NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

You have a marans rooster that lays green eggs? I would think a rooster that lays any eggs is worth a pretty penny!!!!

I just ordered 24 buckeye eggs to add to my buckeye flock for a little diversity. They are slated to arrive March 6!! Yippee!!!!!!

I try to tell people my chickens are good but no one believes me. I had some Silkies last year but sold them. Since then none of the chickens have been the same. I told my wife I saw a green glow coming from the coop at night but she just said I was getting senile.

She still doesn't believe me even after we found this in the coop.

 

[Cydney83]

You have a marans rooster that lays green eggs? I would think a rooster that lays any eggs is worth a pretty penny!!!!

I just ordered 24 buckeye eggs to add to my buckeye flock for a little diversity. They are slated to arrive March 6!! Yippee!!!!!!

Good luck with the buckeye eggs! Tabs are beautiful! i wish I had a Marans roo who laid greens...wish all my roos laid eggs I would not care what the color!

Today my youngest daughter turns 9...born at 12:55 pm...I have been blessed with a beautiful young lady!

Have a wonderful day!

 

[stonykill]

I don't plan on getting chicks or running the incubator. I'm going to let the girls handle it all this year. The only reason I plan on even turning the incubators on is to put in unhatched eggs after the broody gets off the nest. Then they go back to her

 

[Kit-Kat]

Thanks for the welcome! I'm anxiously awaiting a call from the post office (hopefully today) so that I can go pick up some more silkie chicks... I loved having them last year, but am now down to only two. It was a horrible winter for me with predators- I have this hawk that sits outside my coop and just WAITS.

 

[rancher hicks]

Thanks for the welcome! I'm anxiously awaiting a call from the post office (hopefully today) so that I can go pick up some more silkie chicks... I loved having them last year, but am now down to only two. It was a horrible winter for me with predators- I have this hawk that sits outside my coop and just WAITS.

Well If it was here it wouldn't be sitting for long. I may not be able to kill it but I can darn sure make it wish it were sitting somewhere else.

 

[Framac]

Put the new nest bucket in the coop and found three little green eggs in there today.

I'm working on building a bigge flock of colored and dark egg layers. Which is why all the new Marans chicks have got to stay.

I am planning on starting some more eggs asap, even though DW doesn't know it yet.

So stay tuned I'm sure I'll have chicks to get rid of.

I've placed a bid for Basque eggs on E-bay. I don't expect to win but you never know. Does anyone like them? I don't expect to start with another breed, I just like to hatch.

Do people trust sellers on BYC more than sellers on E bay or other places?

I would trust BYC over e-bay. I never had a bad experience with e-bay, but you can get to know someone on BYC just by reading posts and what not.

Toss a bunch of quitters last night going into lock down. Most of them were laid during that very cold snap we had. I marked them with an F, most i believe froze. 23 or 24 into lock down.

Framac

 

[Cydney83]

Thanks for the welcome! I'm anxiously awaiting a call from the post office (hopefully today) so that I can go pick up some more silkie chicks... I loved having them last year, but am now down to only two. It was a horrible winter for me with predators- I have this hawk that sits outside my coop and just WAITS.
Welcome to the thread ! Enjoy your silkies!

I have two who sit outside the coops and on the high trees..I have white homing pigeons for my dove release business and the hawks wait until I loft fly them with hopes of a snack! I did loose one last fall to a hawk. The homers are very smart now! A few Saturdays ago two hawks were flying with them...lucky for high winds the homers out flew them! I thought they were goners~!

I try to tell people my chickens are good but no one believes me. I had some Silkies last year but sold them. Since then none of the chickens have been the same. I told my wife I saw a green glow coming from the coop at night but she just said I was getting senile.

She still doesn't believe me even after we found this in the coop.



Oh~ I would not like to find that in the coop! The legs and arms look so cute~!

 

[Tough Old Bird]

Thanks for the welcome! I'm anxiously awaiting a call from the post office (hopefully today) so that I can go pick up some more silkie chicks... I loved having them last year, but am now down to only two. It was a horrible winter for me with predators- I have this hawk that sits outside my coop and just WAITS.

Looks like you have the "pleasure" of entertaining a Cooper's Hawk keeping tabs on your coop...and there is no pun intended. Hawks are protected, but making his perch time unpleasant or stressful by loudly approaching him when possible might make him avoid being as frequent a patron as he is now. They are amazing predators and very impressive, but of course, not so much so when they are after your birds.

TOB

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

I hope your fertility rate on the buckeyes was better than mine last year. I am anxiously awaiting your results!!

Put the light in the buckeye coop to get the older hens back into production so I can start hatching. The Am/LHX are coming back into lay. I got 3 eggs from them today. (they are not lit and I kept 5 and The one EE pullet) The EE has not laid anything yet and they will be a year old Feb 21. The EE is my husband's favorite non buckeye. The EE/LH have been exceptional layers of light blue eggs. They are quite flighty though and like to fly over their fence and lay their eggs in the horse barn. Silly birds!!!

We have our LH EE in with our Del roo (beefcake) and we've set some of their eggs to see how the offspring will be. Our pen walls go right to the ceiling so they can't fly out. So far all 4 buckeye eggs we set are growing.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

How dark are the eggs from the Golden Cuckoos? Seems to me that many of the marans varieties lay just about the same darkness of eggs. I could be wrong.

Keep me posted on your Buckeyes. I may like them over the RIR's. for cold weather hardiness and comb.

I'll have to take a pic. Some of the eggs are a little darker than the others, but they're no where near as dark as Sue's marans.