<g> Would love to come, and I *do* have some show clothes I ought to sell... But I have a nasty suspicion it would take a very early start from N.H. to get there for 9:30...
Rhonda
Sidesaddle Hall of Famer
Five-time US National Sidesaddle Champion
wayne county horse and pony Tack Sale and Mom 2 Mom Saturday March 3rd,2012 11am to 2pm Wayne County Fairgrounds Dining Hall 10871 Quirk Road Belleville Michigan Contact Melissa Laforest 734-751-1022 or heylis529@yahoo.com,
open to everyone bring a friend, $1 per person
tables or 7x7 spaces are available $20 each
setup starts at 930am must stay till close at 2pm.
maybe !!!
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, sidesaddle5@... wrote:
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> <<and hubby brewed some beer so they got the spent grains... they be happy birds!
> We got a whopping 6 eggs today!~ (5 had been our high score so far) >>
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> Must be the beer grains??? <g>
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> Rhonda
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> Sidesaddle Hall of Famer
> Five-time US National Sidesaddle Champion
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<<and hubby brewed some beer so they got the spent grains... they be happy birds!
We got a whopping 6 eggs today!~ (5 had been our high score so far) >>
Must be the beer grains??? <g>
Rhonda
Sidesaddle Hall of Famer
Five-time US National Sidesaddle Champion
I got Lyme Disease 3 yrs. ago from a tick bite and got a few RIR hens
who are always on bug patrol...in fact I haven't had a tick on me in 2 yrs. now. The way they turn those awful bugs into wonderful fresh eggs is such a miracle!
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Sheila Nance" <snance@...> wrote:
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> In the near future, I will be relocating from a southern state to a norhtern state where I know there are ticks. Does anyone know if chickens will eat these nasty little creatures? Or do I need to be more concerned about the ticks getting on the chickens?
> Sheila in SW Florida
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Hi Sandi, Here is another possibility. First have a good plan of what you actually want and a way to get it. There is a strain of chickens [not a breed because they are not recognized by the APA] called Braggs Mountain Buffs. See link below:
http://www.braggsmountainpoultry.com/
These chicks cost a little over $4 each not counting postage. The original intent of the person who developed them was to have a large hen that laid very big brown eggs consistently. He also selected the Buff color because they dress out cleaner and because the Buff Orpingtons have held a steady following for many years in America. Read what he used to develop these birds on the site link I posted.
One good mix I have used several times is White Cornish males over White Wyandotte females. This produced fryers that were almost
round they were so fat and meaty. [Meat cross only] I have also made the same cross using bantams of the above breeds with even better results. Before the Cornish crosses came along the Wyandottes were the #1 broiler chicken in America followed closely by the White Rocks and RI Reds. Just want to add that the offspring you get will only be as good as the birds you use to make this or any other cross.
Over on BYC I saw a cross another person had made. I later saw the same cross at a poultry auction. They had crossed Black Australorp cockerels over Dark Cornish pullets and produced large coal Black chickens with super smooth and tight fitting plumage. They had medium pea combs and looked for all the world like a Black Buckeye would look if there was such a thing. The people who were selling their extras said their Black hens were decent layers.
By crossing a good Black Australorp male over Production bred Barred Rock females you will get coal Black pullets and Barred males. These pullets can be mated back to some of the cockerels showing blurred and indistinct barring in the F2 cross and create a decent line of Black Plymouth Rocks. Also being out of egg laying stock they should shell out eggs like a slot machine.
I have yet to own an Australorp that went broody. This breed may be called Australian Orpingtons [Austral-Orps] but they were bred and selected to be a laying chicken. When egg laying contests were a popular past time a pen of 5 Australorp hens averaged over 340 eggs each and one hen in the group laid 364 eggs in 364 days beating out all other laying records for any breed up to that date in time. And this was also before they started using artificial light to increase rate of lay...................
Britta, The majority of RI Red chicks you buy through the hatcheries are all crossed up to create production Reds which are more closely kin to a Leghorn than a RI Red.
About 10 years ago I posted on a poultry site that I was using cable ties as cheap alternatives to buying the more expensive spiral bands which have a tendancy to fall off. I got the idea from an Emu breeder in 1992 when I purchased 2 pair of grown Emu at an exotic sale. They had large cable zips on their shanks to mark them as the ones he wanted to sell.
The next time I went to Walmart I bought a few plastic envelopes of various mixed color small cable bundle zips to mark my birds as to specific strains etc.. When you use these things make sure to leave a little room for wiggle and not to get them pulled down too snug. Once that is done take toe nail clippers and snip off the excess tail on the zip so a curious chicken doesn't grab it and pull it tight on the other bird's shank.
I have tried to make leg bands out of every substance available to poor folks and nothing worked or didn't work for very long. I have tried twist ties, garbage bag closures, small PVC pipe ring sections cut to size, quest pipe rings, tape bands made from cardboard liners and every kind of tough tape I could find and it didn't work for long.
The Zips and regular numbered chicken leg bands are about all that really work. The steel bands work well as do the metal wing bands. I have a few different sizes of the spiral poultry leg bands. They are flimsy and they don't stay on for long. Nail polish would last about 24 hours at best. Dean
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"sandi" <sandi_ruscetta@...> wrote:
I have australops, among several other species, may I say they make the greatest pet chickens. Good egg producers, they do go broody.
I am contemplating getting buff orpingtons this spring, to mix in with the white rocks, barred rocks, RIR's , Maran, Sex Link, and australops.
yes.. and now I hope hubby does a better job of cheking .. i think he learned his lesson as well! lol
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@...> wrote:
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> Zilla, Maybe your chick will go in on her own now, every night, after spending a night in the cold. Sometimes they have to learn the hard way.
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> Cathryn rainbowsilkies MI
i shared that on my fb... thats awesome
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Kathy" <bratpack4u@...> wrote:
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> I saw this on another group and just had to pass it on, lol.
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> With all the talk on this group about NAIS, government oversight, raids on Butterball, etc., I hope you all don't mind a little farming vs govt. humor:
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> A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
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> The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
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> Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
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> The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page onthe Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resoluti on photo.
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> The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ...
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> Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot® that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
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> Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
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> "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
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> He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
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> Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
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> The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
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> "You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.
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> "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
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> "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.
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> Now give me back my dog.
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> AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT.
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