"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[topdog24]

Wow this is an active group! I just wanted to say hi, my name is Jules, and I am from Minnesota. I was in Florida for 14 years prior to going back to Minnesota for three years. After last winter up there, I could not stand the thought of another cold day in the north so I moved to Louisiana in July of this year. I live in Lacombe. I brought with me a few pairs of seramas and my favorite pair of araucanas, my jersey wooly bunnies and my horse. My daughter and I are active in ARBA/ABA/APA/SCNA and she's also a 4-H exhibitor

Louisiana Jules, i bet you are second guessing whether our weather is better than the North today!!!!!!! At least you are not out in the gulf today, we have 45 to 55 mph winds out here and the temp. is about 46, feels like 26. Today is a good day to stay inside, i am crossing my fingers and everything else that none of my equipment fails in this weather, it would be brutal to have to go repair something, all my engines and pumps are in the open wind, very harsh conditions to work in today.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Wow this is an active group! I just wanted to say hi, my name is Jules, and I am from Minnesota. I was in Florida for 14 years prior to going back to Minnesota for three years. After last winter up there, I could not stand the thought of another cold day in the north so I moved to Louisiana in July of this year. I live in Lacombe. I brought with me a few pairs of seramas and my favorite pair of araucanas, my jersey wooly bunnies and my horse. My daughter and I are active in ARBA/ABA/APA/SCNA and she's also a 4-H exhibitor

My husband is originally from Wisconsin so we know what you mean about the cold weather -- altho, this morning is not the most pleasant!

 

[topdog24]

Hmmmm...I don't have an incubator. How much is the investment in one and do you feel it is worth it? I planned on raising my ducks and using either my silkie or broody ducks to raise them. I would like to hatch chicks, but I'm still waiting on LSU for my results on the necropsy. And I would like to raise some colored egg producers. I have what I was told marans,but they haven't started laying yet. And I get one pretty blue Green egg but I'm not spared to have any EE. So I'm not sure. The place I got them from was pretty disorganized, I done think she knew what she actually gave me and I didn't know enough at the time.

Does buying eggs save any money? What are the pros and cons? If I have to cull my flock due to some nasty disease and start over I would rather start with good quality birds. My silkie chicks have not been exposed to the others, so I think they are safe and I could keep them.

I have a few EEs that i may sell in the near future, i am waiting to see what their egg colors are, should be any day now, i will know for sure what color each one lays before i make the decision to sell, i will be breeding as soon as i know which ones to pair with which breed rooster, I am at a point to where i have at least 7 options, depending on who lays what color and what color i want the offspring to lay and then to verify actual produced colors, i will submit to a long term wait and see what color each cross produces, i will also breed true bred Ameracaunas, Cream Legbars, (Dominiques providing i find a purebreed Dominique rooster.)

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Hmmmm...I don't have an incubator. How much is the investment in one and do you feel it is worth it? I planned on raising my ducks and using either my silkie or broody ducks to raise them. I would like to hatch chicks, but I'm still waiting on LSU for my results on the necropsy. And I would like to raise some colored egg producers. I have what I was told marans,but they haven't started laying yet. And I get one pretty blue Green egg but I'm not spared to have any EE. So I'm not sure. The place I got them from was pretty disorganized, I done think she knew what she actually gave me and I didn't know enough at the time.

Does buying eggs save any money? What are the pros and cons? If I have to cull my flock due to some nasty disease and start over I would rather start with good quality birds. My silkie chicks have not been exposed to the others, so I think they are safe and I could keep them.

I wouldn't say that buying eggs saves money, but it is one way to get quality stock - just depends on what you want. I have some RIR eggs shipping from Arkansas today that I'm hatching because I've hatched some from these lines before & really liked them. I don't show or anything, just want good long-lived healthy birds that lay well & are pleasant to be around.

 

[LindaB220]

I have a couple of pictures I want to post today from Plymouth Rock breeding thread. Fred has the Whites that are Blosl and the Barrs from the old strain that Ken Weaver has now. My pullets are almost identical to Freds. There is just a shot or two of the Barred ones. Read the whole page. Interesting.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/811228/the-plymouth-rock-breeders-thread/3390

 

[LindaB220]

Pam, Jennifer called today and said the hatchery is culling at 7pm today. She's tied up as an extra on a film crew in Minden. So I can't find transportation and it's in Ringgold, about 1 hr away. They will do it again in 3 mo.
Any one want her contact #? They are 18 mon old and are Cobb 500 A few weeks under light and they would begin laying again.

