Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[alibabba]

Gab girl, i am nosey about how you rescued meat chickens.. All chickens grow super fast, its amazing. Do you have some pictures? That might help people figure out what to do.

Stay calm. No one is gonna crow in the next few weeks... And breeders live in very small spaces as a rule, from what I have seen on this site and others.


Did you post in the free rehome forum? If I had a big ole farm, with room for them to roam a bit... If they are a meat breed, they don't like to roam to far from the feeder I have read.

All will be well, you have time to find a place where they can live out their lives as you hope for them.

It is a good lesson to be respectful to God's creatures.

 

[SilkieSensation]

This sounds exciting!!!!   Congratulations!!!  WELCOME to the Hotel California...

Enablers aplenty here....  Like drunks in a divebar.

MCC had a flock, sold it, and is back for round two! She is well aware of what she is getting in to, and we welcome her back with open arms!

And she had seen me drunk, just not in a dive bar!

Was this cartwheels in a kilt...or was that Chad? Lol

To those who use light bulbs as heat sources in their incubator:


Has anyone tried halogens since incandescent are getting harder to find?

yes im using them now and there working good,. my thermostat regulates and keeping is at 99, I have (2) 60 watt bulbs just in case one burns out

I found a good source for brooder bulbs for warm weather. Dollar Tree carries 65w indoor spotlight bulbs. They might also work in a bator.

 

[barbiegirl]

@GabiGirl Meat birds aren't meant to live long.

They were made to live long enough to be processed at a certain age, around 8 weeks or so. I enjoy raising the meaties and giving them the best lives they can have before processing them for my family. Good luck on your search for a farm for the meaties to live

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

I have chiickens. I haaaave chiiiiickens.  I HAVE CHICKENS!!!!! And right before Fisherlady and Radioman came, my landscaper showed up! By the time the enablers (Ohhhh, the things FL was saying! ) left, I thought I had new property! It was amazing!!
No good pictures of the new flock. my i Pod wasn't cooperating.

Yay! Congrats!!!

This sounds exciting!!!!   Congratulations!!!  WELCOME to the Hotel California...

Enablers aplenty here....  Like drunks in a divebar.

I ask one little question...dhetzel, offers up a rooster and where to get some eggs...  And I who can squeak by with one rooster, and just got him....started deviously devising ways to rent farm space and (hide my addiction) and no one will know.  Hey, I am selling all but 4, no wait I need a Leghorn 5.  Oh I think I should keep 2 SQ Ameraucanas, and really just 1 Isbar. OOOh and one Barnevelder for the dark egg in the basket.    

So I have so got this so under control, you see?



Adding:   Anyone want to rent out some farm space?

 Oh dear.

Now I have two broodys on fertile eggs. hoping for some chicks over the next few days. And hoping my broody #2 stays put, it's her first time and I'd really a Rhodebar hen from those eggs. Thanks Dheltzel! Any suggestions from anybody on how to keep her on the nest and happy?

 

[wingstone]

 
I have chiickens. I haaaave chiiiiickens.  I HAVE CHICKENS!!!!! And right before Fisherlady and Radioman came, my landscaper showed up! By the time the enablers (Ohhhh, the things FL was saying! ) left, I thought I had new property! It was amazing!!
No good pictures of the new flock. my i Pod wasn't cooperating.

We really enjoyed the evening MCC,  Glad to see the group going to such a good home and knowing we will be able to see updates makes it even better! Remember the offer for hatching eggs is always open. If the young roo doesn't work our we have about 10 more to choose from for another month or so... but I think he will do well for you.  

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What did MC get..
Fisher has beautiful birds, calm and so laid back.
Kind of funny to watch those 2 big boys that I got from her..one of them likes to lay in the grass out front and just watch the traffic go past...I have had people stop and take pictures

 

[stake]

GM all:

Today's surprize....a day early....looks like a CCL (it looks like I am three for three on the CCL girls...)and an OE.......

 

[Chaos18]

I have about 8 laying cots and some excess males. Plus hatching a few. Hatch rates aren't great, 6/14 this weekend.

What kind of a setup do they need (should they have a "coop"/house to lay eggs in or is a cage made out of 1/2" hardware cloth on all side suitable)? Also, does one need an incubator to be able to hatch any quail eggs or are quail smart enough to sit on eggs like a chicken?

 

[Chaos18]

Wow, just caught up from being away for the weekend. My sister's boyfriend asked hubs how many chickens we have now (since the two orps we got from Chiques Chicks were attending the party as well) and I realized that he has no idea how chicken math works! He started listing off all these birds until I jumped in and corrected him, lol. We only have 3 right now because you don't count turkeys, roosters, meat birds, or anything that isn't of laying age. Hubs disagreed... he's proud of all of our birds (and so am I, but I DO wish we had more layers... hopefully we'll have project birds laying before too long).

So going by this chicken "logic" I have ZERO chickens?

Sweet now I can get more.

 

[wingstone]

GM all:

Today's surprize....a day early....looks like a CCL (it looks like I am three for three on the CCL girls...)and an OE.......

Good Luck !!
you deserve a break after all the chicken problems you have had recently

 

[wingstone]

feels like I have been neglecting everyone here....just not much time.
MC, I should have read to the end first...great bunch there, love the barring. and as usual, good job fisherlady, beauties..

Barbie, be sure to post pics of those baby duckies when they hatch.

Blarney, you wouldn't happen to be near Dheltzel would you... WARNING.....when you try to get out of the car, you will get mobbed by critters...most are free range and not afraid of people...you may need to blow the horn to get into the driveway, they think it is a good place to sleep.