Hello all!I am a fellow Washingtonian and coming summer I will be raising my own chickens for the first time! I am super excited!
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Hello all!I am a fellow Washingtonian and coming summer I will be raising my own chickens for the first time! I am super excited!
Not that I will admit to, mine turned out to be seriously mean, even the hens would attack and flog.Does anybody have experience with Rhode island whites or white Plymouth rocks?
Remember that RIWs have a Rosecomb, and not a standard comb.Road Island whites are a different Breed Then Rd., Island reds, at least that's what it says under the breed section. They might be a little nicer than the Reds. But I think I will go with the white Plymouth rocks. I've heard great things about bard rocks. Of course, I won't be able to till two or three white chickens apart :-( I like the thought of getting two or three different breeds but the store gets different breeds every week and there's no way of telling Bill be any left over going into the next week. Oh well, there's more things to worry about in life than that I guess
In another thread somebody said that you can integrate even three or five week old chicks into a group and that it's easier then when they are in adult. I'm obviously going to have to research that a little more, so far all I've read is that you should wait until they are similar in size.
Caponizing is mainly used when you have too many egg laying breed males.For me, that sounds like a lot of trouble for meat. Cornish crosses get huge and meaty very very quick.
Ugh, lost my favorite hen to a coyote today. Teach me to let them out of their pen! Snatched my buff silkie and tore the fluffy butt feathers out of one of my big hens. I doused her with betadine,but wound wasn't bad so I'm sure she will be okay. Super bummed about Johnnie-bird though. I just put her last egg in the incubator, but am a little concerned that it will be crossed woth my barred rock rooster, not my showgirl, lol. My luck it will be a BR silkie cockrel that hatches!
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Remember that RIWs have a Rosecomb, and not a standard comb.
If someone tries to sell you a standard comb Rhode Island White, just smile & walk away.
A Standard Comb Rhode Island White is more than likely, A White Plymouth Rock.
RIRs can be nice birds, and remember that there is production RIRs and then there is breeder RIR.
Production birds are all bred to either make eggs, or meat, and not cultivated one bit for confirmation, nor personality.