"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[AprilsFrizzles]

Thanks. That looks like good feed.

You're welcome! I hope you can find something that they like!

 

[catdaddyfro]

Gotcha'

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In my neck of the woods, no one really cares about if a bird is a champion. Most of my customers are the old timers who could give a frog's rump about coloring, blood line, genetics, etc. They like the Barred Rocks, Doms, RIR, NHPs and Buffs. They want poultry that they can eat and not eye candy. One older guy that I talked to told me that a lady tried to sell him some "Movie Star Chickens" as he called it and he told her where to shove those "show" chickens because he could have cared less. So, I have to cater to the old timers. I would go broke if I had "Movie Star Chickens".

No one wants them. And for those hens that lay the different colored eggs (blue, pink, green, etc.), I would not sell one single egg if my chickens laid the multi-colored eggs. My customers only want brown eggs.

Go figure.

Yeah I don't consider those Show-girl silkies much of a chicken either in my book, even if they are bred from one of the worlds oldest breeds of chickens around.

I know a little bit of their heritage and background though, and for those folks that like such: "go ahead on" I say.

I know they make for excellent broodies and mama chickens, might be a good investment for incubation purposes, they're almost fail-safe as they aren't man-made or human controlled.


Yeah I have the same ignorant bumkins here too that wouldn't know if a chicken egg came from a hens @$$ or a hole in their head. So I can really relate as they say: "ignorance is bliss" and that fits a lot of catagories in life. It all depends what you know and where you learned it, I reckon. I try to take a little sample of all kinds of different things in life, way outside the realms of the same ol same thing and what the worked for Grampaw is not always the best thing to go by. My Grampaw was raised up a long time ago and he even said so himself, to me: " son the good ol days weren't so great"!


But all in all life's good and it takes all kinds to make the world go around, as it'd be a really boring place if we were all programed as the same robots doing everthing the same as the other. I'd surely figure out how to short circuit someway for the better or worse if that was the case.

I'll have to make it a point to post up on here more often, with pictures of more of the real chickens instead of the regular ones as everybody knows what those look like, evidently. Then there will be more information and stuff put out there to compare others to as some may benefit by learning something new, others, not so much as "It just don't matter" I hear that a lot too 'round these parts HUM

imagine that, as IQs are probly averages of their shoe and hat sizes combined(maybe)

Like you say they just want something to EAT and its fat-@$$ chickens and brown eggs. That's all that matters, nothing differen,t no siree, their great gandparents may roll over in their graves from such.

Not much spice in their life if you ask me

Jeff

 

[kuntrygirl]

No, it's just I have so many animals and I needed a one stop shop and they didn't have everything that I needed. I didn't want to have to go to 5 different stores to buy the feed I needed for my animals. TSC WAS the store where I could get just about everything that I needed but TOO many problems with the Tractor Supply in Opelousas, with one problem being MOLDED feed. So, I am switching to buying my feed at Petrus. Although it is an hour away, it will be worth the drive. They make their own feed, so I know it will be fresh and the ingredients healthy for all of my animals. I can get a feed that ALL of my animals can eat as well. TSC and the other stores didn't have an "All Stock". It was either this feed or this feed.

Oh I see. At least you found a store that has everything you need and you know it's a good quality. I'd say it's well worth the drive!!

Yes, and from what I was told, they deliver in Opelousas one day of the week and I may ask them about delivering it to me once a month. That would help out a lot.

 

[AprilsFrizzles]

Yes, and from what I was told, they deliver in Opelousas one day of the week and I may ask them about delivering it to me once a month. That would help out a lot.

Oh wow. I didn't know places did that. That would be awesome for you if they could, especially since you have such a wide variety of animals!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Gotcha' .

In my neck of the woods, no one really cares about if a bird is a champion. Most of my customers are the old timers who could give a frog's rump about coloring, blood line, genetics, etc. They like the Barred Rocks, Doms, RIR, NHPs and Buffs. They want poultry that they can eat and not eye candy. One older guy that I talked to told me that a lady tried to sell him some "Movie Star Chickens" as he called it and he told her where to shove those "show" chickens because he could have cared less. So, I have to cater to the old timers. I would go broke if I had "Movie Star Chickens". No one wants them. And for those hens that lay the different colored eggs (blue, pink, green, etc.), I would not sell one single egg if my chickens laid the multi-colored eggs. My customers only want brown eggs. :/ Go figure.

 Yeah I don't consider those Show-girl silkies much of a chicken either in my book, even if they are bred from one of the worlds oldest breeds of chickens around. I know a little bit of their heritage and background though, and for those folks that like such: "go ahead on" I say. I know they make for excellent broodies and mama chickens, might be a good investment for incubation purposes, they're almost fail-safe as they aren't man-made or human controlled.



