Expert chicken enablers needed

[azurbanclucker]

You could see if there's a "neighborhood group" near you in https://nextdoor.com

I'm in one and people post looking for help, and looking for work there. We're out in the boonies, so the one we're in has about a 30-mile radius.

Sounds like your particular neighborhood is decent but in general I would never recommend nextdoor. Most of the neighborhoods are full of the worst kind of nosey karens complaining about trash cans (wheelie bins) left out and people's dogs pooing on their lawns. Even worse, reporting crimes and "criminals" out of xenophobia or outright hate for others. I've been on the internet since usenet days, and I've never seen a more toxic space than nextdoor.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

I don't really know, I just enjoy having animals. I do really like some of the feather patterns


We have recently gotten some rat poison (not harmful to anything else apparently) which will hopefully help


Sadly my ones where not very football shaped which was disappointing


How far are you with reviving them? I just looked it up and they look very pretty

The confusion between the US standard Cochin bantam and UK true bantam Pekin, as well as insertion of Wyandotte etc for new colours has messed many lines up. They’re fantastic little show birds when they meet the standard.

I’m hatching F1s in about 17 days. The hens won’t be golden but the cockerels will have some golden. The next generation will throw golden hens.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

Another reason to get more hens: you need to collect ALL the egg colours (even I’m missing the darker green ones).

 

[azurbanclucker]

Another reason to get more hens: you need to collect ALL the egg colours (even I’m missing the darker green ones).View attachment 4316676View attachment 4316677

One of the BEST reasons!

 

[SpotTheCat]

Another reason to get more hens: you need to collect ALL the egg colours (even I’m missing the darker green ones).View attachment 4316676View attachment 4316677

I do enjoy collecting the eggs (though the current maybe 1 egg has not brought much joy). We only have blue eggs at the moment, different colours would be nice!

 

[azurbanclucker]

I do enjoy collecting the eggs (though the current maybe 1 egg has not brought much joy). We only have blue eggs at the moment, different colours would be nice!

See? More eggs=more joy! So you need more egg producers to increase happiness levels!

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

A picture of my eggs in the incubator, the parents of my lavender eggs, then my own project birds. A mixture of English and French marans.

 

[SpotTheCat]

See? More eggs=more joy! So you need more egg producers to increase happiness levels!

But work comes before the chicken and the egg

I don't even have space for a brooder!

 

[Debbie292d]

Sounds like your particular neighborhood is decent but in general I would never recommend nextdoor. Most of the neighborhoods are full of the worst kind of nosey karens complaining about trash cans (wheelie bins) left out and people's dogs pooing on their lawns. Even worse, reporting crimes and "criminals" out of xenophobia or outright hate for others. I've been on the internet since usenet days, and I've never seen a more toxic space than nextdoor.

They have a Shawano, Let's Talk about it group on Facebook where that stuff lands mostly, so maybe that's why ours that I've seen doesn't have all that garbage in it.

I don't go there, but get about an email a week from there, and it's always been about people needing leaves rakes, snow plowed, and those asking to be hired to do that stuff. When I go there to look, I see the WI DNR posts and some weather, and a few about new businesses or home businesses, people trying to sell their products. It's actually pretty boring, maybe 5 posts per week?

 

[TinyChickin]

Frizzles never fail to inspire me...