Texas

[mirecipes]

I'm in Texas too..Alvarado..Our closest major city is probably Fort Worth..Tho you can take 67 straight into Dallas if need be

I have 2 Rhode Island Red roosters and 3 Easter egg hens..
My EE'gers are green egg layers..I'd like to have some blue egg layers in the future

 

[SarahBeth9394]

Hey everyone. I am in a little town called Dublin. I sure wish I knew if there were any locals that raise chickens. There is a lady that goes to the local flea market but most of her birds are banties. I'd like full sized chickens. She does sell hen and rooster pairs but I don't think I want to breed as my first chicken experience. Then again it could be fun.

 

[allen wranch]

Welcome Mirecipes and SarahBeth9394 !

There are lots of people in the DFW area on BYC, and I even think there is someone else in Dublin. Glad you found us.

 

[bbody383]

I'm in DeLeon just up the road from Dublin.
I raise d'Uccles & d'Anvers.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Hi. I joined today after lurking around since Jun/Jul.

Decided in June to get some food chickens.

Wanted my own meat to raise and hen's to lay. My 9 EE's, 8 Turkens and 7 Sicilian Buttercups are 15 Weeks tomorrow. Almost harvest time. I haven't had chickens since I was a little girl a very very long time ago.

We've only been in Texas 10 years, so still trying to figure out which chickens do best here, heat and humidity wise??? EE's had a hard time with the H & H but they did handle it. Wanted NHR's but Ideal was out so I got the EE's. Thinking about Australorp's or Partridge Rocks

I quess my chicks are to quiet and content. I had them outside for 2 months before my neighbor realized I had chickens. I do have a Turken that is starting to sound off like a duck now and then. Last week, another neighbor's Roo sent off a DISTRESS CALL, one of mine quietly answered. Don't know which one, though

So, does anyone close by have a Sicilian (American) Buttercup Roo if I don't have one??? I have one that is a lighter color (maybe?) otherwise they all look alike, hens. I really want to breed them as my main small flock, but NO I won't trade my Turken Duck, not even for a Buttercup Roo. Maybe Ideal will let me have more come Spring.

 

[the1much]

i aint got the roo ya want,, but just got all kinds of NHR's.
and ya EE's will do good if ya use a sprinkler a couple times a day for em,,,, and WELCOME to BYC

 

[allen wranch]

Welcome bbody383 and Buttercup Chillin !

Glad to have you participating in the greatest chicken site in the world.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

the1much

We're Just north of Houston, so very humid. Between pans of ice cubes and ice cubes in their water several times in the afternoon and a fan blowing through a pretty open Hardware Cloth brooder house, it was more like air conditioned than cooled.

It was the white EE's that had the problem. They are the heaviest of my EE's, (maybe part Rocks), wish I knew. The others did OK with the pampering. I will have to cull all the whites before I let them wander the backyard anyway. We have a White Tailed Rare and Endangered Hawk that will get them instead of us, if I don't. Or the red tailed chicken hawk or the Bald Eagle or evening Owls, or Possiums walking through the yard or Coons. Well, at least there weren't as many snakes seen this past season.

Always good somewhere if you think about anything long enough.

 

[the1much]

all my birds had a hard time when that 100+ weather hit for a month, till i finally thought of the sprinkler ,, lol,, but i think the wifers feeding them every night with a big spoon is spoiled enough,, never did think of a fan lol

can i stay in ya yard?

 

[allen wranch]

I use misters on a timer around the edge of the coop roof, and fans inside my long coop. They seemed to do OK, even the heavy featherd girls.