Author Topic: What kind of chickens do you have/want?? (Read 9514 times)

NancyGoat · « **on:** October 25, 2004, 03:44:15 AM »

What I have...
Standards
8 NewHampshire Red (hens)
6 Black Star (hens)
2 Barred Rock (hens)
1 Americauna (aka Easteregger) (hen)
1 Black Astrolorpe (hen)
1 Rhode Island Red (hen)
1 Delaware (hen)

Bantams
6 Nankins (4 hens 2 roos)
2 Blue silkie (hens)
1 Black Silkie (roo) (rescued from MI)
2 White Sultan (hens) (1 rescued from OH)
1 Partridge Cochin (hen) (rescued from FL)
1 Blue Cochin (roo) (rescued from GA)
1 Black Orpinton (hen)
4 Barnvelder (3 hens 1 roo) (rescued from MI)

Now, do you want to know all their names too???
If anyone asks...tell them that I DO NOT run a chicken rescue....lol.

What I want...
Lakenvelders
Bantam Buff Orpingtons
Blue Bantam Cochins
Pheonix
Buttercups
Black tail white Japanease
A couple more but I can't think of them right now.

Barnes · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2004, 03:46:30 AM »

I don't have chickens and don't want any but I love to look at them, post pics please! I like the Silkies the best!

Renart · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2004, 04:29:06 AM »

I liked the looks of bantams .. I think "rock" ? mebbe .. or is that I think like a rock .. unsure ..

Renart · « **Reply #3 on:** October 25, 2004, 04:29:33 AM »

I liked the looks of bantams .. I think "rock" ? mebbe .. or is that I think like a rock .. unsure ..

but I always thought that Buff Orpingtons were the ones to get ...

rikke · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2004, 04:31:45 AM »

I like bantams, but that's partly because I like either 'little' versions of things or 'huge' (as in draft horses) versions of things.

Mind you, I went to that webpage posted in another thread and was looking at the turkeys thinking.. some of these rarer breeds are really nice looking.

But I could never kill it, never ever. Maybe I could have the butcher kill it, but don't think they do poultry around here. And turkeys aren't much use without killing come novembers... right?

NancyGoat · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2004, 04:37:45 AM »

One thing about Bantams, is...with small chickens comes small eggs. I have a hard time selling my bantam eggs, so I use them for my baking and for omeletes. If you are wanting to sell eggs to help with feed costs, you will want standard size birds. With all the eggs I sell, it pays for all my chicken feed and shavings, all my goat feed (except for hay)and shavings.
Around here, there are farmers everywhere willing to butcher for you. In most states they charge a buck a bird. I don't know how much they charge for turkeys.
There are a few breeds of turkeys that can live long healthy lives, but most need to be butchered as their hearts can't handle the rate at which they grow and they die of heart failure, or have severe leg problems.

Renart, Judy raised Buff Orps. Their eggs are fabulous!

DWFarms · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2004, 05:36:15 AM »

Well, I have

5 Americauna (pulletts and hens) Spangles, Lacey, Fannie, Red, and Dottie.
1 Americauna (roo) Charlie

Lacey, Spangles, and Charlie are in the pictures below. They were chicks then. I will get new pictures my next day off. Red, Fannie and Dotte where all purchased later. Red is from this year and Fannie and Dottie are older hens. Both Fannie and Dottie lay baby blue eggs.

I just sold 50+ young Mille Fleurs (this years hatch)
Mille Fleurs are bantams with beards and feathers on there feet. They are red with small white spots covering there body.
and
Other bantams I've raised are.
Crile, Silver Duckwing, BB's, Silkies (White, blue and Black)

Large Breeds include
White Leghorns, Doms, Varitie of Game Chickens, Sexlinks, Wyandotte, and Rhode Island Reds.

Southard Farm · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2004, 12:45:35 PM »

Our laying hens are:
Araucanas (my favorites)
Butter Cups
Buff Orpingtons (Jim's favorites)
California Whites
Dominques
Rhode Island Reds

We have
1 Phoenix hen
1 Golden Laced Wyandotte rooster
1 Black Australorp rooster

And 1 little Sebright Bantam

Approx. 45 birds

GoatTech · « **Reply #8 on:** October 27, 2004, 05:26:07 AM »

I used to have chickens,... at that time I had
40 rhode island reds-I ordered them and raised them up in the brooder in my basement.
then came the banties around 20 of them-my favorite. Hey those eggs aren't so small once you crack them in the pan!! They do look little though.
and I had a mean little white silkie,..he was sooo sweet as a baby, then the little rooster got an attitude, little stink would fly up in my face and attack,..and I thought it liked me!!! :shock: OF course he had ALLLL of those hens and eggs to watch over,.guess he was protecting them.
I think I had 6 of the black o(something)
6 of the buff ofington(bad spelling here)
12 of those white chickens that lay the white eggs,..I can't remember the name now,..but see we had to have a few white eggs for easter coloring!!

Linda in TX · « **Reply #9 on:** October 27, 2004, 10:56:59 AM »

I have 3 coops and my other half has one.
I had a lot of breeds I wanted before this spring and now have most of them. I've told myself so more but that could change.
My layer's coop has about 40 residents, with some hatching today :D
australorps
SL wyandottes
ameraucanas
rhode island reds
delawares
standard cochins (black & blue)

I had a seperate silkie coop but just merged the hens and a couple roosters in my bantam coop. The silkie coop is now a batchelor pad for extra silkies, frizzles and the polish roosters.

