On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:48:12 -0500, you wrote:
I am determined to have chickens once we are permanently settled here and I
want to hear as much as possible from y'all. Especiall how to house them
safely.
We get a lot of foxes here too, so we have fenced off an area of about
a quarter acres for
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:59:49 -0500, you wrote:
That's what I was wondering - I think we use about 2-dozen eggs per year!
We sell all we can produce apart from a few for ourselves. I get £1.50
a dozen for them, and just stick a sign at the end of the drive. The
eggs are kept in an old picnic
Actually, we had chickens when I was a kid and I'm not anxious to go back to
those days. The bantam roosters would sometimes chase me
Now we're getting down to the real issue...Karen is scared of roosters! ;)
Sue
Now we're getting down to the real issue...Karen is scared of roosters! ;)
now that just makes her a big CHICKEN dont it yuk yuk'
janice
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yipie tie yie yo
I love my roosters, but there are some that can be TROUBLE, the best
thing I have found is to handle them everyday while they are little,
get the day old, and get them right away, handle them a lot, then they
are very loving...
I have had some really funny and sad experiences with our chickens...
... I think I could write a book for the silly chickens, however, we
needed the space for the hay, cause we just could not get help to throw
the hay up on the loft this year, so we took apart their stall, wel,
they are sitting on the hay now, that is in their stall, dang... Debbie K.
Y'all
My sweet husband loves chickens (and all other birds, I suspect). He has
what I secretly think of as the chicken ministry. He does all the care
for and provides all the feed for a nice little flock of hens. He sells
eggs for a $1.50 a dozen and gives Stephanie $1.00 because the original
Isa Browns are very prolific egg layers. PLus, they are a cute brown white
speckled bird, though they don't grow as big a comb as the leghorn.
We have 25 donated to us each spring and fall (for our sleddogs), just after
their first molt. A farmer friend buys them as ready-to-lay hens, then
Nancy~
I have a lovely hen that isn't a leghorn and she alone is giving me many
eggs (brown). I will take a picture...have no idea what she is...got her at
a feed store with a different 'blue' hen (which, BTW, is a rooster)
I sell my eggs for $1.50, too! I can't afford them in the store,
On Dec 10, 2007 10:49 AM, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, the question: is there a breed of chicken that produces as well as the
leghorn, but lays the brown eggs that people love so much?
Nancy
buff orpingtons are good! so are rhode island reds. Aracuanas are
fun, prolific and
Rhode Island Reds were what we used to have and I loved the hens(roosters were
aggressive).
go to link...
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html
if you scroll down gives lots of info ...plus there are 6! eggs in the litttle
egg box!!
Ashley
So, the question: is there a breed of chicken that produces as well as
the
leghorn, but lays the brown eggs that people love so much?
Nancy
I don't know about producing as well as a leghorn...but around here,
Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth Rocks are good non-setting brown egg
layers.
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:49:33 -0800, you wrote:
So, the question: is there a breed of chicken that produces as well as the
leghorn, but lays the brown eggs that people love so much?
Speckledys and Welsummers lay around 280 - 300 eggs per year that are
dark chocolate brown.
Black rocks lay
BUFF! That's what I have. She's really nice and a good layer. I also have
the Araucanas...lovely eggs. Great around Easter as Janice said.
Mary
On Dec 10, 2007 1:10 PM, Mic Rushen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:49:33 -0800, you wrote:
So, the question: is there a breed of chicken that produces as well as the
leghorn, but lays the brown eggs that people love so much?
Speckledys and Welsummers lay around 280 - 300
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:40:01 -0600, you wrote:
we
dont have black rocks either!
Black rocks are a hybrid of Plymouth rock and something else, to make
them more hardy and prolific.
It's quite easy to get Welsummers around here. I have a Welsummer
cockbird and a couple of hens. I love the
Okay I've always wanted chickens, but Bill says no way. Even though he loved
the chickens he cared for as a kid. You guys are making me so envious with
all your chicken talk!
Cheryl
Sand Creek Icelandics
Icelandic Horses Icelandic Sheepdogs
website: www.toltallyice.com
On Dec 10, 2007 2:44 PM, Mic Rushen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:40:01 -0600, you wrote:
I just got an incubator but haven't got any eggs in it yet. I want to
get some silkies and some call ducks. My lot don't tend to set very
well, I think it's too windy and exposed up
On 12/10/07 4:05 PM, IceDog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay I've always wanted chickens, but Bill says no way. Even though he loved
the chickens he cared for as a kid. You guys are making me so envious with
all your chicken talk!
