OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

[kfoster363]

Uhmmm, I may be a bit of an extreme example, but last spring I started with eight hens and a rooster. I just topped a hundred birds last weekend, with 86 eggs in the incubator and more coming...

So either be very self-disciplined, or build a really big coop!

Holy crap!!! How big is your coop lol!

 

[cluckitall]

Luckily (or very unluckily, depending on how you look at it!) I have a whole barn to play with. Although I'm still going to have to build about a dozen small coops as well -- I'm going to have a lot of trios and quartets, including my current favorite lovelies:



(my camera is horrible, but those are my two-month old rhodebar trio!)

I've really got to stop trying to acquire every chicken in existence...

 

[Chickawawa]

Quote: Ha! Love it! Cluckitail you are the ultimate chicken overachiever! I thought I was bad at expanding from 5 to 11 within a few months! I am SO keeping this thread bookmarked so I can point back to this when Hubs starts giving me a hard time!

 

[cluckitall]

I am lucky enough to have some wonderful friends who've helped feed my chicken addiction massively (Yeah, CPL, I'm looking at you!) I just totally fell in love with them and have been learning everything I can, finding the best stock I can, and am hoping by midsummer to start offering eggs and chicks for sale. They have to start paying for their own feed before I have to move into the barn with them!

And yes, I make a very good "But see how much worse it could be?" cautionary tale, lol!

 

[Marengoite]

Quote: If you are still at 3-6 chickens by this time next year I will bake and send you a cake! Gotta keep chicken math in mind when you're building. They are addictive little suckers! LOL

LOL. Truth.

I started out with 6 Golden comets, a dozen Buckeyes, half dozen Barred rocks, a dozen Silver Spangled Hamburgs and a dozen turkeys. Ended up getting 10 more cockerels and two pullets mid summer and finished out the year buying a breeding trio of Buckeyes.

Sounds like a lot but between the neighbor's dog and freezer camp, we have a "very small" flock of 8 SSHs, 1 GC, 3 BRs, and 7 Buckeyes. Hardly any chickens at all.

 

[cluckitall]

LOL. Truth.

I started out with 6 Golden comets, a dozen Buckeyes, half dozen Barred rocks, a dozen Silver Spangled Hamburgs and a dozen turkeys. Ended up getting 10 more cockerels and two pullets mid summer and finished out the year buying a breeding trio of Buckeyes.

Sounds like a lot but between the neighbor's dog and freezer camp, we have a "very small" flock of 8 SSHs, 1 GC, 3 BRs, and 7 Buckeyes. Hardly any chickens at all.

That makes for a very pretty, varied, and nice-sized backyard flock!

 

[Marengoite]

For those of you just getting started in poultry or beginning with a 4-H-er, I would highly recommend the Bi-State Poultry Clinic at OARDC: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/t02/eventview.asp?id=6359 We learned a LOT last year, met some great folks, and had a very eye-opening experience. It is the best $15 you'll ever spend.

 

[blessedchick]

LOL. Truth.

I started out with 6 Golden comets, a dozen Buckeyes, half dozen Barred rocks, a dozen Silver Spangled Hamburgs and a dozen turkeys. Ended up getting 10 more cockerels and two pullets mid summer and finished out the year buying a breeding trio of Buckeyes.

Sounds like a lot but between the neighbor's dog and freezer camp, we have a "very small" flock of 8 SSHs, 1 GC, 3 BRs, and 7 Buckeyes. Hardly any chickens at all.

You're missing Silkies! No flock is complete without those bitty feathered feet!

 

[blessedchick]

For those of you just getting started in poultry or beginning with a 4-H-er, I would highly recommend the Bi-State Poultry Clinic at OARDC: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/t02/eventview.asp?id=6359 We learned a LOT last year, met some great folks, and had a very eye-opening experience. It is the best $15 you'll ever spend.

Dag snag it! That is exactly what I'm looking for...and I am unable to make it that day...

 

[6 littleHens]

Anyone know Lucasville swap dates this year? Do they usually have buckeye pullets?