See!! I told you all I had no business at a swap!!! NO business at a swap! I came home with a roo I do NOT need, but he is cute!!! And chicks that I also don't need and hatching eggs...
Thank goodness I resisted that adorable little pig!!! And even more thankful they didn't have Nigerian...
I'm considering Winchester... The problem is I don't need a thing and won't come home empty handed.... Well i think I'd like a couple of keets... And I do need a....
See I'm better off at home!! If we go I'm the one with a little girl that talks nonstop and drives a pink wheelchair with...
I just came by to cry where people would understand!! We lost my favorite roo today. It appears a predictor got him :(. My sweet partridge Wyandotte roo... I'm heart broken! We have 2 chicks in the garage... Praying one is a roo...
So Frankfort is no more, but there is going to be a show and swap April 7th in Frankfort. Also starting in April there will be a swap at paris stockyards from 7am-noon the 2nd saturday of each monthl....
Now I just need to find out when the casey co auction is before the 4H poultry club...
We wont be hatching for a couple of months. My birds are all in the midst of an ugly full flock moult and just aren't laying. We are about to get them all seperated to start keeping eggs in a month or so.
We will be hatching pet quality silkies (partridge and white) LF silver duckwing...
Another question... When is the next auction in Casey co? March the......?
And does anyone know when the swaps in Frankfort resume? Which Saturday each month?
Thanks!
Hey Local-ish peeps! I am asking for a favor. I am looking for a source for larger eggs. I am thinking Peacock, Emu, Ostrich??? I just need to use them for a meeting on Feb 9th. Our 4H kids will be studying eggs and I wanted a few larger ones to show them. I will make them "hands off" and...
My question is about day pens. Most of them are in split pens in the night. My Cochins are with the bantams, but I have never seen them cross. Silkies, wyandottes and Phoenix are all separate. But in the day I need chicken "play pens" so they can have space out in the yard and still be separate.....
Pondering spring hatching.... We free range our mixed flock. However I want to separate some birds for hatching/show purposes. At night they don't mess with each other but they seem to "share" freely when out and about. What tips or advice do you have to separate breeds through the day...
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Thank you sooo sooo much! Ill let you know. I forgot to add my locale. Since Im outside of Lexington, you are nearly 3 hours from me. I love my Dad, but a 6+ hour trip is a lot, lol.
Im going to keep hunting a bit closer to home, but if I dont have any luck, Ill PM you and might be...
I wasn't impressed with the feed from harrodsburg quite honestly. That's why we began going to goldenrod feeds. They can give you exactly what's in their feed. The crumble we are currently using has cracked corn in it. I love the mixed scratch we get from them, again with corn, wheat and grains...
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Harrodsburg has a mill. They mix their own chicken feed. I think cynthiana use to have one. I have no idea if they still do? We go to Casey co. I like their mill.
Good luck!
Whats the name of the mill in Casey co?
Goldenrod feeds liberty, ky
It's out in the county past sunny...