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I just spent the past 1/2 hour chatting with the carpenter working at a nearby house that the company uses for intern housing. This guy came over to see what I had in the coop/run and turns out he raises chickens too.

It's always fun to have these chance encounters with other poultry owners!
 
bruceha2000 said:
Birds of a feather flock together!!

Is he an "egg guy", a "meat guy", a "whimsical bird guy"
or some of the above?
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He's mostly an "egg guy"...he has 4 kids to feed. He said he's tried a couple of times to butcher his old no-longer-laying birds and didn't think it was worth the trouble. He was very surprised to see my blue and brown eggs (I had them in my pocket) as he's only ever had white eggs.
 
Interesting. There are SO many more brown layer breeds available than white. Most white layers tend to be Mediterranean and have larger combs therefore less suitable to cold climates. Not that it stopped me from getting Anconas in 2012 and Exchequer Leghorns in 2017, white is a color too!

Blue and green are still fairly unusual except for those of us who look for them. For most that means EEs from hatcheries. Someone at the Farmer's Market was suspicious of the green eggs in a mixed carton at one stand. Only knew about white and brown. I told her why they were so cool and that they were no different inside than the white and brown eggs other than the color of the shell. Don't know if that took care if her concerns or not.

I have heard that other than making stock, old layers aren't all that good as a food animal. But he should for sure make stock with them and if he isn't squeamish about "cannibalism", he can give the chickens what he strains out of the stock.
 
bruceha2000 said:
Interesting. There are SO many more brown layer breeds available than white. Most white layers tend to be Mediterranean and have larger combs therefore less suitable to cold climates. Not that it stopped me from getting Anconas in 2012 and Exchequer Leghorns in 2017, white is a color too!

Blue and green are still fairly unusual except for those of us who look for them. For most that means EEs from hatcheries. Someone at the Farmer's Market was suspicious of the green eggs in a mixed carton at one stand. Only knew about white and brown. I told her why they were so cool and that they were no different inside than the white and brown eggs other than the color of the shell. Don't know if that took care if her concerns or not.

I have heard that other than making stock, old layers aren't all that good as a food animal. But he should for sure make stock with them and if he isn't squeamish about "cannibalism", he can give the chickens what he strains out of the stock.
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The SG Dorkings that I hatched for the breeder were very close to white. The eggs were Medium to large in size.

Dorkings are very mill mannered chickens
 
bruceha2000 said:
But tend toward broodiness, no? I think that is why I've not included them in an order of chicks.
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Not that bad for broodiness. The breeder could not get enough broodies from her flock so she had me hatch for her. Eventually(after three years) she bought an incubator.
 
bruceha2000 said:
Cap is my assistant Blooie enabler ;)


Yep
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Okay good haha

N F C said:
I just spent the past 1/2 hour chatting with the carpenter working at a nearby house that the company uses for intern housing. This guy came over to see what I had in the coop/run and turns out he raises chickens too.

It's always fun to have these chance encounters with other poultry owners!
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Awesome!
 

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