Texas

[bird sitter]

Hello everyone!


We're in Ft. Worth with 11 chickens:  9 are 15 weeks old, 2 are 13 weeks old.  One roo that shoulda been a hen.


We also have dogs, bees and earthworms.


Hey Rafter 7, my mother-in-law lives on Cedar Creek Lake!


bmarshall61, most of ours are from Ideal (the two younger ones are not).  We picked them up --  Make sure you CALL AHEAD -- to verify that they didn't ship them!!  We drove down there and they had them boxed for shipping and had to pull them off the truck to give them to us -- they were headed for the post office!   The invoice even said that we were picking them up.  If I pick up from them again, I'm going to call the day before to give them a reminder.


So far we're pretty happy with them and looking forward to some eggs.

nice to see someone else in ft worth!

 

[jockeyeba]

Hello everybody. I'm in Del Rio, which is a border city in Val Verde County. Del Rio is connected with Ciudad Acuña Mexico via the Lake Amistad Dam International Crossing and Del Río – Ciudad Acuña International Bridge. Del Rio is also home to Laughlin Air Force Base. I was born and raised here ;-)

About 3 years ago I got it in my head to have a back yard flock of chickens. I ordered 10 day old Easter Egger female chicks. Right before they started to lay eggs I acquired a lost rooster that was hanging around my grandma's house. I still don't know much about chickens so I couldn't tell you what breed he is. He is a small variety of rooster, black and white in color, and has feathers down his legs. Anyway, my hens were happy with him, and he is a good little rooster. After a while I decided to buy a Little Giant incubator and try to hatch some eggs. My hens showed no interest in sitting on their eggs so I wanted to try hatching some. I ended up with 4 roosters and three hens. All were beautiful to me. They all ended up having feathers on their legs. The roosters were gorgeous but much larger than their daddy. The hens were pretty too, but smaller than their Easter Egger mommas. Long story short, I couldn't keep them all. To give away the roosters, I offered a couple hens to go with each.

Currently I have 4 of the original Easter Egger hens and the original lil rooster named Michael. My hens are about 3 years old, but stopped laying in mid August. Their eggs are so large and beautiful. I get pale blue, green and an occasional pinkish colored egg. So I started thinking I wanted some more chicks. I shopped around at the online hatcheries, but didn't want to wait till after the first of the year. Then I looked on eBay and found sellers of hatching eggs. I planned on getting more Easter Eggers, but then I saw pictures of silkies! Before I could control myself, I was in a bidding war for 18 eggs. Of course I won that auction and the seller was kind enough to send 6 extra...oh my! The seller has a large flock and said with these eggs I could hatch any of these colors - Paints, Lavenders, silver, grey, self blue, Porcelain, Partridge (all color variations), Calico, Buff, Splash, Black, White, Blue. See why I couldn't resist?! They are in the incubator and are due to start hatching Nov. 30th.

So, I'm excited, nervous, and crazy LOL! I know I won't be able to keep them all if I have a good hatch. I also will want to keep them till I can tell the roosters from the hens and pick my favorites. I'm glad I found this site and especially the Texas thread. I'm gonna need advice from you guys. Sorry this post is so long, but it's my first and I figured I should tell you my chicken history ;-)

Carol

Welcome to the Texas thread We're outside of San Antonio. You'll probably get 50% roo's from your hatch, that's been our experience from all the chicks we've hatched. Good luck with your 1st bator experience

 

[chicken fever]

Hello everybody. I'm in Del Rio, which is a border city in Val Verde County. Del Rio is connected with Ciudad Acuña Mexico via the Lake Amistad Dam International Crossing and Del Río – Ciudad Acuña International Bridge. Del Rio is also home to Laughlin Air Force Base. I was born and raised here ;-)
About 3 years ago I got it in my head to have a back yard flock of chickens. I ordered 10 day old Easter Egger female chicks. Right before they started to lay eggs I acquired a lost rooster that was hanging around my grandma's house. I still don't know much about chickens so I couldn't tell you what breed he is. He is a small variety of rooster, black and white in color, and has feathers down his legs. Anyway, my hens were happy with him, and he is a good little rooster. After a while I decided to buy a Little Giant incubator and try to hatch some eggs. My hens showed no interest in sitting on their eggs so I wanted to try hatching some. I ended up with 4 roosters and three hens. All were beautiful to me. They all ended up having feathers on their legs. The roosters were gorgeous but much larger than their daddy. The hens were pretty too, but smaller than their Easter Egger mommas. Long story short, I couldn't keep them all. To give away the roosters, I offered a couple hens to go with each.
Currently I have 4 of the original Easter Egger hens and the original lil rooster named Michael. My hens are about 3 years old, but stopped laying in mid August. Their eggs are so large and beautiful. I get pale blue, green and an occasional pinkish colored egg. So I started thinking I wanted some more chicks. I shopped around at the online hatcheries, but didn't want to wait till after the first of the year. Then I looked on eBay and found sellers of hatching eggs. I planned on getting more Easter Eggers, but then I saw pictures of silkies! Before I could control myself, I was in a bidding war for 18 eggs. Of course I won that auction and the seller was kind enough to send 6 extra...oh my! The seller has a large flock and said with these eggs I could hatch any of these colors - Paints, Lavenders, silver, grey, self blue, Porcelain, Partridge (all color variations), Calico, Buff, Splash, Black, White, Blue. See why I couldn't resist?! They are in the incubator and are due to start hatching Nov. 30th.
So, I'm excited, nervous, and crazy LOL! I know I won't be able to keep them all if I have a good hatch. I also will want to keep them till I can tell the roosters from the hens and pick my favorites. I'm glad I found this site and especially the Texas thread. I'm gonna need advice from you guys. Sorry this post is so long, but it's my first and I figured I should tell you my chicken history ;-)
Carol

Welcome! And it has begun...the chicken addiction lol. Silkies r very fun to have as r easter eggers. I've had both.
And love them both!

New to this thread! I'm in the Dallas/ fort worth area! Anyone else live here? Id like to buy some birds if anyone lives around here! Thanks!

bird sitter, I am in north Dallas so not too far!!

 

[bird sitter]

hey!

 

[bird sitter]

Please please visit my Texas swap page. No one has yet... :/

 

[Charlotte80]

Hey I started a facebook page for North Texas because I couldn't find one. I wanted to be able to find other people around me that had chickens to swap or sell close to me. If you want to join please do


http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/431922243527581/

 

[bird sitter]

sorry, dont have a facebook... to much a once!

 

[Charlotte80]

Oh well I'm in Wichita Falls and I have two Polish Chicks (not sure of the sex quite yet) and a barred rock cockerel I would like to trade for some straight run chicks. I just enjoy raising them and hoping I get some hens out of them. The Polish don't really fit in with my flock so I'm trying to find someone who raising them.

 

[bird sitter]

Darn! No chicks at the moment! would love some more polishes

 

[bird sitter]

I also have 3 barred rock hens but no roo to keep them in line!