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Sustainable Living => Farm Livestock => Topic started by: mamapoppybee on January 13, 2014, 01:00:45 pm
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some of you have been asking me about what kind of chickens i have well here are afew pics.
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this is chilly my lone ranger at the moment.
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this is lemon a frizzle cochin. yes he is named because he looks like something off the lemon lot.
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these are lemons ladies sophia is the mottled cochin and luna is the gray.
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this is my assorted pen i have americanas barred rocks RIR and splash marans. could not decide what birds i liked best so got some of each.
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Pretty birds. We have Black Australorps...17 of them. The ladies were getting older, so we figured to get a dozen chicks in the spring and figured a couple would die and a couple would be roosters. Well, none died and there were no roosters. The chickens are giving us between 9 and 12 eggs per day...there's just the 2 of us, so our neighbors are quite pleased with their egg windfall.
What I find best about chikens is that they are such incredibly silly birds. Could watch them for hours. :D
Walt
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I had chickens in the 80's, started with a dozen leghorns. Beautiful egg laying, rarely missed a day but man were they a nervous bird. Switched to Golden Comets after that, a real nice bird with nice eggs.
I ended up with Banties mostly, smaller eggs but 3 times the fun to watch! Broody as all get out and would set on anything!
I also had a couple of Salmon Faverolles just cause I though they looked weird.
If I wasn't worried about my neighbours who are just now adjusting to having a beekeeper for a neighbour, I'd have chickens again as well.
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perry im sure you could slip some bantams in. the cuteness of them kinda take over.
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OK.. dont have a GOOD picture but maybe someone will recognize what kinda chicken our rooster is. Wife calls him boots because he has feathers all around his feet;
Not good pictures.. if these arent good enough I'll catch him and hold him up for his big screen debut.
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Hes the black and white one that isnt a red, Buff or Barred rock :P
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I have 7 total. 1 buff, 3 barred, 2 new hampshire reds and a buff rooster. They are really fun to watch. One of the reds follows me around like a little puppy. The rooster is really jealous. :P
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LazyBkpr, from what I can see, your rooster looks like a Dark Brahma - a very docile breed and very Winter hardy. Does he have a rose comb?
The hens are easier to figure out - Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks and the buff ones might be Buff Orpingtons.
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We need to eat the Buff. That thing eats twice what the others do, and never lays. Whenever a dog gets one it always has to be the White Leghorn that is laying 360 a year. Right now we are at 5 and getting a couple of eggs a day. If we do not get daylight pretty quick we will have to buy some eggs!
Here is an old shot of my tractor when it was well painted (2010) move it between rows to let them keep the weeds down but they got into something and killed 3 of them.
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Minz, I really like the idea of the tractor, especially with the run that can be put between the rows. Great idea!
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Thats pretty slick... Would certainly keep the chickens out of the tomatoes.. as it is here, the wife just lets them out, and for some reason they seem to LOVE pecking holes in the tomatoes. Only thing in the garden they seem to bother.
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They peck holes in any and everything red. The blueberries go from green, to red to blue and they tear them up. They also take a dust bath in the top soil (dig big holes and throw dirt on everything.
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some how they know reds are fruits they love my strawberries and maters. they also eat a crap load of kale. i try to plant some along coops edge just for them. I love mitz weed control system. Lots of pretty birds and happy to see i'm not the only one that couldn't decide what breed to get and stick with lol.
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I was out today to take some photos of the cows (mama and baby) next door and the chickens saw me. They're sure I've got "treats" for them.
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They were a little disappointed. All that happened was I took their picture. :sad:
Walt
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setting first batch of eggs to hatch! I will candle in about 5 to 7 days time to see if eggs are all developing. then again the week after. If all gose well our lock down date is march 8th and we should start seeing chicks round the 10th and 11th. Lock down is done on day 18 from when you have set your eggs. I dont have a turner so i hand turn them all thus lockdown is important. Cant wait to see what birds come out of this becuse mine are a mixed flock.
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I wantd to hatch a few this spring and see what we got, but the wife says 7 - 9 eggs a day is plenty. :(
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setting first batch of eggs to hatch! I will candle in about 5 to 7 days time to see if eggs are all developing. then again the week after. If all gose well our lock down date is march 8th and we should start seeing chicks round the 10th and 11th. Lock down is done on day 18 from when you have set your eggs. I dont have a turner so i hand turn them all thus lockdown is important. Cant wait to see what birds come out of this becuse mine are a mixed flock.
