[Jacob-list] Chicken Info Please

[Dan Kennedy]

OK, I tried not to comment but I have to put in a plug for my favourites,
the Wyandottes.       We have Siver Laced and Partridge.      They are a N.
American breed,  very hardy, dual purpose, with combs etc that won't freeze
off in severe temperatures as can happen to breeds with upright combs and
the Silver Laced will raise their own broods.      We have had them around
the sheep for about five years and no problems.      They are also
disappearing and could use some suppport.
Dan Kennedy
Killorglin Farm
Prince Edward Island
Jacob & Dorset Horn Sheep
www.attcanada.net/~dankennedy
----- Original Message -----
From: Penelope <pcj at efn.org>
To: <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Chicken Info Please


> Sometime around 11:29 6/11/00 PDT, athome mom typed:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I've been reading with interest the comments on how chickens will
> >keep down the fly population. I am seriously thinking about adding
> >some to the farm, but I'm am not versed in chickenry, could someone
> >please tell  me how to get started and how many I need.
>
> We keep hens, no roosters, along with our sheep and goats.  (On a side
> note, the sheep and goats are in the same pasture, but separate for
> feeding.  We separate almost everyone in to ones and twos for feeding,
> except the six sheep, who get to sort themselves out with six buckets in
> their pen.)  The hens are a couple of hundred feet off to one side of our
> house in the "chicken hilton" (the name was already on it when we moved
> in), and the ruminants about the same distance in the other direction.
The
> hens are closed in to their coop at night, eat, drink and lay eggs there,
> and are free to roam by day.  They  make it into the ruminant area, but
> don't spend all their time there.  We haven't had any trouble with chicken
> droppings in feed, hay or fleeces, but I do keep my eye out.
>
> My favorite chicken book is _Chickens In Your Backyard_.  I wish there was
> a goat or a sheep version of the book actually.  Our hens are Rhoad Island
> Reds, Barred Rocks, and Aruacanas (blue eggs!), and this year a few
> Whinedots too.  We've tried twice to find Buff Orpingtons locally, but
> without success, and we don't keep enough to order a box of 25 from any of
> the companies.
>
> peace
> penelope
> --
> "...Shine my life like a light..." (the indigo girls)
> Penelope Jacob pcj at efn.org  in the hills of Yoncalla, Oregon
> CCA / Birth Doula (CEF), birth activist and all around birth radical...
> The circle is open but unbroken.
>
> Working on baby #1 - due for birth at home in September or October 00
>
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