Concrete Chickens

[hawgrider]

I acquired 100 cinnamon whatever from a grower that was told to destroy them..

From the Picture they Look like ISA browns which is the typical factory bird they lay way over 300 eggs a year. They will burn themselves out in about 3 to 4 years though. We did fairly well with the ISA's. Eggs all winter from those egg laying machines.

We are down to just one old ISA brown she is 4 years old still lays a couple eggs here and there she was our best layer for several years. We went to Black sex links, Barred rocks, Ameraucana, And Black copper French Maran only 9 birds.

[Coastie dad]

I've got barred rocks and americaunas also. Training was easier once we took the birds out of quarantine and integrated them with our older chickens. Our rooster put the training on them too. He's a leghorn, and when he starts crowing if they don't come to him he flogs hell out of stragglers.

[hawgrider]

I've got barred rocks and americaunas also. Training was easier once we took the birds out of quarantine and integrated them with our older chickens. Our rooster put the training on them too. He's a leghorn, and when he starts crowing if they don't come to him he flogs hell out of stragglers.

With all those hens that rooster has got to be happier than a pig in shit LOL!

[Coastie dad]

Yeah....it was pornographically comical the first few days.

[Xerographica]

"This is getting xerographica long." Heh... heh.

"I acquired 100 cinnamon"

At first I was like *head scratch*. Then I realized that you were talking about chickens.

Don't keep all your eggs in the same basket. Your farm as a whole seems quite diverse... if some disease wipes out all your chickens then you've still got your rabbits, quails, guineas and ducks. The potato famine was the result of too many eggs being in the same basket.

That was very innovate to use a concrete mixer to mix your chicken feed! I love the idea of getting the balance right.

About that ratio of roosters to hens. When I was in the Army the ratio was the opposite. The "hens" had the pick of the litter. This is useful when it comes to thinking about the labor market. Liberals think that they help workers when they increase the minimum wage and impose all sorts of worker regulations and benefits on employers. But all they end up doing is making it harder to be an employer. In economic terms, liberals increase the "barrier to entry". A higher barrier to entry means less employers. When there are a lot less employers to choose from... then the employers will have the upper hand. They'll have the pick of the litter. They'll have the leverage and the power. If the barrier to entry was as low as possible, then there would be a lot more employers. As a result, they'd have to compete for workers... and good workers would have the pick of the litter.

[hawgrider]

I have no roosters. Im not in the chick business. Eggs only. My small flock is expendable. I don't think coastie is in it for the chicks either? Some chicken keepers only keep a rooster or two around to help protect the flock.

[Baglady]

A couple of weeks ago something dug under the fence on the Buffs side. Our Buff rooster had bloody feet from fighting with (what we suspect was a rat). 2 days ago I picked up a Leghorn hen, and when she objected the Leghorn rooster came running. I love that the roosters are so protective of their girls!

[Coastie dad]

My barreds and americaunas will go broody. But these production hens don't have a clue. That mean ass rooster will fight anything. He got launched across the yard everyday for a week before he finally conceded my wife was meaner than him.

[Sparkyprep]

Great thread! Thanks for this. There is no way that I would ever have 100 chickens, but I would love to have about ten. The wife doesn't want them. She says that they are nasty birds. LOL.

[hawgrider]

Great thread! Thanks for this. There is no way that I would ever have 100 chickens, but I would love to have about ten. The wife doesn't want them. She says that they are nasty birds. LOL.

no worse than than pigs and cows. And mixed with compost the poop makes the garden grow.