Texas

[Chucklecluck]

Lol I know the feeling I actually got two points taken of my driving test for being overly caution on a yield sign (I came to a compete stop lol)

Thought i would add, I'm leaving in fifteen days! So looking forward to the start of a new adventure. I'm scared ****less of all the stuff I don't know. Excited and terrified, all at once. I cried when i was forced to get my drivers license. Thought I would kill someone for sure. Now I am going to drive a giant truck.

Go ahead and laugh, ever since i was little I've been a cautious person. That could be because I am the queen of clumsy.

Watch those little guys they are so prone to chickaside its not funny they really like drowning themselves and pilling even when its plenty warm

That comb is MASSIVE! Nice boy though! i cant wait until i can get a breeding program together! Test hatching a batch of quail, first time incubating so we will see what happens!

 

[GaryDean26]

LOL! Another Legbar lover/owner here I am in the DFW area. I just got my Legbar chicks from my friend Treva who got their parents from Greenfire Farms. I can't wait till next year when they start laying!

My parent live on the North side of Dallas, so we make it up to there as often as we can. I have met two of the Members of the Cream Legbar Club in the DFW area. The past two years I have done Cream Legbar breed table displays at a poultry show in San Marcos. If we have enough support in the DFW area I would love to do a Cream Legbar Club table at a show in that area.

 

[jajeanpierre]

I need to get rid of a few excess bantam cockerels hatched mid March that came in my hatchery order. I had originally thought they would be slaughtered, but others have said that there is a market for them and I should offer them on Craigs List.

I have two frizzled bantam Cochins that need a new home as soon as possible, preferably last month. They are little terrors with the others. I believe they are double copy frizzle because their feathering is sparse and the feathers themselves are pretty stringy and ratty. They were very slow to feather and right now are just covered in pin feathers, so maybe in the end they will feather up nicely. I ended up with 100% frizzle from my order when I really should have only gotten 50%. I have a little frizzle cockerel from the same order who has lovely feathers, yet the three others all have the same ratty feathers.

I also have some Silkie cockerels that are miles away from the SOP. One isn't a particularly nice bird, pecking my hand if it is within range, so a "pet" kind of home seems not appropriate.

I was planning on slaughtering them and using what little meat they had, but if there is a market for them and they'll have a reasonable home, I'm sure they would much prefer that than my pot. Plus, to slaughter them I would have to grow a backbone and that may take some time.

How much are they worth? My only concern with pricing them would be to make them a lot more expensive than someone would buy them for their meat. I think Silkies might have a market as meat birds in the Chinese community, and I'm not thrilled with selling them for someone else to slaughter. If they end up in a pot, I want it to be my pot.

Thanks for your help. Below are some pictures of my frizzle cockerels:

Cockerel #1--see how ratty he is? All were hatched mid March.




Cockerel #2--this is the one I'm keeping. See how much nicer his feathers are. The other two's feathers seem almost shreded.




Cockerel #3--the rattiest of the bunch of cockerels. The pullet is even rattier than this one!

 

[GaryDean26]

That comb is MASSIVE!

Its a Texas thing.

 

[jesirose]

I'm sad, we found two of our six week old chicks dead in their coop this morning

 

[familypendragon]

I'm sad, we found two of our six week old chicks dead in their coop this morning

Oh no! Any ideas? What kind was it?

 

[jesirose]

A wheaten marans cockerel and an EE pullet no idea yet, I posted on the injuries forum.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

A wheaten marans cockerel and an EE pullet no idea yet, I posted on the injuries forum.

thats odd. No signs of anything before or with the others?

 

[jesirose]

Nope, they all seem ok. I picked up corid, going to move them to a new pen and treat the water. They all are eating and drinking but were on a non-medicated feed. I thought they were past the risky age but I see now it lasts longer than I thought.

 

[jesirose]

We just lost a third one I've given them corid.