"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[campingshaws]

No rain here today! DH and the strapping young 20-somethings moved my ugly tractor out of the mud. The babies have long outgrown the brooder, but I didn't have a place for them. So today I'm moving the juvies and cleaning the brooder because LOOK:

I've got a Day 19 baby!!

 

[forgetful]

Thank you Cody! I've got three cockerels and have to eventually reduce that number to 1. There's one cockerel that is much smaller than the other two, so I plan on culling him first. I have no clue how I will pick between the two left, though. They are turning out very nicely.

 

[Tazbeaux]

I love the color of Buckeye chicks. They look like they fell in a jar of cinnamon. When I started raising chickens last Fall I highly considered this breed and did a lot of searching and reading on them . I couldn't find any sources for purebreds at that time of the season so I gave up. Did you get yours from a hatchery or breeder?

Thanks for the pic.

I had a hell of a time getting mine. Tried contacting breeders first, most never even answered my email. I finally got a dozen hatching eggs from Crains Run Ranch, but they were banged up in shipping, the good eggs were coated with the broken egg goop. None hatched. They resent me another 18 eggs, 2 hatched and 1 died within the day and the one that lived was a hen. So now i had a single baby and need more chicks quickly. The only hatchery that had any chicks ready to ship was Meyer, but Buckeyes weren"t available. So I gave up on Buckeyes and ordered a few varieties of hens, and settled on Buff Brahmas to breed, ordering a cockerel and 4 hens of that variety. They accidentally sent me Buckeyes instead of Buff Brahmas!!!!! Go figure. I guess my having Buckeyes WAS meant to be after all. So the babies in that pic are from the breeders hen and the hatchery roo.

 

[Tazbeaux]

No rain here today!

DH and the strapping young 20-somethings moved my ugly tractor out of the mud. The babies have long outgrown the brooder, but I didn't have a place for them. So today I'm moving the juvies and cleaning the brooder because LOOK:



I've got a Day 19 baby!!

Congrats!!!

My babies hatched on day 19 also & all very healthy.

 

[Tazbeaux]

I love the color of Buckeye chicks. They look like they fell in a jar of cinnamon. When I started raising chickens last Fall I highly considered this breed and did a lot of searching and reading on them . I couldn't find any sources for purebreds at that time of the season so I gave up. Did you get yours from a hatchery or breeder?

Thanks for the pic.

Oh I forgot part of the story... The first place I tried to get some Buckeyes from was Ideal Hatchery. They waitlisted me for about 6 months and then a couple of weeks before they were to be available, Ideal notified me that their hens hadn't layed enough eggs, so Buckeyes wouldn't be available that year. Then I started trying to contact breeders.

 

[campingshaws]

Thanks! I'm up to three chicks and three pips. I'm just shocked. And now I'm also impatient, and tapping my feet at the other 50.

 

[Tazbeaux]

Thanks! I'm up to three chicks and three pips. I'm just shocked. And now I'm also impatient, and tapping my feet at the other 50.

Yes, I know what you mean, it seems like it takes forever from the first pip to the last baby to hatch

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hi Everyone, Love seeing good hatches. I posted this pic of a new breed I have. Anyone want to play guess this breed? Lemon you guessed last time. I'm talking about the black ones.

Cody, I got a new batch of biefelders from GFF. The females are darker than the one's I have. The are quick to catch on too. After two days in a tote they are already jumping out. Jumping in the tote in the pick above. Running around like crazy. I had to move some juvies in a coop to get them in a brooder. Can't wait to see if they stay darker. Pam

 

[Cody A]

Oh I forgot part of the story... The first place I tried to get some Buckeyes from was Ideal Hatchery. They waitlisted me for about 6 months and then a couple of weeks before they were to be available, Ideal notified me that their hens hadn't layed enough eggs, so Buckeyes wouldn't be available that year. Then I started trying to contact breeders.

Wow! Your Jeff Lay hen is a mighty expensive bird then

My hat's off to you for sticking it out. I know it was very frustrating

At least you are at a starting point. I would cringe every time I let them out to free range. Funny how it worked out with the ideal order.

Your new chicks are like gold pieces with legs.

 

[Cody A]

Thank you Cody! I've got three cockerels and have to eventually reduce that number to 1. There's one cockerel that is much smaller than the other two, so I plan on culling him first. I have no clue how I will pick between the two left, though. They are turning out very nicely.

I know what you mean. I've got culling to do myself and will need help also.