Thursday, May 04, 2006
Monday, May 01, 2006
Blue OEGB Hen---Standard bronze turkey poults---and blue orpington chicks
here's PENNY!! and MATTHEW!!!
Friday, April 28, 2006
well, I'm back! Did you miss me? It's been a boring winter, but the chicks are piping all over the place again. I'm not running any incubators this year. Going all natual. havent hatched any banties yet but I have about two dozen blue orpington chicks and six standard bronze turkey
poults. I've got about twelve more turkey eggs under hens
NEW ON THE FARM: Well, we bought a miniature horse. Her name is "Penny". she stands 36" at the shoulders and is the sweetest, most well-mannered horse I have ever seen! OK, I haven't been around many horses in my life, but she's still sweet. My grandson is hadicapped and riding penny is good therapy for his hips and leggs. But the real reason we got her is because Matthew really enjoys riding.
COMING SOON: GOATS!!! That's right, the crazy rooster is diversifying. Two young Alpine weathers (neutered males) . I would like to train them to pull a small wagon ,as a team. I think I'll work on training Penny first though. The goats are too small right now.
poults. I've got about twelve more turkey eggs under hens
NEW ON THE FARM: Well, we bought a miniature horse. Her name is "Penny". she stands 36" at the shoulders and is the sweetest, most well-mannered horse I have ever seen! OK, I haven't been around many horses in my life, but she's still sweet. My grandson is hadicapped and riding penny is good therapy for his hips and leggs. But the real reason we got her is because Matthew really enjoys riding.
COMING SOON: GOATS!!! That's right, the crazy rooster is diversifying. Two young Alpine weathers (neutered males) . I would like to train them to pull a small wagon ,as a team. I think I'll work on training Penny first though. The goats are too small right now.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
blue andalusion (sp)
a young man apperently from austrailia poasted this on my flickr sight. a show cock from a livestock show there. I wish Icould get lacing like that in my blue orpingtons.
T.C.R.
T.C.R.
Monday, July 18, 2005
summertime blues
It was a busy spring! I must have hatched out well over a hundred chicks. Some will say that isn't mutch. but for the size of my operation and the time I have availible to put into my birds,believe me i've been runnin'!
I've allready made my first culling of my blue oegbs and blue orpington standards. I thought I'd sell the culls so I put flyers out at the feed stores here and got almost no response. Put two signs on the side of the RD. in front of my house and "BAM". sold out in one wk. Guess we know what works now.
Guineas...... only had one breeding pair of adults this spring. guess I'v hatched 35 or 40 . Sold all but the last hatch, two nests totaling about 15 keets. They're up about two and a half wks old.
meat birds......they did even better than expected!! out of twenty-five slaughtered all but seven hens. yea, thats right , they're allmost five months old now. a good three months past they're prime slaughter date. In the past, I've put them in wire floor cages and had them in the freezer no later than ten wks. But they were doing so well I decided to let the last of the hens go for a while. Took them out of thier cages and put them in a"chicken tractor". For those of you who don't know, go to your fav. serch eng. and type in "chicken tractor" . Its a great idea. so much cleaner than granpa's chicken pen.
sex links..... Haven't hatched many so far, but just like in prev.years,folks buy them as fast as i can hatch them.
The chicks I got from Ideal back in feb. are doing great . rhode island red roos , rhode island white pullets,four wht.rock pullets and two wht. rock roos. gonna do red sexlinks next year.
Thinking about putting one of the wht.rk. roos on those cornish crosses.
BBwhite turkeys........ also doing well. got a tom and a hen almost five months old an five a few wks younger. I can almost taste 'em!
well, got to go now.
ps. How do you like my music. It takes a little longer than i would like to load but we're working on that. It should have loaded before you finish reading this. If not please leave a comment or drop me an e--mail
JOHN
I've allready made my first culling of my blue oegbs and blue orpington standards. I thought I'd sell the culls so I put flyers out at the feed stores here and got almost no response. Put two signs on the side of the RD. in front of my house and "BAM". sold out in one wk. Guess we know what works now.
Guineas...... only had one breeding pair of adults this spring. guess I'v hatched 35 or 40 . Sold all but the last hatch, two nests totaling about 15 keets. They're up about two and a half wks old.
meat birds......they did even better than expected!! out of twenty-five slaughtered all but seven hens. yea, thats right , they're allmost five months old now. a good three months past they're prime slaughter date. In the past, I've put them in wire floor cages and had them in the freezer no later than ten wks. But they were doing so well I decided to let the last of the hens go for a while. Took them out of thier cages and put them in a"chicken tractor". For those of you who don't know, go to your fav. serch eng. and type in "chicken tractor" . Its a great idea. so much cleaner than granpa's chicken pen.
sex links..... Haven't hatched many so far, but just like in prev.years,folks buy them as fast as i can hatch them.
The chicks I got from Ideal back in feb. are doing great . rhode island red roos , rhode island white pullets,four wht.rock pullets and two wht. rock roos. gonna do red sexlinks next year.
Thinking about putting one of the wht.rk. roos on those cornish crosses.
