Missourians Show Me Your Chickens!

[legacyln]

teddiliza:
I laughed when I read your message.... I too live in Jeff City and I ALSO went to Orschelns today and was tempted... but not by ducks! Some other poor addict must've been there after you but before me. I was tempted by the 10 or so Rhode Island Red leftovers, but they were straight run and I already have way too many cockerels so it was sorta easy to resist. I did buy multiple bags of feed though, so that I can try to not go there again for a while because I think they are getting chick shipments every Wednesday till the end of April. I just need to stay away, cause if I go in there and see fluffy pullets of any breed other than Cornish X, I will buy them just like hitting a crack pipe! Also, I am real afraid of seeing a batch of the "Bantam Assortments" they get every week. All those fuzzy feet might put me over the edge. We won't have a coop built for another month or two(chicks are in various spots like sheds, dog kennels, etc) so I'm telling myself to wait to get any more till next spring, then I can get crazy.
Here is my crew. The 6wk-old Dominiques got to go outside today:

The "Golden Girls" (A Buff Orphington and 2 RIRs) in their dog kennel brooder-- I think one of the girls is developing a very unladylike comb.

 

[teddiliza]

Someone from the Woolridge area posted on Craigslist for the Columbia Missouri area that he needed some ready to lay pullets. He was wanting to pay $5 a piece. Just in case anyone has some.

Teddi

 

[cluckychick]

OK here are my babies at one week

Snowflake (Bantam)

No Name (Australorp)

Grey (Bantam)

Iris (Buff Orp)

17 total and they are just running around in their brooder box like crazy and having fun

 

[mradam]

I'm a first timer with chickens too, in Eastern Missouri, south of St. Louis. Picked up 4 RIR pullets at Buchheit 1 week ago. They are the funniest things! Already growing like weeds!


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[teddiliza]

How cute!!!! Dont' you agree just looking at these photos how irresistable they are! I have to share a story I e-mailed another member:

Re: going to the feed store....

Hahahaha, that is so funny!

I was there around 2pm with my 2 year old son. We looked over those cute little ducklings and I used my immense willpower to not buy all three- not even one! I also let my girls and boy play outside in the chicken tractor and pen. They looked so sad when they went back to their sleeping spots. I've got the Welsummers outside in the small coop my husband built with the heat lamp on. He built it for 3 originally when I introduced the idea. And then I had to go crazy....lol. They are so pretty! And the barred Rock are so sweet! Even the rooster of the foursome isn't mean. He's still going to get eaten when he's big enough. I'd already promised my neighbor no rooster when I told her I was getting chickens. I'd bought some sex links from Griffith's poultry farm in Fulton and got them March 11th. And of course while buying things to prepare my place for them at the end of february, I couldn't resist the instant gratification of buying the little chipmunk striped chicks. They were labelled cuckoo maran. I had no idea. After posting some pictures' I'm told they are Welsummer girls. How lucky is that! And the four barred rock I bought the next week from the week old $1 bin, only one is an obvious rooster! And of course, after another week, I had to get a single buff orph. pullet and buy it a New hampshire pullet sister. Then I finally picked up my ordered chicks March 11th. (The first hatch date at the poultry farm) . So my lack of willpower got me 16 chickens and a coop that will only house 3 of them..... LOL. We picked up some scrap lumber today to build another one. Right now the rest are in the big tupperware brooder boxes and getting crowded....Come on nice weather!

And now I look at the weather report and see it is supposed to be in the 30's at night this weekend.... sigh. That's what I get for buying spur of the moment, is a crowded garage!

Teddi

 

[cluckychick]

LOL Tedd, that sounds like me

I told DH I really wanted some chicks, he said ok. I said about 5 and he said sounds ok. So off we go to our local Family Center and they have tubs full of day olds. One tub had 5 Buff Orps, they were on my want list so I grabbed a sales person before anyone else and then I seen more and took four of each variety they had and ended up with 17 chicks. Coop isn't built yet but we bought a outdoor building so I have all materials but now its suppose to rain off and on all week

Then....I see on craigslist someone has silkies and frizzles and they are a must. DH said I could have 3 to make an even 20 chicks, lol. I'll let him think 3 till we get there to pick them out.

So what started as 5 keeps growing and growing

 

[JordanFamily]

Hi Yall I'm a newbi to! I'm in Harrisonville, MO...
I'm new at chicks and this forum! I'm trying to hatch some bantam self black and self chocolate Polish in frizzled and smooth. This will be only my second time hatching so wish me luck. I hatched some heavy breed chicks a few weeks ago to test the bator and got 21 out of 24 hatched....I just hope for the same this time around with some eggs that are important to me. My DH thinks I'm hatching to sell, little does he know me! I'm in this for the long haul, I caught the hatching fever!!!!HEHEHE

The last hatch was given back to the lady I got the eggs from, and I will sell most of the chicks from this hatch, but I can not swap until we move to our farm in a month or two.... Send me those good vibes for my chicks!

 

[teddiliza]

Here are the latest pics of my 'not so little babies' (edited to add names)

One was camera shy...I haven't named the Welsummers since I have a hard time telling them apart. Just give me a bit more time though and they'll have names.....

My Barred Rocks snuggled under the heat lamp. (From left to right: Nona, Mr Roo, Smiley, and Spoticus )

Skinny on left, butterball on right.

Spawn is the black one and the other two are the Spice Girls: Ginger and Cinnamon

As soon as my husband finishes the big coop, I'll have the small portable coop and some young chickens to be sold with it.
I'll list it both on here and Craigslist when ready.

I forgot to include a picture of Ebony, Queen Egwene, and Billie Jean, but they are hybrids and look like the last 3 pictured. (Black and Red)

It sure is fun to see everyone else's pictures.

Thanks!
Teddi

 

[mahsmaj]

I'm from Hannibal Missouri ! ! ! If anyone wants to sell some chickens I will buy . . .

 

[Panther Creek Poultry]

Anyone have a buff orp Roo they would be willing to part with. My hens need aboyfriend.

Sheila