Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

[AgnesGray]

Hello, BYC! It's been a long time since I have logged in, but I do share articles and threads regularly. No greater chicken resource anywhere than BYC.

Meanwhile I have been hatching and chickening like never before the last few years. The flock bought me a gqf cabinet. Most are older now at 3+ so we are hatching some to keep for us this year.
We also came to the conclusion that we had a lot of breeds and only a few favorites so have cut down on the number of breeds and species.

Hope you all are doing well!

 

[mosse71]

hey folks. im still alive in 25'! it's been a while since I've been on. only reason was i had a question and i noticed i had a message from admin. so here i am. im up to 2 coops with 40 birds and with the egg shortages / prices the girls cant lay enough. i have to take care of our regulars 1st. had to cull 5 2 yr. old r.i reds. they were barely laying. my father always had r.i reds and they were great layers. these ones barely had a egg a day out of the 5 in summer. they are in with copper marans and easter eggers so i know it was them. dont know what happened to the breed over the last 40 yrs. but these arent the r.i that we had growing up.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

hey folks. im still alive in 25'! it's been a while since I've been on. only reason was i had a question and i noticed i had a message from admin. so here i am. im up to 2 coops with 40 birds and with the egg shortages / prices the girls cant lay enough. i have to take care of our regulars 1st. had to cull 5 2 yr. old r.i reds. they were barely laying. my father always had r.i reds and they were great layers. these ones barely had a egg a day out of the 5 in summer. they are in with copper marans and easter eggers so i know it was them. dont know what happened to the breed over the last 40 yrs. but these arent the r.i that we had growing up.

I agree with you. I used to love RIR. I don't think they are being bred like they used to, as most have moved onto to higher production sex link hens, so the breeding has suffered.