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The local Agway ordered them for us, so, yes, they came through the mail. The kind folks at Agway separated them out for the individual customer orders. Guess we'll just keep watching that comb. It's different from the rest of the chicks' combs. Kind of flat and knobby. Thanks!

We finally took the girls for a field trip to the great outdoors. So I got a couple of pics of one that baffles us. She/he doesn't look like any of the others. We originally picked 15 Golden Comets and 5 Easter Eggers. Trying to figure out if this 3 1/2 week old is either breed and...

Here's another question for the egg sellers. How do you handle your customers when your chickens molt? I'm reading up on it. It seems to take a long time and no eggs to sell. Do they all do it at once and you have no eggs for weeks on end? BTW, we were offered some 16 mo. hens @$3 each to...

Here's the info from PA, via PennState Ag Extension: "Many individuals with small flocks of laying hens prefer to market their own eggs. If an egg producer has less than 3,200 laying hens and sells eggs within five days from the date of lay and sells eggs predominately within a 100 mile radius...

Thank you so much! I did read the rules for selling in PA on the Penn State Ag Extension page. Sounds very similar to what you all have in Ohio. I run a Mary Kay business, so I'm used to the separte accounts and extensive tracking/receipt saving. I just hadn't thought about that for him...

MGFarm, Just reading this thread and wanted to thank you for your post. My 10 year old son has wanted an egg business for two years and we finally agreed! But we have been told time and time again that he will not make any money from the business. We were starting to worry. I appreciate...