Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[AnneInTheBurbs]

I'd love to know how he managed to get 30 birds at TSC and wind up with all pullets???  I think someone packed a hatchery flat wrong!   I would hate to have been the person who got the crate these girls were supposed to be in!  About now they are realizing they got a flock of roos!

Lololol!

Met a guy at a swap who told us he bought 25 straight run chicks and ended up with 24 roos.

That's incredible!

Well now we know who got Wingstones Roos  

Rofl!

Hello from Leola!

Welcome from Bucks County!

sorry to hear of your loss.  ...But very happy to know you are now a chicken math whiz!! Nothing like the right tudor to help out with that!! ...hahaha
oh my..16 broodies ...I can't wait till this craziness is over....I want eggs! hahahaha....and NO...more chickens doe not equal more eggs...it equals more broodies..your example right there !!! hahahaha

Thanks, I actually felt worse for my neighbor who had to clean up the little carcass, I wasn't even there so it probably didn't affect me as much as I thought it might.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Another question for you all. Are increased vocalizations a sign of eggs coming soon? A couple of our hens have started making a lot more noise, although it sounds more like protesting when they are separated from each other. They free range all day and they only sleep in the coop, so I might have to search for eggs in the yard soon.

 

[LadyBehir]

Very nice!! Looking great!! How many birds are you interested in getting? What breeds? you probably already said all this...

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Mabel and Vicki are Americauna, Serena and Bridget are Specked Sussex, Colleen is a Delaware, and Niko is a Buff Orp. This is them at 8 weeks. They are now 13 weeks.

 

[wingstone]

Very nice!! Looking great!! How many birds are you interested in getting? What breeds? you probably already said all this... ...

Mabel and Vicki are Americauna, Serena and Bridget are Specked Sussex, Colleen is a Delaware, and Niko is a Buff Orp. This is them at 8 weeks. They are now 13 weeks.

Even after all this time on BYC, this still baffles me. I am glad that so many people have backyard flocks, but I have a hard time relating sometimes. For me it is a working farm and livestock is just that..livestock... Are these names that just come to you or does the bird do something that itgets those names......In my world, dinner is a name.... I really. Am not cold hearted, I just live in a very different lifestyle than most on here...

 

[chickencowranch]

Hello from Leola!

Hello and welcome. I live in Mt. Wolf, York county.

 

[chickencowranch]

Even after all this time on BYC, this still baffles me.

I am glad that so many people have backyard flocks, but I have a hard time relating sometimes.
For me it is a working farm and livestock is just that..livestock...
Are these names that just come to you or does the bird do something that itgets those names......In my world, dinner is a name....


I really. Am not cold hearted, I just live in a very different lifestyle than most on here...

I have backyard chickens that are just called chickens. No name, but I do take care of them for the most part.

 

[tpolinsk]

Even after all this time on BYC, this still baffles me.

I am glad that so many people have backyard flocks, but I have a hard time relating sometimes.
For me it is a working farm and livestock is just that..livestock...
Are these names that just come to you or does the bird do something that itgets those names......In my world, dinner is a name....


I really. Am not cold hearted, I just live in a very different lifestyle than most on here...

Hi Wingstone. I think it's a matter of the number of birds one has and what they are actually meant for. For example, I only have four, so they were relatively easy to name. Also, mine are mainly being raised for the eggs. When they stop laying -- well, I try not to think that far in advance! With only a couple of birds they can very easily become pets. {There was a quote an old western (cannot remember which one) that would probably relate to you - when the rider was asked what the name of his horse was he replied, "I don't name what I may have to eat."}

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Another question for you all. Are increased vocalizations a sign of eggs coming soon? A couple of our hens have started making a lot more noise, although it sounds more like protesting when they are separated from each other. They free range all day and they only sleep in the coop, so I might have to search for eggs in the yard soon.

I would say yes to the vocals...mine let me know when the egg is on it's way and when it has showed up

....some of them won't stop hollering till I actually get the egg out of the box, " get THAT thing outta here!!" ...then they calm down...haha crazy birds.

Mabel and Vicki are Americauna, Serena and Bridget are Specked Sussex, Colleen is a Delaware, and Niko is a Buff Orp. This is them at 8 weeks. They are now 13 weeks.

yep, you put them up there, now I remember...this is scary...starting to question my brain function

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I remember the Niko name..I like that. I see dry feeder there....are you doing FF now? or you still going to stick with dry? I am just friendly curious..not gonna flip on ya or anything...

Even after all this time on BYC, this still baffles me.

I am glad that so many people have backyard flocks, but I have a hard time relating sometimes.
For me it is a working farm and livestock is just that..livestock...
Are these names that just come to you or does the bird do something that itgets those names......In my world, dinner is a name....


I really. Am not cold hearted, I just live in a very different lifestyle than most on here...

I have mine named (hens), but I KNOW exactly what the deal is & it will get done. I have come from a very long line of farmers...hahahaha...as a lot of others here have too..got that whole PA Dutch thing going on...just not wearing the bonnet/bun

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DH wanted to name the CornishX and turkeys..I said No, not a good idea...he said, "what's wrong with BBQ, Rotisserie, and Thanksgiving?".....I said.."Not a thing, you go right ahead."...hahhaa, he is cool with trying this whole thing out, I guess I can let him name his dinner

....hahaha....**Wing- you are NOT cold hearted for sure.

 

[tpolinsk]

Oh, and you are definitely not "cold-hearted", wingstone. Chickens are livestock and believe me, I love the taste of chicken. It is simply nature. We are meant to eat meat.

 

[mimischicksnat]

Even after all this time on BYC, this still baffles me.

I am glad that so many people have backyard flocks, but I have a hard time relating sometimes.
For me it is a working farm and livestock is just that..livestock...
Are these names that just come to you or does the bird do something that itgets those names......In my world, dinner is a name....


I really. Am not cold hearted, I just live in a very different lifestyle than most on here...

We have other livestock here besides chickens (which all came before the chickens anyway) and we name them. Our cattle herd hovers around 30, we have 5 goats that keep some of our weeds down, 4 pigs and now I have 25 chickens. We name them all. Well, except for the boar and the barrows. That's how we keep track of them. We don't use a numbering system because we're too small of an operation to do that.

But even knowing eventually the laying hens will be re-homed or slaughtered, giving them names gives me a sense of enjoyment. Living on a working farm is hard. Especially when it's only 2 of us who are now officially "over the hill". Our kids don't want anything to do with the farm. Sometimes the little things make it a little easier.

I think eventually hubs will want to do meat birds. I doubt those will get names since they will only be around for a few weeks. Unless of course one or two of them does something to make me say, "you remind me of so-an-so".