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Looking to add some fresh blood to your flock? Our birds are all heavy breeds (RIR, buff o, Delaware, barred rock, etc) or heavy breed crosses. Our breeds are good for eggs and meat, but none of your chicks will be a specific breed. They will be crosses. Our fertility rate has been running...

I'm not sure if this is the proper place to ask this, but it's about the closest one I could find, since I guess my question is technically about flock management. Our chickens are currently in three groups: 1. The "main" flock, which is about 90 birds, is fenced in about 2.5 acres and...

This morning when I opened our medium coop to let out the 10-week-olds, one of the roosters (a mutt, hatched from our big flock) came out and let rip with three little crows in a row. We've raised close to 50 roosters to date, and I've never heard one start crowing before about 16 weeks. Anyone...

We have about 40 hens laying now, of many different breeds --- Rhode Island Red, Buff Orpington, Delawares, Amish stock, Easter egger, Barred Rock, and Black Jersey Giant, to name a few. We also have some Polish hen and one laying black Silkie. Our roosters are also of different breeds, many of...

This is for 14 fertile eggs from our flock of chickens, for a total price of $15 shipped to you. Our chickens are all large breeds (Rhode Island Reds, Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, Black Jersey Giants, etc), good for brown eggs and good for Sunday dinner. They've never seen a cage, and have a...

I've incubated 18 eggs from my flock this year, and had 100% fertility. I knew my roosters were doing a good job, and started selling the hatching eggs on eBay. Of the two people I've heard back from so far, both had 100% fertility, even with shipped eggs. This is the email I just got, that...

My chickens are really starting to lay now that the days are getting longer, almost three dozen daily. Our flock is comprised of numerous breeds: Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Black Jersey Giants, Delawares, Amish stock, easter eggers, and sex links. Our roosters have been...

My wife and I are having a semi-disagreement, and I wanted to see what people here would do in this situation. We have two Great Pyrenees guarding our flock of chickens. The dogs have been wonderful at protection; we haven't lost a chicken to predation (except me at dinnertime!) since we got...

I've got a situation on my hands here. I ordered eggs from two people who live about 30 miles from each other, and the post office managed to screw it up. I got one batch of eggs today, but not the other. I'm hoping they'll come tomorrow, but I don't know. The USPS site doesn't have any tracking...

For some time, I've not known just how many chickens we have. With the two back-to-back hatches we just had that added 41 new chicks, I *think* we have about 110 chickens. Three coops, three yards, all with chickens...and another 42 eggs going into the incubator tomorrow or Thursday. So when...

My first egg carton hatch is complete. I have to say, by the beginning of day 22 I wasn't convinced, but now I am. It took 23 days and 5 hours, but... Out of 35 eggs, I had 34 hatches, and only 1 death. I had to assist with a couple, but so far they're doing well. I reckon I've been convinced...

We've gotten a little over-roostered at our place, with eight roos to service about 40 layers*. They were starting to fight with each other over the women, and several of the "favorite" girls have started to get broken feathers and semi-bare spots on their back. Normally, I kill chickens by...

I don't know if she's still available or not, but I just spotted this on my local (Huntsville, AL) Craigslist. I know there are a lot of people here looking for a Great Pyr, and I know a lot of people here also live in the south, so I thought I'd share. She's 1.5 years old, just coming into her...

From my chicken yard, just a few minutes ago: These pups just keep on impressing me.

Looking to add some fresh blood to your flock? My birds are all heavy breeds (RIR, buff o, Delaware, barred rock, etc) or heavy breed crosses. Our breeds are good for eggs and meat, but none will be purebred. Incubating here, we've had 100% fertility this year so far (6 of 7 hatched in batch #1...

We've got 35 eggs due to start hatching next Friday, and I want to try hatching them upright in an egg carton this time to see if I get a better hatch rate (not that I need 35 more chickens, but, well, you know how the addiction is). Any suggestions or tips? I figured I would just cut the tops...

As the days get longer here, I find I've got fertile eggs out the wazoo. Looking to add some fresh blood to your flock? My birds are all heavy breeds (RIR, buff o, Delaware, barred rock, etc) or heavy breed crosses. Our breeds are good for eggs and meat. $15 per dozen, including shipping. I...

I've got some extra eggs this afternoon, if you're looking to cheaply add some new (mutt) blood to your flock. These are from all kinds of chickens crossed with all kinds of roosters, mostly heavy breeds like RIR, buff orps, barred rocks, etc. Almost all of my chickens are dual purpose breeds...

As many eggs as you want to order, $.85 per egg. I'll include extra eggs with any shipments to cover breakage / infertility. We just put seven of these eggs in our incubator. All seven were fertile, and six of the seven hatched. There's a picture of most of our flock below, and you can message...

I'm looking to start my own flock of black copper marans, and need some eggs to get going. My incubator is occupied until March 7 (big-time chicken addict here), and my hope is to be able to fire it right back up with some marans eggs. Ultimately, I want two or three dozen, with each dozen from...