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L@@K!!! HOT CHICKS!!!

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Crazy hobby, huh? lol. Anyone else got a crazy hobby?








  • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
    Hot?

    I don't know how you eat chicken over there but that looks positively raw to me.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by Richard Van View Post

      Hot?

      I don't know how you eat chicken over there but that looks positively raw to me.
      My dear man. Eat? Eat, you say? At anywhere from $35 to $115 per dozen eggs, people do not even eat the eggs, much less these chickens.

      These are bred for show and pet. They are "chicken models."
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      • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
        Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

        My dear man. Eat? Eat, you say? At anywhere from $35 to $115 per dozen eggs, people do not even eat the eggs, much less these chickens.
        Are you serious? That much for the eggs? That is impressive. Are they all yours then?

        I buy Old Cotswold Legbar eggs. They're more expensive than normal eggs but much nicer, they live nicer too. They're brought up at a place called Clarence Court - If you're an egg connoisseur, you might like their site.

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        • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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          Originally Posted by Richard Van View Post

          Are you serious? That much for the eggs? That is impressive. Are they all yours then?

          I buy Old Cotswold Legbar eggs. They're more expensive than normal eggs but much nicer, they live nicer too. They're brought up at a place called Clarence Court - If you're an egg connoisseur, you might like their site.

          Clarence Court | Our Farms
          Yes, they are mine. Right now have about 60, but several more dozen in my incubators right now. This one just hatched after posting this.



          The dark brown egg is the color eggs the above chick will produce, and the blue eggs are another color egg I produce.



          Yeah, chicken fanciers are an obsessed lot. They'll pay a ton of money for eggs, as I have myself, for the right bloodlines and for heritage and show breeds.

          It's also a nice break from the computer ... getting outside and spreading fresh hay around their coops and caring for them.
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          • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
            Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

            It's also a nice break from the computer ... getting outside and spreading fresh hay around their coops and caring for them.
            That's really interesting, I had no idea this even happened. Incidentally the blue and white ones (eggs) look just like the Cotswold Legbar eggs I get, they tend to be pastel blues and greens normally.

            Do you have a blog or anywhere you can post these pictures? It'd be an excellent thing to have to watch their progress etc and you can use it to sell the chickens (if you do that) or the eggs etc.

            I'd certainly pop along to watch what happens. Good for you.
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            • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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              Originally Posted by Richard Van View Post

              That's really interesting, I had no idea this even happened. Incidentally the blue and white ones (eggs) look just like the Cotswold Legbar eggs I get, they tend to be pastel blues and greens normally.

              Do you have a blog or anywhere you can post these pictures? It'd be an excellent thing to have to watch their progress etc and you can use it to sell the chickens (if you do that) or the eggs etc.

              I'd certainly pop along to watch what happens. Good for you.
              Yeah, I do have a blog that gets a fair amount of inquiries, but most of the sales come in Spring when everybody gears up their laying and then the eggs or chicks are posted on a forum with a commercial section much like this forum, only the listings are free. Some put BIN prices and some do auctions on the eggs and birds. I do ship chickens to other states and have had them shipped from as far away as California (to VA). You have to ship Express (1 day guarantee) and pray nothing goes wrong. Haven't lost any in the mail so far.

              The whole backyard chickens niche went wild some years ago, with people living in suburbs raising chickens in the backyards for eggs and pets and show. When it went wild, IMers (who weren't actually involved with livestock) jumped on it and sold mostly chicken coop building plans. One of the most popular and largest forums with an active market is backyardchickens.com, but there are quite a few of them.
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          • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
            Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post



            The dark brown egg is the color eggs the above chick will produce, and the blue eggs are another color egg I produce.
            Uh...umm. Hmmm. Wait. What? :confused::confused:
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        • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          My dear man. Eat? Eat, you say? At anywhere from $35 to $115 per dozen eggs, people do not even eat the eggs, much less these chickens.
          Originally Posted by Richard Van View Post

          I buy Old Cotswold Legbar eggs. They're more expensive than normal eggs
          I buy pickled eggs. You're guaranteed regular motions in the mornings.





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  • Profile picture of the author Ricardo Furtado
    Yea, mine is reading some of the crazy threads created here. lolzzz
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    The chick that's front and center in the third image looks really sexy! Would you happen to have her phone #?
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    If it hadn't been your username under the subject, I probably wouldn't have clicked, Susan. :rolleyes:

    One of the women I used to work with in WA had chickens of various sorts. I had the privilege of eating athe organic blue chicken eggs. They were delicious. I had no clue I could have been eating eggs that might be quite that spendy.

    You are actually the third person I've known with this hobby so it doesn't seem strange a hobby to me.

    Of course, my hobby is finding precious/semi-precious stone. It 's a much easier hobby, ya know. You go out and hunt the stuff down (the hard part is learning how to do that one) when you want to - you have no upkeep other than boxing stuff - you can choose to slab or cab whatever you want and ignore or sell the rest.

    The downside is that it doesn't involve anything nearly so cute and cuddly as that little just hatched chick you've shown and it doesn't provide breakfast for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      If it hadn't been your username under the subject, I probably wouldn't have clicked, Susan. :rolleyes:

      One of the women I used to work with in WA had chickens of various sorts. I had the privilege of eating athe organic blue chicken eggs. They were delicious. I had no clue I could have been eating eggs that might be quite that spendy.

      You are actually the third person I've known with this hobby so it doesn't seem strange a hobby to me.

      Of course, my hobby is finding precious/semi-precious stone. It 's a much easier hobby, ya know. You go out and hunt the stuff down (the hard part is learning how to do that one) when you want to - you have no upkeep other than boxing stuff - you can choose to slab or cab whatever you want and ignore or sell the rest.

