I am not sure where you are, but Estes hatchery near Springfield has turkey, and there is another near KC called Heartland hatchery that sells at feed stores all around MO in the spring. You could also try poultry swaps, but you don't know if the parent flock has mycoplasma if that effects...
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:welcome Well, you have time to plan. There are tons of threads with helpful information on everything from coops, runs, poop boards, nest boxes, medical information, and funny chat. Just be sure to understand chicken math :gig
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I will have a bunch of chicks hatching 2/18. Colored egg layers. EE, plus green and blue egg layers. Possibly a few BSL. My flock is closed and came from NPIP and Mycoplasma free sellers.
If anyone is interested.
Thanks. I won't risk my Heritage Rhode Island Reds I worked so hard to get. I brought in some chicks from a breeder for blue eggs with my first flock and learned that quarantine involves you a bunch as well as the birds at the expense of my flock.
For those who don't know the AG guy for the...
Though CC lets it all blow through, most of what I have read says as long as there is not a direct draft on the roost cold is not the enemy. I know from experience with a frost bitten comb in one of my coops with the roost in the peak that it is moisture combined with cold. Like when it...
If anyone in SW Missouri near Joplin is interested in ordering from Hoover Hatchery (certified mycoplasma free and NPIP) I would like to order some general layers to add to my EE group, but I don't need 25 either.
@Ayriad There are several good threads on interior stuff like Poop boards (Aart posts there a lot and has all kinds of coop pictures) love the boards, several on nest boxes and feeders, etc. Definitely put in more ventilation then you think they need, and of you have a slanted roof I would put...
:frow Well if you were in SW Missouri I would get some chicks, but since I am near Joplin it is too far.
As to the run. Run space is ten and coop is 4. I used hardware cloth for my run. As to digging under the suggestion is to bury wire eighteen inches all the way around or if your ground is...