Maine

[chickery-do]

I know your talking red star but I had 2 RIR's that from day one did not miss one day of laying til they died! 1.7 to 2.3 oz. eggs! In all season's and w/o that omega egg helper, nothing but their regular feed! If I had to do it over again I would defiantly go w/ the RIR's and the Amerucana's for their colored egg's and also in the weight category! I have Cochin and Buff Orpington's that can't match them in size or weight! I can't believe the size egg that come out of my silkies! 1oz. but when you look at the size of the hen you'd think it would be a lot smaller than that. Try passing that at their weight! I can't wait to see what my Wyandotte's give me!

 

[Chambertin]

Talked myself out of the expensive model.
Turns out that 160 price was for a different model (the 1602N) with a glitch in the advertisement listing. SO happy I asked why a couple pictures were out of place.
So when comparing the new lowest price of 190 versus 120... it was just too easy to talk myself down.
Just have to watch that thermometer a little closer I guess.

Cant wait to try it out!

 

[MustardTiger]

My family visits are over

I have my home back to myself! I love them and it is fun but I also love the routine my husband and I have sans visitors.

These turkeys of mine are HUGE and I cannot wait until they go to freezer camp. If i had a bigger coop I would get them again. As is they are just too big, produce too much poo and trample too much stuff! They are so much bigger than a chicken that I am a little scared of processing them. Anyone have any tips?

I think I got my first egg from one of the new Ams today. It was soft and tiny but it was there! It seems early for them to start but I am hopeful anyhow. The rest of my girls have been slackers ever since I added to the flock. They didnt like the disruption.

Had a visit from the deer in my veggie garden

They ate all the bean foliage and trampled a bunch of tomatoes. ACK! Tore through the plastic fence. I mended it and tied dryer sheets around the garden. That worked on my fruit trees. They never touched them after I did that.

 

[guesswhokatysue]

I'm thinking about heading up to the Windsor fair today... It may be a very lonely party of one at the fair. Is the poultry barn worth the trip?

 

[lazy gardener]

My family visits are over

I have my home back to myself! I love them and it is fun but I also love the routine my husband and I have sans visitors.

These turkeys of mine are HUGE and I cannot wait until they go to freezer camp. If i had a bigger coop I would get them again. As is they are just too big, produce too much poo and trample too much stuff! They are so much bigger than a chicken that I am a little scared of processing them. Anyone have any tips?

I think I got my first egg from one of the new Ams today. It was soft and tiny but it was there! It seems early for them to start but I am hopeful anyhow. The rest of my girls have been slackers ever since I added to the flock. They didnt like the disruption.

Had a visit from the deer in my veggie garden

They ate all the bean foliage and trampled a bunch of tomatoes. ACK! Tore through the plastic fence. I mended it and tied dryer sheets around the garden. That worked on my fruit trees. They never touched them after I did that.

Congrats on the Am laying. Is she a hatchery bird or a pure bred from someone's flock? My EE started laying at 16.5 weeks, all three of them. I was surprised also because I'd heard that they were late starters. Sorry about the deer rampage. Such a nuisance, not to mention all of the lost produce.

 

[Jazor]

I'm thinking about heading up to the Windsor fair today... It may be a very lonely party of one at the fair. Is the poultry barn worth the trip?

I'm a bit new, so it was a lot of "wow that breed looks so much nicer than I thought when I saw it in photos"! But I thought the poultry barn was well worth it. I'd also be lying if I said I don't always end up indulging in the not-very-heart-healthy snacks at the fair.

 

[Widget]

I'm a bit new, so it was a lot of "wow that breed looks so much nicer than I thought when I saw it in photos"! But I thought the poultry barn was well worth it. I'd also be lying if I said I don't always end up indulging in the not-very-heart-healthy snacks at the fair.

As long as the food is consumed on the fairgrounds it is safe to eat. There is a shield there that prevents all the unhealthy stuff from actually harming us.

 

[guesswhokatysue]

I'm a bit new, so it was a lot of "wow that breed looks so much nicer than I thought when I saw it in photos"!  But I thought the poultry barn was well worth it.  I'd also be lying if I said I don't always end up indulging in the not-very-heart-healthy snacks at the fair.  

I may have to go then! It's about an hour and a half from me, but I got to get out of work early today and thought maybe id go learn something

 

[lazy gardener]

As long as the food is consumed on the fairgrounds it is safe to eat. There is a shield there that prevents all the unhealthy stuff from actually harming us.

There's also a little known fact that if you cut a sweet morsel in half, most of the calories, and a lot of the bad fat leak out through the cut, and of course if you only eat 1/2 of the morsel, you are further decreasing your calorie and fat consumption, and are justified in eating the other half because you have been such a good calorie steward in the first place. Second little known fact is that if you eat a sweet morsel with a serving of veggies, especially raw ones like carrot or cucumber sticks, the veggies cancel out the bad stuff in the sweet morsels.

 

[Jazor]

There's also a little known fact that if you cut a sweet morsel in half, most of the calories, and a lot of the bad fat leak out through the cut, and of course if you only eat 1/2 of the morsel, you are further decreasing your calorie and fat consumption, and are justified in eating the other half because you have been such a good calorie steward in the first place. Second little known fact is that if you eat a sweet morsel with a serving of veggies, especially raw ones like carrot or cucumber sticks, the veggies cancel out the bad stuff in the sweet morsels.

You seem to be an expert in what I often call "Man Math". Now--this isn't to be sexist--it's just how I rationalize a large portion of the foolish things I say and do. I tell my fiancee, for exampel, "If you like eggs, and they cost you $4 a dozen, and you eat a dozen a week, you spent over $200 a year on eggs. If you stop doing that, and spend $400 on chickens per year...you're getting $200 worth of free eggs because you're not buying them anymore. So really the chickens are giving you $200 a year." MAN MATH.

You could sub "man" for anything else if you'd like. The fact is there is quite literally no real math going on here, but if I talk long enough she ends up ignoring me.