HIGH LONESOME RANCH
Jim & Marcy Lilly
hlrinc@yahoo.com
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We sometimes have eggs, and good egg laying chickens for sale.
Black Silkie ,
Buff Cochins coming Spring 2010
Want your own fresh eggs? Urban Chicken Coops for sale - Check them out on High Lonesome's Creations page. We will even sell a few pullets to get you started - no rooster, no crowing, just fresh eggs! Interested in starting a small flock? In general, you can have 3 hens (no rooster or crowing involved) and get 14 eggs a week! That's 2 eggs a day! See our Urban Chicken coops!
Which came first, the
chicken or the egg?
"Then God Said, "Let the earth bring
forth living creatures..." Genesis 1:24a
The Chicken Came First
Our Chicken Coop with the
chickens free-ranging! Tough in the winter!
Chickens are one of the first animals people want to get when they are starting their homestead. They are very easy to keep and raise. They eat very little if they are free ranging. They are great for bug control. In return they provide eggs, meat and feathers for fishing tackle. They are amusing to watch, a little violent in their breeding (for you first timers) and it is fun to hear the rooster crow and the girls talk. The rooster will call his girls over when he finds a tasty morsel. He will crow in the morning just to announce his domain. The girls gossip and chat to each other and will brag when they lay their eggs.
Interested in starting a small flock? In general, you can have 3 hens (no rooster or crowing involved) and get 14 eggs a week! That's 2 eggs a day! See our Urban Chicken coops!
Our
first rooster "Big Red"
Our girls
Our Roosters
Americana chickens are not to be confused with Araucanas.
Americanas sold by hatcheries are also called the Easter Egg Fowl,
Most of the so-called Americanas in the US are mixes that carry some of the
original genes and lay variously colored eggs: blue, green, or pinkish. These
birds are sometimes (and more honestly) sold as Easter Egg chickens. The American Poultry Association recognizes
a bird called the Ameraucana, which lays colored eggs and has muffs and a beard,
not ear tufts, and comes in standardized color varieties, with slate colored
shanks.
Easter Egger come in white and vary in a wide assortment of colors and types, black, buff, cinnamon, brown, red and white– along with various combinations of these colors. Some may have top knots, some have whiskers, and others have bunches of feathers growing from each side of the head near the ear region. They are good layers, with eggs medium to large in size. The colors vary in shade from pale to deep blue, green, pink, plus a few olive drab and an occasional antique gold. The Easter Egger is a hardy, vigorous fowl, resistant to disease and easy to raise. They seem to do well in all types of climate. A calm chicken, they are very easily tamed to become pets.
Our
newest cochin~ Isn't she beautiful. Look at her fluffy feet.
She is just a baby here...
See how she has grown...
We have a pair of Buff cochin that
are just a wonderful
and will be selling cochins Spring 2010
Our new Silkie chick born in the house...In the US, our Silkies are all considered bantams, but they are actually intermediate in size between the European bantams and large fowl
A good reason to buy eggs from a local farmer... click here
A good resource to ask questions is
the Yahoo Group Poultry Chat
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PoultryChat/
Please help us spread the word — eggs from hens raised on pasture are far more nutritious than eggs from confined hens in factory farms. Mother Earth News.
If you are buying your chickens
from a Hatchery - Make sure that it is a reputable one. I advise Murray
McMurray, Ideal or Strombergs. I am strongly against Cackle as they are not into
customer satisfaction...
My daughter ordered 3 breeds of chickens from Cackle
specifically because they
had all three (Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Austrolop) and received Barred
Rock... they substituted Silver-laced Wyandottes for the Austrolop, which is
fine... but then they substituted a hybrid chicken they call Cinnamon Queen for
the Buff Orpington because it matched the color...
When she called they basically told her that the Orpington isn't as great a bird
as touted to be and that she will get eggs early. She told them she wanted the
Orpington for meat, and because they are good setters and that the Cinnamon
Queen as a hybrid will not be a meat bird and will not set.
It all comes down to "sorry about your luck!"
