i like chicken! about to bbq up some wings soon i got on sale. but not rooster. been there, tried that... from catching, to plucking etc... and butchering, too. no roast roosters to be in my camp again!
Eggs
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Last year I decided to raise chickens for eggs. Mine are almost a year old.
I ordered the variety French Marans surplus cause a guy I worked with said they would do well. The hatchery threw in an extra so I wound up with ten hens and an a-hole rooster. He looks cool with all the different colors but man you cannot get near him with out a stick in your hand. You got to tune him up and he will back off for a couple weeks and then he’s back to going after you. Been getting 2 dozen eggs a week even with it being winter.
i like it,,"tune him up""!!!!
definitely - brown eggs!
some guys are chicken whisperers... others... rooster tuners!!!
rooster tuning up before playing...
life up on the farm, in these here inflationary times...
Same rooster I was blessed with. Yours is much smarter than mine though. He got the boot on a daily basis. Occasionally, if I connected good enough the following day I could give him a good fake and he would back off. Like a Michael Jordan stutter step. But those days were few and far between.
I have 5 roosters each one has 4 or 5 hens I keep so many roosters to protect the hens
and I like to here em crow I got 10 eggs today , 2 hens are setting and I cant find the nest
hope nothing else finds them lol
Buster [ my lab ] watches over the chickens too
We made the mistake of getting some wild turkey with chick's one year. They were supposed to be all hens... right. 3 of them died and the 4th one was a Jake. What a jack arse! His life ended via lead poisoning one day when mom was at work. Had about enough of getting beaten up by him. Was a real good watchdog over the chickens though.
Bill G
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Those are some dark eggs
Bill G
ArboristSite King
I loved having the wild turkeys but darn were they tough to deal with. Several got out when I opened the door and when a wild turkey is out they are looooong gone
I just got a new rooster. Hes a crower, all day long. also like to protect his new flock. A few more run'ins and I will be able to kick a soccerball 100yards. I dont know if my approach is the right way, but I dont just give him a kick, I chase him around the coop making as many kicks as I can. He will dodge me for a day or two, but he likes to sneak up when My back is turned. Going to cut his spurs in the next few days before they get long enough to do real damage. I only got him because I think I might want to hatch a few eggs. Making money from selling eggs is break even at best. Currently I am getting about 4 eggs a day from 9 hens. A bag of feed is $17 and last about 2 weeks. That comes out to about $3.18 doz. Unless you can sell eggs for $5 doz and you are raising more than a couple doz eggs a week, the profit isnt enough to pay for the labor of feeding, watering, or going to the store to buy feed. selling hatching eggs is a different story. One needs to remember, it cost as much to keep and raise mixed barnyard birds as it does to raise endangered or rare breeds. Several years ago I kept about 100 chickens. I had several rare and endangered breeds. I sold and shipped hatching eggs all over the country. I sold some breeds for as much as $45 a doz. Last week a guy sold 6 rare hens for $316. Right now I only own yard birds of mixed heritage, I get enough eggs for me and the wife and I am happy with that. I know if I wanted to turn chickens into a profit factory, I wouldnt bother with selling eating eggs, I would buy more rare and endangered birds and sell hatching eggs. Rare and endangerd breed eggs taste just the same as barnyard eggs and the extras can be sold for a real profit. Old women like their pretty chickens and will drive a long way to get the birds they want
Probly a double yoker. They're fairly common. If ya hear the hen a squakin' extra loud that day you know why 
We get lots of double yolk eggs. Darn Ohio red chickens.
I have seventeen Dominique hens I call them Dominickers as do most older folks around here. I got 16 eggs today , most of the time I get 10 or 12
They are flat laying for this time of the year.
David
They are flat laying for this time of the year.
David
