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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Apr 23, 2015 10:24:42 GMT -5
I am going to have to ask my Dad if they kept chickens as a kid. They moved a lot and I know they had a big garden when he was growing up, when space allowed, I don't know if they had chickens.
I know Mom didn't.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 13:28:48 GMT -5
They're coming to get the Fluff Man on Sunday.
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Post by Jaguar on Apr 23, 2015 14:10:50 GMT -5
They're coming to get the Fluff Man on Sunday. Bye Bye Fluffy Butt
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Post by lexxy703 on Apr 23, 2015 14:21:32 GMT -5
If the chickens stop laying when the rooster is gone what are you going to do with the chickens?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 14:27:39 GMT -5
If the chickens stop laying when the rooster is gone what are you going to do with the chickens? Chickens lay eggs regardless of whether or not there is a rooster around.
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Post by lexxy703 on Apr 23, 2015 14:38:29 GMT -5
If the chickens stop laying when the rooster is gone what are you going to do with the chickens? Chickens lay eggs regardless of whether or not there is a rooster around. Oh! I've obviously never raised chickens.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 14:42:51 GMT -5
Chickens lay eggs regardless of whether or not there is a rooster around. Oh! I've obviously never raised chickens. The big commercial egg places have rows and rows of hens in individual little wire cages that they barely can turn around in. The eggs roll down and are collected by automatic conveyers or just people walking down the aisle. No roosters around. It's really a pretty sad life. BUY EGGS FROM ME!
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Post by Jaguar on Apr 23, 2015 14:44:23 GMT -5
Oh! I've obviously never raised chickens. The big commercial egg places have rows and rows of hens in individual little wire cages that they barely can turn around in. The eggs roll down and are collected by automatic conveyers or just people walking down the aisle. No roosters around. It's really a pretty sad life. BUY EGGS FROM ME! I would buy your eggs, that looks awful what those poor hens go through.
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Post by lexxy703 on Apr 23, 2015 14:48:37 GMT -5
MPL - I hardly ever use eggs. I always end up throwing them away because I'm afraid they've gone bad. I would buy from you if you lived nearby. My bff's mom has chickens that lay brown eggs. She used to give me eggs all the time. I hardly ever see her anymore since my friend no longer lives at home.
Ugg & those poor commercial chickens.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 14:50:03 GMT -5
The big commercial egg places have rows and rows of hens in individual little wire cages that they barely can turn around in. The eggs roll down and are collected by automatic conveyers or just people walking down the aisle. No roosters around. It's really a pretty sad life. BUY EGGS FROM ME! I would buy your eggs, that looks awful what those poor hens go through. Mine are outside free roaming on 15 acres (and however many acres the neighbors have LOL). They get to eat all kinds of natural chicken stuff, like bugs, worms and cheese sticks. They sun themselves and take dirt baths (they love dirt baths). If they get the urge to lay an egg they can pick their favorite nest box (or the dog house, or the goats hay) to do that. Then at night they come in to their cozy corner of the barn and make a big chicken pile with each other to keep warm.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 14:52:10 GMT -5
MPL - I hardly ever use eggs. I always end up throwing them away because I'm afraid they've gone bad. I would buy from you if you lived nearby. My bff's mom has chickens that lay brown eggs. She used to give me eggs all the time. I hardly ever see her anymore since my friend no longer lives at home. Ugg & those poor commercial chickens. Mine lay brown eggs too. Well, one of them lays blue eggs. That's the Araucuna from Dad coming out. Araucuna are called the Easter Egg chickens. They lay, pale pink, blue and green eggs.
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Post by lexxy703 on Apr 23, 2015 14:55:56 GMT -5
MPL - I hardly ever use eggs. I always end up throwing them away because I'm afraid they've gone bad. I would buy from you if you lived nearby. My bff's mom has chickens that lay brown eggs. She used to give me eggs all the time. I hardly ever see her anymore since my friend no longer lives at home. Ugg & those poor commercial chickens. Mine lay brown eggs too. Well, one of them lays blue eggs. That's the Araucuna from Dad coming out. Araucuna are called the Easter Egg chickens. They lay, pale pink, blue and green eggs. Oh how cool! Do Araucuna eggs fetch a higher price? That would be really fun to get a dozen multi colored eggs. Do they taste the same?