Yeah I have the same ignorant bumkins here too that wouldn't know if a chicken egg came from a hens @$$ or a hole in their head. So I can really relate as they say: "ignorance is bliss" and that fits a lot of catagories in life. It all depends what you know and where you learned it, I reckon. I try to take a little sample of all kinds of different things in life, way outside the realms of the same ol same thing and what the worked for Grampaw is not always the best thing to go by. My Grampaw was raised up a long time ago and he even said so himself, to me: " son the good ol days weren't so great"!


But all in all life's good and it takes all kinds to make the world go around, as it'd be a really boring place if we were all programed as the same robots doing everthing the same as the other. I'd surely figure out how to short circuit someway for the better or worse if that was the case.

 I'll have to make it a point to post up an here more often pictures of more of the real chickens instead of the regular ones as everybody knows what those look like, evidently.  Then there will be more information and stuff put out there to compare others to as some may benefit by learning something new, others, not so much as "It just don't matter" I hear that a lot too 'round these parts HUM :/ imagine that, as IQs are probly averages of their shoe and hat sizes combined(maybe) Like you say they just want something to EAT and its fat-@$$ chickens and brown eggs. That's all that matters nothing different no siree their great gandparents may roll over in their graves from such.

Not much spice in their life if you ask me

Jeff

Yes, it takes all kinds. I think I fall into the "conservative" category like the other old timers. That's probably because my grandmother had the true "backyard" chickens when I was young. She would go out back in the chicken yard, grab a hen, ring it's neck round and round and come back in and cook it. She was ruthless woman standing 6 feet tall. All we saw and ate were brown eggs growing up.

I just can't seem to get excited about the different breed chickens. However, peafowl, turkeys and sheep are my fav group of animals. I can appreciate a beautiful peacock or pean hen and it's background but not so much a chicken. Maybe because I don't show any chickens or breed to sell them. That's probably why there's no interest. And then again, I have so many animals, I don't have time to concentrate on genetics, lineage, etc. Perhaps if I had 10 chickens, I could but with the number that I have, it's no way possible.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Yes, and from what I was told, they deliver in Opelousas one day of the week and I may ask them about delivering it to me once a month. That would help out a lot.

Oh wow. I didn't know places did that. That would be awesome for you if they could, especially since you have such a wide variety of animals!!

Yea, I hope so. I only bought about $250.00 worth of feed on Saturday but that didn't include the cracked corn. We didn't have room for cracked corn. I'll have to see how many bags I will need for an entire month with the Petrus Feed. There is a rabbit breeder in Opelousas that gets his rabbit food delivered to his house. I may be able to get with him and arrange something.

 

[AprilsFrizzles]

Yea, I hope so. I only bought about $250.00 worth of feed on Saturday but that didn't include the cracked corn. We didn't have room for cracked corn. I'll have to see how many bags I will need for an entire month with the Petrus Feed. There is a rabbit breeder in Opelousas that gets his rabbit food delivered to his house. I may be able to get with him and arrange something.

If they charge a delivery fee, maybe y'all can buddy up and get your feed brought together. It might help

 

[AprilsFrizzles]

Yea, I hope so. I only bought about $250.00 worth of feed on Saturday but that didn't include the cracked corn. We didn't have room for cracked corn. I'll have to see how many bags I will need for an entire month with the Petrus Feed. There is a rabbit breeder in Opelousas that gets his rabbit food delivered to his house. I may be able to get with him and arrange something.

Why oh why can't feed cost like $5 a bag LOL

 

[catdaddyfro]

Thanks. That looks like good feed.

Just remember this an additive to thier regular layer/or grower rations or whaT ever you are feeding at the time. 14% is not enough to properly maintain good heathy chickens and them produce eggs/meat on the side.

Here's the feeding directions on the product info.
On the 14% poultry maintainer:

Feed free choice to mature chickens. Keep
feeders clean and provide a source of fresh,
clean water at all times. Do not feed as a
laying ration. Additional supplementation is
required for egg production.

I use the Nutri-boost that Lonestar offers, this I use when I have my breeders in the pen breeding for hatching eggs. It sort of gives them a little boost in vitamins and nutrition for a good healthy chick to develop from.

Jeff

 

[kuntrygirl]

Yea, I hope so. I only bought about $250.00 worth of feed on Saturday but that didn't include the cracked corn. We didn't have room for cracked corn. I'll have to see how many bags I will need for an entire month with the Petrus Feed. There is a rabbit breeder in Opelousas that gets his rabbit food delivered to his house. I may be able to get with him and arrange something.

Why oh why can't feed cost like $5 a bag LOL

I wish. LOL