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| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Jul 16 2012 : 09:14:07 AM
Blue Isbars
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/isbars/
or Olandsk Dwarf
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/olandsk-dwarf/
What's yours?
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Megan |
Posted - Aug 11 2012 : 11:17:25 AM
here is a pic of my swedish flower hens .JPG)
www.rockriverexoticsandkennel.net |
| YakLady |
Posted - Aug 10 2012 : 10:46:30 AM
Well I did the July Mystery Egg Swap over at Backyard Chickens, and I only got 3 to hatch, BUT those are all Buckeyes! So now I have 4 little Buckeyes instead of just the one :)
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Highland cattle, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, and a few dogs. |
| Lorie.Vance |
Posted - Aug 10 2012 : 05:27:51 AM
Natalie, you're right, I can't wait till my girls start laying in the next couple of months. It'll be like going on an Easter Egg hunt everyday with all the different colors I might find. I hope they each lay a different color. I cant wait!!
Lorie
http://thevintagegardengirl@blogspot.com |
| YakLady |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 4:46:19 PM
Hah! Isn't that how it always goes? It's as if I think the other chickens will be racist or something... "But honey, we only have the ONE Buckeye! s/he needs a buddy or 10!" "It has 35 other chickens for buddies, Natalie" "No no, silly, I mean a BUCKEYE buddy..." Oh dear >.< My poor husband!
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Highland cattle, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, and a few dogs. |
| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 3:59:24 PM
By chance, I ended up with two show quality splash bantam cochins, so I had to get more, right?
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/691055/bin-12-splash-cochin-bantam-eggs-show-stock
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 3:56:53 PM
I have five faverolles chicks. They are supposed to be good winter layers. I got them, because I couldn't get chanteclers.quote:
Originally posted by Lorie.Vance
Hi Everyone! my next dream chicken (other than my easter Eggers) would be a Faverolle chicken (they come in all kinds of colors). I'd love to get 2-more hens. They say they lay light brown to pinkish eggs. Does anyone have them in their flock?
Lorie
http://thevintagegardengirl@blogspot.com
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
| LittleVintageTrailer |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 1:53:24 PM
I want chickens SO badly but sadly we aren't allowed to have any in our township. So I have to live vicariously through all of you.
Kelle
FarmGirl Sister #4447
www.LittleVintageTrailer.com |
| Lorie.Vance |
Posted - Aug 09 2012 : 09:03:05 AM
Hi Everyone! my next dream chicken (other than my easter Eggers) would be a Faverolle chicken (they come in all kinds of colors). I'd love to get 2-more hens. They say they lay light brown to pinkish eggs. Does anyone have them in their flock?
Lorie
http://thevintagegardengirl@blogspot.com |
| crittergranny |
Posted - Jul 21 2012 : 2:55:22 PM
I have found that silkies are very good mothers. And very cold hardy too.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
www.nmbarrelhorses.com |
| crittergranny |
Posted - Jul 21 2012 : 2:49:28 PM
Oh Jenn your chickens are so pretty and fluffy, and that beautiful grass, I'm jealous!
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
www.nmbarrelhorses.com |
| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Jul 21 2012 : 2:30:41 PM
ISA Browns were developed with a gene gun. quote:
Originally posted by crittergranny
Oh I'm with you Natalie, I'm in it for the eggs. All colors and I like them big except for the itty bitty bantam eggs. My daughter raises show chickens and I get her rejects..LOL but I do like ISA browns. They hold the record for most eggs and largest eggs laid. They lay big brown whoppers. I had a bunch of them a few years ago till a bobcat cleaned me out. I want to get some more. They look like red stars, pretty plain really. I think randall burkey sells them but haven't checked in a while. I haven't had the money to order any.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
www.nmbarrelhorses.com
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
| YakLady |
Posted - Jul 21 2012 : 11:38:26 AM
Delawares are great, I hear! A lot like Buckeyes in the mousing way :)
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Highland cattle, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, and a few dogs. |
| plantcarazy |
Posted - Jul 21 2012 : 06:38:01 AM
I love all my chickens- they follow me around all the time like they think they are dogs!! They are so sweet. My new breed this year is the two Delewares, what a hearty chicken! The barred rock is a new breed for me too, usually I just have buff orpingtons.
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.....getting back to my roots again..... |
| crittergranny |
Posted - Jul 20 2012 : 11:00:23 AM
Oh I'm with you Natalie, I'm in it for the eggs. All colors and I like them big except for the itty bitty bantam eggs. My daughter raises show chickens and I get her rejects..LOL but I do like ISA browns. They hold the record for most eggs and largest eggs laid. They lay big brown whoppers. I had a bunch of them a few years ago till a bobcat cleaned me out. I want to get some more. They look like red stars, pretty plain really. I think randall burkey sells them but haven't checked in a while. I haven't had the money to order any.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
www.nmbarrelhorses.com |
| YakLady |
Posted - Jul 19 2012 : 1:44:45 PM
quote:
Originally posted by one_dog_per_acre
They're over here on craigslist for $80/chick. Yikes! We are going for the rainbow egg carton.
