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flight control wrote:

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:i'm interested in getting some chickens someday but no way in hell i'm running incubators for em. i'll get some broody hens and let them take care of it.

i'm thinking whenever i can do it i'll breed some Australorps with some red banties and see what i get. if i can get some broody banty hens i'd have them hatching and rearing the chicks and use the Australorps hens for layers since they don't typically get broody. After that i'd get a few more varieties to add in genetics for cold hardiness, egg size, etc.

but egg peckers will always be supper that night

what breed(s) are you going for Jim?

We had an egg pecking tom turkey when I was a kid. My grampa filled an empty egg shell with a mixture of flour dough and cayenne pepper and put it under one of the hens. A little bit later, that turkey was running around with his tongue hanging out, banging into stuff.

He never did touch another egg.

I tried that with the gf's cat twice. I can't stand cats on the tables and counters, and as soon as we go to bed, I could hear it juming up there. So I hollowed out an inch long piece of hot dog, filled it with cayenne and plugged it back up, leaving it on the counter. Not five minutes after I went to bed, the cat starts meowing in pain. Meowed for half an hour.

Stupid **** cat didn't learn, so I did it again. Same thing hapenned again, only this time there was no water anywhere, except the toilet, which I may have pissed in and not flushed, allegedly. He still didn't learn, so I quit, he is obviously retarded and I will not abuse a retard. He is pretty close to getting shot though.

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:so you guys just stud out the roosters to each other based on when you need some chicks/new genetics basically? if that's how you're doing it, you probably get some weird/cool crossbreed strains i would think. How come you just get chicks from the neighbor? too much work to breed the hens?

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:so you guys just stud out the roosters to each other based on when you need some chicks/new genetics basically? if that's how you're doing it, you probably get some weird/cool crossbreed strains i would think. How come you just get chicks from the neighbor? too much work to breed the hens?

flight control wrote:

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:i'm interested in getting some chickens someday but no way in hell i'm running incubators for em. i'll get some broody hens and let them take care of it.

i'm thinking whenever i can do it i'll breed some Australorps with some red banties and see what i get. if i can get some broody banty hens i'd have them hatching and rearing the chicks and use the Australorps hens for layers since they don't typically get broody. After that i'd get a few more varieties to add in genetics for cold hardiness, egg size, etc.

but egg peckers will always be supper that night

what breed(s) are you going for Jim?

We had an egg pecking tom turkey when I was a kid. My grampa filled an empty egg shell with a mixture of flour dough and cayenne pepper and put it under one of the hens. A little bit later, that turkey was running around with his tongue hanging out, banging into stuff.

He never did touch another egg.

I tried that with the gf's cat twice. I can't stand cats on the tables and counters, and as soon as we go to bed, I could hear it juming up there. So I hollowed out an inch long piece of hot dog, filled it with cayenne and plugged it back up, leaving it on the counter. Not five minutes after I went to bed, the cat starts meowing in pain. Meowed for half an hour.

Stupid fucking cat didn't learn, so I did it again. Same thing hapenned again, only this time there was no water anywhere, except the toilet, which I may have pissed in and not flushed, allegedly. He still didn't learn, so I quit, he is obviously retarded and I will not abuse a retard. He is pretty close to getting shot though.

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

flight control wrote:

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

That, or the French chickens might help the American chickens when they mount a revolution against their tyranical master.

flight control wrote:

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

That, or the French chickens might help the American chickens when they mount a revolution against their tyranical master.

aunt betty wrote:My daughter went camping and the coons were raiding their food so she injected some marshmallows with insanity hot sauce. She said there's no sound that's more pitiful than a Raccoon bawling in pain.

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

jehler wrote:

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

chicks are
$60 a piece plus shipping WTF?

Olly wrote:

jehler wrote:

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

chicks are
$60 a piece plus shipping WTF?

Hipster chickens.

jehler wrote:

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

chicks are
$60 a piece plus shipping WTF?

jehler wrote:

Olly wrote:

jehler wrote:

assateague wrote:

jehler wrote:Why don't you get a dozen if these assa?
http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

Because they're French. My American chickens would tear them to pieces. Probably just because they're French.

chicks are
$60 a piece plus shipping WTF?

Hipster chickens.

bet brewgun has some by the end of summer

assateague wrote:And for the record, I have decided I'm going to caponize some roosters, just to see if I can do it. I'll practice on a dead one, first.

assateague wrote:And for the record, I have decided I'm going to caponize some roosters, just to see if I can do it. I'll practice on a dead one, first.

Flightstopper wrote:

assateague wrote:And for the record, I have decided I'm going to caponize some roosters, just to see if I can do it. I'll practice on a dead one, first.

You see that from the "chopped" show?

assateague wrote:I don't. But unless you know a way to guarantee what comes out of the eggs, I'm saddled with what I get.

assateague wrote:Damn if I can tell the difference. Unless you're talking 6 months young or something. But at that point, one's getting sacrificed for medical experimentation, and the others are getting caponized. If they die, they get eaten. But I like to think about turkey sized chickens to eat in 6 months after that. That's what I'm talking about.