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Post by midjd on Apr 23, 2015 14:56:43 GMT -5
I would buy a ton of eggs from you if I lived closer! DD goes through about a carton a week, she is an egg fanatic. We get some from the neighbor every couple of weeks and try to buy the free-range when we can. The neighbor's eggs are on the small side but the yolks are so dark and healthy-looking compared to store eggs...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 15:04:01 GMT -5
I would buy a ton of eggs from you if I lived closer! DD goes through about a carton a week, she is an egg fanatic. We get some from the neighbor every couple of weeks and try to buy the free-range when we can. The neighbor's eggs are on the small side but the yolks are so dark and healthy-looking compared to store eggs... Yeah, the yoke color is crazy different which kind of freaks me out about the commercial eggs now. They are so pale. The yokes in ours are dark orange. Ours lay really big eggs too. Brahmas are a large breed of chicken.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 15:05:31 GMT -5
Mine lay brown eggs too. Well, one of them lays blue eggs. That's the Araucuna from Dad coming out. Araucuna are called the Easter Egg chickens. They lay, pale pink, blue and green eggs. Oh how cool! Do Araucuna eggs fetch a higher price? That would be really fun to get a dozen multi colored eggs. Do they taste the same? No difference in taste. Same with brown vs. white, the inside is the same. Not sure if people pay more for Araucuna eggs. You never see them in the grocery store. I don't think they're big producers so the commercial egg places don't raise them.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Apr 23, 2015 16:03:40 GMT -5
Oh how cool! Do Araucuna eggs fetch a higher price? That would be really fun to get a dozen multi colored eggs. Do they taste the same? No difference in taste. Same with brown vs. white, the inside is the same. Not sure if people pay more for Araucuna eggs. You never see them in the grocery store. I don't think they're big producers so the commercial egg places don't raise them. I'm pretty sure my grandmother had these guys as her laying hens: Black Australorp
She incubated these in a commercial incubator for sale: Buff OrpingtonsAnd had one of these for fun: DominickerMaybe I'd have liked them better if they laid candy colored eggs
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Post by cronewitch on Apr 23, 2015 18:23:53 GMT -5
We are getting Dominicker mostly they have brown eggs but I ordered 6 surprise chickens might be some easter eggs. I told him to sell eggs, he is getting 22 hens, first he said yes now is saying he will be giving everyone he know eggs. He will probably still get way too many eggs, I don't eat eggs and he might use 4 a week.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 18:44:57 GMT -5
We are getting Dominicker mostly they have brown eggs but I ordered 6 surprise chickens might be some easter eggs. I told him to sell eggs, he is getting 22 hens, first he said yes now is saying he will be giving everyone he know eggs. He will probably still get way too many eggs, I don't eat eggs and he might use 4 a week. oh man yeah, with 22 hens you're going to get a LOT of eggs. With just 8 (before those 4 decided to sit) I was getting about 4 dozen a week. We'd eat one, sell one to the neighbor and give a dozen to each of the kid's Dads.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 18:48:30 GMT -5
I just realized Thelma's chicks are due on Mother's Day (if she doesn't eat the rest of her eggs that is!)
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 23, 2015 19:19:20 GMT -5
We go through spurts of having eggs. I don't think the ones our friend had are laying right now. My brother likes them better. I have an egg white allergy so I have no opinion. We also get duck and goose eggs from time to time. I saw those going for like $6/egg in Philly. The friend needs to start selling those to the DC transplants around him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 20:16:37 GMT -5
We used to have emu. The eggs were the size of a cantaloupe. LOL Well, one of the hens I gave eggs to yesterday apparently doesn't want to be a mom as much as I thought. She was sitting in the nest box NEXT to the one the eggs were in. It's like she wants to be a SAHM but without the hassle of kids. I moved all the eggs over to the one she was in. They were cold, but it hasn't gotten below freezing, so they should just be on "pause".
