Comments on: The Chickens: Ready to Lay? http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2008/06/26/the-chickens-ready-to-lay/ Backyard farming: organic gardening, chickens, bees, compost, and cooking. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:49:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Farmgirl_dk http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2008/06/26/the-chickens-ready-to-lay/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Farmgirl_dk Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:52:26 +0000 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=338#comment-148 Ah, don't give up on the rooster idea so quickly. Do you belong to the PDX Backyard Chix yahoo group? There's currently a movement afoot to petition the city of Ptld to allow roosters (good luck, right?). You can read about it here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDXBackyardChix/message/7596 And anyway, I may have a rooster needing a new home. You'd love him, really! :-) You certainly have a way with words. I'm truly hoping t'is an egg a comin' down that chute because if it's the other thing you mentioned, you've possibly been feeding the gals pesticide ridden feed rather than that expensive organic stuff I know Concentrates specializes in.... Ah, don’t give up on the rooster idea so quickly. Do you belong to the PDX Backyard Chix yahoo group? There’s currently a movement afoot to petition the city of Ptld to allow roosters (good luck, right?). You can read about it here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDXBackyardChix/message/7596
And anyway, I may have a rooster needing a new home. You’d love him, really! :-)

You certainly have a way with words. I’m truly hoping t’is an egg a comin’ down that chute because if it’s the other thing you mentioned, you’ve possibly been feeding the gals pesticide ridden feed rather than that expensive organic stuff I know Concentrates specializes in….

]]> By: Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2008/06/26/the-chickens-ready-to-lay/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Rian Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:23:06 +0000 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=338#comment-147 Oh yeah, I'm like the Barry White of urban chicken husbandry. The ladies will be five months in July. No roosters (luckily). That's a no-no in town, although if you listen carefully in my neighborhood, you can hear one crowing periodically. I think it'd be entertaining, but knowing the way city stress manifests, I'm sure someone would call the feds on me just for the sheer pleasure of it. Just switched the girlies over to layer pellets today. They were out of chick crumbles, and so I made my pilgrimage over to Concentrates and loaded up on layer pellets and cracked corn. We've yet to see egg #1, but judging by the way Maggie's multi-purpose opening is swelling, she's either gonna lay an egg or grow another head out her ass any day now. It'll be exciting either way. Oh yeah, I’m like the Barry White of urban chicken husbandry.

The ladies will be five months in July. No roosters (luckily). That’s a no-no in town, although if you listen carefully in my neighborhood, you can hear one crowing periodically.

I think it’d be entertaining, but knowing the way city stress manifests, I’m sure someone would call the feds on me just for the sheer pleasure of it.

Just switched the girlies over to layer pellets today. They were out of chick crumbles, and so I made my pilgrimage over to Concentrates and loaded up on layer pellets and cracked corn. We’ve yet to see egg #1, but judging by the way Maggie’s multi-purpose opening is swelling, she’s either gonna lay an egg or grow another head out her ass any day now.

It’ll be exciting either way.

]]> By: Farmgirl_dk http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2008/06/26/the-chickens-ready-to-lay/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Farmgirl_dk Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:46:49 +0000 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=338#comment-146 Yeah, I've heard about the girls starting to do this. They see you as their rooster. How cute. I saw both my 15-week-old roos climbing onto various girls throughout the day yesterday. Not a pretty sight. It looks like it hurts, too - something about claws tearing into their backs and a sharp beak biting their necks must cause all that shrieking. So, I'm betting Miss Margaret really appreciated your gentlenss. :-) How old are your hens? Yeah, I’ve heard about the girls starting to do this. They see you as their rooster. How cute. I saw both my 15-week-old roos climbing onto various girls throughout the day yesterday. Not a pretty sight. It looks like it hurts, too – something about claws tearing into their backs and a sharp beak biting their necks must cause all that shrieking. So, I’m betting Miss Margaret really appreciated your gentlenss. :-)

How old are your hens?

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