Recent content by cjvdub

Gate opens at 8 and you shouldn't get there much earlier as traffic can back up onto the street. Which effectively blocks the road. As for paying, there is someone on the second floor of the gun club clubhouse who signs you up for membership. They will ask you as you drive in if you are a...

As far as lighting is concerned, this is what I do. Currently the timer comes on at 6 am and is off at 8 pm. I am in Massachusetts and the current daylight is about 6am to 4pm. By design, I had the hens under no lights from September - October. I was getting no eggs from 10 birds (7 hens...

I haven't used them, but this is the place I know of that does it. http://avianbiotech.com/ You can use blood or feathers to do the test. It's like $20-25. Corey

Hello, I plan to bring a few things. 2 pair of silver appleyard bantam ducks--these guys are about 2 months old and the parents are from Holderread's, fully feathered and real sharp looking, just starting to get their color. 8 birchen modern game bantams (2 roosters, 6 pullets), these range...

Quote: do you have pics of the orpingtons? are they pullets? Thanks for the interest. Sorry, but I don't have pictures of anything, yet. I will be able to take some this weekend, although, probably not until Sunday. I will post them here when I do. As for the Orpingtons, they are pullets...

Might be interested in the Ameraucana chicks. How much would you be asking? $4.00 each. $15 for all five. Corey

Quote: I have 4 Polish pullets and a Crevecoeur (think pure black polish) that I will be selling. They are golden laced, buff laced, two white, and the Crevecoeur. They are all 4 months old or so. Nice pullets, but I have an Ameraucana hen that hates crested chickens. Chases and picks them...

Concerning brown red modern games. This may not be quite what you are looking for, but I have 2 brown red hens in with a birchen hen and birchen rooster, all bantams. According to the chicken calculator, this combination should produce pure birchen pullets, pure birchen cockerals, and what...

I thank everyone for their ideas, but reading my own post i realized that it may have sounded like I was concerned only with heritage breeds. While I was interested in these breeds, I am also looking for the broad-breasted varieties. In my mind when i wrote it, I was considering them a pure...

Does anyone know where I can get turkey poults early in 2011? I would like them in January if possible or early February. Variety isn't important, provided they are purebred. These would be for a 4-H project, all birds must be hatched after January 1, it is a very competitive fair, so the...

I drove from Massachusetts to Wisconsin this summer. That's a bit over 1000 miles. I was delivering 20 or so 3 month old chickens and four 1 month old goslings. They all rode in the bed of an uncovered pickup. I left at 11 pm and arrived at 3 pm the next day. They were in either crates or a...

I thank you both for the help. corey

These are my two 9 week old peachicks. I was thinking that both are boys. I hatched them both from eggs from my own breeders. I forgot to mark which pen they came from. The black shoulder is from a purple black shoulder male over a regular black shoulder hen. So I'm thinking it is a male...

Monday I introduced three chicks a day old in with 6 chicks that are one week old. The toe picking went on for a minute or two. So I put extra feed in the feeder tray and moved the water dishes. The older chicks were infinitely more interested in that and I didn't notice any more picking...

I sent you a PM. I am in Framingham. I only have two hens currently laying, but you'd be welcome to some eggs. corey