Sunday, September 23, 2012

For the first time in 4 years

I have to buy eggs.  My chickens have not laid one egg in 3 weeks now.  I know most are molting as the chicken house is loaded with feathers I have to get out.  Usually when they molt a few still lay but not this time.  I do have a few older hens but we've done pretty good at keeping new hens coming along so I don't know what is the problem.  We've had White Rocks all this time.  

I just ordered some Dominiques.  I am going to try them and phase out the White Rocks.  I was really leaning towards Rhode Island Reds but after I read that the roosters can be aggressive I decided on the Dominiques.  Nothing makes me madder than to have a rooster spur the backs of my legs.  

A long time ago we raised chickens when the kids were young. We got a free "exotic" chicken with a shipment of day old chicks.  It turned out to be an Egyptian rooster.  That was the meanest chicken I have ever dealt with.  He wouldn't stay in a pen no matter how much you trimmed a wing.  We always had to be on the lookout for that mean rooster.  It never failed if I had my back turned he was going to get me or my younger son.  We seemed to be the only two he lived to spur. I came in from work one day and saw him lying dead in the horse pen. Our mare Goldie had stomped him to death.  I guess he spurred the wrong animal that day.  That was one time I was not sorry to lose a barnyard animal!

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  1. LOL Mamma Bear, I got a mare that flattens chickens too. I like my Australorps. They make a big bird for butchering, the meat is pink instead of dull yellow, they lay a large, light brown egg, take the extreme weather well and don't mind being crowded in the coop. They are also very gentle and tame down super easy. Just food for thought.

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    1. Thanks MMP..I will keep that "food" for thought. I just love all of my chicken in a jar!

      I just tried to comment on your blog and Google is throwing some more of that weird word verification crap. I gave up after I didn't get it right in 3 tries but glad to hear you got your hay cut!

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  2. HAHA you have no homegrown eggs for the cooking contest!!!!

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    1. How do you spell that noise that one does when they stick their tongue out and blow?

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  3. I believe I'd have eaten that rooster about the second time he attacked!

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    1. I should have GS... He probably ended up fertilizing a tree!

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  4. Boy does your rooster story bring back memories. Little kids and a mean goose, little kids and mean ducks! Thankfully we never had mean chickens or roosters.
    Thank you for those memories.
    Sorry about your rooster getting stomped.

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  5. Ammie...I was not sorry he got stomped!

    Thanks for coming by!

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