Posts by Foxhound lady

Quote:Originally Posted by KDbeads Last year ours used Ideal....  This year it is a hatchery in New Mexico!  Really odd, even the employees think so since we are only 4 hours from Ideal.  No decent assortment this...

Mine are from Ideal and between 0-2 weeks they were awesome little cuddlers (handled many times a day, with water and food changed feq).  At 2.5 -4 weeks they acted like the hand of death was coming at them and would all run to the...

We have one feedstore that has chicks year round the other more convientant one (for me anyway) got some in last week and will have them till june.

Quote:Originally Posted by IwannaBEaMERMAID should i get self blue silkies or cochin bantams....hmmmsilkies you know you want them

Looks like Ideal red crested red babies.  As adults mine ranged from deep red to light red with lacing the color on the tophat varied from mostly white, to almost all red

Quote:Originally Posted by embkm They didnt cooperate too much for pics.  And I will post individual ones in the "guess the breed" section.http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21281_100_1873.jpgThe Silkies...

I have ordered from them and will order from them again.  No their birds are not show quality but that isnt what most people are looking for.My silkies are happy and healthy and will not huge balls of fluffy they at least look like...

I placed my chick order in early Jan. and got 3/24 as a hatch date so dont fret.  Go to the feed stores and look at theirs

I called my PO the day before mine were suppose to come and they call me back 5 minutes later saying they had chicks for me.It does help to make nice with the PO people, this years order I'm on the list of people to call when the truck...

This was heard second hand but my grandmother never bought chicken feed for her chickens during the depression or even during the WWII,  the chickens free ranged and were feed the scarps the pigs didnt eat.  They lived in very...