Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[VictoriaTemple]

Aww! Regardless of breed, EVERY baby chicken is irresistibly adorable!!

I just remembered, I brought home a list of participating breeders from the York County Poultry Fanciers showI went to in November (or December? I forget now). I marked down at least some of the breeds I was interested in, including Brahma and Buff Orpington. I will dig it out tomorrow and see if I can find anything helpful.☺

 

[fisherlady]

I had 3 buff Orpington from a Rural King purchase to get chicks to keep my broodies happy. The first was broody by 8 months , the second by 9 months and I gave all 3 to my sister before the 3rd could go broody on me! I don't need more broodies!

 

[fisherlady]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen them... my hubby wants to get into bigger breeds..for the bigger eggs. We have 35 chickens right now...I think we’re good for a little while... but he has his eye out for the australorps... ...

Actually I have found our biggest eggs are usually from the California whites, red Sex links or the hatchery Plymouth rocks. Our biggest birds lay nice eggs, but not the biggest by far. I havent had australorp hens, but dearly loved the australorp rooster we had for years. If the hens have half his personality I would keep them too if we had room, but I am trying to get to primarily Plymouth rock varieties.

 

[fisherlady]

So Saturday afternoon was spent cutting down 4 dead ash trees a neighbor wanted removed. After cutting to manageable size to load on trailer we brought it home and cut to fireplace length.
Mindy does not stray too far away from me when I am out working (unless I let her stay in the coop watching chicks) and that includes me requiring her close snoopervision when using the chain saw or backhoe, lol. I dont think she trusts anything that makes that much noise. Dillon is willing to hang out at 10 or 15 ft watching distance but she is usually within 5 ft.
I need to get her a set of safety goggles.

And yes, I was sitting on the running backhoe when I took the pictures, if she could find room I think she would be on it with me.

 

[LadyBehir]

YAY, Egg #2. Go Rory, go Rory!!

 

[emorems0]

LittleMiss Purdy and I wanted BO. The breeder was testing fertility, and then just stopped selling them. All these years, and I still have not gotten any.

Oh man, I have two buff orpingtons in my fridge right now. My friend got them as a straight run from Tactor Supply and they just got so mean, she had to thin her flock down to one roo and the BOs didnt make the cut. *thanks for the reminder to dig out the pressure cooker for these guys!

 

[emorems0]

Does it make sense that 3 roos from the same clutch would get along just fine in the run but not want to sleep in the same coop as eachother? My 3 boys have access to two coops and Rico is still sleeping up on the fence most nights. They were all in the same coop for awhile, but Deli Jr migrated over to his dad's former coop. I feel like I need to build a birdhouse for Rico

 

[fisherlady]

We had similar occurance, 2 coops available for roosters, but the one insisted on sleeping on a roost bar we had out in the run for daytime lounging despite plenty of inside space.

 

[fisherlady]

So to update the picture of broody moods from 2 weeks ago... it got worse... we are up to 7 pencils now parked... they are nuts! Hubby sent me this quick video this afternoon. 5 in 1 coop, the other two in other areas.

 

[DuckDuckSook]

Southeastern PA here! Going to welcome our first flock of ducklings this spring and we can't wait! Counting down the days!