Minnesota!

[Cluckies]

Welcome Jlynn

 

[scandiafowl]

Everyone, I so enjoy seeing photos of your chickens freelancing!

Ours spend part of the day annihilating my mother's garden and the other part snoozing under the brush.
My mother sat outside with a piece of kuchen and coffee and two obnoxious Roos tried to eat off of her plate.
Their fate is sealed.

 

[scandiafowl]

NE is the big hipster/artist/musician/college student area now.
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Until it undergoes gentrification. It's still a cool place to live

 

[KlopKlop]

Look at that comb and wattles!

I haven't weighed him but he is going to give big buck a run for the title

 

[JLynnsDuckies]

Welcome Jlynn

Thank you!

 

[KlopKlop]

I will be hatching more next year, but really have not thought much about it. I enjoy the hatching.  I will not be hatching many barnyard mixes though, just for my own egg production.

I will most likely hatch turkeys again, unless I still have 50 come spring.  I want to whittle down my over winter crew to 3-4 toms and 6-8 hens.   Come spring the extra toms will be going to visit the nice Asian lady with the plastic lined trunk.  

I will hatch Creamettes, BA's, and if  I could find a couple partridge chanticlers  hens some of them. I have really taken a liking to ED.   I will hatch a few EE,  just because so many people like to raise them and they sold easily this spring.   I hope to hatch frogs ( CX over CX) and toads  (CX over Rainbows) for meat.

Yep. as I look at this I need to find me a GQF, so I am interested.. Thanks

Is a rainbow over a CX still a Toad?

That is on of my mixes to try next year.
I want to try Conrad (rainbow) and Buck (Buckeye) over the following hens in the spring to see what happens;

Rainbow hen
CX hen
Dark Cornish hen (trying to get some from MCM)


Both Conrad and Buck have full breasts so I look forward to trying the mixes

 

[MN Chicken]

You are all too quick to post for me.  I feel like the weird great aunt that comes to Christmas only once every decade that smells like mothballs and can't hear anything anyone says.  I did, however, read every post.  So I know you, and you still don't know me, and I might just go around pinching cheeks and handing out back-handed compliments. 

Scandia it is so awesome seeing our old boys grow up here.  I miss them...well, some of them   I almost picked up a calico cochin hen myself...I'm guessing from the same place.  Still looking for a dark egger and a bantam to keep my green chicken company.

I still have the Delaware, his home keeps pushing a pick up date back, so I am just starting over.  He is massive, he is gentle, he is funny, and he doesn't crow yet.  If anyone wants a great rooster let me know.  I also have a banty cochin roo that is a total nerd.  He doesn't crow and I think he thinks he is boss, but he isn't.

On a super side note, my honey won 4th place at the fair this year!  I have been canning and preserving like a lot of you, and extracting honey, and trying to talk my freeloading pullets into earning their keep.  So far the canning and honey are a huge success, the chickens just mock me and jump on my head. I think this super blue egg layer is close though.

 

[duluthralphie]

Everyone, I so enjoy seeing photos of your chickens freelancing!

Ours spend part of the day annihilating my mother's garden and the other part snoozing under the brush.
My mother sat outside with a piece of kuchen and coffee and two obnoxious Roos tried to eat off of her plate.
Their fate is sealed.

As a redneck, I need to know, what's kuchen? Coffee I know.

 

[duluthralphie]

Is a rainbow over a CX still a Toad?I would think so, considering I coined the breed, we can call whatever we want a toad!

That is on of my mixes to try next year.
I want to try Conrad (rainbow) and Buck (Buckeye) over the following hens in the spring to see what happens;

Rainbow hen
CX hen
Dark Cornish hen (trying to get some from MCM)


Both Conrad and Buck have full breasts so I look forward to trying the mixes

I would use the bigger one on the CX hen. Good luck on keeping her alive over the winter. I am going to keep 5-6 and hope to have a few in the spring. I know some will die.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Quote: How fun is that!!! Thanks!! One day I too just might live in a place where I can have goats. Maybe......