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[tmrutter3]

Has anyone shown interest in your chickens yet? I would be interested. Let me know. Thanks!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Will anyone close to Huntington County have copper Maran eggs for sale in the spring?

There is a guy in Williamsburg who puts ads up on pennswoods.net in the spring. I got mine from him last spring. I only have 1 pure hen and she doesn't lay a very dark egg, more coppery colored. He has blue, black, and wheaten marans. I truely love the ones I got from him. I may have a couple in the spring. If your just looking for dark egg color, I have a Brahma/marans cross who lays a beautiful dark speckled egg color of you would like some to hatch but I'm in Patton and a bit further away then he'd be.

 

[wingstone]

Has anyone shown interest in your chickens yet? I would be interested. Let me know. Thanks!

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[dheltzel]

Hedemora and bantam Cochin are housed seperate. This is only affecting the meat and egg sections....I need to concentrate on business and what the customer wants..
I will still have the side section and I am curious what would happen with a cross of those 2..the hedemora are not much bigger..

As far as the ducks... would the word free help you to get interested..

I had no idea that Hemadora were small. Being cold tolerant, I assumed more body mass to help with that.

I've found that the "acquisition cost" of poultry is only a small part of the total cost, so I've never minded paying, it's the housing that is the big issue. I suppose they could go in with some of the chickens, but I can imagine the sort of mess they would make with the water dishes. I just feel ill prepared to keep ducks, I'm not even sure how to build good housing. I've researched it and have a general idea, but not as if I had actual experience.

Do the BEI's fly well? How are you keeping them now?

 

[dheltzel]

There is a guy in Williamsburg who puts ads up on pennswoods.net in the spring. I got mine from him last spring. I only have 1 pure hen and she doesn't lay a very dark egg, more coppery colored. He has blue, black, and wheaten marans. I truely love the ones I got from him. I may have a couple in the spring. If your just looking for dark egg color, I have a Brahma/marans cross who lays a beautiful dark speckled egg color of you would like some to hatch but I'm in Patton and a bit further away then he'd be.

Wish I was closer, I'm getting 3 - 4 nice dark eggs a day now, and we are selling them for eating. I only plan to hatch them if people ask for BCM chicks, I would happily hatch some for anyone here that live close enough to pick them up.

We need a statewide "pony express" for chickens -- a poultry express

 

[dheltzel]

I started up the cabinet incubator tonight. I was planning to start it after the first of the year, but we are close enough to that (that's what I'm telling myself anyway). When I gathered eggs tonight I found 14 Welsummer and 10 Rhodebar eggs and I just couldn't bring myself to put them in the refrigerator to eat. Adding in the CCL and turkey eggs brought it to 39 eggs set.

 

[tmrutter3]

Would anyone be interested in a small flock of hen and pullets? I have 3 chocolate bantam wyandotte females. One of the hens is my avatar. The Wyandotte bantams lay lots of eggs and big for their size. They're also fantastic mothers. I also have a blue wheaten ameraucana pullet and a blue wheaten ameraucana cockerel, they're about 3 months old. I'm moving unexpectedly and need to find them a good home, protected from predators. I'm located need Harrisburg and York. I'm really sad to see them go

Sorry, I forgot to quote the first time. I'm interested in your chickens if you still have them available. Please pm me. Thank you!

 

[wingstone]

Hedemora and bantam Cochin are housed seperate. This is only affecting the meat and egg sections....I need to concentrate on business and what the customer wants..

I will still have the side section and I am curious what would happen with a cross of those 2..the hedemora are not much bigger..


As far as the ducks... would the word free help you to get interested..

I had no idea that Hemadora were small. Being cold tolerant, I assumed more body mass to help with that.

I've found that the "acquisition cost" of poultry is only a small part of the total cost, so I've never minded paying, it's the housing that is the big issue. I suppose they could go in with some of the chickens, but I can imagine the sort of mess they would make with the water dishes. I just feel ill prepared to keep ducks, I'm not even sure how to build good housing. I've researched it and have a general idea, but not as if I had actual experience.

Do the BEI's fly well? How are you keeping them now?

I am sure they could fly but I never seen them do it, they are in a pen with a 3 ft fence ( 2 in some spots). Never had an issue, they sleep in an old plastic child's playhouse. They both drink and swim from one of those turtle sandboxes that everyone has...

The hedemora are just a little bigger than an average silkie, they have an undercoat like waterfowl though, makes them look bigger than they are.

 

[dheltzel]

Sorry, I forgot to quote the first time. I'm interested in your chickens if you still have them available. Please pm me. Thank you!

I was going to get them from Avlana today, but I was not able to reach her the past few days. Perhaps she is moving and offline.

 

[chippysmom327]

East indie duck reversed trio available..

My cousin has some calls, so maybe I can hatch those eggs instead.

Will they ship eggs? I want to hatch mine, but people tell me that their hatch rate is bad as it is so they won't ship because it's almost not worth it. Just wondering if any of you guys had any experience with it