Recent content by Lil Mucket

That's fine though! I am not in a rush, just would like to get some this spring. Which breeds do you have?

Hi! I'm looking for hatching eggs for BCM or Welsummer, I am in south central MO and would like to drive to pick them up instead of shipping. Thanks!

She's a chicken, and yes first timer but for the last three weeks she's been excellent. Water was always there although like I said they are sleeping out in the woods, maybe she wasn't taking them over there enough? The other odd thing I realized is that I only have 7 dead babies accounted for...

This is so odd... I haven't run across this before and maybe one of you will recognize this. Last month I got some guinea keets, 5 of them. Gave them to a broody, she was super happy about them so all was fine. Three days later, they died in the nest. I realized Broody never left the nest and...

We have a bunch of those plastic waterers with a red tray and the opaque top that screws onto the tray. I'd like to be able to fill them from the top. If I cut a hole in the top, would that ruin a vacuum or anything and prevent the water from flowing into the tray?

Me too! I'm thinking about a project that would involve me having my own line of super broody hens - kept thinking "If only there were standard size silkies!" I don't even care about conformation, since they would just be a part of the project and the end result would not be silkie, but just...

I first read about the American Bresse chicken last year and I'm seriously contemplating getting them, establishing a flock to raise for meat birds. We raise Freedom Rangers for our family (and sell a few), and our local area will pay $3.50-$4.50 for pastured chicken. I've been reading about...

Yes I'd also be interested when you can sell eggs!

Interesting discussion! I just am now beginning my foray from backyard chicken keeping into more of a breeding mindset. I hatched out some Cream Legbars about a month ago - did half of them in the incubator and half of them I'd given to a broody hen. She had 4 out of 4 hatch, and I had 3 out...

Oh now that's interesting! Single matings, huh. I do suppose it depends on each rooster as well. What I'm thinking is for the winter to keep hens and roos separate and then in the summertime separate them out into mobile pens. I suppose it depends on how many pullets and roos I get from my...

Hey how are your Welsummers doing? Looking for some plus cream legbars - where are your lines from?

I'm looking for fertile hatching eggs, preferably npip but not a necessity - and hopefully someone who sells BOTH cream legbars and welsummers?

So I've never been interested in becoming a breeder UNTIL NOW. I just hatched out my first batch of Cream Legbars that I got here locally and I am in love. Normally I just keep a mixed flock and be done with it, but now I'm starting to think along the lines of isolating breeds and whatnot...

Do you have any ideas what your pricing will be like? Anxiously watching this thread :) Also, will you be offering eggs?

Quote: Yeah, tried that, hard to get them all in there at once. It's like they know what I'm up to and try to grab and run Maybe if I started earlier in the evening that might work before they have their minds set on roosting.