Maine

[Hiltonizer]

What types are you looking for @Widget ? There's a lot of local breeders, the livestock/poultry groups on Facebook are already picking up with hatches.

 

[dowgirl71]

Would anyone know where a friend of mine could get a Columbian Wyandotte rooster? She lives in Bangor but said she'd be willing to travel.

 

[Widget]

Salmon Favs and Welsummers. Also Icelandics. Oddly enough I like the Welsummers because of the gorgeous roosters not for the dark eggs.

What types are you looking for @Widget
? There's a lot of local breeders, the livestock/poultry groups on Facebook are already picking up with hatches.

 

[lazy gardener]

I MIGHT be looking to add some SLW to my flock this spring. Would be interested in some Doms also if any one was close enough and wanted to split an order. I'm 15 miles south of Bangor. I'll be hatching in March, if any one wants straight run chicks. My flock has a very colorful egg basket, is being bred for non feathered shanks and feet, and small combs. Roo throws blue egg gene.

 

[Hiltonizer]

Salmon Favs and Welsummers. Also Icelandics. Oddly enough I like the Welsummers because of the gorgeous roosters not for the dark eggs.

I've seen those pop up a few times, if I do again I'll shoot you the posters info. I've been thinking about Icelandics myself.

 

[Widget]

Great. Thank you.


I've seen those pop up a few times, if I do again I'll shoot you the posters info. I've been thinking about Icelandics myself.

 

[Mc620]

Salmon Favs and Welsummers. Also Icelandics. Oddly enough I like the Welsummers because of the gorgeous roosters not for the dark eggs.

Icelandics wont be in a hatchery but if looking for some I breed them and will have hatching eggs and chicks this spring seperating into breeding groups soon

 

[lazy gardener]

How're the rat wars going??? My egg production has actually gone down compared to 2 weeks ago. Wonder what's up with that? Girls are not coming out at all now. Have just started making sprouts for them now.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Have not seen rat activity since the last death. Some mouse but not bad.

Anyone have extra bags? I'd like to make this a bit wider and longer.



Egg production has stayed about the same here - about 4 per day on average (from a zillion birds). All my cornish hens have gone broody and birds that weren't supposed to molt this year molted and birds that were supposed to molt this year didn't molt. It was an odd year.

 

[buckabucka]

I am still having rats squeeze into the chicken run through the door. I may try poison water over my winter break. It will involve more work (locking chickens in, plugging in poison water, and in the morning: dumping poison into a bucket and removing it along with poison waterer, setting out and plugging in regular water, releasing chickens), which is why I want to wait until I have time off. By then I may be able to do the job in daylight.

Meanwhile, I might have found a temporary solution. Just today, I crammed a 2x4 under the door from the outside (they appear to be going underneath and squeezing up through a crack). I'll have to remove the 2x4 if we are expecting rain or snow, so it won't freeze to the ground. The door opens out, so I have to move the 2x4 every morning just to get in the run to feed everyone, but it is worth a try.

Laying here is on a steady upward path. We bottomed out at 46 per week (I don't light, but I have 15 pullets). Early this month we had 61 per week, this week 75. I tried to sprout some red spring wheat this week, but the seed is too old. My chickens are locked up. I'm keeping an eye out for our raccoon visitor. Kind of hard to tell if he's been around again with no snow to track him.