 

[campingshaws]

Welcome to all the newcomers! I'm a chicken newbie in LeBlanc, and I buy birds from sale ads and auctions so they're always sick with something.

BUT the good folks here are good to take pity on me and help out, because they're great. Hope you'll feel right at home!

@rlcrow How are your sick birds? I was out of town yesterday and missed a dose of Tylan on my pullet with the closed eye. When I went out this morning one of my hens has an eye that looks watery, but I couldn't get close enough to her to see what's wrong.

All you ex-Northerners, I'm leaving this week to spend Thanksgiving with all the inlaws in Iowa (the state). Y'all cross your fingers we don't get any snow. Last Christmas when I packed, I was on medications for a double ear infection and totally loopy. I left my big suitcase full of my winter coats and boots sitting right by my front door. The high where we were (just north of Missouri) was -14 on Christmas Eve. In my Mother-in-law's 100 year old farmhouse with nothing to break the wind. I was wearing ALL my clothes every day, and borrowed coats and scarves, and wore blankets all the time. Never did think I'd make it home alive. Of course when we got back home it was like 70 degrees.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Welcome to all the newcomers! I'm a chicken newbie in LeBlanc, and I buy birds from sale ads and auctions so they're always sick with something.

BUT the good folks here are good to take pity on me and help out, because they're great. Hope you'll feel right at home!

@rlcrow How are your sick birds? I was out of town yesterday and missed a dose of Tylan on my pullet with the closed eye. When I went out this morning one of my hens has an eye that looks watery, but I couldn't get close enough to her to see what's wrong.

All you ex-Northerners, I'm leaving this week to spend Thanksgiving with all the inlaws in Iowa (the state). Y'all cross your fingers we don't get any snow. Last Christmas when I packed, I was on medications for a double ear infection and totally loopy. I left my big suitcase full of my winter coats and boots sitting right by my front door. The high where we were (just north of Missouri) was -14 on Christmas Eve. In my Mother-in-law's 100 year old farmhouse with nothing to break the wind. I was wearing ALL my clothes every day, and borrowed coats and scarves, and wore blankets all the time. Never did think I'd make it home alive. Of course when we got back home it was like 70 degrees.

Be safe on the road & have fun this year!
Crossing everything you have NO SNEAUX!

70 degrees would be sheer heaven right now. I think it's supposed to get down to 20 tomorrow morning. I added extra shavings in the coop & the girls didn't even want to come out at all this morning. Can't say I blame them!

 

[rlcrow]

I have a few EEs that i may sell in the near future, i am waiting to see what their egg colors are, should be any day now, i will know for sure what color each one lays before i make the decision to sell, i will be breeding as soon as i know which ones to pair with which breed rooster, I am at a point to where i have at least 7 options, depending on who lays what color and what color i want the offspring to lay and then to verify actual produced colors, i will submit to a long term wait and see what color each cross produces, i will also breed true bred Ameracaunas, Cream Legbars, (Dominiques providing i find a purebreed Dominique rooster.) 

Can't wait to hear the results! I was looking to get some stock from rainbow hatchery moor a next than hatchery and has some good lines on her marans, even had a rooster from Bev Davis.
Speaking of Bev Davis she is going to be a the poultry show at LSU Nov. 22nd, anyone planning on going? I think we will make it should be a fun trip, my in laws will be in town so we will make a whole day of going to Baton Rouge.

 

[Cody A]

Wow this is an active group! I just wanted to say hi, my name is Jules, and I am from Minnesota. I was in Florida for 14 years prior to going back to Minnesota for three years. After last winter up there, I could not stand the thought of another cold day in the north so I moved to Louisiana in July of this year. I live in Lacombe. I brought with me a few pairs of seramas and my favorite pair of araucanas, my jersey wooly bunnies and my horse. My daughter and I are active in ARBA/ABA/APA/SCNA and she's also a 4-H exhibitor

Hello and welcome Jules. You must have brought the cold weather with you. I just read an article that said we could be in this weather pattern for decades. You may have picked a good time to move south.

I'm in N. LA close to Ruston.

Again, welcome to the thread and LA.

Cody