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I'm looking for some older pure bred Barred Rock hens. Don't need to be layers. I'm starting up a heritage breeding program and am focusing on Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds.
These old ladies would be well treated, fed an almost organic diet, and have free range of my 6 acres with the protection of my livestock and property guardian dog.
A great retirement home! All I ask of the old gals is if they're feeling broody that they hatch some chicks for me from eggs laid by my younger hens so my younger hens can keep up production.
I'm not looking to pay money as I could get an incubator to do this, but I prefer to let Mommas be Mommas!
Willing to give you a chick from a future hatch that your old gal helped with!
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Dayna,
We have the broodiest hens I've ever seen running feral in my neighborhood, these mommas hatch close to 20 babies 2-3 times a year. They are not purebred anything, they are sure amazing mommas, but the feral cats pretty much wipe out every generation. The younger ones were tame and would be tame again if we fed them, and could be trapped if you want some not purebred but super broody hens. The mixed offspring would be pretty obvious by adolescence and could become dinner.
Carol
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Carol that would be fabulous. Do you have a trap? I have a cat trap and could put them in a dog run to tame them up. Or I could drop by some food for you to feed them to tame them up. I have 2 wild hens out here that do raise a lot of chicks but will NEVER be tame. Its taken me two years to just get them to come near me for a bit of food. lol
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Some of younger ones were hatched by one of the truly feral hens and I fed them for awhile to see if my dogs could co-exist with chickens (nope) so they were once pretty tame and could become tame again.
The dogs nailed the rooster last week and I haven't seen the hens much since then, but they move around the neighborhood a little, and it has been super rainy, so they may have holed up somewhere. I will keep an eye peeled and send you an email when they pop back up. If we had some feed to get them used to coming around again, then you could borrow a trap from the humane society (you have to put down a deposit) and we could trap them pretty quick. When we trapped the roosters we locked the trap open for a few days so they got used to eating inside the trap, then trapped them. We had to let a lot of hens loose before we got the roosters, they just kept coming back after tripping the trap.
Carol
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Dayna,
I sent you an email through punaweb, let me know if it doesn't go through.
Carol
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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