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The chicken thread
So as not to jack ChrisS thread.... Who has chickens? What kind? Let's see em'!
Speckled Sussex
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Ameraucana and blue wyandottes. The blues are gorgeous, and super soft.
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I just realized I don't have any pics of my Australorp on my phone. :(
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There's a place where I live that sells chicks for $2.50.
Do want, but grandma says no :(
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Originally Posted by Bobbafett
There's a place where I live that sells chicks for $2.50.
Do want, but grandma says no :(
Tell Grandma she will fall in love, just like she did with your snakes, lol. :cool: Their eggs are the best! And they are so much fun to watch with their goofy personalities!
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We do! Our flock currently consists of Speckled Sussex, Salmon Faverolles, Barnevelders, Easter Eggers, Barred Hollands, Australorps, Delawares, buff-laced Polish crested, several varieties of Cochins, silver & gold laced Sebrights, and dark Brahmas, as well as a few "chicken yard mixes" of the above. We absolutely love fresh eggs, and the occasional extra roosters make *great* dog food (or supper for us, depending on what's already in the freezers). ;)
3 of our 4 roos:
Archimedes - Salmon Faverolles
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Gus - Barred Holland
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P2 - Gold-laced Sebright
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Dude I wish I had somewhere to keep chickens. Fresh eggs would be da bomb!
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Pretty roo's. We don't have any roo's. I want a frizzle cuz their so goofy cute looking, but they only sell them straight run at my feed stores. Don't think my neighbors would appreciate a roo if I wound up with one, lol. Oh, almost forgot my Cuckoo Maran. Apparently I have no pics of her on my phone either. :(
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Anyone have silkys? They are by far my favorite chick. White plumage and black skin! :)
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Originally Posted by Kaorte
Dude I wish I had somewhere to keep chickens. Fresh eggs would be da bomb!
They really are!! And you wouldn't even believe how much brighter and almost orange yolks are, as well as how hard their shells are.
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Originally Posted by kevinb
Anyone have silkys? They are by far my favorite chick. White plumage and black skin! :)
I've had them in the past & absolutely adore them. Can't wait to get some again in the spring - fabulous birds!
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We have eyeballed silkies before too. We are limited on space though, and I really wanted the Sussex. Also, gotta love the green eggs, we have to have our Ameraucana. They don't seek to be as hardy as the other breeds though. Our first year with chickens, we lost one as a youngster to who knows what. Then last year we lost one to a bad prolapse. It was so bad I couldn't fix it and we had to out her down. :( About chicks in general when we first got them, they told us if you want 12, buy 14 because your going to lose some. Other than the ameraucana, everything else has made it just fine. Have abhor you given yours pumpkin guts? My girls favorite things are grapes, pumpkin guts, and watermelon.
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The chicken thread
They love overripe tomatoes, too, Doolittle! I have an adult Plymouth Rock hen and silver laced Wyandotte hen, and just picked up some new chicks on Saturday: Aracauna, Black Star, and Buff Orpington! I had a couple more hens but the neighbor's feral cats got them in November. :(
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Buff Orpington's are pretty. We had some of those.
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This was my Silky Rooster Jack. I lost him to a hawk 3 weeks ago. I loved this rooster He was the sweetest animal
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We have a new rooster now a D uccle named rusty
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Originally Posted by Christine
Ooh, I love the silky. Sorry you lost him.
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We want chickens! In minneapolis we've gotta get annual permission from neighbors within 100ft and we could have some, no roosters allowed.
Once we have our own place.. :D
We're also trying to convince her parents to move to their weekend place full time (where we have 120 acres of woodland, a large garden, and plenty of space for farm animals) for the summer and raise some poultry.
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The chicken thread
Doolittle,
I've been trying to convince my girlfriend (solarsoldier) that we need to get a chicken. She keeps saying no..
Tell her how ridiculous that is!
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Originally Posted by Billy305
Doolittle,
I've been trying to convince my girlfriend (solarsoldier) that we need to get a chicken. She keeps saying no..
Tell her how ridiculous that is!
She should really just do it. All the cool kids are doing it. Just try it, everyones trying it. Im sure you'll like it. It only hurts a little bit. Really, it's fun once you get used to it though!
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Seriously??? GET CHICKENS!! They are awesome. Fun to watch and listen too. Fresh eggs are the best. And chickens have the goofiest quirky personalities. Check out backyard chickens, all the info you could ever want.
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The chicken thread
I keep trying to tell her. I'm just going to put one in the backyard and see how long it takes her to notice
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My roo, I really need to get out and take a few more. Hopefully I'll be getting some chicks in a couple weeks.
Oh and I know this isn't a chicken but guess what else I got!
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Originally Posted by Billy305
I keep trying to tell her. I'm just going to put one in the backyard and see how long it takes her to notice
I'll notice a chicken in the backyard. My mom had a chicken when she was young. Her mother killed it and cook it in chicken soup and feed it to my mom. My mom was devastated from that she never let us have chickens. And I guess my mind set is still like that. I don't mind a chicken. They are cute. I just don't want to wake up and find our pet chicken kill and served to me I guess.
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Originally Posted by Mike41793
She should really just do it. All the cool kids are doing it. Just try it, everyones trying it. Im sure you'll like it. It only hurts a little bit. Really, it's fun once you get used to it though!
Lol Mikey has chickens?
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Originally Posted by ChrisS
BACON!!! :p
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Originally Posted by Solarsoldier001
Lol Mikey has chickens?
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No... But a few of my friends do. I like them. You should get them for me so i can live vicariously through you.
