Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

Gross and why I'm glad I candle my eggs before selling. This was a duck egg, biggest blood spot I've ever seen. The egg glowed pink with the light just shone on it...

 

[Alaskan]

Quote: yep, now that I have white eggs, I LOVE the way they make the rest of my eggs look.

It is pretty amazing how uch better the brown eggs look with a few white eggs next to them.

I've always been partial to brown eggs, the only reason I have whites now is I wanted guaranteed eggs everyday along with the dark brown spotted, green and was hoping for blue, and the brownleghorns have done it. All chickens are cool but if I was to ever go for egg laying ability again I swear by Rhode Island Reds, the egglayingist chickens I've ever had. Lay through winter and they all took turns molting so we always had tons of eggs. Had so many eggs I was feeding them to our dogs, gave them away, threw them away, made me scared to have too many chickens ever again, I don't want to have to sell eggs. 15 RIRs gave us over 400 eggs a month for over two years! We couldn't eat that many eggs!

I wasn't that thrilled with my RIR, the leghorns were just so much more productive.

However... it was the production single comb white Leghorns that put the RIR to shame.... the rose comb brown leghorns don't lay anywhere as well as the RIR or the white single comb production type Leghorns

 

[Alaskan]

oooh! Hen, did you get one of those cool commercial candlers???

 

[Beer can]

yep, now that I have white eggs, I LOVE the way they make the rest of my eggs look.

It is pretty amazing how uch better the brown eggs look with a few white eggs next to them.


I wasn't that thrilled with my RIR, the leghorns were just so much more productive.

However... it was the production single comb white Leghorns that put the RIR to shame.... the rose comb brown leghorns don't lay anywhere as well as the RIR or the white single comb production type Leghorns

I'm sure mine were production reds, coming from a hatchery. There is no leghorn that could have out produced them, unless they are capable of craping out more than a egg a day. I was holding back, I actually think I got a egg a day from every one of them, but I never counted, or egg trapped them so I can't say for sure. They laid for over a year straight before they molted, and then they took turns, after the second year....freezer camp......then you have those hybrid sexlink super egglayers, nope bad luck with them, not impressive after those reds.

 

[Alaskan]

my RIR were production ones from a hatchery.... they just wouldn't lay when it was super cold and dark.... the Leghorns did...


but we might be comparing apples to oranges... I am sure each hatchery has a slightly different strain.

 

[Beer can]

my RIR were production ones from a hatchery.... they just wouldn't lay when it was super cold and dark.... the Leghorns did...


but we might be comparing apples to oranges... I am sure each hatchery has a slightly different strain.

Apples and oranges and I love my brownleghorns. Don't have any whites because, well I just don't have any.

That's what I've said when I complain about those so called super laying sexlink golden comets I bought, maybe it was the strain or line whatever, super disappointment, my RIRs could lay circles around them, and then they started eating eggs! I've said it could be the hatchery they came from might not have had a good cross. I guess it doesn't mean all sexlinks and hybrids are crap, but the ones I had were. Many people have good luck with them.

 

[vehve]

Just mixed up a new batch of chicken feed. I toned down the canola a bit this time, I hope they find it more palatable. I also put the peas through the blender to try and break them into more manageable pieces, I hope that works too. Those two are the main protein raising ingredients in my feed, so it's bad when they don't want to eat them.

 

[Outpost JWB]

Gee, this is what I like. Others experiences introducing different breeds to us. Blue Andulusians! My son got three looney girls. They were cute silly yellow chicks that turned into amazing silly and goofy white eggs layers. They cost 1.99 each at Tractor supply.

We went there for feed.

I was a chick snob.

He got three. They have laid an egg a day even when there was two feet of snow on the ground. They were laying around week 16-20. And they have not stopped. They are free range all the time and lived with the white Phoenix.

They were so cheap and not expensive like my English Orpingtons. They have been well worth the 1.99 price of each!

Ohio has a state law that you have to buy all poultry in groups of 6 or more at hatcheries and feed stores. That is why my chicken math is out of control!!! Wish we could only buy one or 2. Last year when our buff orpington chick died, I wanted to replace her. Had to buy 6 though. I assumed this was a law everywhere, but finding out it's not. I have also seen private sellers implement this rule and say it's the law. I figure they are just trying to unload their birds and don't buy from them.

More rain today

. Under a flash flood watch and heading to work in a county that is under flash flood watch and tornado watch. GREAT........

You all have a good day. I have a long day & lots to do before and after work.

 

[Mahen100]

Hi everyone.

JWB, hope you have an uneventful day, and no storms! I'm thinking of those people in Illinois after the tornados there.

 

[vehve]

Sam, do you mind taking a pic of your chili peppers with a tape measure in the picture, I'd like to do some comparison. Also, what date did you plant again?