Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[XxMingirlxX]

The Philippines just banned eggs from Oregon. if they also ban cali, I will not be taking eggs.

My Bresse are now 9 weeks old. in four months I hope i will have a decent amount of offspring to get the numbers up to 40 pullets by November. Half the girls will become a sex link project.

I am going to try and get cream legbars going. They are my holy grail. 

The market is interesting. You can buy point of lay leghorns for under 10 bucks, day old meaties for a dollar. Then there is a guy selling Light brahma breeding pairs for $210. 

My "specialty" birds I am going to only sell as adults. Including legbars, polish and faverolles. I can keep less stock and just sell a few pairs a month at $150. These I have to re-import.It will take a year to establish them

Why have they banned eggs from Oregon, disease? I feel like I have missed something.

There is something quite disappointing yet endearing about the buyers world and I guess about the world in general, we have shown time and again in a contest between efficiency and beauty, beauty always wins. I own a leghorn and she is the best layer I have ever had and also has tons of personality. I used to have a Polish who in her relativity short life - a year and a half old (she met her end with a fox ) she only laid about fifty eggs yet at the time was my favourite. A hen that will lay an egg nearly every day for two years or a hen that will provide a meal in twenty weeks is apparently incomparable to a bird that will do neither yet that bird is worth more. Take for example the elusive Ayam Cemani (is that right?), pure black and beautiful but not to my knowledge proficient at laying or otherwise yet in its first year of import people still paid thousands for it. I find it an interesting topic.

While I blither on, I may or may not be making plans for some Polish, Welsummer, and the elusive CCL, and I totally didn't desperately want an Ayam Cemani when I first saw them (not so much after I saw the price tag) I'm a hypocrite Don't hurt me!

 

[LAChick]

What a simple and easy solution!

 

[ozexpat]

Why have they banned eggs from Oregon, disease? I feel like I have missed something.

There is something quite disappointing yet endearing about the buyers world and I guess about the world in general, we have shown time and again in a contest between efficiency and beauty, beauty always wins. I own a leghorn and she is the best layer I have ever had and also has tons of personality. I used to have a Polish who in her relativity short life - a year and a half old (she met her end with a fox

) she only laid about fifty eggs yet at the time was my favourite. A hen that will lay an egg nearly every day for two years or a hen that will provide a meal in twenty weeks is apparently incomparable to a bird that will do neither yet that bird is worth more. Take for example the elusive Ayam Cemani (is that right?), pure black and beautiful but not to my knowledge proficient at laying or otherwise yet in its first year of import people still paid thousands for it. I find it an interesting topic.

While I blither on, I may or may not be making plans for some Polish, Welsummer, and the elusive CCL, and I totally didn't desperately want an Ayam Cemani when I first saw them (not so much after I saw the price tag) I'm a hypocrite

Don't hurt me!

i have ayam cerami.



but dont tell anybody lol


i have maybe 2 that are total black and 4 that have red tinges in comb. we ate a less than all black roo.

 

[ozexpat]

What a simple and easy solution!

yup - and thanks to bycers

 

[ozexpat]

From what I can see, this story has one of the highest view per post counts on BYC.
WTG OZ!!
Scott

if you excude hatch-along, social and regional threads, its in the top 3 or 4 in posts

not to bad considering we dont veer too far off topic

the views are making us top 2 i think. we will pass sally soon as she slowed down

 

[ozexpat]

i have ayam cerami.



but dont tell anybody lol


i have maybe 2 that are total black and 4 that have red tinges in comb. we ate a less than all black roo.

here is a hen that is a "better black"

if you follow the merkan pattern of just breeding blackest, they are good birds

they are really crossbreds lol.

I need to get them their own coop.

 

[ozexpat]

Today I pulled out the big stick.

Each week Dodong gets paid bonuses on animal sales. He gets good money for doing a good job. The problem is his sweet but airhead wife does not report issues to me in a timely manner. I dont think any losses are attributed to her but there is potential. his bonus is currently running the equivalent of an extra 1.5 days work a week plus the accruals - or almost double his pay.

Starting monday, he will lose the rquivalent of an hour's pay from his front end bonus for each late report she submits.

Its not fair that ther get all rewards and I shoulder risks due to lack of focus.

His accruals are getting real. By this time in 2 years he could have enough for to put a deposit on a small house for his parents and afford to payit off

 

[DaveOmak]

Morning Oz..... still lurking twice a day or so..... As usual, great place to learn all sorts of things about animals and life in general... I need to learn your patience... 4.5 hours trouble shooting a brooder/hatcher.... Awesome... is it time for a color coded schematic... maybe... Great tutorial on weather with the kids... I'm off to your FB page....

 

[XxMingirlxX]

i have ayam cerami. but dont tell anybody lol i have maybe 2 that are total black and 4 that have red tinges in comb. we ate a less than all black roo.

Your secret's safe with me. Beautiful bird, where did you get them; if I'm not mistaken they originate from Indonesia which isn't too far away from the Phillipines, (come on Google and GCSE geography, don't fail me now!)

 

[ozexpat]

Your secret's safe with me.

Beautiful bird, where did you get them; if I'm not mistaken they originate from Indonesia which isn't too far away from the Phillipines, (come on Google and GCSE geography, don't fail me now!)

they sort of just showed up.

i had a couple of naked neck cross ayam cerami that a friend gave me. I did not pay much attention to my mixed coop and suddenly i had chicks hatching that were not naked necks but all black.

the NN disappeared in the hatches.