Interesting variety of colours there. 8)
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the dark brown one is a black copper maran the greenish are my americanas the lil white one is a chochin bantam and some of the tans and barred rocks and naked necks. lazy my friend had her coop attacked by panther and is wanting to start over with not alot of money out so im hatching these for her.
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did my first candle today and so far only three of them look like duds. gonna leave them three more days and if nothing then to trash with um. the others look great lots of veining.
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Wow! Nice take! good rooster you got.
Found one of our barred rocks dead this morning. Not sure what happened to her. Not a mark on her, and she was running about yesterday with the others just fine. So were down to 12 Hens and Boots. They are laying very prolifically right now. Got more eggs than we know what to do with!
Quiche, Egg Sandwiches, scrambled eggs, Hard boiled eggs, Pickled eggs, Omelets, etc, etc... NEVER thought I would get tired of eating eggs, but yes.. I AM!
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Lazy! sell em in your store! with a sign out front "Fresh Eggs"
I have a client that brings me fresh eggs every two weeks, I'm ecstatic!
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An old fellow up the road sells eggs for 75 cents a dozen, so theres not much purpose in trying to compete with that. We give them away to friends and neighbors about the time we hit 6 dozen in the fridge.. which is about 7 days now they started laying again with spring approaching. I try to eat all I can to save on groceries but a man can only eat so many eggs!
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I break them into half pint and pint canning/freezing jars and freeze them. They last a loooonnnngggg time.
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Lazy see if you can beat Cool Hand Luke's record for boiled eggs. I double dog dare ya! :laugh: :laugh:
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i have a dehydrator and make my own powdered egg with the extra. They hold over for ten years that way.
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That's great mama, powdered eggs are used as one of main ingredients for pollen patties, you can sell it to beekeepers :)
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Mama, I want to keep a few chickens. Wanted to do it last year but never got around to building a chicken tractor. What would be the simplest start up advice you could give to me to have a few chickens for personal egg production? In regards to a portable coop, watering, basic nutrition/needs and breed?
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Pickled eggs! Yum yum.
I have thought about having a few (3-4) hens, no rooster, that would have my neighbours up in arms.
The only problem I might have is the neighbour directly behind us. They have a Valley Bulldog (sort of pitbull) that goes haywire when ever it sees us (or Rosie RIP) in the backyard. They have a underground electric fence that stops it from coming into our yard. I have a hive right on the property line, and a couple of times when I worked it, it got too close and the jolt knocked it on it's back. I'm thinking with chickens, all the commotion their dog would create would probably stop their egg laying. :sad:
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seeing those chickens would probably send him through the electric fence, yelping as he decides it wasn't so bad after all! Chickens taste good! ;D
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well chicken tractor hum you need to look at where your placing it chickens like sun for the vitamin d for egg production but also consider if its in the heat of the day. look at if the area your putting the tractor is on a slopped hill cuz you know what they say rolls down :laugh: I would work from bottom to top giving the earth time to take back the um organic matter. With chicks you will want a crumble starter. once they hit around 5 1/2 months i would move to a laying pelet of 16 to 18 percent protien with scratch ration as well. It takes each chicken 1/2 a cup of food per day. they drink around half a gallon per bird depending on temps. You should check out byc back yard chickens they really have lots of cool coop ideas.
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Cool hand Luke... uhh, that makes me feel ill just thinking about it!
I once ate 7 prime rib steaks, and the record for Maine lobster is 23, but those days are gone.
I like the idea of making powdered eggs from them. Have a dehydrator. I will look into that!!! Thank you for bringing it up MommaP
Perry, I used to have a Bluetick Hound. His daddy was ranked second in the world. He was an AMAZING coon hound. But something was missing.... my wife wanted him to be able to run about the yard so she put the collar on him, walked him around the fences etc.. Our Springers, and later our Dobermans learned to stay away from that fence VERY quickly.. Tango, my Bluetick just never figured out that fence.. he would stand on TOP of it, collar beeping, his tongue hanging out his tail wagging... his tongue woulkd curl up against the side of his face, his face would squinch up, and his tail would never stop wagging as the collar zapped him. I didn't believe the wife when she told me this, had to see it myself. I laughed so hard I almost leaked..
