Idaho?

[Daloorashens]

Hey everyone!! Once again, summer is just nutso around here, sheesh!!

Welcome April and anyone else I might have missed

April, those birds look like Easter Egger's to me, too, except the ones in the last pic, kind of hard to see what they look like very well...


Ok, I"m listing on KSL and Craigslist next week some birds... giving all ya'll on these forums first dibs, haha...

I have a Crested Cream Legbar trio for $60 (almost 5 months old)

A Swedish Flower Hen pair for $30 (I have one pullet and 2 cockerels, so you can pick the cockerel, one is crested, one is not) (almost 4 months old)

Some barnyard mix brown-egg laying pullets $8 each or $20 for 3 (about 3 1/2 months old)

2 Easter Egger year old laying hens, they need to go together, $20 for both

some bantam cochin chicks which will be mostly black, $3 each

And an extra Crested Cream Legbar cockerel for $5

I live in the Ammon area... PM me if interested

 

[april79]

Thanks, I'll def check it out.

 

[MeAndTheBoyz]

Hey everyone!! Once again, summer is just nutso around here, sheesh!!

Welcome April and anyone else I might have missed

April, those birds look like Easter Egger's to me, too, except the ones in the last pic, kind of hard to see what they look like very well...


Ok, I"m listing on KSL and Craigslist next week some birds... giving all ya'll on these forums first dibs, haha...

I have a Crested Cream Legbar trio for $60 (almost 5 months old)

A Swedish Flower Hen pair for $30 (I have one pullet and 2 cockerels, so you can pick the cockerel, one is crested, one is not) (almost 4 months old)

Some barnyard mix brown-egg laying pullets $8 each or $20 for 3 (about 3 1/2 months old)

2 Easter Egger year old laying hens, they need to go together, $20 for both

some bantam cochin chicks which will be mostly black, $3 each

And an extra Crested Cream Legbar cockerel for $5

I live in the Ammon area... PM me if interested

tis a VERY good thing i live on the other side of the state! i would grab your CCLs in a heartbeat!! (well, i if I had the space, sigh) If I am ever blessed with acreage, they are on my list of breeds to keep until then, I will simply lay low and hope my neighbors enjoy farm noises as much as I do

 

[MeAndTheBoyz]

looking to re-home a golden campine cockerel. Hatched around May 1st. Anyone in western idaho interested? Have him listed on CL for $5 - willing to negotiate, promised my son we wouldn't eat him - was picked out as a "gift" from Chickenstock

 

[TarMac]

I'm getting concerned, I am certain that I have 2 roosters. 1 is 4 months old and the other is 5 months old and I haven't heard them making any attempts to crow. Is this normal? What age do they start crowning? or does this mean I have two sissy boys???

 

[pawtraitart]

Hi Casa and Pawtraitart, just jumped over to this thread.... been a long time!!! Way too busy!!

Casa...This is a beautiful bird...OMG!!!

Pawtraitart.... those Black Orps I got from you are so awesome!!!

They make the standard production Orps I have look tiny!!! So looking forward to using them with the Chocs and Lavs!!! Your Blue Orps from Chickenstock are really turning out nice too!!!!!!!

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I read your post a while back about this being the slow season for sales!! So glad you posted that. My little hatchery has only been public for 3 weeks now. The first two weeks were great...sold all my 8 week old pullets and even some roos, and bunches of babies, but then business died when Cal Ranch had their Grand Opening and offered super feed sales and brought in more chicks...UGH!!

. As you mentioned, people start buying again in the fall, which I'm so glad to hear... I'll have more older pullets again by then.... was starting to panic. With this being my first year I thought I was going to owe the national debt to the feed store here, if it didn't change. People don't want the babies this late 'cause they're too busy with summer activities.... such a learning experience for me!!!!

The blue orps are from the same line on the female side, so they should be similar to the blacks.

I ran a bird sale today to thin out my pullet pens. Success! I can now empty my bird barn except for my quail. It's partially full of my husband's auto parts and stuff but all that will be cleaned out before Fall so I can make some proper pens in there. Happiness!

I can't believe Cal Ranch brought in chicks again. They have them in the Burley store, too. I'm burned out on chicks. Well....not so much burned out as "tired of my feed bill" LOL. I have one more small group of youngsters and then I'm done until December. I've processed a bunch of my early cockerals the past week which helps. My orps and black tail buff marans are really good foragers but the others, not so much. I'm totally over-run with muscovy ducks, though! I have a hen who is incubating again! That's twice this year. I'm trying to sell my extra one year old muscovy hens before they decide to do the same thing. LOL

Anyway, I'm hoping to be sold out of all my extra birds by the end of August.

 

[Daloorashens]

I'm getting concerned, I am certain that I have 2 roosters. 1 is 4 months old and the other is 5 months old and I haven't heard them making any attempts to crow. Is this normal? What age do they start crowning? or does this mean I have two sissy boys???

My experience with roosters is that they crow when they are ready, it also seems to coincide somewhat with sexual maturity and eagerness to mate, so they are just not ready yet, lol... the bigger breeds seem to mature more slowly than the smaller breeds, I've noticed also.. I have a huge German New Hampshire cockerel that just started crowing, still pretty wimpy, he's 7 months, but he lives right next to my large Blue Copper Marans roo, who crows all the time, so I'm sure he's been intimidated, he's almost as big as that other roo now, a little taller even...

 

[Mamahumecky]

I have disbursed my flock here in GA and my beastly coop. We are packing and leave on the 16th, so in three weeks we will be in Idaho Falls. I will start over with a new smaller flock. Do I need to know anything special for the winter? I'm new to chickens and haven't had mine through a winter yet, heck I didn't even get to see an egg from mine. ANYHOW....any tips would be helpful.

 

[pawtraitart]

I have disbursed my flock here in GA and my beastly coop. We are packing and leave on the 16th, so in three weeks we will be in Idaho Falls. I will start over with a new smaller flock. Do I need to know anything special for the winter? I'm new to chickens and haven't had mine through a winter yet, heck I didn't even get to see an egg from mine. ANYHOW....any tips would be helpful.

Chickens typically do okay with the cold temps as long as they are dry and free from drafts. Oh.....and heated water bowls are nice. Otherwise you have to chuck out the ice several times a day.

 

[pawtraitart]

Currently available: Two black copper marans pullets, one golden cuckoo marans pullet, one pair of bantam cochin (calico/mille fleur), 8 jumbo brown coturnix quail, snowflake bobwhite quail, muscovy duck hens, blue orpington pullets, and I think there might be some assorted blue egg layers left as well.