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post #1 of 9
7/3/12 at 4:11pm
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Hello BYC community! My name is Paul and I'm beginning my first flock in lower Alabama. I'm looking forward to both eggs and meat. I'm hopefully going to have a mobile coop that'll be situated mostly inside of an orchard I'm beginning. Right now I'm trying to find the right breed and the right place to get my birds, as well as sewing a good perennial pasture grass and planting trees. Any help or comments are always MORE than welcome. Thanks everyone for reading and I look forward to some great chats! Paul
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post #2 of 9
7/3/12 at 5:13pm

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Try checking out the Henderson's Chicken Chart - lots of great info all sorts of breeds thumbsup.gif

By the way, have you checked out the Alabama thread, yet: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/29002/alabama

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Dorothy: The woman keeps a chicken in her home, how normal can she be?
Rose: I kept a chicken in my home.
Dorothy: You see my point?
The Golden Girls "Long Day's Journey Into Marinara"

 

Check out my Blog: The Country Chick                          And be sure to check out our soap shop on Etsy, here.

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post #3 of 9
7/3/12 at 5:48pm
Hi and welcome-byc.gif

The most common breeds are sex links for laying, cornish X for meat birds. Barred Rock, Orpington and Delaware are listed as dual-purpose, for both, and a lot of people have those. People who keep meat birds will probably have better answers for you.
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"I'm looking at nuclear power, not weapons - there's an 87% difference." ; )
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post #4 of 9
7/3/12 at 7:22pm

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 Crested Ducks                     Common Chicken Practices          Learn more about Avian Influenza

 

 

Helen: Daria, do you have to look at everything in such a negative light?

Daria: Could you possibly be referring to the harsh light of reality?

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post #5 of 9
7/3/12 at 7:33pm
Hi and welcome-byc.gif from Ohio. So glad to have you aboard. thumbsup.gif

TIME is the best thing to spend on a child!
Always calibrate your hygrometer before you incubate!!

Home to Black East Indies, Mandarins, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Golden Buffs, Welsummers, Ameraucanas, Black Australorp, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Two Weimaraners, Two beautiful daughters and a great DH who builds whatever I need!

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TIME is the best thing to spend on a child!
Always calibrate your hygrometer before you incubate!!

Home to Black East Indies, Mandarins, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Golden Buffs, Welsummers, Ameraucanas, Black Australorp, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Two Weimaraners, Two beautiful daughters and a great DH who builds whatever I need!

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post #6 of 9
7/3/12 at 8:14pm
Hi and welcome to BYC from northern Michigan big_smile.png

I have found good-quality Delawares to be exceptional dual purpose birds. My young Euskal Oiloa (Basque chickens) also look very promising.

Home of the world's cutest dachshund, one crazy blue heeler, two cats,
              one fat pony, and many (but not too many!) chickens

              Can anyone tell me, how many are too many chickens?

 



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Home of the world's cutest dachshund, one crazy blue heeler, two cats,
              one fat pony, and many (but not too many!) chickens

              Can anyone tell me, how many are too many chickens?

 



My Chickens
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post #7 of 9
7/3/12 at 11:22pm

Hello and welcome-byc.gif

 

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked ~ Bernard Meltzer

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked ~ Bernard Meltzer

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post #8 of 9
7/4/12 at 2:19am

Welcome to BYC.


     Most people have no clue...think about it:   Forewarned is Forearmed

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     Most people have no clue...think about it:   Forewarned is Forearmed

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post #9 of 9
7/4/12 at 4:54am
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Thank you all for the welcome! Fierlin, I've been looking at heritage breeds of birds so far. I'd like to let the flock be self sustaining if I can bring in enough new blood every so often. I've actually had my eyes peeled for any good documents about a breeding program. As for the birds I've been looking at, I really seem to keep coming back to Minorcas, but the problem is finding good stock to start out with. I have a neighbor who keeps quite a few breeds for show, so I don't know exactly how well they might lay in our heat. He does have orpingtons though, so I might need to check into them as well. Thanks for the suggestion! And thank you everyone for the welcome!

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