Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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02/28/19 05:03 PM
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Last years leghorns are impressive they lay a huge white egg and did well through the winter month, the buffs lay a smaller egg often a very small egg so they are not as impressive yet.
My first choice to get new birds would be white rocks from Hoovers, a larger white bird that lays a brown egg of good size and they are a hardy bunch.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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02/28/19 05:53 PM
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i'd like to get some marans if I can find them locally.
otherwise, probably some Dominiques - my old girls are slowing way down on eggs so I need to get a few more in the mix
Josh
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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02/28/19 06:45 PM
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Last years leghorns are impressive they lay a huge white egg and did well through the winter month, the buffs lay a smaller egg often a very small egg so they are not as impressive yet.
My first choice to get new birds would be white rocks from Hoovers, a larger white bird that lays a brown egg of good size and they are a hardy bunch. My white leghorns started laying this winter right around 5 months old. Since Jan 1 there have maybe been 6-7 days where we didn't get 100% egg laying. There has never been more than 1 hen not lay. They are producers! I have a mix of them, Plymouth Rock, silver Wyandotte, and Rhode Island Red. They are ready for some better weather
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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02/28/19 08:22 PM
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This year in chickens, I'll be hatching Malaysian Seramas, Butterscotch Old English Game Bantams, Ameraucanas, Silver Laced Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds. I'll start setting chicken eggs this Sunday.
I''m currently hatching coturnix, button and bobwhite quail.
I'll also hatch guineas, silver pheasants, red golden pheasants and probably dark throated pheasants and peafowl.
Keith
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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02/28/19 09:21 PM
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I would like to try some ISO browns, production blues, production reds or amber links. Was raised with white leghorns but can't hardly sell white eggs out here people tell me they can buy white eggs in the store. I enjoy trying new to me breeds, right now I have red sexlinks, delewares, barred rock, Rhode Island reds and speckled sussex. All are much mellowed than leghorns. Sussex lay small eggs I probably won't get them again. ,
"They Say Nothing is Impossible, But, I Do Nothing Every Day."
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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02/28/19 10:01 PM
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We have Buffs and Barred rocks. Good for eggs or meat. We have one that lays a whale of a egg about once a month!
Last edited by Pawnee; 02/28/19 10:03 PM.
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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02/28/19 11:30 PM
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Is there a certain breed of chickens that would be good for a beginner? I'm building a coop right now and I'm still not sure on what breed I should get. I was thinking buff orpingtons because I have heard lots of good things about them. I need something that will handle the cold of course because we have been down to -30 air temp this winter. Any suggestions would be much appreciated and I would also like to hear some opinions on insulation in chicken coops I have heard some say to insulate and some say not to. Thanks for any advice! Most breeds are pretty darn good at handling cold temps from my experience. If you look for something with a rose or pea comb you won’t have as much frostbite problems as a single comb. Make sure your roost is wide like the flat part of a 2x4.
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread
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03/01/19 12:16 AM
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Is there a certain breed of chickens that would be good for a beginner? I'm building a coop right now and I'm still not sure on what breed I should get. I was thinking buff orpingtons because I have heard lots of good things about them. I need something that will handle the cold of course because we have been down to -30 air temp this winter. Any suggestions would be much appreciated and I would also like to hear some opinions on insulation in chicken coops I have heard some say to insulate and some say not to. Thanks for any advice! Columbian Plymouth rocks are really good in cold weather. We have a bunch of them and haven’t lost any the past 2 winters that we’ve had them. Got down to -50C here and they’re fine. Also Black Australorps have done very well in the winter as well. Only lost a rooster during the cold snap.
Cold as ice!
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