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Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby PorkChop » Sat Jul 30, 2022 5:37 pm

Not a single egg

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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Anotherone » Sat Jul 30, 2022 5:52 pm

Craziness! Get you some Brahma or Buckeye hens, they can handle your winters. Stay away from leghorns, they’re a Deep South chicken. Good luck.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby plainsman » Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:22 pm

Wow...never seen that before....very easy to get up here
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:14 am

:cry: Where to start. Strombergs..
They're a chicken supply company,
Their catalog has a system to identify the right chickens.
You want "winter hardy".
Americana is a winter hardy breed.
Strombergs catalog is where to start.
Chicken feed has increased from $11.50 to $15.50 a bag.
A day old chick takes about 6 months to start laying eggs
You have to plan way ahead.
I have somewhat amazing foresight.
I saw this coming and was squawking about it years ago.
They called me a conspiracy theorist and ignored.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Sun Jul 31, 2022 5:16 am

The farm stores here have chicks.
Usually they have ducks, chickens, and turkey chicks.
Chickens: the price varies from $1-$3/chick.
Ducks and turkeys are high.
Usually they sell what works in your area.

You WILL end up with a brooder size box and a heat lamp.
Use the "heat emmiters" that are black.
They last. The heat bulbs melt the lead solder and expose the lamp to atmosphere and they burn out.
Thry don't last long.

Spend the loot on the fancy black heat emmiter bulb.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby don novicki » Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:44 pm

I guess we are lucky. We buy eggs right from the farm just a couple of miles away. They cost a little more but are worth it IMO.....
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Mon Aug 01, 2022 6:10 am

don novicki wrote:I guess we are lucky. We buy eggs right from the farm just a couple of miles away. They cost a little more but are worth it IMO.....

It's bizarre that I'm not allowed to sell an egg.
The authorities will say its unhealthy because my chickens aren't caged in a giant facility with thousands of birds and mechanized egg collection.
Basically it's against the law to live.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:20 am

Now these are chickens.
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And THAT is chicken shit. Get used to it.
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If you pick ducks and geese then a lil chicken shit ain't even a thing. :lol:
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:24 pm

What!?!
Them meat chickens in my freezer are worth how much?
Suh
Suh
Seven plus dollars per pound?
Damn.
This aint no joke.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:51 pm

Mixed all my chickens in the same coop.
They're peckin on each other.
Whatever happens happens.
Eat the losers.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Rick » Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:32 pm

If you want to eat the losers, you'll have to beat the winners to them.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Pennydog1 » Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:36 pm

they wont stop pecking once they start hence the term pecking order
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby PorkChop » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:43 pm

I know for pheasants they have these blinders that look like glasses you put on their beak. Keeps them from pecking and killing each other. I would imagine they would work for chickens?
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby PorkChop » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:45 pm

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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Sat Aug 06, 2022 4:23 am

Fuck that.
Peepers.
By the time amazon got here its too late.
I thought about it a year ago.
I forgot all about them chickens. They either lived or didnt...50:50.
They're fine. The newbies are too young to figure out the roosts they cuddle on the ground.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:07 am

Pork chop, chickens are easy and they're cute when they're chicks. If I had your daughters I'd not hesitate to spend the money. Chickens teach responsibility in a big way. Just do it you won't regret it.
Had help from assateage and yankeegray.
They know about chickens
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby PorkChop » Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:54 am

The only problem or I should say holdup is that my town does not allow them in city limits. If it wasn’t for that I would already have a bunch. Going to talk to the council though as you’re allowed to have them in places like Minot which is a much more congested city compared to mine that only has a few hundred people. Seems like a no-brainer to me!
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Rick » Sat Aug 06, 2022 11:14 am

So much for the ND dream. Our little South Louisiana town tried greasing a squeaky wheel by passing a law against the rooster or two within the town limits, and don'tcha know defiance roosters cropped up all over the place.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Sat Aug 06, 2022 3:10 pm

If you think I am completely ordinance compliant...no.
The rules say I have to get a note from my mother ...lol
6 chickens as pets. No roosters.
No egg selling.
I'm Indahood but not related to woods n swamp. :lol:
There's someone with a sign that says eggs for sale two blocks over.
It's not a felony or even a misdemeanor. :lol: :scooter:
I will have eggs.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Anotherone » Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:08 pm

Indeed crazy times.
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Sun Aug 28, 2022 4:04 am

Anotherone wrote:Indeed crazy times.

Gubment has gotten so big and powerful that it's left hand dont know what the right is doing. If they tax enough to support itself the citizens revolt so they just print money and pay their bills with it.
Inflation is a hidden tax.
If we compute our tax burden it's past 85% and typically the citizens revolt before that level.is reached.
We've just accepted inflation as a fact of life.
It is not. It's criminal.

Chicken feed is now $13.50/ bag..
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Re: Time To Buy Some Chickens

Postby Ricky Spanish » Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:29 am

It's not exactly a cheap investment but once you have a coop, feeders, and waterers it could generate some income. My birds make around 5 dozen eggs per week.
It is neat to just grab an egg when I need one tho.
Every time I bring this up around people they ask money questions trying to calculate profits. Same with bees.
They seem to think there is a dollars income per hive that's a solid hard number and are chasing it with nets UNTIL one bee sting.
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