      The downside is that it doesn't involve anything nearly so cute and cuddly as that little just hatched chick you've shown and it doesn't provide breakfast for you.
      The blue eggs by breeders who are breeding for eggs to eat aren't quite that spendy. Just the feed that goes into them, but that particular breed I have an order in for a Winter shipment of chicks (12) for $150, so that's pretty spendy for 12 chicks.

      But you have a great hobby also. I love precious/semi-precious stone and getting out and looking for them has got to be fun. My brother used to go somewhere in North Carolina to hunt for gems every year. He loved it.

      That little one that just hatched ... well the incubators are in my bedroom and that one was early. There are 13 more due to hatch by tomorrow and they'll probably choose the middle of the night tonight to come out all peeping their little brains out and thrashing about trying to stand up for the first time.
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

        The blue eggs by breeders who are breeding for eggs to eat aren't quite that spendy. Just the feed that goes into them, but that particular breed I have an order in for a Winter shipment of chicks (12) for $150, so that's pretty spendy for 12 chicks.

        But you have a great hobby also. I love precious/semi-precious stone and getting out and looking for them has got to be fun. My brother used to go somewhere in North Carolina to hunt for gems every year. He loved it.

        That little one that just hatched ... well the incubators are in my bedroom and that one was early. There are 13 more due to hatch by tomorrow and they'll probably choose the middle of the night tonight to come out all peeping their little brains out and thrashing about trying to stand up for the first time.
        It is a neat hobby. Actually partly business now. One thing about the stone is it sells. LOL. I just made my first cabochon from agate I found an outcrop of this summer. I don't do the slabbing but the members of my site do it for me for a trade on half of the rock so I get it done for the price of postage. The diamond dremmel bits I am using were a trade for rock so even about $500 worth of those came "free". The dremmel - gift from site member for info on my dime bag agate location - thusly named because of the fact it looks like lucite with a bunch of shake tossed into it:



        It's fun to find stuff in known locations - it's even more fun to find a new outcrop that isn't known.

        You're in Virginia - your brother didn't need to go all the way to NC to get some nice gem crystals. There's a few types in your N.Eastern mountain areas, too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Gordon
    Well, this thread turned out to be a terrible disappointment. We come in looking for hot chicks, and are blindsided by pictures of fertilized eggs.

    This feels like high school all over again. And college.

    Oy.



    P.S. I have to admit, they are cute.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by Jack Gordon View Post

      Well, this thread turned out to be a terrible disappointment. We come in looking for hot chicks, and are blindsided by pictures of fertilized eggs.

      This feels like high school all over again. And college.

      Oy.



      P.S. I have to admit, they are cute.
      lol. I was trying out the porn spammer title trick to see if I could get you to look at my chicks

      ... and it appears to have worked
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    Gorgeous birds, Suzanne. I have Japanese Quail at the moment, and they're charming. Eggs are awfully tiny thought, takes a lot to make a decent omelette.
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      Originally Posted by Audrey Harvey View Post

      Gorgeous birds, Suzanne. I have Japanese Quail at the moment, and they're charming. Eggs are awfully tiny thought, takes a lot to make a decent omelette.
      They are tiny eggs but those little birds are really adorable. I've seen them and they seemed very friendly as well. I have some Bantam breeds also and they have pretty small eggs.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Seriously, people. Sue and I can't be the only ones with awesome hobbies to talk about?
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      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Seriously, people. Sue and I can't be the only ones with awesome hobbies to talk about?
      lol. You hit the nail on the head. I was interested in seeing other people's hobbies, although Audrey Harvey raises the Japanese quail, so that counts.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

    Crazy hobby, huh? lol. Anyone else got a crazy hobby?

    I would have called it a dead give-away. LOL.

    So ya think maybe everyone else is glued to the computer and forgot to have a life or what?

    By the way - back to YOUR hobby - what kind of chickens are those in the OP - the second and 4th pic? Those are some wildly cute little things.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    The first pic (note the fully feathered legs and feet) are Cochins
    The second pic is White Crested Black Bantam Polish
    The third is WC Black and Blue Bantam Polish
    Fourth is Buff Laced Bantam Polish
    The newly hatched chick is a brand new breed for me. French Blue Marans
    I also have a bunch of Tolbunt Polish



    and this is one of my White Crested Blue Bantam Polish Roosters, who tend to have crests that look like Rock Star hair



    This is what the Cochins look like grown


    and this is another new breed I've got - Salmon Favorolles



    and finally, the breed that lays the blue blue/green eggs
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Well, I've never really paid attention to chickens before, but those are really just awesome cute to me - especially the new-hatch. God I'd love to hold it.

    So are they smart? Can you teach them things or are they mostly just for looks and eggs?
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Well, I've never really paid attention to chickens before, but those are really just awesome cute to me - especially the new-hatch. God I'd love to hold it.

      So are they smart? Can you teach them things or are they mostly just for looks and eggs?
      I wouldn't call them smart exactly. They are more comical than smart. They have definite personalities and I choose breeds that are known for personality. They actually do like humans and are not skittish once they get to know you.

      You can teach them to come to food. lol.
      You can't teach them not to eat everything in the vegetable garden

      The roosters actually play the part of flock teacher. They are very protective of their respective hens. They eat last, after doing a dance and call to call the hens to food. Touch one of the hens and he's after you with his spurs fully sharpened. He herds them. They're only allowed to go where he allows them to go. He calls out a call for danger that can be heard all over the property and the hens run for cover. He will die for his flock, even taking on a coyote or other predator that is much larger than him. Roosters are quite remarkable.

      Whichever flock I'm letting free range the property follows me everywhere I go. It's quite comical.
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