New to chickens from London Ontario area
- ross
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Re: New to chickens from London Ontario area
I used to live on the Jamestown Rd there by Copenagen south of Aylmer back in the 70s .Nice area . Luck
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- TomK
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Re: New to chickens from London Ontario area
to ...only been in chickens for about three years but the folks here have shepherded me thru many a dilemma...great place, lots of info...enjoy... :running-chicken:
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- WLLady
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Re: New to chickens from London Ontario area
aylmer is a nice area....sometimes i get down that way since my branch of the MNR main office is there and if i'm late with my license purchases...well...lol. i'm down near west lorne/glencoe....and there's a few of us around this part of ontario.
berryhill (www.berryhill.ca) is a very interesting store down in st. thomas, but warning DO NOT LOOK unless you plan on going "oh, that's NEAT! and buying 5...". you've been warned LOL.
hm. if you want eggs....daily....then a production breed BUT with that said it doesn't hurt to have eye candy puttering around too LOL. best is to take a look, see what you like, and then realize that production reds (also called commercial rhode island reds), leghorns of any colour (there's several) will all lay a TON of eggs, as will commercial black sex linked, red sex links (like red star etc). but if you don't want commercial type birds but more on the good egger eye candy birds the mahogany rhode island reds are very respectable layers, as are the light brown leghorns....easter eggers lay fewer but they lay eggs in shades of green, blue, purple sometimes, rose, olive etc. ameraucanas lay blue eggs...marans are typically dark brown eggs, and welsummers classically have a darker egg (not as dark as a marans) with spots or speckles....LOL. and of course birds come in all kinds of different colours, patterns, sizes, and looks (ameraucanas are funny looking with muffs and beards for instance...and super good foragers....)....
so which birds? completely up to you!!!! ha ha-half the fun is figuring out what you'd like. remember that production birds will lay like crazy for about a year or two, but the non-productions will lay longer (i have a 5 year old still laying....), but not as many per year.
berryhill (www.berryhill.ca) is a very interesting store down in st. thomas, but warning DO NOT LOOK unless you plan on going "oh, that's NEAT! and buying 5...". you've been warned LOL.
hm. if you want eggs....daily....then a production breed BUT with that said it doesn't hurt to have eye candy puttering around too LOL. best is to take a look, see what you like, and then realize that production reds (also called commercial rhode island reds), leghorns of any colour (there's several) will all lay a TON of eggs, as will commercial black sex linked, red sex links (like red star etc). but if you don't want commercial type birds but more on the good egger eye candy birds the mahogany rhode island reds are very respectable layers, as are the light brown leghorns....easter eggers lay fewer but they lay eggs in shades of green, blue, purple sometimes, rose, olive etc. ameraucanas lay blue eggs...marans are typically dark brown eggs, and welsummers classically have a darker egg (not as dark as a marans) with spots or speckles....LOL. and of course birds come in all kinds of different colours, patterns, sizes, and looks (ameraucanas are funny looking with muffs and beards for instance...and super good foragers....)....
so which birds? completely up to you!!!! ha ha-half the fun is figuring out what you'd like. remember that production birds will lay like crazy for about a year or two, but the non-productions will lay longer (i have a 5 year old still laying....), but not as many per year.
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Re: New to chickens from London Ontario area
I started out with ready to lays and had a lot of fun until the addiction set in LOL!
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