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Also, for the newbies to the group... I will sometimes act as a chicken train to help enable er... Transport birds across the state. My route takes me from Beaver Co (NW of Pittsburgh) to Allentown and back. Anyone willing to meet me along my route can be a stop - I take the turnpike and then catch 81 near Harrisburgh. I will be doing a run on Easter weekend, but will only have space for small birds on my way back this time since I'm bringing a dresser back with me. I will be stopping at dhetzel's on this trip.
 
MotorcycleChick said:
Yes, they do. The red and black sex links.
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TSC last year, their initial shipment had a lot of unsexed bins. Unsexed they had Cornish X's and bantams (both of which are to be expected), RIR, production reds, ducks and they had one bin of " assorted egg laying pullets." That was the only sexed bin initially.
Because of the weather they waited a while for their next shipments and then they had more of a selection and more sexed.
The year before everything I saw was sexed except ducks and bantams and Cornish X's.
We got lucky, six bantams, five hens and one rooster, 5 old English game and one mille fleure D'uccle.
 
The California Greys I am using to make blue egg laying black sexlinks have not been very fertile. I was suspecting the roos, but waited since they were 6 months old only yesterday, so it could have just been the pullets were too young. Anyway, today I swapped in my main black ameraucana roo that kept 15 hens fertile last year. I watched him off and on and he's taking to his new assignment with great enthusiasm. LOL. I'm thinking he can single-handedly take on the needs of all 24 pullets, or maybe I will pull out 4 pullets to put with a CG roo and get pure CG's to sell. That would leave the black Am with 20 pullets. He firmly believes he is up to the challenge. I have some other roos in there, but they are silkied Ams and don't seem to be doing the job. Some of them may come out tomorrow, if I can find a better place to put them.

Anyone else take advantage of the sunny day to clean pens? The snow made some areas really wet, I was up to my ankles in turkey poo. At least it's done for now.
 
I'm waiting until tomorrow to clean pens. I don't have too much soup in the runs. I'm lucky. I had about eight months of empty pens. It seems to have given the ground enough of a break to do a better job of absorbing water. Not to mention I have a very small flock.
 
Turkey question: I seem to remember you guys saying that turkeys don't seem to learn to eat as quickly as chicken chicks, My poults are being raised by a broody hen. Do I need to do anything to assist?
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
Turkey question: I seem to remember you guys saying that turkeys don't seem to learn to eat as quickly as chicken chicks, My poults are being raised by a broody hen. Do I need to do anything to assist?
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Nope, poults are even better than chicks at learning from their mothers. I've heard that aren't as quick to figure out what is food if no one shows them, but she will show them. An experienced broody chicken is close to the perfect mother for turkey poults.
 
I candled all of my eggs last night. 21 dancers, two clears and an early quitter. I've never had so many get this far! Of course, I was either not setting as many, or they were shipped.
I may need to rehome some! I want to go the Easter hatch along too!
 

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