Minnesota!

[KlopKlop]

and now we are full on raining i am not making headway on my to do list like i had hoped

 

[scandiafowl]

How does someone decide which roosters to keep and which to butcher?

Admittedly, I have a bit of everything, and some favorites. Regardless which rooster I keep there will be breed mixes should any of the hen's decide to hatch a batch.

Zeus is a great too, alert, protective, but goes after my daughter.
Gockel is a cool dude.
Jen is dear to my heart, a GLW.

Isn't there a flow chart somewhere?

 

[KlopKlop]

How does someone decide which roosters to keep and which to butcher?

Admittedly, I have a bit of everything, and some favorites. Regardless which rooster I keep there will be breed mixes should any of the hen's decide to hatch a batch.

Zeus is a great too, alert, protective, but goes after my daughter.
Gockel is a cool dude.
Jen is dear to my heart, a GLW.

Isn't there a flow chart somewhere?

didnt you just get gockel?

Sometimes i have a hard time keeping chicken/pet names straight on here

 

[NikonD2xer]

ok that was the hardest 20 something pages i have ever tried to read.

My perfect lil choco lab pup ( replace perfect with any or all four letter words you can think of ) decided to use my glasses as her new chew toy.
Looking through my glasses is like driving down the freeway during a sleet storm with the wipers frozen to the windshield.

So go easy on om me for a week until i can actually see again.

The last of my original chickens is gone. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden it decided it needed to roost in the trees and not in the coop.
It was fine for a week but i can't find it now. It is the only white chicken i have so my eyesight should not be the problem.

I need to butcher a bunch of young RIR roosters too. Unless someone wants a true old fashioned dark standard bred RIR unlike the ones from the hatcheries.

 

[scandiafowl]

He is on the no-kill list. So is Jenn. But that is it at this time.

 

[SleepyOwl]

Hi all. It's been a while since I posted in here. Last I posted I think I said that we were going to be looking for a farm. Well, we finally got our little farm. Yay!

We ended up on 15 acres in Zimmerman. I have my motley crew of chickens out in the barn, and it's so nice to be able to have roosters. (I have had chickens for 3 years now, but living in town, the roosters always had to go.)
I just ordered my first batch of "rare" breed chicks. (They aren't really rare, but they not easy to come by either.) Hoping by summer I will have a few breeds going to sell eggs and chicks, as long as I end up with good birds anyway. I want to be a good breeder, not just someone who sells from whatever just cuz they are here, kwim? Anyway, I have some Chocolate Cuckoo Orps and some Legbars coming next week. I think next payday I am going to order some hatching eggs for a couple other colors of Orps. (I have such bad luck with shipped eggs, but going to give it another shot.) I can't afford more chicks right now, and by the time I do, it will be too cold to ship. I'm already pushing it.

Anyway, if you read all that, thanks. You guys move fast, so don't know if I'll keep up, but I will be around.

 

[scandiafowl]

and now we are full on raining i am not making headway on my to do list like i had hoped

Yeah, not in the mood to operate electrical equipment in the rain.

 

[KlopKlop]

Hi all. It's been a while since I posted in here. Last I posted I think I said that we were going to be looking for a farm. Well, we finally got our little farm. Yay!

We ended up on 15 acres in Zimmerman. I have my motley crew of chickens out in the barn, and it's so nice to be able to have roosters. (I have had chickens for 3 years now, but living in town, the roosters always had to go.)
I just ordered my first batch of "rare" breed chicks. (They aren't really rare, but they not easy to come by either.) Hoping by summer I will have a few breeds going to sell eggs and chicks, as long as I end up with good birds anyway. I want to be a good breeder, not just someone who sells from whatever just cuz they are here, kwim? Anyway, I have some Chocolate Cuckoo Orps and some Legbars coming next week. I think next payday I am going to order some hatching eggs for a couple other colors of Orps. (I have such bad luck with shipped eggs, but going to give it another shot.) I can't afford more chicks right now, and by the time I do, it will be too cold to ship. I'm already pushing it.

Anyway, if you read all that, thanks. You guys move fast, so don't know if I'll keep up, but I will be around.

Welcome back! Glad to hear you got the farm! not sure how long you have been gone, but im sure some people here will remember you. I've been active on this thread since june or so. We just moved to our farm last haloween! 10 acres in southern MN.

We of course are picture crazy, so show us some photos of your chickens!! and we wouldnt complain to see farm photos too!

 

[KlopKlop]

Some of my girls were happy i left the corn crib alley open today. it started raining and they all hid out in there!

Some of my girls dont particularly mind the rain and are out perusing the newly plowed corn field. Its funny to see them plodding around with big mud clods stuck to their feet! That did unfortunatly translate into some muddy eggs today. Speaking of eggs we have a new record - 15 dozen eggs to take to market in the morning. fingers crossed it isnt frigid, and we sell out quick!

 

[SleepyOwl]

Welcome back! Glad to hear you got the farm! not sure how long you have been gone, but im sure some people here will remember you. I've been active on this thread since june or so. We just moved to our farm last haloween! 10 acres in southern MN.

We of course are picture crazy, so show us some photos of your chickens!! and we wouldnt complain to see farm photos too!

Thanks! Honestly, I haven't taken any pictures of my birds for at least a year. It has been a crazy year, and I have been lucky to remember to get pictures of my kids! LOL We had the house on the market last summer, it didn't sell. Had it back on the market this spring, it sold. Hadn't found a place yet, so lived in a camper at my parents' farm for the summer. Finally moved here right before school started. We have been here almost 2 months. I haven't even had the time/energy, to make the chickens a door so they can free range. They are just in the barn. (It's quite a large pen though, so space isn't a problem, just like to let them outside if I can.) Pictures haven't been a priority.

It wasn't a great chicken year. I had 20 chickens this summer (bought 10 chicks in the spring to give to my two broodies). They went to my mom's with me, and were all in a too small chicken tractor for a while, until I was able to make another one. During the summer, 3 died (one Roo from the spring babies was already becoming a jerk, so I culled him.) One got sick, and I think the other was smothered. (That too small of a tractor problem.) When I moved, I gave my sister a few along with the nice new tractor that I took forever building. (And I never took a pic. I should do that next time I visit.)

Anyway, no pics, but what I have now is 4 of our original girls (cochin bantam and 3 various hatchery breeds), 3 white Breese, one cochin bantam rooster and one Silkied Ameraucana. I have 3 roos, but don't want to cull yet, because I was going to give one of the Breese boys to my dad.

Anyway, I'll work on chicken pics. I have those chicks coming soon, so I am sure I will get some of them.

I do have farm pics though!