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Post by msventoux on Apr 23, 2015 21:18:56 GMT -5
Wait, hens will eat their own eggs? Huh, the non-financial things I learn on here! Yep. And mother rabbits sometimes eat their newborn babies. Nature is crazy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 23:39:03 GMT -5
Maybe you and the neighbor should go into rapid chick production to replace all the hens being destroyed due to Avian Flu outbreak. I heard they were declaring state of emergency over it today since 46 MN farms are affected & 7.3 million birds destroyed already.
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Post by mmhmm on Apr 23, 2015 23:45:07 GMT -5
Sqweeeeeee! More chicken tales! Love me some chickens (as long as they're at someone else's house)! Sorry to hear about Fluffy Butt. I'd gotten really attached to him. I'll never forget the picture of him right after hatching, all spread out like a shot frog! Good to know he's going to a good home where he'll have hens to fascinate. He's really such a beautiful fellow!
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Post by mmhmm on Apr 23, 2015 23:46:53 GMT -5
I am going to have to ask my Dad if they kept chickens as a kid. They moved a lot and I know they had a big garden when he was growing up, when space allowed, I don't know if they had chickens. I know Mom didn't. My dad raised chickens as a kid. He mentioned getting chickens to my mother once - only once. The look he got could have fried a freakin' chicken. Needless to say, we had no chickens.
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Post by cronewitch on Apr 24, 2015 2:27:31 GMT -5
My cousin who ended up vegetarian grew some chickens and sold chickens. He couldn't kill chickens, our great aunt and uncle bought live chickens in a gunny sack to take home to the mobile home on a small lot in town. They might have preferred to buy dead chickens but he didn't have any. They were retired people and he grew up on a farm so anyone's guess what happened to the chickens. I think ISO should sell them my guess is if he had a roadside sign he put out only when he was out doing chores people would stop to buy some, their is a RV park next door so lots of people who might want some big brown eggs, he could probably carry a few dozen over there and walk down to the river and back selling as many as he had. Brown eggs farm fresh should sell for more than $3 a dozen but most not to waste them. I might teach him some recipes that have lots of eggs maybe angelfood cake he can feed the yokes to the chickens or make rich omelets or extra yellow pancakes.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Apr 24, 2015 7:04:36 GMT -5
I am going to have to ask my Dad if they kept chickens as a kid. They moved a lot and I know they had a big garden when he was growing up, when space allowed, I don't know if they had chickens. I know Mom didn't. My dad raised chickens as a kid. He mentioned getting chickens to my mother once - only once. The look he got could have fried a freakin' chicken. Needless to say, we had no chickens. WE live inside City limits and during my childhood there was a no livestock rule. every so often we'd hear of a friend of a friend getting eggs to hatch in spring. I'd be insanely curious about it and Mom is all "no, I'm not giving up the bathtub for x time" lol. We were 6 people in a 1 bathroom house.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Apr 24, 2015 8:17:24 GMT -5
I am going to have to ask my Dad if they kept chickens as a kid. They moved a lot and I know they had a big garden when he was growing up, when space allowed, I don't know if they had chickens. I know Mom didn't. My dad raised chickens as a kid. He mentioned getting chickens to my mother once - only once. The look he got could have fried a freakin' chicken. Needless to say, we had no chickens. I your mom.
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Post by raeoflyte on Apr 24, 2015 9:13:06 GMT -5
How old do they have to be to know to go up to roost at night? Our coop is a small one with a draw bridge ramp to the upper level that we close at night so that if a fox or coyote dug under and into the coop the chickens are still safe. But every night they are all just huddled in a corner on the ground and I have to put them up top.
They at least come down the ramp in the morning on their own now.
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Post by busymom on Apr 24, 2015 10:26:48 GMT -5
If we lived closer, I'd definitely buy eggs from you, minnesotapaintlady! We do a lot of baking here. Dark upraised yolks mean your chickens are getting plenty of good exercise.
Both sets of my Grandparents had farms, & raised chickens. My Dad was designated a "hatchet man" when he was a kid, so I asked him once how he could kill a chicken. He said he just focused his mind on getting a chicken dinner on Sunday, & he was able to do the job.
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