The Moonshiner's Leghorns

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Yes!!!!!! I’ve been… alright LOL I’m better now though. Got out today.

Glad to hear you are doing better! It is nice to hear you are out of the hospital!

 

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I am feeling legitimately part of this thread - I went and got myself some brown leghorns today!
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Yay!! Welcome to the group! Nice looking birds you have there!

 

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Turns out if you don't adequately latch the temporary holding pen in the garage, they WILL get out and get up high. The one on the cardboard box was up there laying an egg.

That is hilarious!!

 

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Advice needed. Somebody wants to buy 2 dozen hatching eggs from my EE hens fertilized by my Ameraucana cockerels. I know this is a Leghorn thread, but you guys are the only ones I know to ask. ANY idea how much to ask? I mean yeah I realize she's going to be hatching out EEs, but I don't even have a clue. She's local, no shipping. She goes to my church. It's a home schooling project.

THANKS.

I sell hatching eggs from my mixed birds for the same price I sell eating eggs for. I wouldn't ask more than $10/dozen. For pure breeds I would ask more, but not for anything mixed.

Honestly, for a home schooling project for someone from your church, I would give them the eggs for free.

 

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Sorry I have been MIA. Lots of OT the past few weeks, and been baking like a mad woman on my nights off to help heal my fragile little mind. Not too much to update on. We sold the group of Silkies Saturday because I am sick of feeding birds for my brother's kids when I never see my brother's kids. My mom and my brother only bother to text when they are bumming money. They couldn't afford to feed the birds and didn't want them, so we sold them. I had them sold within an hour of posting them. Gotta trim the fat around here.

We also butchered a few roosters yesterday to thin the flock. It was becoming a sausage fest amongst the free ranged birds and the hens did not approve of all of the cockerels' pursuits to sow their seed. Will be making chicken and dumplings with the meat tomorrow for supper. The hens appear to be happier now that they aren't getting ran down by a rampage of randy roosters so much. lol

 

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Well at least they're dark brown. I've always been a fan of those.

I love my Marans and love the dark brown eggs, but they are the WORST for mites/lice. They have so much fluffy plumage and they have been the worst birds I have ever owned for bugs. My group were also prone to ascites (water belly) so they had too many cons to justify continuing to raise them. My husband and I prefer the Leghorns and I have never seen a mite or a louse on any of the Leghorns we own. They are similar to the Games in that way. Tighter feathered birds tend to do better about dust bathing to naturally rid themselves of the pests. I am down to one old Marans hen I believe, that is left out of my breeding group. I have several Marans crosses (Olive Eggers) though that tend to be prone to mites also. I have to constantly keep a check on them.