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Thank you Alex!

Thank you for the great information, we will certainly keep it in mind. :)

Thank you all so much for your thoughts its really appreciated! In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter much, but we were really curious. He was one of the smaller ones in his bin. Of course me being me, I was like..." awwww "she must be the runt we've GOT to buy her"!!! Runt, my...

This little cutie decided he was going to start crowing. LOL! We were told by TSC when we bought them April 6th (should've considered our source), that all were pullets. So unless "pullets" crow at 6 a.m. this is a handsome little rooster. My question is if anyone has a thought of its...

I am only a year into owning chickens, so please take this for what it's worth, but yours look like our girls at that age and ours are definitely Red Sex Links pullets.

LOL! We have 6 Red Sex Links that are 1 yr old (and 2 chicks that are 2 wks old) and they produce all different sizes and shades of brown eggs. We get XXLG eggs too, always double yokers! YUM! Our girls don't really know they are chickens though, their spoiled rotten!! When I gather eggs...

Oh my goodness!! They are so precious!

Thank you very much!

Our girls started laying last Sunday!! We've had 2 eggs everyday since (one was a soft shell). I've read that it's not uncommon for a soft shelled egg to be laid when they first start laying. Hopefully that's true so I won't worry about it for now. I was keeping an eye on the calendar and...

Hi Cam14117, At the time I thought I was supposed to keep them out of the coop as much as possible through the day so they'd go in at night without any reservations. However, my common sense finally prevailed and I'll chalk it off to another blonde moment! LOL. Our girls have total access to...

This is all so crazy having so many unknown variables to this disease. I'm not sure why they aren't incinerating them either, seems to me like a good way to contain the spread.

They are so precious!!! #5 and #7 stole my heart!! Best of luck to you.

That makes me feel a lot better, I didn't realize feed was heat treated. I've so much to learn..but I'll eventually get it all to sink in. LOL Thank you ChickenCanoe I appreciate your input.

made me chuckle. LOL

UGH! I've read a few articles where they throw around the idea of AI being transmitted from creepy crawlies but you may be onto something with genetic diversity. My husband and I were batting around the idea of it being in the feed but you guys all make great points with other theories. I'll...