"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Chris Herzog]

Gracie,
Just PM me your address or if you want some chicks I have boxes and will ship you however many you want. I have 9 in the brooder and I should have another 30+ by next weekend. Same deal just pay the shipping.

Let me know and you can text me if you want.

Chris

 

[Gracie9205]

Gracie,
Just PM me your address or if you want some chicks I have boxes and will ship you however many you want. I have 9 in the brooder and I should have another 30+ by next weekend. Same deal just pay the shipping.
Let me know and you can text me if you want.
Chris

I sent you a PM. I think I'm gonna go for the chicks, so the eggs are still up for grabs if anyone wants them!

 

[Chris Herzog]

I have the eggs packed and with me so if anyone wants them let me know....there is 12 eggs all together in the box.

Chris

 

[RusticDreamer]

Julie, your post with that silkie rooster on the run is hilarious. Now, honestly, how long have you worked to train your turkeys to do that?

I'm SO sorry to hear about peacock egg. Bad, bad hen!! I know how you feel. A few weeks ago I tried to help a gosling hatch because it w Ias overdue and it ended up hatching too soon. It had not yet absorbed the yolk and died just a couple hours later. I should have just left it alone and let it hatch on its own. It sickened me because it was another one of my buff saddlebacks. I could have had two this spring if I had been a little patient.

I hope your other pea eggs hatch.

Love that rat trap! I want one of those. I saw a big rat in my coop last night. I'll be shopping for one soon.

Awwww....I've done that...my hubby says I have to resist helping them out b'cuz 'they know what they're doing'...well, they don't always know!!! I've even tossed eggs that I thought were bad, only to have it crack open and be a develping chick!

That is heartbreaking, especially with my turkeys, I don't have many of those, can't afford to be losing babies!!

 

[RusticDreamer]

How many of you here in La are letting your birds free-range? If you are, what do ya'll have on your property for them to eat? Are you planting particular grass seeds, etc.? I can't seem to grow anything in the Louisiana dirt!!

The clay out here is awful, can't even walk on it when it's wet without your feet sliding out from under you or stepping in a deep spot and losing a boot!! Anybody have any suggestions as to what I can put out their? My property seriously has NO top soil!!! It's ridiculous!! I have several oak trees that drop acorns, I heard turkeys really like them, but mine won't eat them and my chickens leave behind tons of patches of 'green stuff' they don't like or won't eat! I'd really like to balance out my feed cost...

BTW, we are in NW La, Shreveport...

 

[kuntrygirl]

How many of you here in La are letting your birds free-range? If you are, what do ya'll have on your property for them to eat? Are you planting particular grass seeds, etc.? I can't seem to grow anything in the Louisiana dirt!!  The clay out here is awful, can't even walk on it when it's wet without your feet sliding out from under you or stepping in a deep spot and losing a boot!! Anybody have any suggestions as to what I can put out their? My property seriously has NO top soil!!! It's ridiculous!! I have several oak trees that drop acorns, I heard turkeys really like them, but mine won't eat them and my chickens leave behind tons of patches of 'green stuff' they don't like or won't eat! I'd really like to balance out my feed cost...

BTW, we are in NW La, Shreveport...

I let my free range. They eat grass and bugs. I don't plant anything for them.

Sorry that I can't offer any help on what to plant or what to do. How much space do yours free range on?

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Hey guys I collected some of my NH eggs the last few days with the intention of putting them in my incubator but I picked up on some eggs that I have been waiting on since November and don't have any room for them. I hate to toss them so if anyone would like them you can have them. You can either pick them up or I'll ship them for whatever the cost is.
Let me know. These are the German New Hampshires
Thanks,
Chris

Enabler!

Unfortunately my bator is also full right now.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

How many of you here in La are letting your birds free-range? If you are, what do ya'll have on your property for them to eat? Are you planting particular grass seeds, etc.? I can't seem to grow anything in the Louisiana dirt!!

The clay out here is awful, can't even walk on it when it's wet without your feet sliding out from under you or stepping in a deep spot and losing a boot!! Anybody have any suggestions as to what I can put out their? My property seriously has NO top soil!!! It's ridiculous!! I have several oak trees that drop acorns, I heard turkeys really like them, but mine won't eat them and my chickens leave behind tons of patches of 'green stuff' they don't like or won't eat! I'd really like to balance out my feed cost...

BTW, we are in NW La, Shreveport...

My chicken run is pure clay dirt also - they keep everything eaten down in there. I do turn them loose in the evenings outside - that's bermuda & st. augustine & weeds -used to be horse pasture.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Terri, I am down to 4 pea eggs under the broody hens. I went out yesterday to check to see if I had any pea chicks that had hatched and I find a 40lb butterball turkey standing in a nesting box ON TOP OF 2 PEA EGGS !!!!!!!!!!! She had crushed 2 eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I have 1 egg missing !!!!!!!!!! I have no idea where it is. I think that egg eater that pecked open the first pea egg probably got to it . Boy, if I could catch her!!!!

So that leaves only 4 pea eggs in the nesting boxes. And of course the eggs I have in the incubator. I am really stressing over here. So, I'm hoping for at least 1 of the 4 to hatch if not more.

Well, at least the pea girls are still laying eggs. I will keep trying with the eggs that they are laying. :/

 

[RusticDreamer]

I let my free range. They eat grass and bugs. I don't plant anything for them.
Sorry that I can't offer any help on what to plant or what to do. How much space do yours free range on?

Right now, I have about 25 birds on 2 acres. 1 acre is pasture and the other is where the coop is, but they have pretty much eaten that down and they got into the garden and OBLITERATED my cabbage plants!!! . I can't seem to get them to go into the pasture though, I've tried luring (sp) them out there with food, but they stop just as they get to the edge of it??!!

I really need to let this part by the coop replenish itself, but they won't leave this area, so I thought I might try planting something they would like in hopes of coaxing them out there...