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Starting your flock of chickens
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items Be careful! Starting your flock of chickens might turn into collecting ALL of your favorite breeds. lol. I particular like the rainbow eggs so I will be showing you which chickens will lay the prettiest eggs that I like to gather.
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Beautiful egg layers
Meat chickens
Beautiful egg layers
I particularly like the beautiful colored eggs so I will be showing you mainly the breeds that Inlike for the colored eggs. There will be a little more information thrown into this list.
I wanted this breed of chicken forever because of their dark eggs they lay! I finally got them added to my flock and they are a must if you want to have the olive colored eggs later. If you breed the copper marans to the true blue egg layers you wil...
Hoover's Hatchery Live French Black Copper Marans Baby Chicks ...
If you like the spotted eggs, these are for you. They lay a dark brown egg so if you breed them to a true blue egg layers you can get some spotted olive eggs.
Hoover's Hatchery Live Welsummer Chickens, 10 ct. Baby Chicks
These are another one of my favorites that lay a blue or light green colored egg. You can cross these with the dark egg layers and come up with the olive eggers.
Hoover's Hatchery Live Americana Baby Chicks, 10 ct. - Tractor Supply
Great information on the olive egger chicken. I am very impatiently waiting for my olive egger pullets to show me what color olive eggs I will get to add to my egg cartons this year.
Olive Egger Chicken Breed Guide - Tractor Supply
This is one way to get the coveted olive eggs! It is so fun to see what colors you will get….and so hard to wait for them to grow up to see lol
Hoover's Hatchery Live Sapphire Olive Egger Baby Chicks, 10 ct.
I like to have some light cream eggs in the egg cartons to offset the colored eggs. I think the colored eggs show up better around some light ones. This is a great friendly breed that has a light cream eggs.
Hoover's Hatchery Live Barred Rock Baby Chicks, 10 ct.
The grey chickens are my favorites! These are beautiful and sweet. They are supposed to lay brown eggs, but I have seen several people get a pinkish colored eggs from these.
Hoover's Hatchery Live Sapphire Gem Baby Chicks, 10 ct.
These adorable chickens are good layers and lay a blue egg.
Hoover's Hatchery Live Cream Legbar Baby Chicks, 10 ct.
Awesome egg breed that lays blue eggs. Cross between Araucanas and White Leghorns.
Hoover's Hatchery Live Prairie Bluebell Egger Baby Chicks, 10 ct.
Meat chickens
If you would like to try your hand at processing your own chickens, here are a few things you might need. I did not really seek out to process my own chickens, but when you are hatching you are going to end up with a lot of extra roosters. At first...
These are the quickest breeds to raise up for your own meat chickens.
Hoover's Hatchery Live Cornish Cross Broiler Baby Chicks, 10 ct.
This cone is the easiest and most humane way to dispatch your chicken in my opinion.
Yardbird Poultry Galvanized Restraining Cone, Medium
Cone from Amazon for dispatching
Large Poultry Killing Restraining Cone
Electric feather plucker if you don’t want to pluck them yourself.
Chicken Plucker - Amazon.com
Here is the basics that you need to process your own chickens.
Mumufy 5 Pcs Chicken Processing Set
You will need something to scald your chickens in 145 degrees to loosen their feathers before plucking.
Turkey Fryer Pot Stainless Steel - Walmart
Easy to clean table to process your birds. Then just fold it up and put it away until next time.
Folding Tables in Folding Furniture - Walmart.com
You will need a hose close by to keep everything nice and clean.
Garden Hoses in Watering & Irrigation - Walmart.com
A spray nozzle works great to attach to your hose to keep your area nice and clean
Hose Nozzles in Watering & Irrigation - Walmart.com
This bucket works great to dispose of your waste.
Buckets for Painting and General Utility Tasks - Lowe's
You will need a cooler full of ice to keep your processed birds in until they are all done.
Shop Coolers & Ice Chests for 4th of July Gatherings - Walmart.com
I love my vacuum sealer for sealing up and protecting my chicken in the freezer.
FoodSaver Vacuum Sealers in Specialty Appliances - Walmart.com