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They may be unable to ship due to current quarantines and prohibitions in place to try to prevent spread of AI. There is almost no shipping out of the state at this point. I don't ship, but I took a break from hatching when things with AI started to heat up in this state. Hoping for hot weather...

I will keep monitoring them. The birds that got it had it pretty bad. When I first noticed it, there were small droppings with some blood in them, but they were on medicated food and chicks I had earlier this spring from Welp had the same thing and got through it just fine, so I didn't...

Lost 4 chicks to cocci tho see. I am disappointed in the birds I got from welp this spring. I have never ever had a cocci issue. And the only birds to struggle with it this year are the ones from welp. Two of 4 brooder pens are on corrid to try to stem this. Lost 2 barred cochin (1 pulley, 1...

I am having low egg production right now as well. I attribute some of it to changes in flock organization, however, I think there are other factors. I am trying a light on in the coop since it has been cloudy and my only window is on the north side. I may give them a pumpkin seed treat this week...

Here I was seeing those of you posting new puppies and thanking my lucky stars for how healthy our pets are only to come home yesterday to find the kitty had had some kind of accident and would not make it through the night. The dogs are trying to comfort me, but it isn't the same since they...

It is possible for a chick to be too big to properly turn all the way based on the size of the egg. I have had this a few times. I always thought this is why it is not recommended to hatch pullet eggs if they are extra small, but to select for uniform overall size. I have had some small eggs pip...

Allowed all in the main coop free access to the run and the mountain of spent mash grains first thing this morning. All the veterans were out the chicken door like they were on fire. The babies were huddled together under the nest boxes. I figured they would either find their way outside or hide...

We are in the cities and very nearby the brew pub where we are regulars and know the brewer well. Dh trucked home 2 large Rubbermaid trash cans full of spent mash grains. I probably should have frozen some, but we have access to it whenever we want, so we poured it in a mountain in the run...

DH convinced me to put the end of February (and older) babies in the big coop at bedtime tonight. Still not sure if it's a great idea, but they are in there - 6 dark cornish (2 pullets and 4 cockerels), 1 barred cochin cockerel and 3 mille d'Uccle pullets. I am a bit worried about the d'Uccle...

I will have to post some photos of what we have going in the brooder house. We have somewhere between 80-100 chicks right now of varying ages. About to move the biggest ones into a tractor (as soon as the tractor is finished that is) or maybe oust the two boys from the bachelor pad and use it...

actually, the people you got jj and Ethel from have a number of sought after birds or have over the years. It is an up side of city flocks that you often have good access to rare things if you want them and you are likely to have the funds for them as well. I know currently they have frizzle...

Those were LF. I too am addicted to bantams. That's why I didn't keep any of those favs for myself. I thought long and hard about it cause they are so pretty. But I might try to get some bantam next year if I have room. Too many new chicks this year to get any more. I have cut myself off with 4...

Can't quite see from the photo, but looks like you may have lucked out in the pullet department with the d'Uccle babies you got from me earlier this month. They are plenty old by now to be able to tell. By about 5-6 weeks the males get a significantly larger and redder comb while the females'...

Space in my big chick brooder is starting to free up. I finally had time to post some of my extra cockerels for sale and today had someone come for my extra mille d'Uccle cockerel. He mentioned he was on the lookout for a cochin cockerel. To which I said "any particular color" and then pointed...

Ecstatic. One of our bantam white faced black spanish is a cockerel for sure! I want so badly to breed these next year and you never know what you're going to get with a straight run. I have only 6 chicks (lost one right away from shipping stress and lost another at about a week and a half...

I am glad I am pretty much on a break for selling chicks at this point. I had them in the house cause the brooder coop was too Cold and the insulation and walls aren't up yet, but I broke and moved them out there. Gonna do the same, meet people in the street for remaining chick sales and then...

I love Ramsey farm and garden. I get my feed there - very high quality.

Oh no. so sad.

My coop could use a repaint too. We ran electricity right away and dh has dreams of running water actually. Might get done this summer even. And our new chick house will be getting a full interior remodel with insulation and sheetrock and paint. It is just an old tin shed at this point.

Minnie, I also sell them to the Asian community here in the cities. From what I have gathered it has a bit to do with what breeds are part of their ethnic heritage and many of those are small like bantams. And they better utilize all the parts of the chicken so having something smaller isn't...