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I just tasted some freedom rangers and they were really great! I am wondering if they can be bred for generations in the home flock.

My flock just had whatever disease causes the swollen bubbly eyes and I am wondering if it is safe to eat the ones who have survived.

I had chickens for a year and a half, then gave them up because I got tired of driving 15 mins to the farm every day to feed them. BUT.... spring fever has bitten me hard and I am expecting 5 babies in the mail tomorrow and I just put 18 eggs in the incubator!!!! So sigh... I am hopeless.

Hey all, I havent been on in awhile, but I have noticed that lots of people sell eggs that are crosses between light and coronation sussex. why don't people just sell the coronation sussex eggs? i never see those, just the mixed.

I am really bummed. In my flock I have two beautiful bbs orp roosters that are blue and gorgeous. One of them is also exceptionally sweet and docil. They are just now maturing and 'coming of age,' and I am really saddened on what that has meant. One of the roosters, the bigger, not as...

I am so bummed. My sister went out to the farm the other day to see the chickens and left the gate to the pen unlatched. That night something got in and got some of my birds - Miss Prissy's blue orp and a light sussex. I am so bummed. They had to get my favorites too, they couldn't have just...

I have some 4 week old light sussex chicks along with some (8-9) newly hatched speckled sussex chicks if anyone is interested for $2.00 apiece. Next weekend I should have another 25 or so speckled sussex chicks available as well. I cannot ship unfortunately but you are welcome to come by and...

I have had a hard time getting light sussex birds, and after a couple of horrible hatches with them, I bought all I could find with the hopes of getting a few. Now the new eggs are all hatching and I am OVERRUN! LOL! Looks like I am going to have 25 chicks plus the 6 older ones I bought. Oh...

Anyone have any thoughts on Barnevelders? I just got some along with a light sussex egg shipment, and they all hatched! I have 5 barnevelder chicks now and they are the cutest things! What kind of birds will they be? I don't know much of anything about them. Thanks!

My last chick from this hatch finally hatched, making a 100% hatch from this batch. The eggs were shipped from the west coast to the east coast, and all 12 hatched! Just goes to show, you just never know with shipped eggs! They are a total mystery!

I just hatched a barnevelder chick that is all swollen and bloated. I have never seen this before. Will he be ok?

This morning I noticed my turkey hen was not on her nest. I felt the eggs and they were all cold. I have been waiting for a couple of days on her eggs to hatch and was really disappointed to find that she had apparently given up. I took all the eggs home and candled them, and found that two...

I have one newly hatched chick that has her wing feathers on one side sticking out away from her body rather than being tucked in close. Has anyone else ever seen that? Is it going to be a problem? Or will it resolve itself? Thanks!

I think I am over ebay eggs and chicks. One seller just sold me some chicks off one site, they were advertised as newly hatched, etc, and when I got them, four of six were at least four weeks old, and the other two were about two weeks old. Clearly not the same hatch, and what is worse, they...

One of my new chicks has a bit of an underbite. His lower beak is a bit longer than the top. Is this going to cause any problems? I guess he just shouldnt breed, right? thanks!

I am building some breeding pens and I need to keep them small and managable this year. I am thinking 4 x 2 coops for roosting with 4 x 15 yards. in this setup would two roos and three hens be ok? or would the roos kill each other. I could put just one roo in, but then I don't knwo what to do...

Do orpingtons ever fly?? like over the fence to go out to forage? I have that kind of set up and many of my birds fly over and go foraging - games, sussex, ee's. I haven't seen the orpingtons do it yet. I am wondering because I want to put them in a separate pen and I dont want them to fly...

I have a dickey and I am going to be hatching next week. I also have some just incubating in there that wont be hatching until the week after. I am just wondering how to deal with the higher humidity necessary for the hatching eggs while the others need the lower humidity. Any ideas? I know...

Help! My goats are driving me crazy!!!! They will not eat their hay. They were getting really skinny for awhile and I gave them some alfalfa hay, which they went crazy for and ate all up. I kept that up for three weeks but it was too expensive so now I am back to orchard hay and they wont eat...

Yesterday I went to collect eggs and noticed on of the hens on the nest eating a broken egg in front of her. I don't know if she broke the egg or not, but she was definitely eating it, now that it was broken. I quickly cleaned it up and refreshed the nest, placing her on another nest. Is...