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kada6305 said:
wingstone said:
 
The big question is  "how does your wife feel about all those chicks inside "  ..
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I AM the wife :p
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Problem totally solved then. We all know that the rooster may rule the coop, but the hen totally rules the rooster.
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ewe105 said:
Hi everyone.  Excited to share that we got our first chicks over the weekend.  We got a cochin and a welsummer from Pickering Valley and a black sex-link from dheltzel, and all appear to be doing great.  The welsummer is about a week old now and the other two are a couple of days younger.  I have read that it's important that we handle them frequently when they're young so they become socialized - but whenever we reach in the brooder they scramble away pretty quickly.  I assume this is normal for really young chicks - just wondering how long it usually takes for them to get more comfortable with people.  Any thoughts?  Thanks.
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I find that offering meal worms from your hand as close to hatch as possible usually wins them over.

Anyone notice a difference in taste with the Red Ranger Broilers and the Cornish cross? We noticed a huge difference in turkey meat flavor and color last year between the commercial Broad Breasted White and the Heritage Blue Slate (compliments of Silkie Sensation). I was not impressed with the flavor of our pasture raised Cornish Cross, and really feel breed was the key with the turkeys. We processed the turkeys at 30 weeks, 10 weeks longer than the typical 20 weeks for commercial and they were a good weight.

 
ewe105 said:
Hi everyone.  Excited to share that we got our first chicks over the weekend.  We got a cochin and a welsummer from Pickering Valley and a black sex-link from dheltzel, and all appear to be doing great.  The welsummer is about a week old now and the other two are a couple of days younger.  I have read that it's important that we handle them frequently when they're young so they become socialized - but whenever we reach in the brooder they scramble away pretty quickly.  I assume this is normal for really young chicks - just wondering how long it usually takes for them to get more comfortable with people.  Any thoughts?  Thanks.
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That's sounds totally normal. You will find different hens be different personalities. I have one hen whom I still cant pick up unless I corner her. Others will try to walk in the house following me or sit on my lap. Keep working at it, they will probably come around. Also, they do seem to get more calm after they begin to lay.

tmshull said:
Northeast PA...Lackawanna Co.
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Welcome!


LadyBehir said:
[COLOR=141823]THREE eggs today! Mabel joined Miss Vicki in blue eggs for me. Vicki's are more greenish and rounder. Mabel's are slightly bluer and pointy. So now I know who is laying what. Don't know who is laying the medium brown egg. There might be two layers, one I got this week was a slightly tanner color than the other brown ones I've gotten. [/COLOR]:weee


Drove by LMP's but I was working so I couldn't stop.
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How many chickens do you have LadyBehir?
 
Still snowing here... yes, another snow day for the kids. And we have had a stomach flu run through all 5 kids in the house within the last week I'm loosing my marbles.

 
I no longer have any Dominique hen's, I only have a few of the roosters left.
Glad to see so many converts to the Rhodebars, not sure what that says about me since I pawned them off on Dheltzel, they did not fit in and just were not what I wanted... that rooster was pretty though...
I really will not have much to offer this year with all the reconstructing.
 

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