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[sandiTX]

Hi Texas family...im located outside temple and belton tx. Only lived in Texas for 3 yrs and started our chicken raising about 6 months ago when our first chicken adopted us. Im learning and loving it. Im also searching to see what kind of chicken i have. Happy chicken farming to all.
Meet charllie shes the tan one with black

I am North of Austin in Leander. Not sure of the breed of your chicken, but very pretty.

 

[winteree]

very understandable

so sorry again if i knew about the drake a few months heck a few weeks ago it would have been do-able but this rooster is requiring around the clock care which is not what i signed up for

but at least I'm helping my grams out, I'm getting payed and am getting experience for vet school so i guess it's not all bad...now if only i could break my roosters mean streak

 

[winteree]

Goodnight all, God Bless!!

night

 

[winteree]

the ones from the hatchery are ...but if you find a breeder with ones referred to as heritage or sop type they will not be aggressive at all. mine sure are not they even get along with each other ..they do establish a pecking order when i run them together but not any fighting like most breeds do. look at the one in my avaitar notice the deep red coloring low tail angle and you can t see from the pic but he is thick and wide flat back ..most hatchery ones are tall and skinny because somewhere in the gene pool they are crossed with leghorns to improve egg laying and they are flock mated for 60 generations the most aggressive cocks have been the ones to get to live so that trait is in most of the ones you see.

i knew hens where nice but i always feared getting a RIR rooster because of the one my grams ended up killing the first year i started helping her but that explains allot. RIR's where my first breed choice when i wanted to get my own chickens for the first time (i had been raising chickens with my grams for years but i had never had the guts to get my own flock until now). Good with heat, lots of eggs and doubles over as a meat bird the breed seemed like it was Tailor made for me and my situation. But lord knows it i came to every single block in the road i could in the 6 months it took me to get together my flock. i wanted them to be laying by may; so much for that

between expensive shipping prices, out of stock feed stores, my grams chicken massacre, and rude bird sanctuary\CL people not only do i not have any RIR's i got 13 no name breeds with a aggressive bantam rooster oh the nine irony

 

[TherryChicken]

It's not that bad, just very busy. And I am the only one who knows everything going on with all the animals. I know who gets what supplements, got niacin/Brewer's yeast for the young waterfowl, vitamin/mineral supplement for the gosling and Ebony, and Blu-kote for my injured hen's eye. Figured it wouldn't hurt Ebony while she is healing. Ebony actually gets niacin and the vitamins, lol. I do fermented feed for my entire flock, which is rather interesting during breakfast and dinner, lol. My chickens get their 2nd de-wormer soon, as a precaution before egg laying starts. Currently am adding in the last 6 pullets to my flock of 19 chickens, the pullets are 7 weeks old. Am adding the last 2 geese to the older 6 geese. By the time this is all settled, my ducklings will be 3 weeks old and I will have to start planning their integration, lol.

I also do all my dogs maintanance, nail trims, foot pad shavings, grooming, monthly flea/tick medicine, and their food and vitamins. 4 siberian Huskies require a lot of care, the Rottwieller and Belgian Malinios not as much. I monitor my outside cats, and give them de-workers regularity since they eat mice and snakes, and set traps to catch feral cats for spay/neuter. I also have a rose garden that gets leaf spot from time to time. A strawberry patch I just finished weeding out and feeding to get them flowering again. Raspberries and blackberry plants just starting to fruit now, and just put in 2 grape plants yesterday. I need to go buy some more mulch, ran out halfway through the job, lol. planted a bougainvillea, it's suppose to be pretty for me and cover for the chickens when it gets bigger, lol. I need to weed and feed around my 4 new wisteria, and my gardenia. And replant some of my herb garden that the chickens destroyed before I fenced it off.

Basically I am kept busy. But it is much better than sitting on my rear feeling sorry for myself, letting my back pain control my life. Everyday is painful, but I get through it and have a sense of accomplishment because I was able to take care of things. My only complaint now is I wish I had a lot more land, then I could increase my garden and have more animals!

you sound like me lol.. man wish you were here catching cats to spay and neuter. Alot of males spraying over here.

 

[TherryChicken]

so sorry again if i knew about the drake a few months heck a few weeks ago it would have been do-able but this rooster is requiring around the clock care which is not what i signed up for :/ but at least I'm helping my grams out, I'm getting payed and am getting experience for vet school so i guess it's not all bad...now if only i could break my roosters mean streak   

good luck and its ok, really . I love the drake

 

[RustedOak]

Hi Texas family...im located outside temple and belton tx. Only lived in Texas for 3 yrs and started our chicken raising about 6 months ago when our first chicken adopted us. Im learning and loving it. Im also searching to see what kind of chicken i have. Happy chicken farming to all.
Meet charllie shes the tan one with black

Welcome from Waco! The one in the back looks like a Barred Rock

 

[Starfire669]

starfire the black and white ones are silver campines they are from spain and make 4 lbs hens and 6 lbs cocks  they are flighty and busy great foragers lay large white eggs.  these have matured quickly they are 11 or 12 weeks now and the little cockerels have been crowing since 5 weeks or so.  btw i still say you should find a heritage rhode island red  cock bird the most docile you will run with your hens safe for small children and pets .

the ones from the hatchery are ...but if you find a breeder with ones referred to as heritage or sop type they will not be aggressive at all.  mine sure are not they even get along with each other ..they do establish a pecking order when i run them together but not any fighting like most breeds do. look at the one in my avaitar notice the deep red coloring low tail angle and you can t see from the pic but he is thick and wide flat back ..most hatchery ones are tall and skinny because somewhere in the gene pool they are crossed with leghorns to improve egg laying and they are flock mated for 60 generations the most aggressive cocks have been the ones to get to live so that trait is in most of the ones you see.

All my chickens and geese are from Ideal Hatchery, even though I purchased from different feed stores. And the SLWs and RIR roosters were horribly mean. I do not want that type of Roo in my flock. My BR ladies, despite being from a hatchery are very calm, docile, and come up to me to be petted. I would love a BR rooster, he do t have to be a pet, just has to protect and treat the ladies right, and not give me any trouble when I do have to handle him. Between my temperament and size requirements, and my fear of getting some disease from the farmers around here I probably will end up with a sweet Roo that isn't a large breed from 1 of you guys. Better to be safe than risk my flock. The farmers around here are old school and don't give their flocks vaccinations and a lot of their birds are simi-wild as well. I will keep looking though. Maybe I will get lucky, or maybe I'll get a sweet Roo from someone on this thread.

 

[RustedOak]

Happy Memorial Day everyone and many thanks to our soldiers past, present, and future! Hope everyone has a great day. I'm working today but will make the best of it! We've been getting some much needed rain with more to come it seems.

 

[Starfire669]

i knew hens where nice but i always feared getting a RIR rooster because of the one my grams ended up killing the first year i started helping her but that explains allot. RIR's where my first breed choice when i wanted to get my own chickens for the first time (i had been raising chickens with my grams for years but i had never had the guts to get my own flock until now). Good with heat, lots of eggs and doubles over as a meat bird the breed seemed like it was Tailor made for me and my situation. But lord knows it i came to every single block in the road i could in the 6 months it took me to get together my flock. i wanted them to be laying by may; so much for that between expensive shipping prices, out of stock feed stores, my grams chicken massacre, and rude bird sanctuary\CL people not only do i not have any RIR's i got 13 no name breeds with a aggressive bantam rooster oh the nine irony   

Where are you located? The RIR chicks were all over San Antonio. It was the BA and BO chicks I had a hard time finding here.