New to the group & area... We are in Golconda, IL. Anyone nearby offering fertile eggs?
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New to the group & area... We are in Golconda, IL. Anyone nearby offering fertile eggs?
New to the group & area... We are in Golconda, IL. Anyone nearby offering fertile eggs?
Such a cute picture in front of the tree! I will have to do that next year with the grandkids.
Book review/recommendation-
After reading only the introduction, "Why Did The Chicken Cross The World", by Andrew Lawler, promises to be a good read! I imagine I will stay up late tonight to read the rest of it...
Merry Christmas Illinois chicken keepers!
Congrats! I love my rooster....they add a completely different dynamic to the flock.Well... We have a rooster, a cockerel I suppose.
Her name was Juniper... We have renamed him Martini, sorta goes with gin... juniper berries... Hoping he stays sweet and gentle and doesn't get renamed Pot Pie.
New to the group & area... We are in Golconda, IL. Anyone nearby offering fertile eggs?
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Oh NO!! They were lovely and I thought, after seeing yours, "I need to try that!" I'm sorry you lost the eggs from your "past" hens that can not be replaced but hopefully the rest of the flock will contribute to the new set!
I am new to the group. I live in Olney in southeastern part of the state.
WELCOME, DAVE3!!
It's an egg-citing time over here today!
After a molt & break, Princess Lay-a made her 1st egg this morning. Darth Layer just stared making pullet eggs last week, & Cookie (our only bantam & nick-named our "Bantam Menace") came back to laying on Christmas. All three laid an egg this morning! After two months of getting less than 1/2 dozen eggs per week, we get 3 eggs in one day! The egg force is strong today!
My pullets have started to lay also!! It is nice to find more than one a day!! Hooray for lengthening of days!!
Rooster question for my Illinois friends...
A buddy of mine adopted 3 pullets to add to his neighbors 3 hen flock. They wanted more eggs and he helps with feed and maintenance. Very handy and hard working guy. One of them "turned out to be a dude"!
He's an Americana... Probably from the same group that 2 of my 3 pullets came from.
I'm wondering how the addition of a roo will affect my flock. Two are molting. Two or 4 of 8 are laying. What happens when you add a rooster to a mixed flock that are still getting to know each other?
He is coming over for a visit shortly... !
I'll take several trips a year to the Mt. Vernon area, can deliver Cornish eggs for hatching that far.New to the group & area... We are in Golconda, IL. Anyone nearby offering fertile eggs?