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Where to buy chickens - Baton Rouge
Posted on 4/8/19 at 9:44 am
Posted on 4/8/19 at 9:44 am
Looking to get 4-5 chickens (no roosters) to keep as back yard pets. Any recommendations on a good place to buy in the Baton Rouge area? Also, what breeds are recommended to keep as back yard chickens?
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Posted on 4/8/19 at 9:50 am to craazyjose
There is a Facebook page for the local chicken “network”.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 9:57 am to craazyjose
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Where to buy chickens
Tractor supply or any feed store. Most should have chicks right now.
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Looking to get 4-5 chickens (no roosters)
You want pullets, not straight run. Still pullets only guarantee about 90% accuracy, so for every 10 chicks, one will likely be a rooster.
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what breeds are recommended to keep as back yard chickens?
We have dominiques, orpingtons and wyandottes.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 10:01 am to Clyde Tipton
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dominiques, orpingtons and wyandottes.
I'm curious....What's the difference?
Posted on 4/8/19 at 10:11 am to unclejhim
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I'm curious....What's the difference?
Those are all egg layers.
My mom keeps 6-8 chickens and every year we lose one or two to a predator, or just general pecking order by the other chickens. We replace with new pullets, but the feed stores don't always carry the same breeds. Those just happen to be the 3 breeds we currently have...
I will say this, 6-8 chickens keeps my mom, her sister, myself(and my family of 4) and my sister with all the eggs we need. You start picking up 4, 5 or 6 eggs a day and you'll have a bunch of eggs by the end of the week.
I'd suggest 3 or 4 chickens to provide a standard 1 household family with all the eggs they'll ever need.
This post was edited on 4/8/19 at 10:13 am
Posted on 4/8/19 at 10:38 am to Clyde Tipton
Thanks. Think about doing these next year.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 10:42 am to unclejhim
St. Gab Hardware usually has them in the spring.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 10:47 am to Clyde Tipton
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I'd suggest 3 or 4 chickens to provide a standard 1 household family with all the eggs they'll ever need.
Exactly. We had 5 good layers for a family of 4 that eat a lot of eggs and before you know it, we'd have 4 or 5 dozen in the fridge.
I always just bought mine off Craigslist and only bought ones that just started laying. We'd pay around $10-15 per bird, but they were producing immediately. I'd recommend Rhode Island Reds, Red Stars, and if you want to mix in green eggs get a couple Americaunas or Araucanas. Some people call em Easter Eggers.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 10:57 am to REB BEER
RI Reds
NH Reds
Barred Rock
any of the stars
amerucaunas
all good layers with easy temperaments and good back yard chickens
NH Reds
Barred Rock
any of the stars
amerucaunas
all good layers with easy temperaments and good back yard chickens
Posted on 4/8/19 at 12:14 pm to Clyde Tipton
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We have dominiques, orpingtons and wyandottes.
We have 4 chickens.
1 rhode island red, 1 buff orpington, and 2 silver laced wyandottes.
They're all good egg layers. We are averaging about 3 or a little less a day.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 12:22 pm to bbvdd
I have
2 buff orphingtons
2 rhode island reds
2 cinnamon queens
2 blue/red lace wyandottes
i get 35ish eggs a week. Reds and cinn queens lay like their arse is on fire. I dnt see how they produce so much.
2 buff orphingtons
2 rhode island reds
2 cinnamon queens
2 blue/red lace wyandottes
i get 35ish eggs a week. Reds and cinn queens lay like their arse is on fire. I dnt see how they produce so much.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 12:23 pm to oleyeller
also if you have kids i recommend getting an americauna hen.. get some blue/green eggs. Kids love em
Posted on 4/8/19 at 12:41 pm to craazyjose
Buffs are one of the most relaxed chickens around. I have one that hops in the truck with me sometimes, like it wants to go for a ride.
I'm just hatching some chicks right now to test a new incubator. Need to adjust temp and humidity before next run, but we got 60% hatch. Bunch of mutts, mix between Buff and Welsummer roosters + Wyndottes, buffs, amereucanas, doms, welsummer, brahma etc hens.
Will likely start another run this coming weekend and 21 days later there will be chicks. No problem to throw a few more eggs into the incubator if you want some mixed breeds? We average from 12 -20 eggs a day, give plenty away to family and neighbors.
I'm just hatching some chicks right now to test a new incubator. Need to adjust temp and humidity before next run, but we got 60% hatch. Bunch of mutts, mix between Buff and Welsummer roosters + Wyndottes, buffs, amereucanas, doms, welsummer, brahma etc hens.
Will likely start another run this coming weekend and 21 days later there will be chicks. No problem to throw a few more eggs into the incubator if you want some mixed breeds? We average from 12 -20 eggs a day, give plenty away to family and neighbors.
This post was edited on 4/8/19 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 4/8/19 at 1:36 pm to craazyjose
Tractor Supply
Posted on 4/8/19 at 2:36 pm to craazyjose
Tried craigslist a while back, didn't go well. Landy had over 300 chickens, swore she knew hen from roo at 3 weeks old. I bough 4 from her, only wanting hens, ended up with 3 roo's and 1 hen. Sold the roo's for $5 each and started over.
Ole Time Farm supply in Gonzales is my go to now, fantastic store and know thier stuff.
I have buff's, rocks, golden lace wyandotte, and Welsimer. Buffs are the most laid back.
Be careful with predators, hawks are the worse... plan to loose a few here and there.
Ole Time Farm supply in Gonzales is my go to now, fantastic store and know thier stuff.
I have buff's, rocks, golden lace wyandotte, and Welsimer. Buffs are the most laid back.
Be careful with predators, hawks are the worse... plan to loose a few here and there.
Posted on 4/8/19 at 2:44 pm to Dock Holiday
Thanks guys. I may get 5 to make sure that we are able to end up with 4. Going to try to get at least 2 americaunas,..my kids will think the colored eggs are cool. Hopefully we can end up with buffs and americaunas...
Gonna try old time farm supply/
Gonna try old time farm supply/
Posted on 4/8/19 at 4:29 pm to craazyjose
Tractor supply generally only has straight run so you are taking your chances
check out old time farm supply in Gonzales on hwy 44, they sell sexed chicks and have multiple different breeds, and they will give you all the advice you could want
check out old time farm supply in Gonzales on hwy 44, they sell sexed chicks and have multiple different breeds, and they will give you all the advice you could want
Posted on 4/8/19 at 10:06 pm to craazyjose
We got ours from gioia's poultry farm- louisiana, look them up on Facebook. You can get pullets from them
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