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[LisaYolkUm]

A really neat map. How can my zip be added? Any way the participants can communicate? One is really close, probably within five miles of me and the other with her moniker and location, wonder if that is where my friend got my two Jersey giants for me?

welcome! I am in Chester county. Someone on here will let you know about the map...........I forget who does that.............

 

[chippysmom327]

         Hi, wasn't sure how to start a new on topic thread so just replied to this.
         We're in Northampton County and have a very small backyard flock. Already my husband is planning for expansion next spring.
          Our goal is a colorful egg basket (The chickens are pets.) and I'm interested in adding a few (two or three) chocolate egg layers and increasing the colored egg layers we have.
     Does anyone know a good source in the area for peeps or are there ever swap meets or chicken sales?
Or do I need to mail order?

First of all, I would not go to a swap meet. I've purchased two chickens from swap meets (separate times) and they were both dangerously sick. Thank God I practiced extreme biosecurity and my flock didn't contract it.
You can't tell they're sick at first. Your gut says "wow, this is a healthy chicken" and you buy it and 2 days later it's hacking and sneezing up a storm. Trust me. Please.

In Spring (easter actually) I'm hatching some peeps out. Some will lay cream colored eggs when grown and others will lay a pretty pale blue egg. The cream egg layers will be Golden Sebright (dad) over a Light Sussex/Batnevelder (mom). They'll be total mutts but very pretty. The pale blue egg layers will be Golden Sebright (dad) over a pure Ameraucana (notice I didn't say Americana [mom]), making the babies Americanas. Americanas are colored egg layers that have purebred Ameraucana genes somewhere in their blood whether it be a little or a lot. My babies will be 50% pure Ameraucana. If that makes any sense.

I'm located in SW Pa in Westmoreland County. How far is that from you?

 

[beaglady]

Stake,

If you're looking for Dorkings in spring, I have a friend who raises them, but isn't on here. I can connect you two.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

       A really neat map.  How can my zip be added?  Any way the participants can communicate?  One is really close, probably within five miles of me and the other with her moniker and location, wonder if that is where my friend got my two Jersey giants for me?

Missy adds people to the map.

Chippy, that's rough getting the sick birds from swaps. You are exactly right that they seem healthy when you're looking them over. The stress of being relocated can kick up any diseases they may have that are dormant.

I've never heard of putting an 'I' in Ameraucana to make it a cross, I just call all cross bred and miss marked blue layers 'Easter Eggers'. Interesting rule, though.

Temps are dropping out there, have a good day, all!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Adding the i is a hatchery trick to avoid calling them easter eggers & make people think they are getting ameraucanas.

 

[Katt66]

A really neat map. How can my zip be added? Any way the participants can communicate? One is really close, probably within five miles of me and the other with her moniker and location, wonder if that is where my friend got my two Jersey giants for me?

I would love to be added to that map as well. My Zip is 18214.


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• Blarneyeggs from a couple of pages ago, yes I am very interested in a good Black Copper Marans pullet or two. But I want to wait to spring. This is my little coops first year up and running and I want to make sure I have all the kinks worked out with the arrangement of everything, run space/free range time, feeders, waterers, etc. before I add any more birds. Just need to take a step back, watch everybody and see how things go over the winter.

 

[dekel18042]

If you're adding, my zip is 18042.
Thanks.

 

[stake]

Missy adds people to the map.

Chippy, that's rough getting the sick birds from swaps. You are exactly right that they seem healthy when you're looking them over. The stress of being relocated can kick up any diseases they may have that are dormant.

I've never heard of putting an 'I' in Ameraucana to make it a cross, I just call all cross bred and miss marked blue layers 'Easter Eggers'. Interesting rule, though.

Temps are dropping out there, have a good day, all!

Temps are dropping and there's a pretty good breeze too...already had three hawks circling...had to stand outside and play guard dog for a half hour...brrrr....

 

[dekel18042]

Sounds like you'll be getting really pretty eggs.
Unfortunetly we are probably as far apart in the state as we can be. We can wave across the Delaware at New Jersey.
It's just in the planning stages, but I am hoping to make some olive eggers and am reading up on it now.

 

[Katt66]

Temps are dropping and there's a pretty good breeze too...already had three hawks circling...had to stand outside and play guard dog for a half hour...brrrr....

Yeah I don't know if I'm even going to put my guys out in the yard today. They've got a decent sized covered run to scratch around it. It's nice to let them out to roam though so they can play in the compost pile and the now composting veggie garden. Unfortunately I'd feel the need to stand guard as well. I've seen a few hawks around the past couple of days. It's a shame too because my pitbull is completely uninterested in the chickens and I could easily leave her out there with them all day long. She's not much of a guard dog though, she'd be so busy eating the chickens' bowl of fermented feed and digging in the compost pile like a little piggy herself hawks could come down and take all ten chickens and she wouldn't notice till they tried to carry her fat butt off as well.