Just trying to get this thread active again - hello to everybody in Lees Summit! I imagine there are a lot of new chicken people with the law changing.
My husband is just getting finished building my second coop for my silkies. I have had them in my garage since last summer when I realized it was not going to be an option integrating them with the flock in my other coop.
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Our silkies we did buy from a breeder who shows, but I have no idea if they themselves are show quality. My daughter does keep on asking when her father is going to build her a breeding coop. He went all out for the coop he already built, I don't see another one in our near future. So...
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Oh yes, I am really beginning to understand chicken math now! I purposely stayed away from the tractor store a couple weekends ago because they were having a chicken swap - I knew I would come home with more. Problem with chickens, there are so many breeds to choose from!
Yes, I think I might do dog crate with some of the others. All the chickens I will be introducing are about 4 - 5 months old.
My dog crate is currently holding year old cochins that I bought two months ago, during the thirty quarantine, trying not to go out and buy another one. One hen...
Can't remember if I have introduced myself to this thread but I am just outside of Kansas City in Lees Summit.
I have 6 ducks and now a couple dozen chickens, Most of my chickens have been growing out in my garage, in the next week I am introducing them to the the two adult hens I have in my...
I bought 8 chicks and 2 ducklings from Heartland last August. All were very healthy. I lost three to predators at six months, and three found new homes last night and last month due to being roosters. The two hens I have and the two ducks, are healthy and giving me 5-6 eggs each a week...
For those of you that have turkeys, there has been a recall on some turkey feed:
Western Milling LLC Voluntarily Recalls Universal Turkey and Kruse G.B. Turkey Grower Feeds Because of Possible Health Risk to Animals...
We had two chicks that hatched four days from each other, so the first one was by himself the first four days. He did a lot of crying from loneliness and always wanted us with him until his sibling was born.
We had a surprised one chick hatch last week. I have two new cochins that I have had quarantined now for about two months now. One went broody about 6 weeks ago, the other 2 weeks ago. I did not think that their eggs were fertile since it had been such a long time since they were with a...
My neighbors ordered my My Pet Chicken, I think eight, and half arrived dead or died within 24 hours. It was the last week of April, and we did have a late spring freeze that week. They did replace the dead chicks.
One of them is a silkie, and she looks nothing like the silkies I bought this...