Well unfortunetely our poor dark Brahma passed away...
She broke her wing a few weeks back and it never fully recovered. Possibly about the orpingtons if we have to cut back. NOT MY SPLASH THOUGH!
So sorry to hear about your Brahma!! Keep me posted on the Orpingtons, anything you don't want I can help you find a home for. If not with me, then I know a couple people that would be interested I'm sure. She is my little baby! I've decided though that I really love our Silver Laced Wyandottes and might possibly of thinking of getting roo to get chicks... Maybe the welsummer too... maybe. I love our RIRs but I have absolutely detested all of our previous roos! When I was three our roo was vicious and would literally tackle me if I walked near the barn! Every other RIR roo we've had has been mean so no RIR roos.... NONE. Sorry about rambling but I guess I'm trying to narrow down the breeds I might want to downsize too through my rambling. I might try more marans because I liked our previous hens, not our roo, but our current cockerel is nothing like his daddy!!!! He is the sweetest little thing I could ever have!!!!!! His sister isn't as nice, but still really friendly.
Anyways.... Can someone explain how much fermented feed they feed their birds? I have started fermented feed and then I give them some each morning and whenever they run out give them a little bit of pellets... They still act like I'm starving them and I'm giving them quite a bit of fermented feed! Is there some sort of specific feed to bird ratio?
From what I've gleaned off of the meat bird thread on here, most ppl seem to be giving as much as they can eat in 15 minutes twice a day and then either free ranging or giving pellets the rest of the day. Should take them about a week or two to get adjusted to the FF. Just be patient, it'll pay off in the long run.
Also, I'm still not getting any eggs!! I get an occasional two but thats all! I can tell our RIRs are still molting because I can see that their heads are still replacing feathers, but all our other girls look fine!!! That or they are just not really showing their molt in their body or their head like the RIRs. But its been about a month and a half to two months with no eggs! I'm starting to feel like I'm going something wrong! Plus store bought eggs are disgusting!!!
I have to agree about the store bought eggs. Plus I feel like I have to apologize to all of chickendom every time I buy them, or store bought chicken. Maybe they just got an early start on their winter vacation? I'm not the best person to ask on that one. Maybe make sure they are getting more light in the morning to make up for the shorter days? Hope you get it fixed!
Oh and can someone tell me about Blue Isbars and these super blue egg layers I've been hearing about? Because one thing I've been thinking about doing is maybe having one main brown egg layer, one white layer, and a blue egg layer.... Then of course our bantams.... but then I am also kind of thinking of having a specific breed or two that my mom really likes, then a breed or two I really like, then our egg purpose birds. Then our bantams... I don't know!!! Its all too confusing, all I know is that I want a nice variety of eggs and it's just going to take some time to decide on the birds.
I think I counted like eight diff categories there hun. I know it's tough to choose. Why do you have chickens in the first place? Eggs? Meat? Showing? Just because they're fun? Once you can answer that, you can start thinking about which breeds serve that purpose best. Factor in the benefits vs. cost and you'll have it. There are very few breeds that I wouldn't like to have, but it's just not financially feasible to have that many chickens being fed. Moreover, the more breeds you have to breed the worse off your end product will be since you won't be able to devote the proper time to each breed for selection etc. Esp. with school, jobs, family and a human social life.
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Anyone have any advice?! Not even sure this will make sense to anyone since it's just kind of bunched up and confusing... All I can say is its been a long day with a few hours of homework, a four hour practice, and four tests in school (100% on two, 98% on one and the other we just aren't going to speak of...
). Ugh! Anyway thanks to you all!
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE TWO TESTS!!