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Originally Posted by Mike41793
No... But a few of my friends do. I like them. You should get them for me so i can live vicariously through you.
Lol okay. I'll name yours mike. After the other Elvis and Marie
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Aw I want someone to name a chicken after me :(
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Originally Posted by Coleslaw007
Aw I want someone to name a chicken after me :(
I'll call one of mine textslaw. That make ya feel better? :)
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Originally Posted by ChrisS
Pigs are goofy! My family farm has a few every year. You changed your avatar pic I was confused for a min haha
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Originally Posted by Solarsoldier001
Lol okay. I'll name yours mike. After the other Elvis and Marie
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Make sure im the prettiest one.
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Originally Posted by carlson
Pigs are goofy! My family farm has a few every year. You changed your avatar pic I was confused for a min haha
This pig is crazy, I kind of think it likes to chased. It runs and runs, but once you catch her she is chill as can be. What was my avatar before, the two bps?
Doolittle her name is Crispy not Bacon lol!!
Back on chickens
So what breeds should I get this year?
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Originally Posted by ChrisS
This pig is crazy, I kind of think it likes to chased. It runs and runs, but once you catch her she is chill as can be. What was my avatar before, the two bps?
Doolittle her name is Crispy not Bacon lol!!
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So what breeds should I get this year?
Plymouth ones!
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Originally Posted by Mike41793
Plymouth ones!
Which Plymouth ones?
Barred, White, Buff, Silver Penciled, Partridge, Columbian, Blue, Black
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Originally Posted by ChrisS
Which Plymouth ones?
Barred, White, Buff, Silver Penciled, Partridge, Columbian, Blue, Black
Barred!
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Originally Posted by DooLittle
I'll call one of mine textslaw. That make ya feel better? :)
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Yea! :D
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Originally Posted by ChrisS
This pig is crazy, I kind of think it likes to chased. It runs and runs, but once you catch her she is chill as can be. What was my avatar before, the two bps?
Doolittle her name is Crispy not Bacon lol!!
Back on chickens
So what breeds should I get this year?
I don't know the meat breeds well. But for egg layers, I love my Sussex. We also got some Blue Wyandottes, they are gorgeous.
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The only meat breeds I know are the game hens. We had one once, a Dark Cornish.
Egyptian fayoumis chickens lay craploads of eggs lol. They are also very slim, lightweight chickens. They don't eat a whole ton either. They're great free-range chickens, and they specialize in bug-eating lol.
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Originally Posted by Capray
The only meat breeds I know are the game hens. We had one once, a Dark Cornish.
Egyptian fayoumis chickens lay craploads of eggs lol. They are also very slim, lightweight chickens. They don't eat a whole ton either. They're great free-range chickens, and they specialize in bug-eating lol.
Bad thing about the Egyptian ones, is they only sell them straight run. Here at least. Hubby wanted one of those, but we can't have a noisy roo here, so we passed. Didn't want to chance getting a darn roo.
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Originally Posted by DooLittle
Bad thing about the Egyptian ones, is they only sell them straight run. Here at least. Hubby wanted one of those, but we can't have a noisy roo here, so we passed. Didn't want to chance getting a darn roo.
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Roos are delish!
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At present we've got 6 dark cornish and 8 austra-whites. I also had two broad brested bronze turkey poults until today - I found one dead an hour ago and now the other one won't shut up! No idea what happened, it was healthy for the first four days that I had it. I'll be hitting up Big R tomorrow to see if they still have any or if they've sold them and gotten some new ones.
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The only meat birds we use are Cornish cross birds. And I should of been more specific that I was talking about egg layers.
I really would like some wyandottes especially gold or silver laced. And I've never seen a blue laced red so one of those would be cool too. I just really want something unusual that can produce an average amount of eggs. I have hybrids that pop out eggs like a gum ball machine.
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Originally Posted by DooLittle
Bad thing about the Egyptian ones, is they only sell them straight run. Here at least. Hubby wanted one of those, but we can't have a noisy roo here, so we passed. Didn't want to chance getting a darn roo.
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You can always mail me any roos I'll make them into tacos, yum!
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Originally Posted by DooLittle
I don't know the meat breeds well. But for egg layers, I love my Sussex. We also got some Blue Wyandottes, they are gorgeous.
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Ditto on the Sussex. Love my Sussex, they are so friendly and chill. I can actually pick them up and pet them, the Wyandottes won't let me (and they were all raised the same way).
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Originally Posted by Mike41793
Make sure im the prettiest one.
Promise that it will be the prettiest mike around. All the girls chickens wi be rounding the cages to see a sight of your glowing feathers ;)
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Also, we have had Buff Orpingtons. They are cool too.
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Originally Posted by gsarchie
At present we've got 6 dark cornish and 8 austra-whites. I also had two broad brested bronze turkey poults until today - I found one dead an hour ago and now the other one won't shut up! No idea what happened, it was healthy for the first four days that I had it. I'll be hitting up Big R tomorrow to see if they still have any or if they've sold them and gotten some new ones.
Any luck on getting another turkey poult? And are you doing the dark Cornish for meat?
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Dark Cornish are most definitely for the dinner table! I picked up two more poults today along with two pullets that I am thinking are a buff cochin and 4 straight run birds that look like they'll be super tiny. They are smaller than the two day old poults and they already have fully feathered wings, and they looked cool, so I bought some! LOL I'll get some pics up at some point!
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So, has anyone picked up and new birds? I think I'm gonna wait another month before I get mine just cause I want night temps closer to 70F.
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