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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2751691
03/01/19 11:32 PM
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I have 3 hens that survived the possum, coons and hawks so I shut them in the enclosed pen. They are laying more eggs than we can eat.

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2765254
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Between the coosa and cahaba
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Egg production it through the roof! I went from a 3 a day with 9 hens to 8 - 9 a day. Some dang biguns too. Egg carton cant contain em.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2769643
03/24/19 02:10 PM
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Well, couldn’t stand it. Went and got 4 more barred rock chicks. Gonna have to do a coop expansion

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2769914
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LOL, I just got six more chicks and three turkey chicks.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2770326
03/25/19 01:15 PM
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Any gobblers? I have seen some you g chicks strutting. Pretty funny

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2770482
03/25/19 05:46 PM
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at least one of em is a gobbler.


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muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2779478
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Have not been around much lately. Got an update of my birds I gave away a while back. That nasty ole rooster I had was really mean. The first night he was in the new place, the folks I gave my birds to put my birds in a different coop from the birds they already owned. The coops did not have tops on them. My ole rooster, Sugar Ray, flew out of his coop into the other coop and beat the crap out of their rooster. Dang near kill their rooster and almost pecked his eye out.

The next night, they snatched Sugar off the roost and cut his spurs off. The next night, they snatched him off the roost and clipped one of his wings so he could not fly out again. Have not heard any more but the last word I got the guy said one of the roosters had to go...Sugar may have gone in the cook pot by now.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2779568
04/07/19 12:15 PM
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you gotta get some more chickens Maggie.....

5 of my 6 new chicks are doing good, one is much smaller than the others but holding on. Moved em to my banty cages in the coop.

Got another turkey, so have four now, all doing well. Out in the shop now with a heat lamp.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Cuz-Pat] #2780455
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Originally Posted by Cuz-Pat
Originally Posted by Slim1026
Just a curiosity question... If you were to get rid of your current flock and start over, which breeds would you choose? And how would you distribute the different breeds in your flock?


I have had just about all of the most popular breeds of chickens over the years.

I got my current birds, the Sapphire Gem and the Calico Princess, last year in April.

Both are new breeds to the USA that were developed in the Czech Republic, both are brown egg layers and both are a moderately sized bird.

They are not flighty birds at all, very quiet and docile.

They may be the prettiest birds I have ever owned and they are the most proficient egg layers for sure that I have ever owned!

They consistently lay large brown eggs with many of them being double yolked.

Have even had a few triple yolked eggs.

I have 5 hens of each of these two breeds and 1 Sapphire Gem rooster.

I may never own another breed of chicken after having these.

Hands down, the best I've ever owned! thumbup

https://hoovershatchery.com/sapphiregem.html

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called and never got a answer or call back

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2781437
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got the order in today , have 13 sapphire gem hens and two roosters coming in tomorrow

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2781629
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Between the coosa and cahaba
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I went to tsc today to get some more chicks but all they are carrying is straight run. Won't do that again .


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: birdcarver] #2782559
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Originally Posted by birdcarver
got the order in today , have 13 sapphire gem hens and two roosters coming in tomorrow


You are going to love the Sapphire Gems. thumbup

Mine are pumping out the eggs right now.

Along with the Calico Princess these are the best birds I've ever had. smile


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2783983
04/12/19 07:28 PM
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The sapphire gems came in today , very cute

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: birdcarver] #2784012
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Originally Posted by birdcarver
The sapphire gems came in today , very cute


I lost only one bird that I purchased from Hoover Hatchery.

Danged ol' chicken snake wrapped it up and killed it.

Keep them warm, fed and watered and they will do great.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2789906
04/20/19 07:55 PM
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Did a little work expanding the chicken coop today. Just need to add a roof and some chicken wire

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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2790116
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That one fancy coop


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2830049
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Anyone close to chelsea have some hens? I bought 4 more barred rocks to go with my giant flock of 2 from previous and they all turned out to be roosters (in the freezer now). I need about 4 more hens to add to my egg production

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2841637
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Anybody ever done any Kentucky Red Turkeys?

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2842145
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I had some bourbon reds many years ago...don't remember anything particularly good or bad about them. More recently, I had some royal palms...bigger birds, and much prettier, and they're a heritage breed.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: DEADorALIVE] #2842279
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Originally Posted by DEADorALIVE
I had some bourbon reds many years ago...don't remember anything particularly good or bad about them. More recently, I had some royal palms...bigger birds, and much prettier, and they're a heritage breed.

D o A, their is a couple over in GA we got our pygmy goats from and they had the Royal Palms and Bourbon Reds. I remember reading they are both, along with 5-6 more breeds are Heritage breeds. It got me thinking people may pay for a nice heritage breed turkey 1-2 a year. They also had Birmingham Roller Pigions which were awesome to watch.

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