CountryGirl1120
In the Brooder
So my adventure with chickens actually started two years ago. I've picked up things here and there along the way and since finding the facebook page decided to join the actual website. I live in NY and am slowly turning my little property into a farm of sorts! I have 22 chickens all together right now, 17 are from this years order, 5 ducks with 6 more on the way because 4 of those ducks are males and they will be going into the freezer at the end of the month. And then I am getting a pair of ducks from a breeder I found either towards the end of this month or towards the middle of August. Chicken/poultry math at its finest. I am also in the works of hopefully doing turkeys, chickens, and pigs next year for food purposes.
And not only that I am hoping to get an incubator at some point and to start hatching eggs of the breeds that are hard to find around me. While I would love to hatch chickens from my own flock sadly I do not have a rooster though I have been thinking of getting one. I will definitely be looking towards hatching duck eggs though since I plan on keeping the male from the pair I'm getting.
And here is the break down of my birds so far-
7 EEs all which range in color
3 Brahmas, 1 light 2 buff
1 Black Copper Marans
5 Red Sex links
3 New Hampshire Reds
1 Silver Laced Wyandotte
1 Speckled Sussex
1 Buff Orpington
5 Khaki Campbells (will never buy straight run ducks from TSC again
)
And shipping out from Metzers on July 18th I have 3 Welsh Harlequin, 1 blue swedish, and 2 of their golden hybrid layers coming.
And then hopefully at the end of this month or mid August I have a pair of Ancona ducks I get to pick up.
I joke I may have a slight addiction as now I want to add a frizzle chicken to the mix along with a couple other breeds I've seen, but I know everyone here wont judge since I'm pretty sure we have all had the same issue.
I look forward to everything I can learn from everyone here and sharing what I have learned by trial and error over the past 2 years. While I cant share too much about ducks since this is my first year with them I can share what I know about chickens!
And not only that I am hoping to get an incubator at some point and to start hatching eggs of the breeds that are hard to find around me. While I would love to hatch chickens from my own flock sadly I do not have a rooster though I have been thinking of getting one. I will definitely be looking towards hatching duck eggs though since I plan on keeping the male from the pair I'm getting.
And here is the break down of my birds so far-
7 EEs all which range in color
3 Brahmas, 1 light 2 buff
1 Black Copper Marans
5 Red Sex links
3 New Hampshire Reds
1 Silver Laced Wyandotte
1 Speckled Sussex
1 Buff Orpington
5 Khaki Campbells (will never buy straight run ducks from TSC again
)And shipping out from Metzers on July 18th I have 3 Welsh Harlequin, 1 blue swedish, and 2 of their golden hybrid layers coming.
And then hopefully at the end of this month or mid August I have a pair of Ancona ducks I get to pick up.
I joke I may have a slight addiction as now I want to add a frizzle chicken to the mix along with a couple other breeds I've seen, but I know everyone here wont judge since I'm pretty sure we have all had the same issue.
I look forward to everything I can learn from everyone here and sharing what I have learned by trial and error over the past 2 years. While I cant share too much about ducks since this is my first year with them I can share what I know about chickens!
