Re: Can I join?

On Apr 21, 10:58 am, "OldGoat" <oldgoatm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You got chickens?!?  Do they begin to cackle about a half hour before sun
up?

Yes, og, I have chickens. 12 hens, a rooster, and 36 chicks at this
point in time.

I don't hear cackling from in here. I do, however, hear my Buddy Boy
beginning at about 4:00am and going on till sunset. He's just happy
as a pig in mud. You see, we rescued him from the Missouri Humane
Society's Rescue Ranch about an hour from here and he had been in that
place for 9 months in a 6 by 10 kennel with ducks and geese. Poor guy
hadn't seen a female for who knows how long. They had another roo
there but they had to keep them apart because every time they put them
together, whether or not girls were around, they'd try to kill each
other. Buddy's a Turken and he's gorgeous.

We had a different roo about Christmastime. He came with our first
batch of girls....in fact, he was supposed to be a girl. He got more
onery with each day that passed and eventually he decided he wanted to
be Christmas dinner, so we obliged him.

This roo has the most gentle temperament! He's a total 180 from Jeb.
He's never come at me or challenged me or anything. He takes good
care of his girls and I think he's just so happy to be here he has to
make noise about it. He was next in line to be put down if space got
tight so I'm glad we got him. I had never thought about a Turken
before...until you get used to them they're kinda homely looking.
However, I'd been noticing him off and on for several months on the
Longmeadow Rescue Ranch website and one weekend I just decided I
needed to get him out of there.

Buddy Boy made such a good impression on me that out of my 36 new
chicks, hopefully all pullets (girls), 15 of them are Turkens as
well. They lay pretty light brown eggs, and brown eggs go well around
here. I also have 10 Ameraucanas, who lay blue-green eggs; 5 White
Wyandottes, who are all fluffy and fat looking and lay nice brown
eggs; and, because when we went to get the birds they had
accidentally shipped them and we were out the gas and time for a 3 1/2
hour drive each way, we got 5 free Cuckoo Marans pullets, who lay dark
chocolate brown eggs, and one mystery chick, which still stumps me.
I'll figure out what she is sooner or later. As she gets her feathers
in to replace the baby down and I see what kind of comb she has I'll
have a better idea of who she is.

This year will give me more eggs, which will be nice since I can sell
all I have of them. If I have extras the farm up the road will buy
them from me and then sell them to their customers. My prices are
going up from assorted depending on who the person was to $2 a dozen
now and $2.50 when the new babies start laying. If someone is willing
to pay $2 a dozen for month-old store bought eggs, washed in chlorine
bleach to make them pretty and laid by battery hens in cages so small
they can't stand up, then they should be willing to pay $2.50 for
mine, laid by cage-free chickens who have the run of their area and
accommodations more like a hotel than a chicken coop, roofed yard and
large run.

Can ya tell I like my babies?

Trisha in MO
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