San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[alisar]

Wwf?

I'm pretty excited, looks like we have a nice variety here. Did you guys know theres a guy with bresse out in dulzura? Must. Not. Get. Them.

 

[aaajjss1]

I think some are hens hee hee

 

[perchie.girl]

I think some are hens hee hee

OK... what flavors do you have

 

[perchie.girl]

OMG. I want some.....



Ayam Cemani..... the next imports that will be offered up from Greenfire farms. If I remember Creme Legbars started out at about three hundred dollars.


deb "Me likey black"

 

[alisar]

Those guys look super scary to me.

 

[RyeRanch]

OMG. I want some..... Ayam Cemani..... the next imports that will be offered up from Greenfire farms. If I remember Creme Legbars started out at about three hundred dollars. deb "Me likey black"

I KNOW - where do they find these birds? A girl can dream...

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: I have been doing some Homework. They were originally imported to Germany in 96 then spread to a few surrounding countries. Then finally the UK. But I believe Greenfire has imported them from several gene pools. They are reported to have black skin black meat and even black bones. Some of the photos when you google pictures on them are amazing. Even their tongues and inside their mouths are black.

deb

 

[WFF]

Rye, can you post some pictures?

My Euskal Oiloa rooster got picked off by a raptor I think, so I bought a half dozen eggs off of Skyline. He must have sent me two dozen in extras... of course NONE of them survived past week 2. The only breed I REALLY wanted to hatch! Does anyone happen to have any locally?

And you know, when you have all that extra room in the Styrofoam box, you think "Maybe I should hatch some other stuff"

Lav blue black splash Ams
bantam buttercups
Arkansas blues
red dorking
silver penciled rock

Yikes!

and the 20+ Olandsk I just put in there Saturday night.

Don't let me get any more chickens ok?

I haven't been on this thread recently but I'm sure I have some Basque roosters if I haven't sold them to be processed. I'll be up at the ranch this weekend so I'll check.
The breeds I am getting fertile eggs from now or in the near future are (not getting that many right now because it is so cold in the mountains):

Buff Orpington
Wellsummer
Lavender Orpington
Black Australorp
Buff Brahmas
Buff Laced Brahmas
Gold Laced Brahmas
Birchen Old English
Olandsk Dwarf
Silkies (White, Black, Buff and Partridge)
Bantam Birchen Cochins
Bantam Mille Fleur Cochins
Mille Fleur D'ucles
Black Copper Marans
Cuckoo Marans
Sultans
Silver Laced Cochins
Swedish Flower Hens
Black/Lavender split Ameraucanas
Blue Ameraucanas
Wheaten and Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas
Basque
Mottle Houdans
Appenzeller Spitzenhauben???

I need to cut down on my flock

 

[alisar]

Is anyone else feeling faint?

I'd rather hatch them myself, so please let me know when the EO are laying.

 

[WFF]

Wwf?
I'm pretty excited, looks like we have a nice variety here. Did you guys know theres a guy with bresse out in dulzura? Must. Not. Get. Them.

I went out to his place and it was impressive. He has huge incubators and brooders. I think the Bresse are mostly for meat. "The best tasting chicken in the world" I'm more into the eggs from chickens than the meat. I have enough roosters to eat for the rest of my life. I'm putting one in the crock pot tonight and only 500 to go. You have to raise them just right for them to be so good. Part of the raising involves putting them in a cage and in the dark for and feeding them milk and grain for the last few weeks. I prefer my roosters have rooster lives and just one bad day. He also has Auracanas and Olandsk Dwarf.