South Carolina

[LittleChickSpy]

Is that a Polish chicken on your Avatar?  I have one silver laced Polish, two white Cochin, one blue Cochin, 1 partridge Cochin (a roo), 1 Sicilian buttercup (suspected roo), one splash who may or may not be a blue Andalusion, and a black hen who may or may not be a blue Andalusion.  Still waiting to see what color eggs they lay. 

Fun! Avatar is my sultan. I do have a wc blue polish pullet in my flock, though. Love the odd birds!

 

[LittleChickSpy]

Your boy is pretty. I would take him if I wasn't positive I already have too many up and coming cockerels. There are rehoming and bst boards here, plus a few farming/homesteading groups for SC on facebook.

 

[Wildivy2112]

Your boy is pretty. I would take him if I wasn't positive I already have too many up and coming cockerels. There are rehoming and bst boards here, plus a few farming/homesteading groups for SC on facebook.

Thank you. I'll have to try FB. Have him listed on the giveaway free board on here too. Hopefully maybe he'll get a good home.

 

[HerbGir1972]

CHicken Math....New Additions
went for a pair came home with 5 + a freebie Old English Bantam
We've no idea of gender, so I'm sure we will be parting with at least one eventually if it's a roo

 

[OwlandBear]

I introduced my new Buffs to The Flock this weekend; 5 16 week old Buff Orpingtons (2 roos) added to 18 mature Buffs, 4 Partridge Rocks, 5 Red Sex Links, 2 Rhode Island reds, 2 Barred Rocks and a Buff-RIR mix. The original game plan was to cull out the odd breeds and just breed Buffs, but I can't tell them apart (my 11 year old daughter can and rolls her eyes at me that I don't see the differences) so I may need to rethink this plan. My boys have 5 Black Australorps (straight run = 3 roos and 2 hens

) that they want to breed, and I tried to explain to them that it could be a long, drawn out process but they are adamant.

I hope we get rain today; the garden looks awful and a good day-long drizzle would be muchly appreciated.

 

[JRL1438]

We sure do need a steady rain!

Maybe the boys can pick their favorite roo to put with the 2 hens and keep the others seperate. Are they old enough yet to breed?

My girls have convinced me to let one of their hens hatch some eggs and so far she has 9 eggs and still counting for now. I hope she thinks that she has enough here soon.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

My next door neighbor has been giving me her extra cockerels this past two years. We kept 2 of the 3 last year....and now have some fine Barred Rock juvi's and chicks. November is when we process....so we evaluate the flock and see who can stay and who needs to go to freezer camp. I talked to her today...she has 3 more "possible cockerels" to put on the list

 

[OwlandBear]

We ended up with surplus roosters last year that got processed. These roosters aren't ready to mate yet (only 16 weeks old) but I will be needing to separate them from the rest of the flock.

One of the new batch of Buffs (hens) is going to get processed before she can lay an egg, though... the fool thing bit me and raised a blood blister on my ankle. I don't need that sort of aggravation from a pullet!

 

[Stormimay]

Sometime within the last several hours our chicken flock went from 14 healthy and happy 12ish week olds to 1 living one and 10 whole corpses + 1 lonely wing. One hole ripped into the coop and several whole panels of the fence pulled down. They were all put away properly last night; I did it myself which I'm thankful for. I can't blame any of the kids. Of our 4 guineas 3 are present and alive, the 4th who knows. I'm not sure what to do now, with the remaining live one, with the 5 still alive 6 week olds, my chicken run or anything. Glad my dog was locked up because I can't blame him either, but wondering if having him out there would have helped. I am heartbroken and so discouraged. I was really loving these chickens. We do not have the money to fix it all back up and replace them. I may have to give my living ones away. I'm just sick.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

sorry for your loss..stormimay