What should you get rid of?

[WriterofWords]

Get rid of them???? EEEEKKK!!! I try not to, I love them all,, why else would have 13 roos?

 

[JennsPeeps]

Well, my 6 month odl banty cochin isn't laying. My 22 week old standards aren't laying.

@#$* moochers, the whole lot of them!

ETA: I should probalby get rid of my 10- and 11-YO cats who seem to do little more than sleep, whine, & find creative places to puke.

 

[rizq]

At least 22 light brahma cockerels (since only 2 of our 26 decided they were pullets). A few little bantam EE cockerels. Possibly an egg eating pair of Serama mutts (if they don't quit eating eggs).

 

[youdontknow32]

Well lets see, it stated out in April of last year with 6 chicks (Cornish Rocks) which were going to be killed, I didn't like chickens then. Then he ordered 25 more white leghorns, RIR, black australorp, barred rocks, and EEs. Then my dad gave him 18 white leghorn chicks and two of them turned out to be white rocks. Then I found Seramas and fell in love with them and made hubby go and get me 7, well with those 7 came a silver duckwing OE hen and a self blue OE hen. Then a week later I find silkies for sell so off we go and get 14 white silkies and 4 showgirls, then a couple weeks later I found a whole bunch of free chickens, so we got a BLRW roo, a partridge cochin roo, a cuckoo maran roo and 2 hens, 1 black australorp hen, 2 EE hens, silver seabirght roo, a EE bantie roo, a red laced white cornish bantie roo, a white crested black polish bante roo and a black tailed buff japp. roo. we have 18 white leghorn hens, 1 roo, 1 RIR roo and 4 hens, 3 barred rock roos and 2 hens, 1 black australorp roo and 4 hens we lost a black australorp roo to a dog a few weeks back

, and 3 EE roos and 2 hens from the original 43.

Now we have 50 chicks on the way, blue silkies, red silkies, partridge silkies, black silkies, buff silkies, porcelain d uccles, black crested white polish, red laced white cornish and BLR cornish.

We just hatched a serama and have 42 more eggs due to hatch on the 28th, and our order from Ideal is going to arrive on the 31st most likely.

Matt was suppose to have his 25 chickens and I was suppose to have my 3 seramas, haha



-Nicole


we are only over our birds by like 103


oh and we have mallard and cayuga duck pairs aswell!!

 

[onthespot]

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OMG!!! I feel SO much better now! THANK YOU FOR POSTING THAT!

 

[debilorrah]

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Jen, be patient with your birds. the cats? YIKES. We almost always take ours in when they can't move their back legs and not a moment sooner. And they do find some rather interesting places to puke. Like the shower floor.

 

[MagsC]

Thats a decision I dont want to make, though it might come to that at some point.
For instance, I have a chick that is somewhat crippled but accepted and able to keep up with the rest. I COULD have culled her but her quality of life is fine, not picked on and she has the sweetest personality.

 

[magikchick]

I sell mine. We have a free shopping guide and I have had good luck posting in it.

I have mostly cochins and silkies but I do have an EE hen and showgirl hen. I sell their offspring along with my extra roos.

 

[cmom]

Maybe you could post on your local "Craigslist" http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites or "Simplead" http://us.simplead.com/

 

[Akane]

You'll have to decide what you want to do with them. If you want to concentrate on certain breeds and improving them you should get rid of most of the other breeds. If you want to have every breed you can then you sell the ones you have lots of and keep all the oddballs. If you just want eggs there's a plan in one of my books for a trap nest box that let's hens in but not out. So at the end of the day you know who's laying in your coop and who turns into stew. It all depends what your after raising chickens.

Personally I'm keeping a core group of japs to breed and selling the rest. Then I just hatched some mix breed dark brown layers I'm keeping a few hens of and selling the rest. Last I have 3 EE that I will keep if they lay colored eggs and sell if not.