Texas

[TheNeonPanther]

I have a off topic question, does anyone know any places where there are a lot of rabbits? (Around The woodlands, Conroe, Willis, or hunstville?) I plan on trapping some in Fall/Winter if you even can.

 

[wilded]

I currently have Muscovy fertile eggs and ducklings for sale or trade. Lampasas to Round Rock. Looking for Heritage Turkey Poults in my area.

 

[TherryChicken]

I currently have Muscovy fertile eggs and ducklings for sale or trade.  Lampasas to Round Rock.  Looking for Heritage Turkey Poults in my area.

Pming you now

 

[wilded]

Incuview run #2 July 18 2015

19 Cross Layer eggs
8 Jumbo Guinea eggs
27 Total Eggs

I will place the eggs in the Incubator at 12:00 Texas Time and candle in one week for fertility. I will update all along the incubation and try and keep you guys informed. The last batch of chicks were just moved to a little 4x4 brooding house out of the living room and all are doing well, I will try and post pictures later. If you have any questions along the way feel free to ask. ET

WildWoods
Lampasas, Texas

 

[hensfortherapy]

Incuview run #2 July 18 2015 19 Cross Layer eggs 8 Jumbo Guinea eggs 27 Total Eggs I will place the eggs in the Incubator at 12:00 Texas Time and candle in one week for fertility. I will update all along the incubation and try and keep you guys informed. The last batch of chicks were just moved to a little 4x4 brooding house out of the living room and all are doing well, I will try and post pictures later. If you have any questions along the way feel free to ask. ET WildWoods Lampasas, Texas

Good luck for a great hatch!!!!

 

[StelleKitten]

LOL. I don't think anyone will be going without holiday turkeys, but the prices will probably be a good bit higher. If you want to raise turkeys all the time, I would say that getting some now would be a good idea. You will probably spend as much on buying a turkey and feeding it as you would on buying a store bought turkey for Thanksgiving this year. Of course if you raised your own, you would have the satisfaction of knowing where it came from, compared to your storebought turkey. We got on a waiting list last year because we wanted to raise turkeys all the time and with the increase in avian flu issues, and I am glad that we did, since the avian flu problems could start severely hampering the ability of people to import/export poultry. Which does not bode well for poultry breeds that are already threatened in numbers.

People who can't spell the names of poultry breeds may have spelling problems, or it could indicate that they are not quality breeders and thus have not taken the time to learn the proper spelling of the names. But I do find it annoying when people are claiming to have excellent quality stock and they don't take the time to learn the correct spelling. Makes me wonder about them and their birds.

Selling GFF birds for only $15 may not necessarily indicate a problem. GFF charges an arm and 6 legs for their birds, but if the person is simply interested in helping other people get the breed of bird they love, then charging a reasonable price will get more birds into the hands of folks that want them. I don't sell many of our birds, but I've sold a few, and I don't believe in charging high prices simply because we have rare birds and could theoretically charge a lot of money for them. I love our breed and would like to see more people seriously breeding them. If I price them too high, that's going to cut out a lot more people who won't be able to afford them. And honestly, unless you raise birds like they do commercially, you're not going to make money on birds or eggs or meat. So you have to kinda look at what the seller's motivation is when they are pricing their birds.

I can see your points but I think people like that are a rarity on craigslist. I tend to take the pictures included into account when I make a judgement if I should buy or not. How healthy does it look? How does the area the bird is in look? Well kept, raggedy? I know my place isn't perfect but when I take pictures I try to keep the mess out of the shot. Chickens are animals and are messy so a certain level of mess is expected if they are confined. I don't know how to explain it, maybe it's more of a feeling I got from the ad. I really don't remember.

As far as turkeys, I will be trying to get some but my husband and my sister (both of whom live here) don't want turkeys.

Incuview run #2 July 18 2015

19 Cross Layer eggs
8 Jumbo Guinea eggs
27 Total Eggs

I will place the eggs in the Incubator at 12:00 Texas Time and candle in one week for fertility. I will update all along the incubation and try and keep you guys informed. The last batch of chicks were just moved to a little 4x4 brooding house out of the living room and all are doing well, I will try and post pictures later. If you have any questions along the way feel free to ask. ET

WildWoods
Lampasas, Texas

Good Luck!!!

eta turned lick into luck

 

[orumpoultry]

On of my little girls in my grower pen started laying yesterday. I have no idea who. Found a quail sized egg so I believe it's my Serama pullet.

 

[Sunflowergirl]

On of my little girls in my grower pen started laying yesterday. I have no idea who. Found a quail sized egg so I believe it's my Serama pullet.

How eggciting!!!

 

[hippiestink]

On of my little girls in my grower pen started laying yesterday. I have no idea who. Found a quail sized egg so I believe it's my Serama pullet.

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

Is it a better idea to have two breeding pens for each breed of chicken you want to breed, or would one be ok? I want so many haha I plan to have one roo covering 10 hens In each breeding pen. It will be a 5x12 coop and a 5x40 run. I want to have 16 of these for different breeds of chicken and ducks(5 ducks 1 drake) then two breeds of Turkey that will have 10x40 runs with 5 hens and 1 Tom. Then there would be a 10x12 supply/brooder/incubator room, and a 10x12 rabbit colony attached to a 10x40 run as well. These are all just big dreams but better to plan now on what I would like to do. I was originally going to have two pens for each breed, but if I could I would like to have more breeds and color variants instead.