BBwhite turkeys........ also doing well. got a tom and a hen almost five months old an five a few wks younger. I can almost taste 'em!
well, got to go now.
ps. How do you like my music. It takes a little longer than i would like to load but we're working on that. It should have loaded before you finish reading this. If not please leave a comment or drop me an e--mail
JOHN
Thursday, May 12, 2005
blue OEGB's two days old
blue OEGB's
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Originally uploaded by thecrazyrooster.
hatch update 5/12/05
WEll, let me see........ there's at least twenty banties in my heated brooder, anywhere from ten days to day olds. most of them are blue oegb's. A few mix-breeds, and the latest addition... six pearl guinies. There's five more guinie eggs pipin'.
Both my baters are full again. There's a dozen standard bronze turkey eggs and probably 15 more guinie eggs in one. The other one has 25 or so red and black sex link eggs in it.
Oh, let me tell you about Ideal poultry! I ordered 6 b.b.white turkeys back in Feb. and within the first two weeks four of them went lame. I thought about it for about a week and then sent them an e-mail. I figured they would ask me a bunch of questions and then tell me it was something I did that caused them to twist their legs like that . Well Missy did ask a few understandable questions, and then , to my suprise, I got a phone call; and they sent me 6 replacements. Is that coustomer service or what! I lost one of them. Just found him dead. Like I told Missy , I exspect some losses. but the other five are healthy and strong. As a matter of fact, I have movie footage of two of them struttin. thats right, at two weeks old!! I've never heard of that and I wouldn't have believed it unless I'd seen it !!
I've got a freezer full of fresh chicken thanks to mcmurry. They did wonderful ! Didn't lose any to "FLIP", and the first one started showing signs of week legs at about seven and a half
wks.
Well, that brings me up to date I think. I'm trying to find a free host site for that turkey movie so I can share it with you. Meantime, I'll put up some updated pics of those little blue chiks . They're amazing!! LATER!
Both my baters are full again. There's a dozen standard bronze turkey eggs and probably 15 more guinie eggs in one. The other one has 25 or so red and black sex link eggs in it.
Oh, let me tell you about Ideal poultry! I ordered 6 b.b.white turkeys back in Feb. and within the first two weeks four of them went lame. I thought about it for about a week and then sent them an e-mail. I figured they would ask me a bunch of questions and then tell me it was something I did that caused them to twist their legs like that . Well Missy did ask a few understandable questions, and then , to my suprise, I got a phone call; and they sent me 6 replacements. Is that coustomer service or what! I lost one of them. Just found him dead. Like I told Missy , I exspect some losses. but the other five are healthy and strong. As a matter of fact, I have movie footage of two of them struttin. thats right, at two weeks old!! I've never heard of that and I wouldn't have believed it unless I'd seen it !!
I've got a freezer full of fresh chicken thanks to mcmurry. They did wonderful ! Didn't lose any to "FLIP", and the first one started showing signs of week legs at about seven and a half
wks.
Well, that brings me up to date I think. I'm trying to find a free host site for that turkey movie so I can share it with you. Meantime, I'll put up some updated pics of those little blue chiks . They're amazing!! LATER!
Monday, April 11, 2005
new arrivals 4-11-05
chicks are hatching out all over the place!!
I've got about a dozen blue OEG bantams one wk old and 18 more due around the 30th.
also eight or ten blue orpingtons two wks old. going to try to post some pics "if i can remember how " been a while. got 20 or so gold sebright eggs before i lost my rooster ;still waiting on them to start hatching.
my little inc. is full! got 52 blue orpington eggs in it. all due out before the end of the month.
i'm currently collecting black and red sexlink eggs , guineas.and bronze standard turkeys.
I received my broilers from McMurry , at six wks they're 3 to 4 lbs . very satisfide with them! also received RIWhites,white rocks , and RIRs from IDEAL all doing well.
The bb whites from IDEAL were a big dissapointment however. they went lame ,all but two. {slipped tendon} wrote an e-mail to coust. service. Missy was very prompt and courteous. They are going to send me six free replacements! I think that's very nice of them! Afer six wks, they could have quite easily said it was something I did,but they didn't.
Well, its getting late. let me see if I can get these pics on here.
I've got about a dozen blue OEG bantams one wk old and 18 more due around the 30th.
also eight or ten blue orpingtons two wks old. going to try to post some pics "if i can remember how " been a while. got 20 or so gold sebright eggs before i lost my rooster ;still waiting on them to start hatching.
my little inc. is full! got 52 blue orpington eggs in it. all due out before the end of the month.
i'm currently collecting black and red sexlink eggs , guineas.and bronze standard turkeys.
I received my broilers from McMurry , at six wks they're 3 to 4 lbs . very satisfide with them! also received RIWhites,white rocks , and RIRs from IDEAL all doing well.
The bb whites from IDEAL were a big dissapointment however. they went lame ,all but two. {slipped tendon} wrote an e-mail to coust. service. Missy was very prompt and courteous. They are going to send me six free replacements! I think that's very nice of them! Afer six wks, they could have quite easily said it was something I did,but they didn't.
Well, its getting late. let me see if I can get these pics on here.
