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[jcatblum]

Well our poultry count is 13 ducks, 45 guineas & 93 grown chickens-- no chicks. There may be more chickens or guineas, some don't like to be counted. So if we are only counting chickens y'all have more than me!!!! Just no one tell Taron we are coming in close to last.

Why did we only get 8 eggs today??? We have lost over half of those leghorns. Lost another one today.

 

[mjgigax]

Mitzi, I love your orps. That is what I love about ours, they are so laid back. I have one hen that just talks and talks to me while I feed them. She is the queen of the coop (or so she thinks) I am getting ready to pull my Buff Orps out of the layers yard and put them with their roo. He was trying to horn in on the breeding action and the roo in the layers yard didn't like that one bit so time he got his own set of girls and their own pen. They will move to the now empty hoop house. I just have to get some nesting boxes put in there. Haven't needed them in there since it has only been a grow out pen up till now. I can't wait until my Lavender Orps are laying. I have 2 pullets and 2 roos so hopefully I can find about 4 more pullets this winter for them to share.

Christina we actually got 15 eggs yesterday but still nothing from my barred pen so I think there is a snake out there getting them. Since there are at least 12-15 girls in that pen that should be laying something is up with that pen. They also don't have a light yet so maybe that will help as well.

You know I don't think even waiting for Christmas is as hard as waiting for pullets to start laying! I have a pen of Wheaton Marans that are right at POL still not laying, my CW pullet still isn't laying, and I have 9 BCMs that should be laying but aren't (thinking maybe something is getting their eggs. They had been laying when I was letting them free range but they wouldn't lay in the coop so I thought keeping them from free ranging for a while would make them lay in the coop. Well they are showing me! They just aren't laying! LOL

That is so true! I am so impatient.

I love my Lavender Cochins. They have come a long way in just 3 generations. The color looks so good with their red combs and wattles.

Dh was looking at my Wheaten Ameraucana pair and likes them so much he talked about getting a much bigger pen and atarting a whole flock!

If anyone has any Buff Orp. eggs or chicks I know someone who wants some.

 

[mjgigax]

Someone posted on a yahoo group that DARP sold meat chicks for 85c each I believe. They are too far for me to drive but thought would be good info for someone. Also was reading a good review of someone who regularly raises freedom rangers. They were able to get Cockerals 7lbs & pullets 5lbs. Sounds like a nice option, but they let them go to 14wks. You could do 2 batches of Cornish cross in that time.
P&B good luck sorting birds. I think newcastle auction should be a good one with the nice weather. Turkeys are a gamble, since it isn't quite time but if you hold on to them & weather turns bad or cold you will miss the turkey season. I try my best to say we have more birds than we need but a little girl always disagrees & dad won't back me up. If you ask every bird here serves a purpose, even if only 1 girl can see the purpose.

Someone posted on a yahoo group that DARP sold meat chicks for 85c each I believe. They are too far for me to drive but thought would be good info for someone. Also was reading a good review of someone who regularly raises freedom rangers. They were able to get Cockerals 7lbs & pullets 5lbs. Sounds like a nice option, but they let them go to 14wks. You could do 2 batches of Cornish cross in that time.
P&B good luck sorting birds. I think newcastle auction should be a good one with the nice weather. Turkeys are a gamble, since it isn't quite time but if you hold on to them & weather turns bad or cold you will miss the turkey season. I try my best to say we have more birds than we need but a little girl always disagrees & dad won't back me up. If you ask every bird here serves a purpose, even if only 1 girl can see the purpose.

My little Cochins serve a purpose - making me happy. They were life savers with all the stress at school.

I have 52 birds ; 45 Cochins, 3 LaFleche, 2 Wheaten Americaunas, 1 Easter Egger, and the latest addition- 1 Olive Egger.

 

[NanaKat]

Columbian Wyandottes 9 grown and 10 chicks at different stages,
Black Wyandottes 15 at different stages, These are F1 project birds ( Wyandotte x Australorp)
Blue Wyandottes 20 at different stages,
Birchen Wyandottes 10 different stages,
Silver Laced Wyandotte 4
Layers (Australorp, Red sex link, Minorca, Delaware, New Hampshire, Maran) 45 two to four years old
Cochin (blue, black, white, splash)15 all different ages
Project birds F1 in Cochin x Australorp and Cochin x CW 15
Light Brahma 3
Buff Orpington 4
That's 135 large fowl.
And there are 22 bantams (d'Anvers, Rosecomb and OEGB) and two geese and 4 Lovebirds
And so glad we don't have to count the eggs in the incubator and those waiting to go in....
I really love the Wyandotte and the Cochin breeds...can you tell.
No wonder my feed bill is so high each month

 

[erinszoo]

I don't think my poultry count will help either but I might win for variety ... we have 23 meat birds until tomorrow when we'll have another 25, 7 barred rocks, 4 RIR, 3 white leghorns, 1 EE rooster, 1 mottled cochin bantam, 1 silkie, 1 golden sebright, 5 white holland turkeys, 1 buff runner duck, 2 swedish blue ducks, 12 cats, 1 snake, 4 rabbits (one of which is pregnant), 1 three toed box turtle, 1 red eared pond slider, and 8 ornate box turtles and, to my knowledge, that's all ... but I do have children and a husband who could be keeping things from me. Oh wait, I also have 2 silver laced wyandottes, 2 rir x barred rock, and Scrawny (which we don't know what is). Do I get to count the skinks that nest in my greenhouse and the doves that are roosted on my porch and eat from the chicken yard and the squirrel who thinks it's hysterically funny to throw pecans at my turkeys?

 

[jcatblum]

MJ did you go back to teaching art???? MJ watch out start another flock then it will be another & another.

Nana glad you have more chickens than my house! Hearing so many have more birds than me makes my numbers seem more acceptable. Since it is normal for someone to have 100 chickens.

 

[MacGuyver]

Ok. I did a headcount and would like to know who's been sneaking birds in while I wasn't looking??? Christina? Cathie? 'Fess up!
How many birds do some of you have? I'd really like to feel better about my numbers.

Erm, ten guineas, four Dominique hens, five Dominique pullets, thirteen Dominique roosters (nine of which are going to freezer camp on Sunday), a silkie, three cochin bantam hens, a bantam cochin rooster, and three chicks. So, that's 31 birds that are staying.

 

[mjgigax]

MJ did you go back to teaching art???? MJ watch out start another flock then it will be another & another.
Nana glad you have more chickens than my house! Hearing so many have more birds than me makes my numbers seem more acceptable. Since it is normal for someone to have 100 chickens.

No teaching for me. I am working part-time in the framing department at Hobby Lobby, MUCH less stressfull.

 

[jcatblum]

No teaching for me. I am working part-time in the framing department at Hobby Lobby, MUCH less stressfull.

Your previous post said cochins were a stress reliever after school-- thought maybe you were teaching. Hobby Lobby sounds less stressful than school. Preschool & younger elementary kids are not too bad, but parents & school politics are exhausting.

 

[Amy Farah Fowler]

Hello all. Just wondering if someone might have a hen or pullet or two that will lay blue eggs that they'd be willing to sell? My granddaughter loves gathering the eggs, and is fascinated by the colors of the eggs. She had hens that layed brown eggs, but thanks to the heat and a fox, she lost her beloved chickens. Now we've found her 3 hens, and they lay tan eggs. I think she'd be thrilled to go out and find some different colored eggs, and absolutely thrilled if there was a blue egg. I live in Perry, and it would be very helpful if I didn't have to go far. Thanks!!!