The Front Porch Swing

[TNBEARCHICK]

Sounds like a lot of fun and a great idea. The personal shopper thing could turn into a good little business you could charge your friends 10% and you could even get the people you were buying from to give you a 5-10% discount due to the volume and end up with a good little business.

 

[chiqita]

Yeah! Add rent a incubator. Get a set it and forget it they can't screw up.

I hatch for people have made great friends that way.

 

[pysankigirl]

LOL no, I wouldn't want to charge them anything.

I am so lucky. My husband and I have really decent jobs (fingers crossed that it stays that way) and this I would just be for fun.

and having the incubator here at work would be so great...like a community thing! And they have a generator they kick on when the power goes out for the computer room anyway so as long as I plug it into a utility recepticle, it will be safer than incubating at home. (we lost power for 5 days in a row last winter and had to run the generator the whole time to keep the incubator going!!! that was an expensive set of eggs!!!)

 

[flocksalot]

Chiqita Alex had to tell my little girlies, and they are MINE whether he believes me or not, that they are getting boyfriends. Not that they understood, but he is super excited! He even told Brown Betty that she and her remaining brood need to move. She didn't give a rip either, but it was cute.

Now we need suggestions for wintering them. Should I put them in my house or in one of the coops? The will still be in their own little coop for safety, but I'm not sure how winter hardy they are. I could also put their coop into the hay shed. Or I'm sure innumerable places that will come to mind later. Heck I even have a empty parrot cage in my basement. What would you think would be best for them?

 

[pysankigirl]

So I was counting on my fingers and toes my roosters and realized I have actually named almost all of them and they have spaced themselves out in the 3 coops nicely. We have 13 roosters and 27 hens, (not counting the 6 hopefully female chicks I just picked up and are in the basement.) so our 2:1 ration might end up 3:1 soon!
Original coop:
Xander- Barnevelder. Original Head rooster, gorgeous and so polite/nice to the hens, and us.
Blue boy- Also Barnevelder. Hangs out with the marans. Spent many a night on my couch with me watching tv while he was in quarantine because he was by himself. Nice boy.
Sergeant Pepper- Silver Penciled Rock. Pretty boy, doesn’t challenge. Never heard him crow either.
“Little” John- Lemon Cuckoo Orpington cockerel, but bigger than all the rest. Sweet boy, just starting to crow and show interest in girls. Reminds me of a big nerdy teen with his voice changing.
Goat house:
Mongo- Red Dorking. Used to think he was tough stuff until he tangled with the fox. Lost some feathers and some pride and stopped challenging Xander for his head spot after that. So we are pleased with him even though he is scared of us and doesn’t like to be handled. He camps out in the goat house with the bantams for some reason.
Nemo- Millifleur D’uckle . cute cheeky little guy! Always first for the scratch.
Sharkbait- beautiful golden sebright with an attitude that was improved tremendously after spending a few nights in the shark cage of the trap, trying to lure in the fox. Poor thing, but it was safe, just scary and lonely. He is doing great and getting along with everyone now.
Red dorking cockerel…trying not to get too attached because he may be getting named “Lunch.” But he has such lovely feet and is turning into such a nice bird. Would be a shame. Still has his tiny squeaky chick voice though despite getting rather large.
New coop:
Tonda- Blue-red dorking with maybe some cream diluters. Head Rooster in the new coop. Nobody messes with Tonda! He keeps them in line!
Atook- Rhodebar. Very inquisitive and confident. He will actually follow us all the way down to the river when we go down there to let the dogs swim. And he is always at the front (and in the way!)wondering what we are doing when we are building or fixing the coop.
The Tweedles: (Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee.) Don’t ask me which is which. Two almost identical Chocolate Bantam Orpingtons. Great personalities…I love these guys.
DR (for Dennis Rodman) Poor little Polish cant seem to keep many feathers on his head. The others keep plucking them out. I put him in solitary to grow them back for a while but he was miserable in there and as soon as I let him out they did it again. Oy.

 

[chiqita]

Excuse the messy brooder. There you are flocks! I think they have 2 different mothers so some diversity there.

I have to try and weigh everything today. Let's hope my scale is up to it!

 

[chiqita]

 

[chiqita]

Oh. I'm not sure flocks. I think inside for sure. I bring mine in at night because they think they live inside anyway. But we are warmer then you are.

They do not cuddle together at the temps here but we are 48-50 lows right now so no real test.

 

[pysankigirl]

Chiqita Alex had to tell my little girlies, and they are MINE whether he believes me or not, that they are getting boyfriends. Not that they understood, but he is super excited! He even told Brown Betty that she and her remaining brood need to move. She didn't give a rip either, but it was cute.

Now we need suggestions for wintering them. Should I put them in my house or in one of the coops? The will still be in their own little coop for safety, but I'm not sure how winter hardy they are. I could also put their coop into the hay shed. Or I'm sure innumerable places that will come to mind later. Heck I even have a empty parrot cage in my basement. What would you think would be best for them?

are these the turkeys? I wouldn't brood them with chickens, but maybe you don't have the Balckhead problem there that we do here. evidently here, Blackhead is everywhere. but I don't know a whole lot about it because I don't have turkeys.

 

[pysankigirl]

Excuse the messy brooder. There you are flocks! I think they have 2 different mothers so some diversity there.

I have to try and weigh everything today. Let's hope my scale is up to it!

Are the three gray ones CCL? the darker one looks kinda like my CCL. The other one was eaten by fox but was more like the blonder ones.