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[ItsAZOO32]

K I'm on day 2 of my second hatch and already planning my next!! Hubby wants some polish chicks and I want some blue eggs!! I don't care about the breed I just want something that will lay pretty blue eggs for me

anyone here locally that has fertile Polish or Blue/teal eggs?? I won't be ready for 3+ weeks but it's getting hot and I'd be afraid to ship. Thanks!!

 

[carolsaucier]

He/she is so cute wsish I had a place separate from older girls to take her home. I'm still looking to replace 3-4 more 10 month old hens. It took a couple of days but the girls from Shellie seem to have fit in well. Now for everyone to settle back down and start laying again.

My Liza is doing so much better, not limping as much and trying to keep up with the flock when they have their out of the pen playtime. So fun watchin g her trying to run with others, she flaps her wings and lifts hurt leg and sorta fly runs.

When you hatch in the fall, I hope to have a place for little ones and would love to get one or two of your colored (blue or green or brown) egg layers

 

[melloladies]

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OMG- you are a mess! It sounds like Art is getting more and more invested though!!!

 

[ontheairship]

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We are still in the planning stages of chicken keeping. It's been tough getting into a home with all the investors snatching up homes in our area. A privacy fence is a must for us as we have small dogs that jump high so we need a tall fence with no gaps. So regardless of what house we end up buying it will have to have a fence. Our roommate's dogs are good with chickens because her family has a farm in Titusville that they visit regularly, but our two dogs have never seen a chicken so I don't think the girls will be roaming free on a regular basis. We will also be starting a backyard garden so we plan to build a larger tool shed/coop hybrid to help with camouflage. From asking around and the advice we've gotten I think we might want a Delaware, a Rhode Island Red, and a Barred Rock. We don't plan to eat the hens, we only want them for egg laying, and those seem to be very friendly, tolerant of weather changes, and good egg layers. Ironically of the 3 of us, two don't like eggs [funny I know] but we use a whole bunch of them for baking and cooking. Like I said we're still at the drawing board and open to any and all suggestions and advice, including different chicken breeds. Thanks in advance, and if anyone lives closer to our area and has chickens let me know how it's been for you.

 

[carolsaucier]

We are in Palm Bay and we love our RIR girls and their eggs are the best, dark and rich. Check out the Space Coast section of BYC we occasionally post there. So far it has been and very nice, caring group who I definitely would like to know better.

When fencing your chicken area, be sure that you bury some of the fencing as your hens will scratch and dig out if no deterant. Hope you enjoy your chickens as much as we do.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Carol, so glad the girls settled in, hope everyone gets back on a laying schedule soon for you. I have molting RiR hen, one broody here now lol. We have decided to clean house more of brown layers, the Orpingtons are great hens, but lay brown so I wont be adding more of them. The little hens are being placed as well to make room for more colr egg layers.


Currently have 11 EE eggs from a BYC'r who has a beautiful flock of hens covered by an Arucana roo set to hatch next week. Another collection of EE\\Arucana eggs coming in to hatch, and a slew of call duk eggs sitting on the counter waiting to go in as well. Oh and around 60 quail due to come the end of April.

Started the first perm flight pen last weekend which is 12x12, it will have 2 more attached to it, one 12x12 running east to west (current one runs north to south) with a rounded front pen connecting the two. The hens are getting a new pen as well that will cover where they ar now plus wrap around the side of our coop giving them an extra 12x12 space ontop of the 12x4(16) they have now. Then we have to build the quail pen across the yard since they cant live along side the chickens and DH says he wants it similar to the others so 6' tall 4x4 posts with the pen being 14'x 5'(6') when done.


Come fall we will house silver wood ducks, mandarin ducks, call ducks in various colors, rouen ducks, plus our laying flock of hens and flight pen of quail.


I will be on the hunt for pine bows for the silver wood duck and mandarin pens as they like the ability to hide. Maybe cedar as it doesn't hurt them.

 

[Komaki]

Is it too late to get in? We are in the Pensacola..ish area. Mc David to be exact.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

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The more the merrier!

 

[ItsAZOO32]

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Do you or WILL you have any BLUE layers??? I would REALLY REALLY love to add just one blue laying hen to my flock. I would be happy to trade.

I currently have a few Blue Wheaten Maran eggs in the bator. Those have the pretty chocolate look ..

 

[carolsaucier]

Jessica, all I can say is I wish. Would love to have blue eggs