WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[sonew123]

Ok let me do a mental count

50 chickens
30 chicks
40 in bator
60 waiting to go in including canadian geese eggs
Oh 6 ducks

2 dogs
2 cats
1 bearded dragon
1 modern game bird house chicken

 

[RusticDreamer]

If anyboby feels like doin' some baking this month, please come join the May bake swap. Its like the monthly egg swap where you sign up each month for a certain number of swaps.
The link is in my sig

I have to wait a couple of months, I'm still a 'NEW EGG'! LOL

 

[funkyfeathers]

I am going to be nosey.... exactly (or approx) how many chickens do you have?

Just to be fair..... I have 205 chickens...........
4 Peacocks, 12 Guineas, 19 ish ducks, 4 ish Pheasants, 6 Quail, 4 Geese, a bunch of Pigeons ( I say "ish" because I have babies too)
1 horse, 3 rabbits, 2 turtle, fish, inside birds (9, I think) , 12 dogs & 6 cats.
That does NOT include any chicks. I bet I have 100ish in the house right now !!!!
And 5 kids !!

NOW ............. I CAN GIVE THAT MAN SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT !!!!!!!!

100 breeder chickens....32 Lionhead rabbits (15 of that are for sale)...2 dogs...1 guinea hen
lots of chicks & keets

 

[202roosterlane]

Thanks everyone. LOL It has been a soap opera for sure. I would take y'all up on the guineas but with the dogs in the neighborhood they would not make it one day free ranging. Not fair to the guineas. I am trying to stay positive about this but it's not easy. I guess hearing them say I am doing everything right helps. I did promise to stop burning wood chips on the burn pile. I just thought it was odd I got permission to have a goat or pig but I can't burn poopy chips on the fire...... Oh well I never broke the law before and I don't want to start now.

It's a down right shame we have turned into the Hatfield's and McCoys. All because of dogs and chickens. We do wonder trick they will pull next? I do have a roo for every breed.

LF Euskal Oiloa
LF Buff orps**
LF White faced black spanish
LF Blue Polish*
LF Silver laced Polish
LF Blue Laced Red Wyandottes
LF Heritage RIR**
LF Sliver laced Wyandottes
Black Jersey Giants
LF FBCM*
LF B/BW Amerucauna
LF Tolbunt mix (from Sonew)
MF D'Uccle*
2 White Silkies with one black frizzle**
LF Salmon Faverolles
LF Gold Laced Polish
LF Welsummers


I currently have 9 roosters crowing everyday. But the possibilities are endless......and they are so pretty.....I feel like I am missing some breeds. I need to check my bators... You are so funny about the "smoke" trees but I better keep it legal..... But I am going to make the cutest NO trespassing chickens signs and paint them multiple colors. I will post pics when complete....I just don't want to get to icky and burn in Haiti for not loving thy neighbor.... LOL

 

[202roosterlane]

Oh you guys have wayyyyyyy more than me! I have

24 adult chickens
60+ chicks
2 turkeys (pretty young)
96 Eggs in the bators and more eggs coming in the mail and 25 eggs at a friends house being batored for me.

Of course I won't keep them all. But at least 50% of the hatched eggies.

 

[BHep]

See and you NEED to hatch a lot... Not all will develop, not all will hatch and most will be roosters.
That being said.... I just set 88 eggs.

 

[anderson8505]

35 Chickens of assorted ages
16 young chicks
some pipping
some incubating
some eggs on the way... but not too many.. and I am trying to quit, I really am.
3 dogs, 1 cat, 1 current husband, 1 daughter, and 125 more kids at work.

Luckily, I live in a neighborhood where you can have (and we do have) cars on blocks, emus, goats, peacocks, horses, guns, pigs, cows, etc. You can even use sidewalk chalk on the road and no one sends you a nasty gram. My neighbor has raised rats and cockatiels, now I've got him into quail. I don't talk to any neighbors except those directly on either side of me, and I like it that way. A few of my students live here and they yell "Hi Mrs. Anderson" as they pass by. I may not have a manicured lawn and a community pool, but it works for me.

Unrelated: I think I might have mentioned about a month ago that a Christian school teacher came to my house with her students as a field trip? Sent 2 1/2 dozen hatching eggs home with them, all free. The deal was that whatever chicks didn't find homes just give them to me. She got 20 locked down and 13 hatched. 65% is a pretty good rate for hand turning and 15 1st graders' noses and paws all over them eggs!!! I got them from her on Saturday and sold them all for $20 to a real nice lady on disability. They were mixed chicks, obviously from my ex giant rooster, Stan the Silver Penciled Rock. It was fun.

Pauletta, I hope they move away. I know you're in the right and happy for it, it is just a hassle to live near people like that.

AND PAULETTA: so far I have a D'uccle and 3 blue polish, 1 of the RIR over PR hatched, and the FBCM is nearly zipped. A few more are pipping. We've got a good postal route between us, very good turnout so far. THE POLISH ARE SO DANG CUTE!! Mixed blue and white, one is nearly all white. I might have to keep all the polish!!!

 

[202roosterlane]

YOU GOT AN ALMOST ALL WHITE POLISH FROM ME? FROM ONE OF MY EGGS? lol Is that possible from 2 blues? I have a bunch of my blue polish in the bator too. I am dying to see what hatches. Can't wait to see your pics. I am so happy for you! But those polish are large.... beware...

I weighed him a while back and he was
6.5 pounds-ish. I got on the scale, then I got on the scale holding him and subtracted the difference. Only way I have to weigh them.

Now that summer is here, I think I will make an outdoor brooder safe house and hatch out a bunch. But I think my husband wants the 2nd guest bathroom cleaned out. He leaves for DC in a few weeks so I will get my sister up here and we can get to work.

I think for 90% of my breeds I really just want 1-2 roos over 4-6 hens each. It's been a long winter hatching chicks and brooding them in the bathroom to keep them warm.... It was quite an experience.

 

[202roosterlane]

Though I live in the country I do have one other house on my side of the street and 5 on the other side of the street. But none of those face my property and I live at the dead end of the road. Most these houses are 175,000.00 and up. The one behind me is for sale for 325,000.00 but it has not sold in 2 years. You think it because of my chickens? LOL Regardless we move here because it's country limits and have no property assurances. So it's fair game.

I am so amazed at all the chickens out there all of y'all have. How awesome!!

 

[mrheinz77]

Beth, only 88 eggs got set? I set 14 dozen Sunday.
I'd rather not count my flock. I just moved 200ish chicks to an outside brooder. I have a wooden grainery that is divided into 2 halves. In one half I made 4 pens. Half of it as a grow out pen, then the other half was divided into 3 brooders (2 for chicks and one for the stinky goslings/ducklings).

One blue polish egg hatched from beth and I'm guessing its a splash. It is pure white right now at about 4 weeks old.