"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Ron Skekel]

I fed mine gamebird crumble, so you're ok w/that -- they need a little higher protein level if they're younger -- after that, they'll do fine on their own - my grown ones nibble at the feed in the coop but mostly free range on their own. if it's a female you need a mate for her & I have one or two for you!!! I am so stressing that I'll have to cull one or two of mine in the next couple of months. I don't want to do that. I wish I could either find a couple more females or find homes for 2-3 of these males. I dont' want to get rid of all of them. I want the snake protection.

If she's a female, she'll start making the two-syllable call - that is the surest way I've found to sex them -- she'll say "Ca-PREEk! Ca-PREEK!" the males will not do that.

Well tonight when we closed the coops she, I'm guessing, did several ca- Preeks then make a repetive noise Ca,Ca,Ca,Ca, ,ca... As fast as a automatic gun so funny. The wattle is small and feels more bone then wattles on a chickens. I'll take a male when I'm positive its a female Which should be Soon. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Ok so all my life I've wanted guineas but always heard they were loud and dumb. Realistically, how do they compare to chickens? We have TONS of snakes and most of them cottonmouths or copperheads, so I like the thought of something to keep the snakes from the kids.

I hardly know anything about them. herd they are noisey and will kill snakes. I've had this one less than a week and I can tell this one isn't dumb. Not having a guinea flock mate it is attached to a small black hen that broke it's leg and no one fixed it and it healed funny and the hen is a gimp. She stays with this hen seems to take care of it. Today I went out their it had plastic tied around its leg and was stuck. I swear the guinea was trying to free her when I stepped in and untangled it. I have no Idea how the plastic got in their. Anyway I don't think their dumb. Pam

 

[Cody A]

Try to stop me Cody A

Do you need therapy. I hear there's a good psychologist in Dry Prong.

 

[Chica Chick]

Hi everyone. New here and new to chicks. Planning to get some this spring. Thinking of speckled Sussex. Anyone in La or MS breeding them? Considering ordering and hatching eggs if not. Thoughts?

 

[campingshaws]

Hi everyone. New here and new to chicks. Planning to get some this spring. Thinking of speckled Sussex. Anyone in La or MS breeding them? Considering ordering and hatching eggs if not. Thoughts?

WELCOME TO BYC. We just became new best friends. I have speckled sussex, and I will be hatching babies in the near future. Mine are are backyard quality, so if you're interested in bloodlines or show birds then a breeder is the way to go. You can look through my pictures to see mine.

I absolutely LOVE the speckled sussex. Their eggs are medium sized (at least mine are) but they're so soft and gentle. They have good camouflage in dry leaves, which is important if you're planning to free range. I have 14 chickens and five of them are the SS (lost one recently) because they are my favorite.

I found mine at a poultry auction and an ad on bookoo, so I can't help much with where to get them. I've heard that Petrus in Alexandria had some a while back, so maybe they'll get more in the spring. There's a whole sussex thread you can join and look around; you can find it in my history.

As far as I know I'm the only one in this thread with the speckled sussex, so don't let anyone else change your mind.

 

[Cody A]

Hi everyone. New here and new to chicks. Planning to get some this spring. Thinking of speckled Sussex. Anyone in La or MS breeding them? Considering ordering and hatching eggs if not. Thoughts?

Hi and welcome Chica Chick. I like your forum name

 

[campingshaws]

Ok, bator update: added the thermometer/hygrometer last night, and one in the laundry room. My two thermometers are reading diff temps: the one that came with the bator read 100~, and the new one was 98. So I bumped it up slightly and now the new one is reading 100, but the original is around 102. Should I bump it back down and trust the original? Add a third and take an average? The humidity inside the bator is steady around 30%, dry. The humidity in the house is 60%. I reread that article and took out the second red vent plug, so we'll see how that affects the humidity. I feel bad bothering the lady on a Sunday (and there are a ton if extra vehicles, so extra family?) so I may wait til tomorrow for eggs. Then again, it would be fun to hatch over the weekend when the kids are home. So maybe I'll wait til Friday.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hi everyone. New here and new to chicks. Planning to get some this spring. Thinking of speckled Sussex. Anyone in La or MS breeding them? Considering ordering and hatching eggs if not. Thoughts?

Hello from the LA-yers. Tell us why you want SS. Curious Why someone new to chickens Would Pick a certain breed. Do you have a coop yet? Pam

 

[campingshaws]

Hello from the LA-yers. Tell us why you want SS. Curious Why someone new to chickens Would Pick a certain breed. Do you have a coop yet? Pam

Because they're the best, obviously.

 

[Cody A]

Ok ya'll I will have eggs soon and don't know whether to try a dry hatch or not. I've had the Dickeys cabinet running for a couple weeks now with temp ranging from 99.5-99.7 humidity 53-56%
Dickey suggest to keep humidity at 54% for entire hatch and mist/spray the eggs during lockdown. I don't know what to do. I started a thread in the incubating section to ask what others are doing and haven't received a single reply. I've read all the old threads on Dickey bators that I can find. Anyone have suggestions?