"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Cody A]

After this my hands were dirty, but I pulled some screen caps from a video he shared on Facebook. He said it took about a year to acquire all the right parts, and some are ordered.







Thanks for posting the pics Campingshaws

 

[lakones]

Hi all, I'm new to this site and chickens too. So glad I found this post with other folks in the area!
I got 4 chicks for my little one at Easter which ended up being 2 Roos and 2 hens. Somewhere along the way this turned into a new hobby for me. (Funny how that works). Last week I picked up 5 Campine chicks (1 roo, 4 girls) and an Araucana girl that are all about 8 weeks old now. Working to finish their coop and building another one too.

 

[Cody A]

Hi all, I'm new to this site and chickens too. So glad I found this post with other folks in the area!
I got 4 chicks for my little one at Easter which ended up being 2 Roos and 2 hens. Somewhere along the way this turned into a new hobby for me. (Funny how that works). Last week I picked up 5 Campine chicks (1 roo, 4 girls) and an Araucana girl that are all about 8 weeks old now. Working to finish their coop and building another one too.

Welcome to the layers thread lakones Cody

 

[TerriLaChicks]

After this my hands were dirty, but I pulled some screen caps from a video he shared on Facebook. He said it took about a year to acquire all the right parts, and some are ordered.

Thanks for the pics! I like the set up of the cones. Anticipating extra roos here down the road & plan to process them.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Hi all, I'm new to this site and chickens too. So glad I found this post with other folks in the area!
I got 4 chicks for my little one at Easter which ended up being 2 Roos and 2 hens. Somewhere along the way this turned into a new hobby for me. (Funny how that works). Last week I picked up 5 Campine chicks (1 roo, 4 girls) and an Araucana girl that are all about 8 weeks old now. Working to finish their coop and building another one too.

Glad you joined us! yep, "chicken math" has taken hold of you! I started with "just 3 little hens" years ago -- now have 24 eggs in the bator due to hatch this week, in addition to my flock of 12.

 

[campingshaws]

How is egg production for everyone? I got one last week, from the broken-beaked RIW. No sussex eggs since adding the RIWs to the flock in early October. It's annoying. :/

I've had my pullets since August, and they were probably 4 weeks old when I got them. So... five months? I'm ready for an Australorp egg. No idea on the age of the orpingtons. I keep reminding myself that I could really be pretty far from eggs, especially since I don't want to go through the hassle (expense) of adding a light to the coop. Still, that's the most exciting part of chickens, right? Egg hunting? I mean the rest of it is fun, too, but I love the eggs.

I'm going to worm everyone today, since I'm not getting eggs anyway, and dust them for mites. Wish I had been home yesterday while the weather was still warm.

 

[JennieRD]

You pretty much have me beat, I just added a light. One of my BJB gave me a tiny egg a couple of days ago! I could have used it on a Ms. B's tea biscuit! Cant blame the chickens, they did go through a late molt!

 

[campingshaws]

You pretty much have me beat, I just added a light. One of my BJB gave me a tiny egg a couple of days ago! I could have used it on a Ms. B's tea biscuit! Cant blame the chickens, they did go through a late molt!

I did forget about the molt; the RIWs went through a decent one. No one else molted, because they're all under a year. Every sussex hen dropped her tail feathers, though. I saw a pullet eat a feather the other day and I got worried, but she only did it once, so maybe she was just curious. I gave canned salmon to the worst of the RIWs, which happened to also be the sickly two. They went through their five days of tylan, but today one still had bubbles in her eyes. So I'm going to worm, and maybe treat again? And if there's no improvement, I guess I'll cull them both.

 

[Sjeane]

i had no idea there was this many people here from louisiana o.o Anywho, i got a pen full of RiR's a few New hamp reds, and 1 production red. all young girls, would probably start laying now if i turned a light on them but i think i am going to wait until it gets really cold for more heat purposes than really egg laying purposes. Currently looking for either a Heritage RiR rooster to put with them, or a regular RiR. my side project is looking for a kelso game hen to breed my kelso rooster with. but anyway, greetings from burr ferry

 

[LemonMeringue]

These 3 feather babies will be gumbo if they don't find home by the end of the day. The red cockerel ## must be reduced. And we like the other 3 better. And this little Serama is WAY WAY too large/heavy to breed with. He isn't very sweet either. All the rest we have are.

These are from the kids 4-H projects and they are helping with these choices

They knew going in they would have to make these choices and I'm glad they are doing well with it.