If you had chickens, they would become accustomed to the noise. The difficulty is keeping that dog and other critters away from them. I have had dogs and coyote literally tear the chicken wire to get to the chickens. I have had something begin digging under the wire etc.. so when I built my current pen, I folded 2x4 dog fencing under and burried that part of it, and clipped the chicken wire to the dog fence around the bottom. critters might tear the chicken wire but they cant get past the dog fence. They can dig until they hit the dog fence too. they arent smart enough to dig further away, or to try to tear the chicken wire higher. My family call it the chicken fort. if thees a will theres a way.
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you can also run a trench of quickkreat round the bottom critters dont like scraping their claws on it be it dog or who knows what.
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Cool hand Luke... uhh, that makes me feel ill just thinking about it!
I think about that movie every Thanksgiving, because we always have deviled eggs and I eat of ton of them.
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You should check out byc back yard chickens they really have lots of cool coop ideas.
Yep!
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Thanks for the info mama...
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they're here theye're here!
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these are just a few the others spread to the other side but such cutties!
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Well done! Bet they will be some interesting looking adults!
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When my wife & I moved out in the country about 3-1/2 years ago, she stopped me & said...your not going to get chickens are you?
Fast forward 2-1/1 years, & with the price of everything in the grocery store, we decided to get some chics down at the local Atwoods store. We chose Black Sex Link chickens, & they are the funnest animals to have around. It just makes our farm, well...a farm. Plus the eggs we get are what all eggs should taste like.
They have been laying since January, & they very consistent. Four eggs everyday for about 2 weeks & then we get 3. They do this over & over again.
We liked them so much, we bought 8 more a few weeks ago. 6 BSL, & 2 Americauna. That will make 12. I will be excited to be getting 12 eggs, but that won't happen until late summer or early fall. My wife actually wants to have 20 chickens. She thinks she can sell the eggs, & make a few dollars. Maybe.
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Neighbors Rottweiler tore a hole in the side of the coop and ate another chicken. I seen he was out wondering the neighborhood before I left and did not give it any thought. I didn’t see him but I have a pretty good idea it is the only thing large enough to tear chicken wire that is nailed down like that. That dog eats more chicken than I do. I am thinking of a 60 grain partition from a 22-250 my curb his apatite but that girl really barks when it goes off, the entire neighborhood would know what happened.
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22 short sounds like a fire cracker at best.
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If there are no kids about, put a 330 conibear over the hole, cleat the chain to a post or the building, be ready to wrap in capet, put in truck and go find a bridge... LOL.. Kidding on the carpet and bridge..
When I start getting things torn up, the trail cam comes out, so I know what, when and where... Pics from a trail cam are great proof if taken to a neighbor, and it is explained to them that the chickens need replaced.. However, if the dog vanishes AFTER the warning, well, it just opens a whole nother can of worms.
My neighbors are good enough that I know I only need to do is say something, without even having proof and they will take care of the problem. So its OTHER critters I usually have to worry about.
I think the wife has noticed in the past... our troubles would suddenly just "stop" and never return... but she never asked so I never told.
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That’s a 140 lb dog, I would be reluctant to him with a short.
I use the 110 conibear to keep the squirrels out of the bird feeder (although generally they get it going down the pole). Maybe a double spring does the job better than that single spring does.
I was going to take off his collar and drop him at the pound. I wonder if I would have to give my name. If he had an ID chip it would cost them $200 recovery and fine.
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The problem with some of these remedies, is that the wrong critter is being punished. Owners deserve a lot more of the "credit" for raisng "dumb" animals in most cases.
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It would not solve the problem. He has a friend that breeds them and they just get another. the devil you know is better than the one you don't.
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I had a neighbor a few years ago with a German Sheppard. The first time he killed my chickens, I ask him to put her up. The second time I explained it to him this way.
If my chickens come in your yard, enjoy the chicken stew. If your dog comes in my yard, it will be a one way trip.
It solved my problem.
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idee is right some times you have to have a good ol firm conversation getting your remedy across clearly.
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I will be over, so you can make me some egg in the baskets. I love em!
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Ok whats egg in the basket blue?
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My definition is a piece of bread.. buttered on both sides with a hole cut out in the middle.. toss it in a frying pan and pour an egg into the hole.. flip when browned.. add syrup of choice and eat!!!
Also works really well when fried in bacon grease!
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oh the breakfast version of toad in a hole. Just have never herd it call that befor. ty