Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Hens and Roos]

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you would probably need to search on-line for which breeds are good being broody. I am guessing that as egg production was selected for broodiness was breed out- again you could probably search on-line for a better explanation. There are people who have both broody and non-broody chickens so that they can get eggs and have the broody ones be the incubators.

 

[Cindlady]

Gurrrrr.....sleep!

morning all!

gurrrr

 

[Dr HaHa]

Good Morning Everyone! 15 pages

1/2" of white on the ground and have to say it looks better than it did before. Think it's gonna be a late spring with deep frost.

The garden with the new addtion is gonna be late!

Yup it's been decided the garden will be bigger AGAIN! Oh Tat don't go underground. Your a very welcome new addition! Speak your mind, I do most of the time. Can't help it either. Tact does not run in my family. Have many pet peeves as far as grammer/spelling. Think the top of the list is " I seen" I always want to scream YOU DIDN'T SEEN NOTHIN!

But these days I'm guilty too. Your journey with chickens has only begun there is sooo much to absorb and sift through. A lot of trial and error is headed your way, that's how you learn. So just go out and do it! I myself am now getting away from hatchery birds though at some point would like to get some Australorps for their broodyness. Trial and error. Good Luck! Just remember we're all pullin for ya! [Red Green] In a few days I get to see TO. I get to see TO!

I'm eggscited! Thanks Bigz for the info keep it coming. Can't remember who said it think it was FT. Heated perches? ARE YOU SERIOUS?

Sorry couldn't help it! Better get off here before I say something I shouldn't

 

[MustLoveHens]

Morning All!
Good gravy you guys were chatty Kathy's! I was going to say a bunch of things but not I can't remember all of them!

I can remember the House Chicken chat though. I've had my share of house chickens. Rather recently was Winnie the Roo. He live in my nice huge chick brooder turned rooster house. He was persona non grata since he was a rooster and here I am, an Outlaw in the chicken world! We found a nice home for him though. Many moons ago, I also had a super sweet Rhode Island Red hen, Ruby. I rescued her and her sister when I started to get back into chickens. Her sister was Lacy and she laid nice huge eggs until a predator got her. Ruby make it past what I call "the Change"- when a hen survives from going egg bound. Anyway, Ruby, I decided needed to come in at night, so I had a little dog carrier all lined with puppy pee pads. She would tap at the front door right around sun set/roosting time to be let in and then walk through the house to her bed that was in the laundry room at the back of the house. Then in the morning she would walk back through the house and go outside. Eventually one day she decided that she wanted to stay outside at night, so I put a little dog ex-pen around her. That lasted a few nights and then a predator got her too.
Boy howdy! I forgot how much I love Rhode Island Reds! I need to put them on my "to get" list along with some Australorps. I think I'll also get some more Old English Game Fowl hens while I'm at it. I miss those ones too! Gah! So many breeds so little time!!! Or space rather!! Hahaha!!

Tatt-I have has chickens for 25 ish years on an off. My Dh has owned them since he was a kid-over 40 years. I also showed chickens and am trying to get back into that. I have a nice Wheaten Ameraucana hen I got from H&R that hopefully I can get on a show scheduel (sp) this coming year. I tried last year but one thing lead to another and I never could get to a show with her. I also have some Russian Orloffs and Barnevelders I can take. My Aseel who is supposed to be all white has some black feathers in non pluckable locals so she is off the show table. I might try to take Buzzy the Pheasant to show this year just to shake things up a bit! That would be fun!! Although we'd probably get DQ'd for being over weight! Hahaha!!

Ok, more to say but I have got to go! Things to do you know! Oh I will have a surprise for you guys a little later today.....Mawahahahahahahaah!

 

[Angiebubs]

Hmm interesting topic-house chicken. Anyone in need of a really sweet banty house chicken? I mentioned a week or two ago my sweetest lil banty Ahmelia wasn't walking? Well, she has continued to stay alert, eat, chatter at me etc. Took her to the vet yesterday and its a genetic deformity :-( And basically shes not going to improve from where she is right now. I have her seperated in a cage within the coop...going to have to make a decision to either try her in with the big kids and see how she does, or else put her down :-(
(And please excuse my typos-my job all day is documenting engineer/medical info into different computer programs, checking for accuracy- So quite honestly? When its not work, Im lazy and dont feel the need to spend my free time triple checking my spelling/punctuation-so please dont hold this against me!

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[Celtic Chick]

MLH, how do you like your Barnies? Are they a friendly bird?

