I am going to get different chickens than before due to availability. I was thinking about getting from MC Murray hatchery and want to get to 2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Barred Rocks, and 2 Rhode Island Reds was curios if the hatchery was good and if all those chickens where quite and friendly...
8 weeks old
Not laying
She didn’t have to much of a comb but that was normal
Her vent was all good and clear
She was a little slow and tired her last day
No swollen crop it was normal
They have a big coop an free range most of the day
Dumor starter feed
She didn’t have access to anything...
We got four buff Orpingtons and the where all doing amazing and grow strong and healthy and turned out we had three roosters and one hen. We where eight weeks in and the one hen started walking slower and not eating or drinking so we tried helping and she ended up dead in the corner of the run...
I’m looking in to getting six chickens and have had previous experience before with chickens. I was curios about the speckled Sussex wether or not it was a good friendly, quite layer hen. We where also wanting to get blue laced red wyandottes, Rhode Island red, lavender, chocolate, and buff...
So we won’t be able to keep him if he is a rooster, and we are from Melbourne FL who would you recommend we give him too and he’s super nice and really friendly.