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Quote: I never told her not to buy...just to take precautions if she did. Not promoting a double standard at all. I sell birds and I'd never advise someone to take them home and just dump them in with the birds they already have anymore than I would do that with a new bird. I have too much...

Quote: I'm not telling you not to get them just letting you know there are some risks when you start adding birds. Yes, Renee has silkies or at least she did.

Quote: NPIP does not guarentee healthy birds. It only tests for two things usually and I think gives people a false sense of security. LOL!! Okay.... sooooo, I could do just as well with a CraigsList silkie breeder? BUt what if I buy them, they act fine for two weeks... and then I put...

Quote: NPIP does not guarentee healthy birds. It only tests for two things usually and I think gives people a false sense of security.

Quote: You should quarentine them in an area not close to where you're planning on housing your chicks if you decide to get some. Buying chicks locally is not a bad idea all the time but there are precautions to take. I sell my extras at a local poultry auction. There is nothing wrong...

Quote: You should quarentine them in an area not close to where you're planning on housing your chicks if you decide to get some. Buying chicks locally is not a bad idea all the time but there are precautions to take. I sell my extras at a local poultry auction. There is nothing wrong...

Quote: I know Diamond makes TOTW but are you sure they make Nutro brand also? I feed TOTW....I used to feed Diamond Lamb and Rice which they ate well, but they eat much less of the TOTW so even tho a bag costs more so it pretty much evens out as far as cost.

Quote: I don't know if any ran off into the ponds, but no more than we got and as slow as it fell I don't think there was probably much run-off. At least it rained!!

Yay for some rain!! Almost an 1.25". Now maybe we'll be able to get our wheat sowed and it will actually come up. We planted a new alfalfa field a month ago and it's been so dry nothing even sprouted.....it's really too late now to get a good start, but maybe we'll luck out and get a decent...

Quote: I will never use pine or cedar shavings in my brooders again. I kept losing chicks until I switched to shredded paper. The cedar shaving I had was a couple of years old so I thought it would be ok. With the pine I still lost way to many. I lost about 75% of my chicks with pine and...

Quote: And that is why my hubby put his foot down long ago about geese......he doesn't want them pooping in his shop.

Quote: X2 The whole farm and the cow herd are to blame for us not getting to go anywhere! He can't say much about my birds.

Other than visiting our friends on their remote ranch in Colorado, I'd rather be home here on our farm than anywhere else too.

I bet he'll adjust just fine.....my 8 month old granddaughter has had hearing aids since she was a little over 3 weeks old....she still gets this look on her face when you put them in and all of sudden she's hearing clear sounds not just muffled noise.

Quote: so I take it that the old english and the Serama's are not the same thing? Are the serama's smaller? These Old English were soooo teeny tiny! I can't imagine anything smaller! Anyway, after seeing the Wyandotts, I may want more of those- they were so pretty! Are they reliable for...

Quote: LF= large fowl. Yes they come in both big and small, I raise them both.

Quote: My dad is the chicken guy, but he is only really familiar with how a few breeds should look. We did spend quite a bit of time in the poultry barn. This year, they had much better looking birds than in years past. I think the last three or four years have been some of the worst. This...

Quote: I haven't been ina long time either. I also don't like crowds of people. I'm happy here on the farm.

What did the poultry look like? I haven't went for years, but the last time I went I was very disappointed in the birds that were there.