 

[FrenchToast]

What ?? Nobody watched my Christmas Card ?????? Chuck and I rehearsed all night on that !!!

Tatters, then you will have to decide what color eggs you want !!!! It's never ending !!

 

[bigzio]

Chilly Afternoon All...Yep just watched it FT. You and the OM are actually quite talented! Suzie said it was darling.

Prolly won't make one, seen you guys did a good job. Don't know if I have that much time to practice a routine. Hope you enjoy your Venzun! Think that covers all the goody words folks love.

Only some of the flock went out today. They sure hate snow under their feet.

Time to go lock up the flock...think they went in a little early today.

Later... bigz

 

[MustLoveHens]

Afternoon All!

FT- Yes! I looked at your card! Hilarious! I meant to mention it but it slipped my mind when I was blabbing about house chickens!

Very nice card and thanks for sharing it!!

CC-The Barnies. What to say. They are not as I thought they would be. From what I have read about this rare breed is that they are supposed to be friendly, laid back, and lay a big chocolate/dark brown egg. What I found out was that I did not dig enough into the breed until after I got 10 hatchery pullets. Turns out there is a huge difference in "breeder" stock Barnies vs. "hatchery" stock Barnies. Good Barnies from a breeder are pricey and they are nice , friendly, laid back chickens that lay a dark brown egg and are very cold hardy. Apparently hatchery stock Barnies can be rather flighty (check), not overly friendly (check) high strung (check) and lay a nice brown egg tending to be a more of a medium brown instead of that dark chocolate color. (Check). They are very cold hardy though!! That being said, I like their egg production so far. They have been a nice consistent layer of good sized eggs since they started to lay. We will see how long their production life lasts comparing them to the other rare breeds I have/had. Also, as they have aged they seem to have mellowed some. I can now pick up a couple of them if they squat for me first. They are not as friendly as I had hoped but they are not mean but I'd classify them as a tolerant breed. I do have one that is mean, but I think it is this birds temperament. She is the meanest chicken I have. She likes to bite you when you pick her up to work on her toes or to dust and deworm her. If I were to breed Barnies, with her temperament, she would not go into the breeding shed.
Overall, they are big beautiful birds that I much prefer to Wyandottes in looks and production. I never had much luck with Wyandottes myself so that might be a little biased on my part and should not reflect on those that want them. But, I have to say I would not be opposed to trying them again from a breeder, although there are other breeds I'd get first. I think for a rare breed, they do rather well with egg production and I do like that. Also being a dual purpose breed, it will be interesting to see how they dress out when the time comes.


SOOOOOOOOO........here is my surprise as promised!
Tah-Dah!!!

I am a complete sucker for a rescue situation. As I was reading this forum as few days back, a couple people ( I won't point fingers

) were discussing raising some pullets to sell as started pullets/hens in the spring. That got the old brain matter mattering so I told dh about my brilliant plan that I stole from my peeps on the forum! (He almost banned me right then and there! But he is my enabler so that should explain a lot!)
Anywho, I started to look at hatcheries that are still selling chicks this time of year (Ideal if your interested btw) and had my little list of breeds I wanted to get and start. DH then says "let me call Rick over at Abendroth's and see if he as plans to hatch anything." Turns out Rick did. He had a baloot order and was going to have extras. So Rick, nice man that he is, hatched out some of those eggs for me instead of turning them into baloots. So I saved some little Gold Star girls! 25 little fuzz butts!!!

The best part is that they hatched on my birthday! So we are all Christmas babies! I shall have to keep a couple! LOL!!! Name them Holly and Ivy. Then we all will have plant names!!!
LOL!!

They just got out of the shipping box and are clustered together. They are now roaming the brooder and snoozing under the lamp. No more clustering although some of them are passed out on top of each other!

Ok, I've got to feed dogs and mash some feed for the little ones! Chat soon!

 

[raimnel]

I just watched it, very cute. now I have to go cut out cookies.
PS who gives a hoot about grammer and spelling on here. doesn't bother me one bit, of course you should see the things I read in a day, DH and DS11 are dyslexic, and I have to figure out what things say all the time. my brain just fixes the words lol
Today is DD4 birthday and I asked her what she wants for her birthday supper and she said she wants cake for supper lol and for food I asked, oh she says, spagetti and meatballs

I thought that was her least favorite food

her and DS8 made the meatballs, sauce is cooking now.

ok NOW I'm going back to the cookies

sigh