Hello hello hello! Jupiter checking in (SE coast). A rare and elusive native Floridian. Retired litigation paralegal. Avid gardener. Photographer. Crafter. Jeeper. And novice backyard chicken farmer. Looking to expand my laying flock, never search through egg cartons for unsmashed crappy white eggs from Publix ever again, and sell eggs to my friends and neighbors. Also would like to try my hand at breeding a few interesting breeds with pretty eggs that others locally may be interestes in adding to their flock as well.
Current flock:
1 black austrolorp hen
3 buff orpington laying pullets
1 lavender orpington laying pullet
1 ameraucana based mutt EE laying pullet
1 white silkie cock
1 lavender orpington cock
1 silkie 2 months old, unknown gender; possibly paint or splash - IDK the difference between the two.
Bought at a local swap meet, told it was a sizzle; it's not a sizzle. Oh well!
Hopefully will be a girlfriend to the male silkie who can't seem to get anywhere with my big boned girls.
(1 EE pullet - RIP Goldilocks - be dammed raccoons!)
Incubators hot with:
+ due 2/13/15
- black copper marans (for eggs)
- OE (my EE pull x Lav orp cock - she's his favorite girl and since the eggs are fertile - let's see what they are!)
+ due 2/15/15
- white leghorn (for eggs, possible breeding with lav orp for cream eggers)
+ due 2/18/15
- welsummer (bantam.... don't ask, I screwed up)
- blue isbars (eggs/breeding/they're pretty to look at)
- salmon faverolles (eggs/breeding/they're pretty to look at)
+ due 2/20/15
- crested cream legbars (eggs/breeding/they're pretty to look at)
next incubating batch will include:
- blue splash wheaten ameraucana (for EE/OE project)
- german bielefelders (eggs/breeding/they're pretty to look at)
April will bring a load of croad langshans chicks for eggs if they are actually plum colored, and breeding purposes. And I'm stealing a cockerel from a local acquaintance to widen the gene pool.
So that's my story. And I'm stickin to it.
Chris "SwampChicks"
