yuck!

 

[Polishpal]

Gosh guineas grow so fast!

 

[chicken danz]

ivyrash, put an add on craigslist for free to two to three dollars each as butcher birds. They will sell.

 

[ivyrash]

I didn't figure they would sell. I have had a few people say they would take some but I am pretty sure they didn't want them for eating so I figured I would keep them for a while.

Don't most people butcher between 2 and 3 months old?

 

[chicken danz]

It depends on the breed. If they are cornish cross, yes. If they are most other birds they would need to be older.

 

[HEChicken]

I didn't figure they would sell. I have had a few people say they would take some but I am pretty sure they didn't want them for eating so I figured I would keep them for a while.

Don't most people butcher between 2 and 3 months old?

When I lived in the city, I used to butcher the first time they crowed, since I wasn't able to keep roosters then. Most times that was around 17 weeks of age. Now that I can have them, I let them grow out as big as they're going to get - or until their presence is causing stress in the coop. When they hit puberty and start trying to mate the hens, sometimes the head cock bird is fine with that and sometimes not. If not, and it was a bird I wasn't going to keep for breeding, that is a good time to process. In the event, usually they are around 5-6 months old by the time I can't put it off any longer, and by then they are a decent size.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Sounds like there are a lot of broodies out there lately. I have 4 all together and made sure each only had 2 eggs,, I did pack away the incubator. One of them hatched out 2 beautiful babies last night

The others are only days apart so I should have open nests soon, and hopefully they do not fill back up with broodies.
I have heard a lot of people having issues with sickness and everytime I hear a sneeze or cough or someone looks a tad bit drowsy I am watching them like a hawk. Ugh! But luckily everyone is well and doing fine.I have new poults that I am excited about. A blue slate and 2 black Spanish. They are growing fast and becoming friends with the older poult.

 

[Frizzled Pink]

I am new to the forum, will try to spice up, and beautify my profile at a later date. But for now I am looking for chicks somewhere in eastern Kansas, preferably within 40 miles of Ottawa. The breeds i am interested in are listed below. If anyone has chicks in any of these breeds for sale, please give me a yell.

Orpingtons
Marans
Delaware
Austalorps
Partridge Rocks
Sussex
Wyandotts

What variety/color are you looking for? Also what ages--juvie pairs or straight run day old chicks? i agree Danz is probably going to be your best one stop shopping for your area

 

[chicken danz]

It is a hot one out there. Looks like people northwest of here got a lot of rain.
I've been your basic lazy person today. Just moving about my feeding and such at a slow pace. I had incubator catch up to do. Candled and moved some eggs.
When I went to the Bourbon Red Turkey pen the hen was out of the box for the first time in weeks. She has a little poult with her. I had taken one from her a few days ago cause she wasn't mothering it. So she had left her eggs and I watched. She didn't go back to them. There was well over a dozen eggs in there and when I candled them, all of them were fertile except one. And they were at all stages of development. Some I would expect to hatch in the next day or two. Some were just getting started. So they went in the incubator. No sense leaving them there to die. I also found another poult in the pen that had died and a second one that was stuck in the egg and hadn't completed hatching. So much for just letting nature happen. I left the one poult with her that seemed to be doing okay.
It seems like all I've managed to do all day is water and water again. The birds are really going through it in this heat.
I'm also pumping out the duck pond again. It sure gets green fast with all those mandarins in there.