Newbie from South Africa.

[AnneDrum]

Hi all!

My hubby and I have started a small pastured chicken egg operation. Our first batch of babies have started laying eggs and our younger batch are around 6weeks old. There is an egg crisis in SA since a major outbreak of Avian Flu.

These are our Potch Koekoek chickens (7 mo):

These are our Boschvelder and New Hampshire (though I don't think the supplier's staff selected the correct chicks because those white ones don't look like NH, but more like Leghorns). Some ducks too:

Anyone else here from South Africa?

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC - great that you have joined us.

There are quite a few peeps from SA - just type South Africa in the search function and some threads should pop up.

 

[DIGGIN CHICKEN]

Howzzziiittttt !!! yip i'm from ..you guessed it ! welcome ... I don't see any hammies there! I think you ended up with Rhode island whites and reds ... and the rest aren't boshvelders ..they just cross breeds ....

There is an egg crisis in SA since a major outbreak of Avian Flu.

I knew about the avian flu but not the shortage of eggs .... time to put my prices up !

that's a boshvelder with the white tips on their feathers anybody else confirm ???

some chicken are just in hiding .....

 

[DIGGIN CHICKEN]

found pics of my own bossies ...

 

[BYC910]

I'm from the south but not that far south . Just a bit further north and a mite west of there . Chickens is chickens wherever your at . This is a great place to hang out with chicken folks . Pull up a roost have some scratch and chat it up .

 

[AnneDrum]

Hi and welcome to BYC - great that you have joined us.

There are quite a few peeps from SA - just type South Africa in the search function and some threads should pop up.

Thank you! Will definitely check it out!

 

[AnneDrum]

Howzzziiittttt !!! yip i'm from ..you guessed it ! welcome ... I don't see any hammies there! I think you ended up with Rhode island whites and reds ... and the rest aren't boshvelders ..they just cross breeds ...

Hoezit! Nice to have some saffa company, we are a rare species on forums such as this.
I am still hoping they're Hammies since they seem to be developing red colouring on their feathers. Perhaps the females just go red slightly later. My photo's are also colour enhanced so the reds appear more red. Oh my I hope I have the right chickens. Time will tell, and I can update here once they're fully grown.

Thanks for the hi!

 

[AnneDrum]

I knew about the avian flu but not the shortage of eggs .... time to put my prices up !

Looking at my wording, I should rather have said that the egg shortage will be following shortly after all this major culling of birds... well that's according to some newsy articles.

 

[AnneDrum]

some chicken are just in hiding .....

 

[AnneDrum]

I'm from the south but not that far south . Just a bit further north and a mite west of there . Chickens is chickens wherever your at . This is a great place to hang out with chicken folks . Pull up a roost have some scratch and chat it up .

Thank you for the greetings! Sounds like you are talking about Nam.
Visiting Nam is still on my bucket list. Have a lovely weekend!