My bantam coop houses
cochins (black)
frizzles
silkies(white, black, blue and splash)
mille D'Uccles
BB reds
salmon faverolles
silver, gold and buff polish hens
There's 50-60 in there.

TJ's coop includes
OEG's
barred rocks
australorps
ameraucanas

Our neighbor works at the city animal shelter so all coops have some rescued chickens in them also.

We have our turkeys and guineas housed in a seperate building.
Linda

NancyGoat · « **Reply #10 on:** October 27, 2004, 05:57:48 PM »

It is so neat finding out what types of critters everyone has. This is so cool.
Thanks again Nic.

GoatTalker · « **Reply #11 on:** October 27, 2004, 06:16:05 PM »

You are most welcome Nancy, thanks for helping with the whole section.

NancyGoat · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2004, 06:23:41 PM »

My pleasure, I am havin so much funnnnnn!!

Jamie · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2004, 08:47:35 PM »

I don't have any chickens to brag about. :( I feel so left out......

GoatTalker · « **Reply #14 on:** October 27, 2004, 08:59:42 PM »

Welllll Jamie, I know someone can fix you right up!

Jamie · « **Reply #15 on:** October 27, 2004, 10:35:22 PM »

Yeah, and you can call me Tammy Wynette!
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
:?

DWFarms · « **Reply #16 on:** October 28, 2004, 04:26:33 AM »

Ohh I forgot I had frizzles too! Ohh I just love those curly feathers. Talk about heart breakers!! I had this gourgious roo! Ohh he had such perfect feathers!

Linda in TX · « **Reply #17 on:** October 28, 2004, 10:35:39 AM »

This is my grandaddy cochin frizzle rooster. He rules the coop, too.

NancyGoat · « **Reply #18 on:** October 28, 2004, 02:59:45 PM »

He's just so handsome!!!

Linda in TX · « **Reply #19 on:** October 28, 2004, 03:42:07 PM »

thanks Nancy. He has sired some on my prettiest smooth feathered hens. They are my favorites, the smooth feathered ones from a frizzle hatch. Their feathers are like velvet.

Jamie · « **Reply #20 on:** October 28, 2004, 07:27:46 PM »

How neat! A frizzle looks frazzled.

ag1 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 28, 2004, 07:59:39 PM »

I have one white hen named Lucky I am not sure what kind she is but I would like some (maybe 4 or 5) Americanas to go with her.

DWFarms · « **Reply #22 on:** October 29, 2004, 05:32:06 AM »

Ohhh he is beautiful!!!! I just love those feathers!!! My roo was Red. These are my favorites I can tell ya as far as feathers go! I find them very fasinating and so beautiful!

Linda in TX · « **Reply #23 on:** October 29, 2004, 10:41:24 AM »

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A frizzle looks frazzled

Some people call over frizzed birds frazzles.

These are ones that are from a frizzle to frizzle breeding. They will wind up bare naked if you're not careful.

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I would like some (maybe 4 or 5) Americanas to go with her.

We really like our ameraucanas. They have some beautiful colors and I love those muffs on them. People enjoy the colored eggs, too.

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Ohhh he is beautiful

Thank you!

rubydon · « **Reply #24 on:** October 29, 2004, 03:42:33 PM »

I have 6 barred rock hens for eggs....Mmmmm ....breakfast.....

ag1 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 29, 2004, 04:02:34 PM »

I have a question my hen is about 6 months old when should she start laying eggs?

NancyGoat · « **Reply #26 on:** October 29, 2004, 04:09:04 PM »

Any day now. Some breeds take a little longer than others but the general rule of thumb is around 5 months.

ecssr · « **Reply #27 on:** November 24, 2004, 10:11:23 PM »

we have over a hundred to choose from. wil try to send an inventation to web photos for you to see them. ooh i have them hatching everyday, can't seen to be able to eat any of our eggs

CmCinMD · « **Reply #28 on:** November 27, 2004, 07:17:31 PM »

Hey, cool!! When did we get a chicken board? This is too cool! Yay! :D

I happen to have four beautiful little fancy banty hens that I had shipped to me from Texas late this past spring - one gorgeous red frizzle Cochin, one buff Cochin mix, one blue cochin mix, and one white and blue Cochin/Silky mix. They are the cutest little birds, I just adore them. I actually got them to be friends for my first chicken Beverly, who was a broiler hen who fell off a chicken transport truck, and I picked her up off the side of the road. Beverly was wonderful, but she only lived for a few months. :( But her little lady friends are delightful, and Beverly trained Simone, the Silky/Cochin mix, to boss them around very well!

I'll see if I can get some pictures to post next weekend! :)

~Carrie

kritter11 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 27, 2004, 11:29:41 PM »

5 Giant Cochins, partridge, black, and blue
4 Blue Orpingtons
2 Turkens
5 Salmon Favorolles
5 Easter Eggers
3 Buff Orpingtons
4 Light Brahmas
4 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes
2 golden sex link
5 Polish (Buff Laced and White Crested)
7 bantam cochins, one is a "frazzled" frizzle..and very bald, LOL
6 silkies--all colors
1 Porcelaine d'Uccle
and about 40-60 in various brooders, growing up to see quality / keeper status.
Guineas, pheasants, peacocks, ducks (cayugas) and geese (giant dewlaps)
Just sold all my turkeys.

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Author Topic: What kind of chickens do you have/want?? (Read 9514 times)

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