The Quack Shack

[quackiemama]

Chris glad to see you back. We have missed you! The life of a parent, huh?

 

[Trimurtisan]

You have English Orpingtons? And you got them locally? Can I ask from where? I'm always having to incubate eggs to get any decent orpington. I went to a farm swap this weekend and it seems like everyone only has production breeds or silkies.

Yes miss I do! I have 5 in total. A 2f/1m trio of Golden laced, 1 lavender pullet, and 1 jubilee pullet. I got them from A Fowl Bussiness, the owners name is Sandra. Her contract number is...

Pay no mind to the ad, I just don't want to go posting her number right after I was complaining of getting unwanted messages from online lol. Difference is she actually runs a chicken business and that ad was publicly posted by her already.

So for a reference, I love going to Sandra's place! I've got a couple Seramas, a polish, Eng Orps, hatching eggs and more from her. She's npip, and the place is pretty well kept. She gets a raving 5 star review from me. Not to forget she's very nice also.

Now, I don't want to take the wind from your sails, but she's no longer breeding pure Eng Orps, and is going more for large fluffy butt designed chickens. Good news is, she's still using some of the Orps for the project, and was a very recent decision. Like a few weeks recent. It's worth calling and asking her. That's actually why/how I bought the GL trio from her. So I will have some chicks later in the year for sale.

 

[Tooshay89]

Yes miss I do! I have 5 in total. A 2f/1m trio of Golden laced, 1 lavender pullet, and 1 jubilee pullet. I got them from A Fowl Bussiness, the owners name is Sandra. Her contract number is...View attachment 2007904

Pay no mind to the ad, I just don't want to go posting her number right after I was complaining of getting unwanted messages from online lol. Difference is she actually runs a chicken business and that ad was publicly posted by her already.

So for a reference, I love going to Sandra's place! I've got a couple Seramas, a polish, Eng Orps, hatching eggs and more from her. She's npip, and the place is pretty well kept. She gets a raving 5 star review from me. Not to forget she's very nice also.

Now, I don't want to take the wind from your sails, but she's no longer breeding pure Eng Orps, and is going more for large fluffy butt designed chickens. Good news is, she's still using some of the Orps for the project, and was a very recent decision. Like a few weeks recent. It's worth calling and asking her. That's actually why/how I bought the GL trio from her. So I will have some chicks later in the year for sale.

Oh man, golden laced are my absolute FAVORITE! I had one gold laced hen until about a month ago when a hawk got her. We've had a horrible time with hawks since it got colder, so all of the chickens are now being kept in the run instead of free ranging. Though I do let them out to range when I'm outside doing farm chores. Hopefully in the spring they'll have other food sources and quit being so desperate to eat my favorite chickens.

I'm so sad to hear she won't be breeding them anymore. If she doesn't happen to have more chicks, maybe I can buy some of your chicks when you start breeding. I'm not sure where you are exactly, but I'm only about 30-40 minutes north of Apopka. My sister actually lives there.

I'm expecting some egg mail today, so later this week I'll be setting chocolate cuckoo orpingtons, bielefelders, seramas, Ayam cemanis, and crested cream legbars. Most of which I've never had before and will probably sell, but I got a little order happy last week! haha

 

[Trimurtisan]

Oh man, golden laced are my absolute FAVORITE! I had one gold laced hen until about a month ago when a hawk got her. We've had a horrible time with hawks since it got colder, so all of the chickens are now being kept in the run instead of free ranging. Though I do let them out to range when I'm outside doing farm chores. Hopefully in the spring they'll have other food sources and quit being so desperate to eat my favorite chickens.

I'm so sad to hear she won't be breeding them anymore. If she doesn't happen to have more chicks, maybe I can buy some of your chicks when you start breeding. I'm not sure where you are exactly, but I'm only about 30-40 minutes north of Apopka. My sister actually lives there.

I'm expecting some egg mail today, so later this week I'll be setting chocolate cuckoo orpingtons, bielefelders, seramas, Ayam cemanis, and crested cream legbars. Most of which I've never had before and will probably sell, but I got a little order happy last week! haha

I'm in the Longwood area, maybe 30 minutes east of Apopka. So probably not to far from you. I'd be more than happy to spread some of the GL chicks around.

Nice choice in eggs! I totally understand getting order happy. Chocolate Cuckoo huh? I might know a guy interested in some of those if they're sold. He's got an addiction to anything... well feathered, fluffy, and different than what ther next guy has. I'll go ahead and tag him now...
@Trimurtisan


These are from when she decided to quite the breed. But you can see it was not even a month ago. She might have more available.

 

[Tooshay89]

I'm in the Longwood area, maybe 30 minutes east of Apopka. So probably not to far from you. I'd be more than happy to spread some of the GL chicks around.

Nice choice in eggs! I totally understand getting order happy. Chocolate Cuckoo huh? I might know a guy interested in some of those if they're sold. He's got an addiction to anything... well feathered, fluffy, and different than what ther next guy has. I'll go ahead and tag him now...
@Trimurtisan

Hah! You sound like me - addicted to anything farm related. Poultry is seriously a gateway farm drug. Is that how the saying goes? I don't know. Anyway, I started with chickens a few years ago when we lived in a neighborhood in the city where everyone had chickens. Then we bought a house in a snooty HOA neighborhood (which we didn't find out was snooty until AFTER we bought it, obviously. It was in the HOA documents originally that we could have chickens. And I did. So they changed the rules and made me get rid of them, because they didn't want anyone having chickens. It was a whole thing.) So in a revenge type of red-head rage, I bought 10 acres directly across the street from said neighborhood specifically to move my chickens to (and eventually live and build a house on.) We finally moved over 3 months ago, and it's glorious. Our old snooty neighborhood can hear our roosters, so that's a plus. Okay, now I'm off topic again.

I'm in Leesburg (smallish town about 45 minutes north of Orlando.) Google maps says Longwood is about an hour and 12 minutes from me, not too bad! I'm guessing I'll have a ton of chicks in about a month, most of which will need homes. I'm trying to add about 10 new layers this spring, but that's about it. I usually end up giving away extra chicks that I don't need to other farms or 4H kids since a friend of mine runs their school's 4H program.

I pre-ordered Welsh Harlequin eggs and some Saxony. So I'm hoping those will come in in either February or March so I can incubate those and start on my duck adventure. My husband veto-ed a miniature cow, so I went with ducks.

So yeah, in all seriousness, golden laced orpingtons are on my high priority list. I'd typically have one of each "color" of orpington in my flock, but I'd really like to have a golden laced rooster and some more GL hens.

 

[Trimurtisan]

It is because of things your worm issue I refuse to eat anything at potlucks. You never know how the food was prepared.

Ahh, and I was going to invite you to dinner too.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Morning all! Looks like you've all been having an eventful time

 

[Trimurtisan]

Yaaaay!! @Trimurtisan is alive!! We were getting worried! Glad it's nothing major...good dip in permethrin should take care of the buggies. That is one plus to having such cold spells...I can't imagine there are many creepy crawlies that survive it.

The little critters pop up in the last couple of days. Last week was 80°+ most days and all the bugs came ot to play. The skeeters (mosquitoes for the less redneck folk) where out with some kind of appetite. The last 2 days, not a skeeter in sight.

 

[Trimurtisan]

oh, also, Good Morning Dux Peeps!!

Well a gobble gobble to ya too!

 

[Trimurtisan]

family says I'm crazy

Are you telling us your not?