Oh yeah! They were imported from Britain, so give it 10 years and the price should come down :)
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Highland cattle, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, and a few dogs. |
| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Jul 19 2012 : 1:30:50 PM
They're over here on craigslist for $80/chick. Yikes! We are going for the rainbow egg carton. quote:
Originally posted by YakLady
I don't have a "dream" chicken, but I would really like to have every color available in my egg basket.
I have chocolate, brown, and green. Now I want Olive, white, blue and pink :)
If I had all the money in the world, I'd get Chocolate Orpingtons... the proper English ones. But, I don't have the cash flow for that haha!
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Highland cattle, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, and a few dogs.
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
| YakLady |
Posted - Jul 19 2012 : 12:24:11 AM
If you have a real cute coop and only hens, many times people don't even notice :) Helps to make the coop look like a bling-ed up dog house...
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Highland cattle, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, and a few dogs. |
| prariehawk |
Posted - Jul 18 2012 : 11:22:37 PM
I want some silkies. Our town is working on an ordinance for keeping chickens. Apparently it's OK if the neighbors don't complain. I have two empty house in back of me and I'm afraid if I get some chickens, people will move in who don't like them. Guess I need to read the ordinance and find out exactly what it says.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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| YakLady |
Posted - Jul 18 2012 : 9:38:13 PM
I don't have a "dream" chicken, but I would really like to have every color available in my egg basket.
I have chocolate, brown, and green. Now I want Olive, white, blue and pink :)
If I had all the money in the world, I'd get Chocolate Orpingtons... the proper English ones. But, I don't have the cash flow for that haha!
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Highland cattle, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, and a few dogs. |
| batznthebelfry |
Posted - Jul 18 2012 : 10:36:31 AM
oh Linda you made me cry dear hen...what a sweet & nice thing to say....the 'Freezer Camp' is from my dear friend Mary who also does as I do, gives a chicken to someone else's freezer camp cause we both name & love our kids too much to do that to them if the time comes....plus now in this house we never say we are having chicken for supper...its a small turkey so my in-door sicky ones don't hear it...lol....Oh and Shanda I used to take my 1st roo on rides with me in our car...he loved it!....All that I have had in the car will just lay down unless you take a curve too fast or stop too fast...then they get a bit upset but never had one fly thur the car like a crazy cat......Michele'
Chickens RULE!
hen #2622
theoldbatzfarm.blogspot.com |
| sissarge |
Posted - Jul 18 2012 : 07:51:48 AM
Oh Michelle, you are my hero, the last 3 years I have always enjoyed reading your posts. And you are the top lady for chickens. I think I have told you this before, just wanted to tell you that I love the "freezer camp" expression, that was great! I also noticed " someone elses". You are on my bucket list, I hope one day, to get to meet ya! Have a great day all! Farmgirl #946 Linda |
| Lorie.Vance |
Posted - Jul 18 2012 : 07:38:28 AM
I love chickens! They all have such personalities...LoL! I started with three then adopted a fourth about a month younger that had been abused by much older hens. At first, my girls (Bitty, Birdie, and Hattie) were what I called the three wicked step-sisters. They would shun the new girl (Fannie) and peck at her, but after a few weeks of isolation and a few come to Jesus meetings with the rest of the girls, they are all happy and living in peace. My dream is to move up north and have a few acres and lots of chickens!
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The Vintage Garden Girl @blogspot.com |
| edlund33 |
Posted - Jul 18 2012 : 06:35:52 AM
My dream birds from the Greenfire list are the Hedemora, Swedish Flower Hens and Tolbunt Polish. I'm with CJ...any chicken breed with the ability to fight off predators would be a plus! That is the main reason I don't have chickens at this point in time - our neighborhood doesn't allow chickens so I'd have to keep them at our shop property where there are a plethora of critters that would make short work of a flock of hens.
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
http://blueskyanddaisies.blogspot.com
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| shanda |
Posted - Jul 18 2012 : 05:18:23 AM
This may be crazy, but you did ask for my dream chicken...ones that travel well! I'm seriously thinking of the RV lifestyle. With my kids and family spread out it's sounding better and better every day. (in a few years, once my youngest is settled down). I figured I'll be mostly in the same two states so I can carry my plants around without shocking them too much. But chickens? hmmm.
Warning...silliness to follow. I'd love to put a platform (like thoughs used to carry extra stuff) on the back of my RV and build a very safe, securly fastened coop on it. With some moveable fencing, a yard would be quick to set up. Yes, I am a dreamer! ha
Dream Chickens...where are you???
Shanda
Farmgirl #4233 |
| batznthebelfry |
Posted - Jul 17 2012 : 11:48:39 PM
All & any chickens are my favorite...Each one that comes to me has a different personality & attitude, I have had blue & gold (buff) orpingtons, frizzle, silkies, RI reds, leg horns, americanas, tons of easter eggers & a sarama....I have loved them all....I never turn away a chicken but have had to send a few to someone elses freezer camp because of meanness but even the mean ones I loved & cried when they had to go......Michele'
Chickens RULE!
hen #2622
theoldbatzfarm.blogspot.com |