Cheryl
More chicken talk, please. I have never been able to
Chickens are so much fun we have wondered why we keep parrots. Chickens are
vastly less expensive to buy. I'm sure there are other websites, but I like
this one: http://www.backyardchickens.com/
We have plenty of predators here and a Jack Russell terrior rescue that is
not a good pal for
On Dec 10, 2007 1:30 PM, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
buff orpingtons are good! so are rhode island reds. Aracuanas are
fun, prolific and hardy but eggs are easter egg colors not brown and
reputed to be lower in cholesterol. I have one that lays pale green
and one that lays
Do you eat all the eggs? V
That's what I was wondering - I think we use about 2-dozen eggs per year!
Karen
Karen Thomas
Wingate, NC
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We have a Wyandotte, a Bantam Barred Rock, a Buff Orpington, and a Bantam
Cochin. All lay brown eggs. The banty Barred Rock lays and egg a day all
year with a brief time out for molt. The Wyandotte and Orpington lay almost
every day. The Bantam Cochin is a great pet, doesn't know she's a chicken
Our chickens live in a cute wheeled a-frame chicken hut that can be closed
up at night for extra protection they are fenced inside a movable plastic
mesh electric fence. When the grass gets all torn up, I just move the whole
thing to a new area.
A Great Pyrenees is also a great coyote/fox
Our chickens free roam, but man they make a mess of the hay.. I have
only 4 hens and a rooster, I need to figure out a better way to keep
them, or my hubby will want me to get rid of them, and I LOVE THEM...
Any ideas???
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I and my horses love our track system, take a look~~~
Now we're really wandering. I love this list. We had a Kommondor to guard
our dairy goat herd. He was an absolutely amazing herd guard and all around
best-ever dog.
Nancy
annaleise, I have some very tiny bantams called serama, the worlds
smallest chicken they say, and some golden phoenix, and they can fly
as well as a dove or other bird it seems! But when predators come
they fly to the trees and are safe. also a very aggressive mean
rooster will protect his hens,
Now we're really wandering. I love this list. We had a Kommondor to
guard our dairy goat herd. He was an absolutely amazing herd guard and
all around best-ever dog.
Considering that Cary and I only use 2-3 dozen eggs per year, and let's
see...I'd need a mobile hen house and fence,
On 12/10/07 7:04 PM, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
annaleise, I have some very tiny bantams called serama, the worlds
smallest chicken they say, and some golden phoenix, and they can fly
as well as a dove or other bird it seems! But when predators come
they fly to the trees and
On 12/4/07, IceDog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are a couple of my grandkids with an emu.
Cheryl
I have been reasearching. From what I have read, if you spend a great
deal of time hands on with them while they are very young they can be
in petting zoos etc. and not be dangerous. I didnt
hey you guys there are list newsgroups for people who like to swap
hatching eggs and for people who sell hatching eggs. I am going to
get 3 emu eggs! I am so excited!! I cant wait to get film of an emu
living with Teev and Noss! will that be cool or what. Only I would
hope it would not peck
Only I would
hope it would not peck any horses in the eye.
Janice - if they are anything like ostriches, the least of your
worries would be the pecking - an ostrich kick could easily break a
horses leg.
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Laree in NC
Doppa Mura
Simon, Sadie and Sam (the S gang)
Yet when all the books
I am so excited!! I cant wait to get film of an emu living with Teev and
Noss! will that be cool or what.
Cool stuff, I had a woman come to my farm years ago to hire my geese to sit her
eggs she bought. I couldn't charge her anything and they didn't hatch, but she
bought them from someone
On 12/4/07, Laree Shulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only I would
hope it would not peck any horses in the eye.
Janice - if they are anything like ostriches, the least of your
worries would be the pecking - an ostrich kick could easily break a
horses leg.
oh my gosh! a man down the
Janice:
Emus! Now I know you're crazy! Do you know they eat minimally 1 1/2 to 2 lbs of
special pellets a day? They also have to be fed those special ratite pellets,
otherwise you'll get growth problems in the legs. While you're raising them you
have to be very careful that they don't eat a
Emus! Now I know you're crazy! Do you know they eat minimally 1 1/2 to 2 lbs
of special pellets a day?
maybe donny wont feel bad to kill them and we will eat them.
Janice
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yipie tie yie yo
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