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Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:28 pm to braindeadboxer
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What kind of egg production do you get out of 6 chickens?
I have 5 chickens and I probably average 4 eggs a day. And that was during the winter. I'm hoping production picks up when the days get longer.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:31 pm to Nodust
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How many total you think you can keep in that coup? Do you still have to feed some corn or feed?
I think I'm maxed out at 5 hens. We let them out as much as possible and they just roam the backyard. At dark they just mosey back into the hen house.
I fee them one 20 ounce scoop of laying pellets a day.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:36 pm to REB BEER
That's a sweet setup 
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:36 pm to REB BEER
How do they smell after a couple months?
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:38 pm to REB BEER
When buying chics, can you buy all hens as chicks? Or just buy some and hope you got more hens.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:45 pm to mohalk
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How do they smell after a couple months?
We move them around every other week and I have not noticed a smell at all
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:48 pm to Nodust
You can buy all hens. Mcmurray hatchery is a pretty good online place to buy from. All kinds of breeds to choose from, but they have a 25 min order on chicks.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:48 pm to Nodust
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When buying chics, can you buy all hens as chicks? Or just buy some and hope you got more hens.
If you buy Red Star chicks, which are the best laying hens from what I've read, they can be sexed at hatching. The hens are a different color than the roosters.
I bought all my hens already laying. Found them 10 months old on Craigslist for $10 each.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 7:59 pm to Alahunter
quote:The best inmo.
Mcmurray hatchery is a pretty good online place to buy from.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:05 pm to REB BEER
Leghorn hens are pretty much accepted as the best egg producers- about 300 eggs per year.
The Red Star is a very good one too. They actaully has some Leghorn in them.
The Red Star is a very good one too. They actaully has some Leghorn in them.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:20 pm to Geauxtiga
White leghorns are def among the best. Large white eggs. Ancona's also lay a white egg..med size. You can usually tell what color eggshell based on their earlobe coloration. Rhode island reds are good layers too..brown shelled.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:24 pm to Geauxtiga
quote:If living in a subdivision, I'd avoid anything with any Leghorn in them. Noisy. High-strung, panicky, cluck louder and longer and at more things than any other breed. Will also fly over a 6-ft fence and roost in your trees or roof of house.
Leghorn hens are pretty much accepted as the best egg producers- about 300 eggs per year.
The Red Star is a very good one too. They actaully has some Leghorn in them.
Personalities are lacking. Plymouth Rocks (anything ending in "-Rock") are calmer, less "clucky" and lay maybe 5% fewer eggs. Live longer and lay more years than Leghorns. They tame up well and tolerate little kids picking them up.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:27 pm to CoastieGM
Clip their wings. Anconas are loud as hell cackling after they lay.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:27 pm to Alahunter
quote:Aren't those the colored egg layers?
Ancona's also lay a white egg..med size.
quote:Interesting, I'd never heard that.
You can usually tell what color eggshell based on their earlobe coloration.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:28 pm to Geauxtiga
They lay white. They're a med size breed. Black with teal tint in sunlight with white speckled throughout. Came from italy around 1880'sish
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:29 pm to CoastieGM
quote:I've never had any. I have a few Buff Orpington's and a Barred Rock.
If living in a subdivision, I'd avoid anything with any Leghorn in them. Noisy. High-strung, panicky, cluck louder and longer and at more things than any other breed
Actually, I'm not sure if it's a Barred or Plymnouth Rock. I was looking at the color pattern today and trying to remember what I'd once read on the net.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:31 pm to Alahunter
Oh duh. Okay. Yeah I just had a beautiful rooster I was gonna cross with my buffs. I'd bought it for 9 bucks at a local, weekly farm auction that sells chickens, turkies, ducks, quail, peacocks, you name it.
Roosters usually fetch 2-4 bucks.
Roosters usually fetch 2-4 bucks.
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:35 pm to Geauxtiga
Blew my mind how much livestock has gone up. Some layers go for 10-15 bucks. I remember when folks would have trouble giving them away..same with goats..now some sell up to 150
Posted on 1/23/13 at 8:37 pm to Alahunter
quote:That's what I'm seeing too. On some days you can get them for 6-8 depending on who's there but quality brings $10.00+
Some layers go for 10-15 bucks.
quote:I wish. We showed Boers and I've paid up to 3K for them.
I remember when folks would have trouble giving them away..same with goats..now some sell up to 150
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