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Offline Jerrymac

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Poster child...
« on: April 17, 2009, 09:40:24 pm »
for a rough life

But it sure has been fun.....

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Re: Poster child...
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2009, 10:50:52 pm »
i think i have had mornings like that.   :evil:
Someone really ought to tell them that the world of Ayn Rand?s novel was not meant to be aspirational.

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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2009, 11:04:34 pm »
You gonna eat him Jerry?


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Re: Poster child...
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2009, 01:18:12 am »
Silly JP  :roll: It's a girl.  :shock:
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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2009, 04:25:07 am »
Oops, I thought lil Jerry was a rooster. Well, you gonna eat Jenny?


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« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2009, 09:48:02 am »
No. She was the first to start laying eggs and is still squeezing them out.

We call her Raggedy Henny.
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« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2009, 10:55:39 am »
Ok, she has apparently has reached "pet status." How many eggs she lay a day now? How long have you had her?


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« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2009, 12:12:20 pm »
I don't know how many eggs a day. I can't watch them all every minute.  :roll:

She will be a year old on the 23rd of this month I think.
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« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2009, 12:53:34 pm »
Alright so how many chickens are you up to now? How long do chickens live if you don't eat them? :-D

My wife is getting more persistant about us getting chickens!


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« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2009, 03:35:39 pm »
I did have 45 chickens and 4 guineas bit some critter has gotten three of them. (Dog I think) So I am down to 4 guineas, 3 roosters, 39 hens. Then of course just hatched 7 chicks so am back up to 49 chickens.

I do not know how long they live. My book says normal life is 12 years. Some have lived as long as 25 years. BUT....most don't survive past their productive life of 2 years  :shock:

Get this book.... Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow..... It tells you more than you want to know about chickens.  :-D
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« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2009, 05:13:31 pm »
Ok, I see why you can't keep an eye on them all, that's a lot of chickens! How many eggs a day are you picking up? And what are you doing with all those eggs?


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« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2009, 06:29:14 pm »
20+ eggs per day.

We eat some and sell most of them.
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« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2009, 06:33:59 pm »
They call you the chicken man or the beeman? So I would imagine there is a nice crossover, where your egg customers and honey customers are one in the same right?

Do you sell to individuals only or do you bring them in to a farmer's market or similar set up?

I'm being really noisy huh? Sorry!


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« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2009, 06:45:50 pm »
Haven't had much luck with the honey. Had one good year and the rest has been so dry they don't produce much. So I have mostly just left them alone and let them be bees. Seems every time I go into the hives I loose one.

I have a sign out front and have posted ads on craigslist. People come to me.  ;)

noisy?  :lau:

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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2009, 08:59:58 pm »
Oops, I meant to say nosy! :shock: :bee:


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« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2009, 09:38:21 pm »
I knew you meant nosy.  :-D

Not really. How else will you learn?

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« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2009, 01:39:06 am »
Jerry the chickenmaster! Hey, chickenmaster.com!


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« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2009, 02:31:17 am »
That hen needs a saddle.  A chicken saddle, it fits around the wings and across the back and protects the hen from so much attention from the roosters.  She looks like she's everybody's favorite. 
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« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2009, 04:13:50 am »
People must really want your eggs if they drive out to you to get them... how much do you charge for them if you don't mind my noisyness.   :evil:

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« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2009, 05:44:28 am »
This one lady buys 2 thirty count trays every month and we take them to her when we go to town.

Other people pass by most everyday anyway so it is just a stop on the way. Then there are those that make a special trip to get them.
12 @ $2.00
18 @ $3.00
30 @ $5.00
36 @ $6.00

I guess they like the idea of farm fresh, free range eggs.
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