Texas

[Eliza1313]

DAAAANG. That's a lotta chickens! We're down to five after processing our rooster (he was renamed Curry after he tried to attack me THROUGH the fence). We're shopping for his replacement on Monday.

Most of my males are called "Lunch" or "Dinner". Except for the turkeys, they're all "Glen".

You'd die if you knew how many I had, then....

I was thinking about the same thing. Over 70, and planning on trying my hand at incubating this fall.

 

[Briza]

I'm staying at my mother's house while the house we'll be living in is worked on and she was kind enough to let me keep my chicks in the backyard. After I set up the temporary shelter and started putting chicks in it, three hawks swooped about five feet over my head and a fourth followed them a bit higher. Fortunately, I've learned the local crows' word for hawk and go out there and chase off whichever one keeps coming back to see if my chickens are good eating(it always leaves with other prey it finds outside of the yard but I think it'd take a chick if it wasn't so wary of me). The chickens seem to have learned it too because I always find them under cover when a crow makes that sound. I don't know how they found the chicks so fast. I was only out there with the chicks about two minutes before they showed.

 

[tjo804]

I'm staying at my mother's house while the house we'll be living in is worked on and she was kind enough to let me keep my chicks in the backyard. After I set up the temporary shelter and started putting chicks in it, three hawks swooped about five feet over my head and a fourth followed them a bit higher. Fortunately, I've learned the local crows' word for hawk and go out there and chase off whichever one keeps coming back to see if my chickens are good eating(it always leaves with other prey it finds outside of the yard but I think it'd take a chick if it wasn't so wary of me). The chickens seem to have learned it too because I always find them under cover when a crow makes that sound. I don't know how they found the chicks so fast. I was only out there with the chicks about two minutes before they showed.

Oh I am sorry for your trouble with those buggers! But the story is fun to me as some of the best times in the yard are spent with my Granddaughter running around waving our arms like stranded wacko people yelling "No Hawks! No Hawks!" They are in fact Mortal enemies to both Chickens and Fairies!

 

[BubbaLikesIt]

I am looking for someone in West Texas (not the city but the region) that is in need of a 10 week old Welsummer Cockerel for free. He is from a very good bloodline and started crowing at 8 weeks. He is a large bird for 10 weeks and will make a fine Rooster for any flock. I wish we could keep him but we can't.


This is him at 7 weeks with his two sisters.

 

[wilded]

Incuview Update: Started with 30 jumbo French Guinea eggs. The hatch from that number is 60%, however I don't feel that is fair as I knew the Jumbo Guineas have a problem with fertility. I candled down to the final run of 18 eggs that showed to have development, of those 18 all hatched which would be 100%. I also added five chicken eggs later that should be about a day behind the guinea hatch day. One of those just hatched. I also added a duck eggs that I did not know how far along it was and it has hatched. I am a little leery of the digital readouts and the humidity gauge but all in all for the money I am quite pleased with the incuview for the first run.

 

[hippiestink]

Most of my males are called "Lunch" or "Dinner". Except for the turkeys, they're all "Glen".


I was thinking about the same thing. Over 70, and planning on trying my hand at incubating this fall.

I'm continually astounded how big some people's flocks are. Most I've ever had at once is maybe thirteen? Though I am getting to the point where I'm expanding: husband and I considered getting five more chickens instead of the one we planned on...

 

[wilded]

Incuview Update: the eighteen Jumbo French Guineas plus a duckling and a chick from the first run of the incubator.

 

[StelleKitten]

Incuview update: Ten chicks hatched and three more piped, we shall see how it goes tonight.

Incuview Update: the eighteen Jumbo French Guineas plus a duckling and a chick from the first run of the incubator.

Congrats! I'm wanting to try incubating. We are wanting more chickens because the run looks so empty now. With the planned expansion it will be much bigger and hopefully will incorporate some more trees. I need more of that really strong netting stuff. (can't tear it with my hands at all)

 

[bnjrob]

I'm continually astounded how big some people's flocks are. Most I've ever had at once is maybe thirteen? Though I am getting to the point where I'm expanding: husband and I considered getting five more chickens instead of the one we planned on...

LOL - it doesn't take much to wind up with a lot of chickens and not even realize it. We originally thought we'd just have a handful but then we got into serious breeding and in order to have *backup* breeders in case of losses, and to keep different color varieties and different bloodlines separate, we have done nothing but build more and more housing for several years and we aren't done yet since we added in turkeys and guineas this year.

 

[orumpoultry]

Congrats on such a great hatch! They look happy and healthy. You'll love and hate having that many guineas. I wish I had more.

We have somewhere in the neighborhood of 450-500 birds, not counting the quail I've sold in the last few days. That's just here at the house, not including our Houston property.