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[pinkwindsong]

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Hi do you still have the EE girls I need to replace 2 of mine.. Im in laurens and I can either meet you when you come thru clinton I26 or do you come thru on 385? Inman is about a hour trip for me.
Im free sat and can meet ya easily.
Pink

 

[NellaBean]

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Hi do you still have the EE girls I need to replace 2 of mine.. Im in laurens and I can either meet you when you come thru clinton I26 or do you come thru on 385? Inman is about a hour trip for me.
Im free sat and can meet ya easily.
Pink

Nope, all the girls are sold now. Sorry!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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Hi do you still have the EE girls I need to replace 2 of mine.. Im in laurens and I can either meet you when you come thru clinton I26 or do you come thru on 385? Inman is about a hour trip for me.
Im free sat and can meet ya easily.
Pink

Nope, all the girls are sold now. Sorry!

bummer.. maybe next time...

have a great ans safe trip to the upstate saturday...
)O( Pink

 

[NellaBean]

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Nope, all the girls are sold now. Sorry!

bummer.. maybe next time...

have a great ans safe trip to the upstate saturday...
)O( Pink

Does age matter? I have a hen that is just at 1 year old. Started laying over winter. Lays a light blue egg. Not a typical looking EE. No beard...almost looks like a welsummer mix. Also, if you don't care about egg color or breed OR age, I have a couple 3-4 week old cochin mixes. 1 blue, 1 or 2 blacks....not sure what else.

 

[pinkwindsong]

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bummer.. maybe next time...

have a great ans safe trip to the upstate saturday...
)O( Pink

Does age matter? I have a hen that is just at 1 year old. Started laying over winter. Lays a light blue egg. Not a typical looking EE. No beard...almost looks like a welsummer mix. Also, if you don't care about egg color or breed OR age, I have a couple 3-4 week old cochin mixes. 1 blue, 1 or 2 blacks....not sure what else.

I don't know..???/

here's what I have and what I'm thinking..
I have a dark Brahma roo and 2 pullets..

I have a barred rock roo and 2 pullets.

I have 2 white leghorns pullets and 2 golden comet pullets..

I have 1 EE roo and 1 EE pullet
5 black or will be silver and black laced Wayndottes ( not sure what their color will be) hoping I will have all girls but I have one that im concerned about. might be a roo then I will have to have a 4th pen/coop because I would like to keep breeds seperated. to have only 1 roo per coop.. I live out in the country so dont have to worry about crowing. but I dont have the heart to get rid of them, not this first year....
I know Ill have to cull and separate down the road but for now think this would work..

what I thought I would do is separate and coop together the dark Brahmas and the 2 red comets putting 5 to a coop. 1 roo to 4 hens. then have the barred rocks and the 2 leg horns together, making 1 roo to 4 hens and and have my EE roo with my 1 EE pullet and the wayndottes. I had wanted to more EE pullets because I had started out with 3 pullets but lost 2 shortly after I got them home. ( don't know why? ) so I was going to replace them but if I do the coops this way.. I may not need any more?

My idea was for colorful eggs and the best cooping possible for happy healthy birds. I hadn't planned on any roos . except the EE roo.. but I got my chicks from TSC and they weren't all pullets Like they said.. don't plan on hatching any eggs this year maybe next year... maybe....I don't think age makes any difference. I'm just trying to make things work out ... ya know...

I would like to next year get the lavender or blue Orhpingtons.. but I need to be successful with these birds before I get them...

ohh and maybe a hen that lays the chocolate colored eggs.. n to sure what they are.. like I said I want colorful eggs and happy birds. breeding is the furthest thing on my mind right now.

my son is doing the backyard broiler project with 4 h this sept. so those will be our meat birds.. figure we'll do 25 or 50 birds..??

what are your thoughts on my thoughts?
)O(
Pink

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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We have a mulberry tree and the chickens LOVE it! It's covered in berries right now. But beware, it will cause some of the eggshells to be stained with blue.

Our Mulberry trees here on the farm are white.

I know the one at Williams Feed is blue and I had to show them ours were white. They did not know they came in that color.
The foxes love Mulberries so beware. I thought I had lost a roo to a fox but he is back and hanging out in the Mulberry tree. Poor fella looked drowned when I went out at 6:30 this morning. I keep trying to lure him closer to the barn but he is tired of being run over by the other roos and the older hens will kick a young roos butt. He doesn't seem to be the brightest bird...or maybe he is because he knows what he will eventually be used for.

Mulberry pie is pretty good but I picked and picked last summer to get enough for one. They have to be used pretty quick or the white ones turn brown. Didn't matter once I cooked it, of course. I think the blue ones are sweeter but that may just be my perception.

I suppose I will run some errands today since I can't paint, saw or drill anything.

 

[NellaBean]

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Does age matter? I have a hen that is just at 1 year old. Started laying over winter. Lays a light blue egg. Not a typical looking EE. No beard...almost looks like a welsummer mix. Also, if you don't care about egg color or breed OR age, I have a couple 3-4 week old cochin mixes. 1 blue, 1 or 2 blacks....not sure what else.

