Maine

[kinsey228]

Anyone thinning out their flocks for the winter ? If anyone is, I have room for 2 or 3 more

 

[Egiroux]

For all you Mainers out there, do you have wood floor on your coops or are they on dirt? I'm already planning my next upgrade to a bigger facility and wondering if I can cut some cost by going dirt, maybe doing a base of stone dust under the bedding.

 

[hoppy]

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dirt makes it easier for rodents to get in, and harder to clean,. just a thought.

 

[hoppy]

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I've got a 9 week old wyandotte blue laced but has never been outside always at 60degrees. free for the taking probably a roo.
(and I just posted a chicken plate clock in the everything else for sale area) made in maine- really cute, comes with a stand.

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

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I know they are not exactly what you're looking for, but I have mutt mixed breed eggs that are assumedly fertile. You can have a dozen free if you want. Blue copper maran rooster and mixed hens including blue and olive eggers, so who knows what you'll get.

 

[m.kitchengirl]

For all you Mainers out there, do you have wood floor on your coops or are they on dirt?

I have wood with a 1/4" hardware cloth section that I put food & water over.
I put a large cookie sheet in one corner with sand for sand baths.

I can't do concrete & worry about predators digging into their night yard, then finding a way into the coop box.​

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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I know they are not exactly what you're looking for, but I have mutt mixed breed eggs that are assumedly fertile. You can have a dozen free if you want. Blue copper maran rooster and mixed hens including blue and olive eggers, so who knows what you'll get.

Ditto here. I'm seeing all bulls eyes. My rooster is a black easter egger and my hens are everything from leghorns to olive eggers.

 

[hoppy]

I've been collecting eggs all week, holding them for hatching, and I assumed they were from the only hen I've seen in the nest box. well today our poultry club had bird evaluations and I brought that hen, only to come home to find an egg in the coop. so it's not her laying after all. hmmm, now I'm not sure who laid all those huge eggs and if I should hatch them. the one I did hatched is a black single comb, so not much choice of mom and less choices of dad. could be my blue laced orp hen as everyone else is a rosecomb.

 

[happytraylz]

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I say hatch em'.. Maybe it's 2 hens laying. Either way, I find the fun of hatching, & cuteness of chicks helps the cold dreary winter months seem a lil closer to Spring. I'm sure you can find them homes, if they turn out not to be what you want. And it'll be like a surprise-from your chickens to you..

 

[hoppy]

I checked boxes this morning, lavender hen was in it again, maybe I missed the egg when I caught her up yesterday, it was early.