Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[LisaYolkUm]

Did a head count tonight..

Explains the feed bill.

Layer house has
42 hens of various breed
19 roosters of various breeds and ages

Quail pen has
19 Cot's
2 Tennessee red
2 valley

Meat bird pen has
32 freedom rangers at 10 weeks old

Breeding pens
2 rooster and 5 hen of white bresse
3 rooster 5 hen of bantam Cochin

Grow out pens have
6 hedemora
37 white rocks

Brooder has
4 turkey
4 Muscovy
2 bantam Cochin
1 white bresse
1 mix

Duck pen has
8 east indie
4 khaki Campbell
3 Rouen
5 Muscovy


Anyone want to add all that up,,,,I am afraid to...

I do not see meat being a problem anytime soon

all I can say is WOW! now THATS a lot of chickens!!!!!!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Not sure who said what, I just read 6 pages.
To the person in litiz looking for eggs, I work in lititz, right up the road from the airport, I can run transport if needed.

My Muscovy eggs often hatch all over the scale from about 31 days to 37, always thought it was just my incubator, I also hatch them at 55% humidity most of the time, they tend to catch me off guard,

Stake, I only wish I could cook like that, I was to busy being the tomboy growing up, never thought learning how to cook would be important...but I do have lots of scars to prove that I had fun.

I just hatched 4 of your scovies. 2 hatched at 37 days, the other 2 at 38 days. My anconas tend to be really sensitive to my bator temps too. They range 27-33 days most of the time.

 

[joyfulshepherde]

wing, if Jen in Lititz wants the SFH eggs from CC, that would be perfect. No one would have to travel much out of their way. We should have a name for this, the "poultry express" or something. 5 weeks ago, blarney carried eggs from you to me and those are the Muscovies that are hatching now.

Jen is also the person that hatched and raised the Lavender Ameracauna roo that troyer just posted a picture of a few posts back. That roo and his brothers were her kids and broody hen's "project" last year. I helped move that roo from her place to his.

Just being neighborly with the poultry express

Wow, everyone on here is so neighborly!

Yes, transport would help so much! Thanks for the offer!

 

[troyer]

Did a head count tonight..

Explains the feed bill.

Layer house has
42 hens of various breed
19 roosters of various breeds and ages

Quail pen has
19 Cot's
2 Tennessee red
2 valley

Meat bird pen has
32 freedom rangers at 10 weeks old

Breeding pens
2 rooster and 5 hen of white bresse
3 rooster 5 hen of bantam Cochin

Grow out pens have
6 hedemora
37 white rocks

Brooder has
4 turkey
4 Muscovy
2 bantam Cochin
1 white bresse
1 mix

Duck pen has
8 east indie
4 khaki Campbell
3 Rouen
5 Muscovy


Anyone want to add all that up,,,,I am afraid to...

I do not see meat being a problem anytime soon

155 chickens
24 ducks
23 quail
4 ducks
making a total of 206 fowl. Don't feel too bad, you still have about 70 to go to catch up with us.

Should I add the eggs that the broodies are on....
16 Muscovy
12 Beltsville
12 buckeye

And 40 possibles.

Just being neighborly with the poultry express

Exactly and it works well!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Haven't caught up on the thread yet, about 100 posts behind. I was considering suffering through the all natural eating contest that Wing has subjected herself to, and then I realized that Moon Pies aren't on the 'ok list'. so....I'm out. I'm glad you like the OE boy, would love to see pics of him all grown out.

I hatched a whole slew of eggs for a customer who wasn't really worried about breed. She hasn't come to pick up her chicks, and my hatch was a bit more successful than I had thought. I'm going to post these on Craig's list, but thought I'd post a pic here too, just in case. They're mostly a group of barnyard mixes. I have my BCMs boy covering my main coop so ALL of the chicks are either black or blue, the hens are BCMs, BLRW, Imported English Orps, ect... so there are some pure BCMs in there. Any local interest, please PM me. My zip code is 19375.





Also had a trade fall through on a few 9 week old Turkey Poults (SS eggs) I've got 2 or three of them.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Did a head count tonight..

Explains the feed bill.

Layer house has

42 hens of various breed

19 roosters of various breeds and ages


Quail pen has

19 Cot's

2 Tennessee red

2 valley


Meat bird pen has

32 freedom rangers at 10 weeks old


Breeding pens

2 rooster and 5 hen of white bresse

3 rooster 5 hen of bantam Cochin


Grow out pens have

6 hedemora

37 white rocks


Brooder has

4 turkey

4 Muscovy

2 bantam Cochin

1 white bresse

1 mix


Duck pen has

8 east indie

4 khaki Campbell

3 Rouen
5 Muscovy



Anyone want to add all that up,,,,I am afraid to...


I do not see meat being a problem anytime soon

   155 chickens
   24 ducks
   23 quail
   4 ducks
   [COLOR=0000FF]making a total of 206 fowl. Don't feel too bad, you still have about 70 to go to catch up with us.[/COLOR]

Should I add the eggs that the broodies are on....

16 Muscovy

12 Beltsville

12 buckeye

  [COLOR=0000FF]And 40 possibles.[/COLOR]

Just being neighborly with the poultry express 

[COLOR=0000FF]  Exactly and it works well![/COLOR]

Lemme see (this is after parting with about 100 at the swap & processing 15 this week):
7 turkeys
5 poults
6 anconas
13 ancona ducklings
4 scovie ducklings
7 call ducks
2 pilgrim goslings
25 coturnix
9 coturnix chicks
40+ poliskie chicks
7 polbar chicks
10 ee banty chicks
20+ rainbow chicks
3 Silkie roos
5 polish
4 buckeye pullets
4 bbs eng orp chicks
2 blue marans chicks
2 bresse chicks
1 showgirl/ee bantam
1 ee bantam hen (sitting on 4 eggs)
2 lf roosters (breeding age)
14 lf layer hens

plus 2 incubators still full of anconas, turkeys, quail, ee bantam, poliskies, calls, rare breed assortment of shipped eggs & coturnix quail

I stopped setting eggs until after I get moved so I should be down to 1 bator with eggs by the time we move. It got postponed a week.

 

[wingstone]

The Beltsville eggs showed up at the same time as the sister in law from north Carolina so I am thinking they came with her, the buckeye are from eBay..
I hope she handled those turkey eggs better han the PO.



I also got really strange looks from her, is it not normal to get all excited over a dozen eggs.

 

[fisherlady]

The Beltsville eggs showed up at the same time as the sister in law from north Carolina so I am thinking they came with her, the buckeye are from eBay..
I hope she handled those turkey eggs better han the PO.



I also got really strange looks from her, is it not normal to get all excited over a dozen eggs.

We travel by car for 2 hours each way for eggs... we get excited about them too.
In fact that is what we are doing right now...

 

[wingstone]

Thank you Troyer
I can now tell hubby that troyer gave me the neighborly advice of setting more eggs since my numbers are way behind...
Doubt he will fall for that but it is worth a try....
CC, you heard him , right,....you can back me up on this.

 

[wingstone]

Blarney, I will get some pics of him today, he still has a lot of growing to do, but he is always the gentlemen, since he refuses to stay caged he better stay that way, I have egg customers that pet him.

And I have incentive to make that diet work for a month, IHATE WORKING THE TOBACCO FIELD...