I don't know..???/

here's what I have and what I'm thinking..
I have a dark Brahma roo and 2 pullets..

I have a barred rock roo and 2 pullets.

I have 2 white leghorns pullets and 2 golden comet pullets..

I have 1 EE roo and 1 EE pullet
5 black or will be silver and black laced Wayndottes ( not sure what their color will be) hoping I will have all girls but I have one that im concerned about. might be a roo then I will have to have a 4th pen/coop because I would like to keep breeds seperated. to have only 1 roo per coop.. I live out in the country so dont have to worry about crowing. but I dont have the heart to get rid of them, not this first year....
I know Ill have to cull and separate down the road but for now think this would work..

what I thought I would do is separate and coop together the dark Brahmas and the 2 red comets putting 5 to a coop. 1 roo to 4 hens. then have the barred rocks and the 2 leg horns together, making 1 roo to 4 hens and and have my EE roo with my 1 EE pullet and the wayndottes. I had wanted to more EE pullets because I had started out with 3 pullets but lost 2 shortly after I got them home. ( don't know why? ) so I was going to replace them but if I do the coops this way.. I may not need any more?

My idea was for colorful eggs and the best cooping possible for happy healthy birds. I hadn't planned on any roos . except the EE roo.. but I got my chicks from TSC and they weren't all pullets Like they said.. don't plan on hatching any eggs this year maybe next year... maybe....I don't think age makes any difference. I'm just trying to make things work out ... ya know...

I would like to next year get the lavender or blue Orhpingtons.. but I need to be successful with these birds before I get them...

ohh and maybe a hen that lays the chocolate colored eggs.. n to sure what they are.. like I said I want colorful eggs and happy birds. breeding is the furthest thing on my mind right now.

my son is doing the backyard broiler project with 4 h this sept. so those will be our meat birds.. figure we'll do 25 or 50 birds..??

what are your thoughts on my thoughts?
)O(
Pink

Well....just depends on what you want. Here is a pic of the blue egg layer.

She can fly and every day flies out of my yard and scratches around out front. She does come back on her own though.

I don't have pix of the cochin mixes. They are 3-4 weeks old. Definitely have a blue girl, 1 or 2 black girls and 1 reddish buff girl. Not sure on others. They are all feather legged as dad was large fowl cochin.

Last option are 3 girls I was going to keep. They would be $30 for all 3. Same age but different cross. Wheaten Marans x Blue Wheaten Ameraucana. 2 are blue wheaten and 1 is wheaten. Should lay dark olive green eggs.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Sorry to hear that, Joy! I slipped and fell a few times, too. Mostly trying to get up those few steps into the brooder room. My knees have taken the brunt of it. I am wearing long pants right now. When all the chickens think steps are the place to sit and poop and then it gets plenty of rain I get the nasty end of it. Not to mention even the grass is very slippery.

One of my Khaki Campbell ducks would not go to bed last night so I left her out. I was glad to see her this morning since Jolie was locked up in the pen all night due to storms. She can't do her job from in there but better than her running off again, too.

I have a Runner duck on eggs and thought it was in the back pasture. We have beat the bushes looking for her nest. I was out in the front pasture yesterday evening feeding the two tractors out there (actually the birds in the tractor

) and Cimido came sneaking out from under some thick Bradford Pear saplings. She was sooooo funny! I guess she figures if she stays low and does not move anything but her legs that predators will not see her emerge but I spotted her and said "Ah ha!" She rolled her eyes over to me but did not move her head and kept very low in the grass until she was in the front yard. Then she stood up and stretched her wings and started quacking. Smart girl. I tried to get to the nest but the thorns on those trees are deadly! I have no idea if they are all her own eggs or others added to the pile but I do not really want mixed ducklings. Hopefully she and Mr Handsome were dancing together and no one else cut in. It will be another 2-3 weeks before I know "who the baby daddy is"!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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From Strombergs this morning I received 5 dark Brahmas, another 10 SS (yes, trying it yet again), 5 more blue Wyandottes and another 10 SLW because I can't say no when folks want to buy all my pretty chicks. My laying flock is never going to grow at this rate. I have pretty much put off people wanting to come and buy because I just can't seem to keep anything. Stupid of me maybe but later when they are grown I will know what I like and what I want to keep. However, this crazy chicken lady is liable not to sell another thing!

Okay, I say that but my schedule is pretty full for this weekend with people coming.

Oh, and the MF stands for Mille Fleur. Beautiful pattern and we are trying to get it bred with consistency in the bantam Cochins so we can get it accepted by the APA (American Poultry Association)and ABA (American Bantam Assc.) for show.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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She's pretty, Janelle. Is that one you got from me? Although I thought you got Olive Eggers from me. My Olive Eggers are clean faced. I have had clean faced EE's, too though. I don;t care what they look like as long as they lay pretty eggs. Saying that, I have 2 EE's that lay brown eggs. Doesn't matter to me, I still love them. Though Sissy is a bit nuts, she is pretty and I let her have her way most of the time.