French frogs

[Tumbling K]

You needed a little monkey giggle too huh

OMG one of the neighborhood kids brought his big brother over here, askin to buy a turkey!

my extra tom will be gone today, and i dont have to do the deed! I really let myself get too close to the turkeys

i refused to do it for thanksgivin...

Maybe all those summertime free petting zoo days are gna pay off though!

Ill b sure to let ya kno!

we went from monkey giggles, to selling a turkey!!

awesome.

 

[frmboyinthecity]

So not to totally derail the conversation, but if you were to start over completely, what breeds would you get. With a focus on egg production, helping a breed become more popular, and a good duel-purpose breed. Thoughts?

 

[Tumbling K]

I think most on this thread would be all about the Am's.

what I'm currently working on, is having a few pure breeds, RIR's, barred rocks, and either white rocks or white leghorns, so I can continue making sex links, for dual purpose birds.

at some point, I may try my hand at pretty or rare birds, or even pretty eggs.

 

[scflock]

So not to totally derail the conversation, but if you were to start over completely, what breeds would you get. With a focus on egg production, helping a breed become more popular, and a good duel-purpose breed. Thoughts?

Out of all my chickens, I tell people that the best dual purpose breed with the best disposition is the cuckoo marans. Lay a lot, the eggs are huge,roosters are excellent on the table, and the have the best attitude of all my birds

 

[WVduckchick]

I'm only getting eggs or hatching chicks from mine, haven't tried any on the table yet.

 

[frmboyinthecity]

Out of all my chickens, I tell people that the best dual purpose breed with the best disposition is the cuckoo marans. Lay a lot, the eggs are huge,roosters are excellent on the table, and the have the best attitude of all my birds

How is your production. I've heard that they only lay around 3 eggs a week.

 

[scflock]

How is your production. I've heard that they only lay around 3 eggs a week.

5-6/ bird in the spring and summer. I'm still getting 2-3/bird right now. They are just now 2 years old. My other prolific layers are the EEs. I've heard they can be poor layers, so I guess it depends on what mix made them

 

[frmboyinthecity]

5-6/ bird in the spring and summer. I'm still getting 2-3/bird right now. They are just now 2 years old. My other prolific layers are the EEs. I've heard they can be poor layers, so I guess it depends on what mix made them

That makes sense. I guess I am like all of you guys, I have chicken ADD, they all look so cool. Although I haven't been bitten by the bantam or the silkie bugs.

 

[mixedUPturk]

The meat train is just as terrible as the pretty bird one the birds get Bigger and Bigger and Ooooh geese are in high demand!

 

[Tumbling K]

That makes sense. I guess I am like all of you guys, I have chicken ADD, they all look so cool. Although I haven't been bitten by the bantam or the silkie bugs.

I really like the different colored wyandottes. very pretty birds.
I really like some of the mutt mixes that make them super pretty eggs.

but truthfully, I'm much more about function.