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2019 Chicken Thread #6476453
02/28/19 04:28 PM
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What varieties are you getting this year? Had a friend pick me up a few welsummers and some blue chicks marked as Plymouth rocks at TSC today.


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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476476
02/28/19 04:47 PM
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I have a few easter Eggers and Buff Orpington ive had a few years. I think I’m going to get a handful of Mallard ducks to try out. Just bought a new house with a few acres so I got the room now. Other than that I’ll get my usual 30 Cornish Cross broilers for the freezer. Can’t wait for this winter to be done so I can get rolling on the poultry and fowl!

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476485
02/28/19 04:58 PM
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I'm on the fence between restocking after losing all but 3 least year. Or just doing away with the three we have left and going chickenless for the year. Suppose a smart guy would have decided before feeding them all winter.

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476490
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.


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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476534
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
Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476540
02/28/19 06:01 PM
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we have 40 now--no mo chicks here.









Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Law Dog] #6476594
02/28/19 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Law Dog
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

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476682
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

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476744
02/28/19 09:02 PM
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Only had chickens for about two years when I lived at the coast. Enjoyed sitting on a bench and watching them. There is a pecking order for certain.

Once threw a bushel of pea hulls in their pen and the chickens were afraid of them. I suppose the hulls looked like snakes. The boss hen pecked one and threw it several feet. she attacked that hull for a few minutes then the other hens joined in the fight. Finally they ate the bushell of pea hulls.

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476766
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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.
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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476804
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!

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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476822
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I can see now, this is gonna be a fowl thread..

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476831
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want to get the blood testing done and get to selling chicks and eggs from these girls


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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476891
02/28/19 11:24 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!

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: cotton] #6476893
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Originally Posted by cotton
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want to get the blood testing done and get to selling chicks and eggs from these girls


Legbars?


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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Tyler D] #6476898
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Originally Posted by Skunk buster
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 [Re: Tyler D] #6476936
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Originally Posted by Skunk buster
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.


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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Tyler D] #6476980
03/01/19 02:44 AM
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Most any breed can handle cold however the combs may get frostbite. The mediteranean breeds tend to have large combs so you may want to avoid them. Look to a rose comb version if you want a mediteranean breed. A couple developed in cold climates are the wyandottes and chantaclers.


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Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476986
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I have a small hobby flock of salmon Faverolles (3hens 2 roosters) and Americans (14 hens). Handling the cold well. Faves 2 small eggs a week ameracaunas 4 eggs a week average through the cold. Ameracaunas can fly over 6foot fence faves can not. Both friendly and calm. Ameracaunas lots of colors. Both seem to be good foragers and also seem to be doing well in confinement. Look them up for more info or pm me.

I have a insulated coop. 8x12x8. No added heat. Plastic over windows. Cant keep water thawed overnight. Kind of frosty and wet inside but it's been a bad stretch of winter last 6 weeks. So they havent been outside and possibly might have to think about some sort of ventilation in the future.

ALSO want to try some Cochin, Wyandotte, turkens, speckled sussex, Brahma in the future. Any info on these breeds would be helpful. So chime in or pm me. Especially like to know if a 6foot fence will hold them when needed.

Re: 2019 Chicken Thread [Re: Coon Duke] #6476992
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i like banty hens like old English game and seabrights.....but for eggs or meat their not much use..

a meat bird would be a light sussex cross indian game or modern game...well modern game anything I don't like commercial type broilers, I prefer a more gamey type meat

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