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[dirtsaver]

Looks like Eva and me are heading to the state fair Sunday morning. We'll just be there a couple of hours to take in the poultry and stock exhibits and some of the garden/field crop displays. Might hang around for the rooster crow. Anyone else going to be there then?

Larry

 

[Whimsy]

HI ! Just dropping you all a note to say I am from Etown and am addicted to chickens. Do any of you know the cure?? I have 2 BO, 2 BPR 1 RIR 2 Duccle, 1 cochin Bantam and 2 light Brahmas. The scarey thing is Friday I get 15 more chicks...standard Cochins and Brahma. I know I am not keeping them all but chicken math got me

 

[spydertoys]

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Chickens are addicting..it's just a fact of life.
There is no known cure at this time..lol.!!

Welcome!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Hmmm...well my solution was to get different species of bird, thinking that maybe then I wouldn't have so many....that didn't work

Now instead of 'just' having about 100 chickens, I have about 15 guineas, 13 ducks, 10 geese, 4 turkeys, 20-some button quail, and 50-some coturnix quail....plus I have at least 150 chickens, not 100

So if you figure it out, please let us know

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[Whimsy]

I started with an assorted mix at TSC and what ever that place is on Radcliff. SLW, PBR, BO, Reds, and Bantams. Then my co-partner in crime

got sex links and EE. The EE turned out to be brown leghorns!! Sorry, they are awful flighty chickens, mine and the SLW and one BO were sold, they too had issues. Now I know what breeds I really want so I guess it is making the coop larger. I want Brahma, cochins and Barnevelders with maybe a Jersey Giant thrown in!! Yep like those big breeds.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I usually go to swaps and come home with less, but this last swap found me bringing 13 chickens and 3 more ducks home, to go along with the 3 I'd brought home the week before. My excuse is that these are more birds of the breeds that I want, the only problem is I have too many breeds!

 

[JCoogle]

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I usually go to swaps and come home with less, but this last swap found me bringing 13 chickens and 3 more ducks home, to go along with the 3 I'd brought home the week before. My excuse is that these are more birds of the breeds that I want, the only problem is I have too many breeds!

I know what you mean about too many breeds. I am trying to thin everything down and focus on our Silkies, Orpingtons, and soon Sizzles. The last swap I ended up selling most of our Barred Rocks, Golden Comets, Production Reds and a few more mutts.

 

[dirtsaver]

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I usually go to swaps and come home with less, but this last swap found me bringing 13 chickens and 3 more ducks home, to go along with the 3 I'd brought home the week before. My excuse is that these are more birds of the breeds that I want, the only problem is I have too many breeds!

I know what you mean about too many breeds. I am trying to thin everything down and focus on our Silkies, Orpingtons, and soon Sizzles. The last swap I ended up selling most of our Barred Rocks, Golden Comets, Production Reds and a few more mutts.

Can you really have too many breeds? I guess if you're showing or selling show quality birds and hatching eggs you could...for someone like us the variety in the flock is nice. In addition to our Buff Orpington girls(only two now,we lost one of our favorites yesterday and rehomed a roo)the Astralorps and two Silver Laced Wyandottes we still want some other colors of Orpingtons and a few Welsummers. That should make a neat patchwork of color in the yard.

Larry

 

[emvickrey]

I'm needing an Americauna roo. I may have to buy some eggs and hatch one out myself. I've never been rooster poor. I took an old roo to the auction and realized it was a mistake till I found the roo I was wanting. He was a good roo and easy on the girls too. They liked him. He just wasn't an Americauna and he was so big. Too big for my girls. I was afraid they where going to get broken.

 

[JCoogle]

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I know what you mean about too many breeds. I am trying to thin everything down and focus on our Silkies, Orpingtons, and soon Sizzles. The last swap I ended up selling most of our Barred Rocks, Golden Comets, Production Reds and a few more mutts.

Can you really have too many breeds? I guess if you're showing or selling show quality birds and hatching eggs you could...for someone like us the variety in the flock is nice. In addition to our Buff Orpington girls(only two now,we lost one of our favorites yesterday and rehomed a roo)the Astralorps and two Silver Laced Wyandottes we still want some other colors of Orpingtons and a few Welsummers. That should make a neat patchwork of color in the yard.

Larry

If i was just raising them to have the fresh eggs and to watch I would have one heck of a mix. But like you said if you are raising to sell or show to many breeds or colors can get to be a pain. There are so many breeds out there that I would love to have a couple of but I just do not have the room at the moment, plus my DW would kill me.