Isa Brown chicks

cmom said:

First If you breed a RIR male to Barred Rock females you will get Black Sex-Links. The ISA Browns are excellent layers.

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minihorsemama said:

At this point, I Don't want to deal with roosters. The Isa Brown rooster that bred my Isa Brown hens was the meanest, nastiest rooster I had ever been around. He would try attacking me through the fence even. Grrr* I raised him from a wee bitty chick & that's the thanks I got. Geesh...
He now lives across the road with my neighbor...
I had quite a few heart breaks as I hatched out eggs. A lot had slipped tendons. A few I culled, a few I kept & am taking special care of them. My heart just can't handle the heart break anymore so I've opted out of ever hatching out chicks. I now will stick with buying live chicks & raising them.

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minihorsemama said:

At this point, I Don't want to deal with roosters. The Isa Brown rooster that bred my Isa Brown hens was the meanest, nastiest rooster I had ever been around. He would try attacking me through the fence even. Grrr* I raised him from a wee bitty chick & that's the thanks I got. Geesh...
He now lives across the road with my neighbor...
I had quite a few heart breaks as I hatched out eggs. A lot had slipped tendons. A few I culled, a few I kept & am taking special care of them. My heart just can't handle the heart break anymore so I've opted out of ever hatching out chicks. I now will stick with buying live chicks & raising them.

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cmom said:

If you have any swap meets in your area you could always take them there and ask maybe $5.00 each. It would help a bit with the feed cost.

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cmom said:

I had one really mean rooster once years ago and it was an ISA Brown male. I took him to the auction with a few other birds and sold him. I haven't had a bad one since. I do hatch out all of my birds. Every once in awhile i may get a problem chick but most are fine.

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