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  1. Flamens Farm

    Hello from Sumter, SC

    I have been raising chickens for about 5 years, added turkeys 2 years ago and a couple of ducks last year and 3 guineas. Incubated my first eggs last year with not very good results. it is a learning process. But so far have hatched out 24 chicks and 2 guineas this month so I am on a roll! Right...
  2. Chickens&duckies

    Everytime I Google a Chicken Question...

    Hey BYC friends! I'm of course new here! I have chickens and ducks. 1 Wyandotte and 2 Mallards are already big enough to go in the newly built coop outside, and I just received my Rhode Island Reds (8) just a few days ago. (Now I wish I would have gotten assorted, instead of just one...
  3. B

    New chicken owners

    Good morning! We have a dozen Buff Orpingtons, (9 black and 3 yellow chicklets (we are calling them that, since they are much younger, got them a week ago)) and now 2 roosters! My husband had chickens when he was a child and since we now own a small hobby farm we wanted to have some chickens to...
  4. W

    Eggs for Hatching Connecticut

    I am looking for a farm or anyone that will help me and my students hatch ducks in our classroom. We did it last year with a local farm and chicks, and it went extremely well. I am looking for a farm or person to take the ducks back after they hatch. It doesn't matter what breed, and of course I...
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  5. A new feathery project, lots of pictures

    A new feathery project, lots of pictures

    This is just a description about my chickens. I had a friend give me,last summer, 3 bantams. They are 1 mille DE fleur bantam, he's a rooster named Newman and a set of golden sebrights, named Little Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine. He gave my sister a set of silver sebrights, they are now about 1...
  6. CapeFearChickenLady

    Help naming my hatchery

    I can’t come up with anything that I love. Some background that may help. I sell eggs for eating and hatching (silkies and silkie cross), I will eventually be selling chicks when I’m completely satisfied with breeding. I am really nerdy and weird. I am trying to think of something that could be...
  7. A

    HEY!!

    Hello everyone, my name is April and I am fairly new to chickens! I decided to buy about a dozen chicks back at the end of April or start of May. My chickens are free range and run around the yard all day. We have about 10 acres and they spend most of their time with the horse. Since getting...
  8. Fluffly-Butt-Farms

    New here and LOOK WHAT I FOUND!

    Good evening! New to this site but am not TOTALLY new to hobby poultry farming. A few years ago I started a small mixed flock in my back yard on the opposite side of the state (Coastal NC). My flock (all hens, in the beginning) consisted of 2 Jersey Giant’s, 2 Wyandotte's and 1 Red Sex-Link...
  9. Huntergatherr

    Hello from Bucks County PA

    Hi! First time chicken owner, cacklehatchery 31 birds ordered. 20 dominiques, 3 black Sumatras, 3 brown leghorn, and 5 guinea hens. We only lost 1 black Sumatra a week in, and the other two are everyone's favorite. Current flock is 23 birds. 3 adult guineas, 6 younger lavender guineas (my...
  10. usetheforcejb

    Hello fellow bird lovers

    1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I do not have any chickens right now. We have had chickens at our old farm years ago. We currently have ducks, rabbits, dogs and a cat. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? We have 8 ducks right now. (We lost our family...
  11. G

    Turkey fell off slaughter truck- Rescued but needs help!

    Hello everybody, I just found this today, and I am in need of some help! Yesterday my girlfriend and I got a call saying that there was a scared looking turkey along side the highway near my town. Naturally we hopped right up and zoomed in to rescue the poor guy. I don't have any fowls, but...
  12. E

    MALAYSIAN CHICKEN FARMS/FARMERS WANTED: Feature in The Star newspaper

    Hi there Malaysian Backyard Chickens members!! Eats, Shoots & Roots are looking for chicken farmers around/near the Klang Valley area to possibly feature in our monthly column called "Ready, Set, Grow!" in The Star newspaper! If you happen to be a Malaysian chicken farmer or know anybody, tag...
  13. Ducksforlife1

    Blue Scale - Snowflake Bobwhites - Northern Bobwhites Quails

    I have 7 Blue Scale quails unsexed for $25 each (Hatched Aug. 10th, 2017) 11 Snowflake Bobwhite quails unsexed for $15 each ( Hatched Aug 10th 2017) 11 Snowflake Bobwhite quails unsexed for $15 each (Hatched Aug 26th, 2017) Unrelated from other group of snowflakes 10 Northern Bobwhite quails...
  14. Revan

    NPIP and Forms?

    Hello. I'm looking into expanding my flock into an all out business and have been looking around the internet for information. I have found NPIP, and know it's testing for diseases in the flock, but exactly how the the process go? Do I need my flock all established and grown and laying eggs...
  15. L

    Family farm in London, Arkansas

    Hi, my name is Luna and my family and I have a farm down in London, AR. I just love chickens and have been wanting to start a flock for us all to share. We are a big family and have raised chickens before but it was a very long time ago. I have never done it myself since I was so young when we...
  16. Hannah Jeans Farm

    New Coop & Design , YouTube Chanel

    hey!!!! I just uploaded a new video about our chicken coop construction interior design and exterior design everyone please go check it out and let me know what you think !!!
  17. clover girl

    Farm insurance + log home help!

    I contacted an insurance agent 3 months ago about getting quotes for a farm and have been getting the run around. No local carriers will offer farm insurance to me because I have a log home. So now I am looking into national carriers. Does any one else have farm insurance and a log home? If...
  18. JohnCoturnix

    Hi !

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Not really, It's a family thing so I grew up with them. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Right now 54 chickens and 31 quails. (3) What breeds do you have? Brahma, Lavender Orpington, Welsummer, Leghorn, Coturnix Japonica...
  19. abigalerose

    Fencing?

    I'm currently buying 5 acres (with a house in the middle) and I'd like to fence it for a couple horses and a cow, I plan to do t-posts and 5 strands of barbless wire and 1 strand of hot wire at the top, that way there's no barbs, but the hot wire keeps them from leaning, and if the hot wire gets...
  20. LittleDinosaur

    Heyo

    Hi, I'm SJ and I live in the Adirondacks of upstate NY. I've been working with chickens for about 3ish years now and have learned that it is truly my passion. Just tried my hand at incubation for the first time and it was a big success! Out of 16 eggs, 12 hatched and 11 survived. For a while I...
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