25 new chicks!

[obleo]

And am I a happy camper! Got 15 Rhode Island Reds and 10 Buff Orph's...between 4 weeks and 3 months. Woo hoo!
DH was skeptical at first, but he fusses over them more than I do! Had to get rid of the 2 Barred Rocks and one Auracana, 15 months, very aggressive and pushy, but that's ok...just love the RIR and Buff's...have to wait for eggs, again, but that's ok too...25 layers...you bet I'm a happy camper!

Just had to share my happiness...in case someone else is "chicken crazy".:mrgreen:

[orion commander]

Well, congratulations. We would like chicks, too. Don't let PW see this. We don't have a place to put them and my wood shop is not an answere.:-D

[Birdlady]

Hey, hey...we're "modified" chicken crazy....we have 4 Barred Rocks pullets, and they are sweeties, in our suburban backyard.

We take time to play/hold them every day, and give them treats (broccoli, oats, some spaghetti), when they have to go back to "jail"/coop. They are quite content with that. They're on a regular feed of Wendlands "only one" for chick growth.

They are "pets" each with a name, (that our GD's helped name), and are now about 2 mos old. We expect them to be layers come September/October.

When we read that each could produce 200 to 250 eggs a year, we were quite overwhelmed! That almost 1000 eggs a year.........we normally in our past 25 yrs together have used perhaps 12 eggs a month!

Wow...gonna have to find more innovative ways to use eggs, besides scrambling them and giving them back to them!!!!! (No way!):-D

[obleo]

Well, here's to all of us "waiting" for the big day...the day they lay their first egg! Oh goody...other enthusiasts...loved my barred rocks...they lay when they're 4 months old and never stopped. My auracanas were a bit longer, but loved them green eggs!
Birdlady, only 12 eggs a month? Dang, I'm a 2 egg person at least 6 days out of the week and that doesn't include baking. With my barred's and aura's, I was eating and using almost faster than they could produce...poor things....LOL.

Mine were spoiled with spaghetti, cottage cheese and alfalfa cut up in their bowls...but they were happy chickens...and that's what we all want is happy chickens!

o.c., get you 4 chicks to start with, I'm sure you could find a place for them...uh...
SOMEWHERE!!!! And they dont' take up much space, uh, sorta...LOL. Plus they eat all the bugs and kitchen scraps and just about anything else you can throw at them. You'll be hooked forever....I am.....WOO-HOO, or did I say that already?

[packyderms_wife]

Well, congratulations. We would like chicks, too. Don't let PW see this. We don't have a place to put them and my wood shop is not an answere.:-D

She saw :mrgreen: I'm waiting for my coop so I can get those lovely Iclandic chicks I've been wanting!!!

K-

[packyderms_wife]

Well, here's to all of us "waiting" for the big day...the day they lay their first egg! Oh goody...other enthusiasts...loved my barred rocks...they lay when they're 4 months old and never stopped. My auracanas were a bit longer, but loved them green eggs!
Birdlady, only 12 eggs a month? Dang, I'm a 2 egg person at least 6 days out of the week and that doesn't include baking. With my barred's and aura's, I was eating and using almost faster than they could produce...poor things....LOL.

Mine were spoiled with spaghetti, cottage cheese and alfalfa cut up in their bowls...but they were happy chickens...and that's what we all want is happy chickens!

o.c., get you 4 chicks to start with, I'm sure you could find a place for them...uh...
SOMEWHERE!!!! And they dont' take up much space, uh, sorta...LOL. Plus they eat all the bugs and kitchen scraps and just about anything else you can throw at them. You'll be hooked forever....I am.....WOO-HOO, or did I say that already?

My neighbors have a huge back yard but I'm sad to say that I do believe they'd notice a chicken coop and some chickens roaming around back there! :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: While I've gotten away with lots of things with these neighbors, rouge squash plants that take over their lawn, aggressive blackberry bushes that took over everything, milkweed, mullien and a plethra of other native plants that refuses to stay in my lawn and then I beg that they NOT mow it down so my butterflies, honeybees, and hummingbirds have plenty to eat... Yeah I'm thinking chickens and a few goats may be pushing the neighborly boundaries.

Oh and I've been known to call at 11pm at night and ask to use their oven because mine has decided once again to not work!

They must like us they gave us an All American 915 Canner! :-D

Kimberly

[obleo]

Kimberly,

Sounds like you have fairly decent neighbors...too bad we can't build underground chicken coops and have some camo chickens...ya know, so they blend in with the surroundings. Course when they lay an egg and cackle, that's be hard to disguise...lol. Well, dont' give up on your neighbors, especially after them giving you that canner! WOW!! Seems they can't be all that bad. At least you have decent neighbors, of which I am envious.