Recent content by haleyd

I have 6 month old bantam Cochins for sale. Beautiful, healthy chickens from Cackle Hatchery. They make gorgeous and hilarious backyard pets!The hens are wonderful setters and mothers. I have Cochins available in black, white, and blue splash. Hens are $25, roosters are $15. Hens are starting to...

4 month old pullets for sale in the following breeds: 8 Rhode Island Reds 1 New Hampshire Red 5 Golden Laced Wyandottes 2 White Plymouth Rocks 2 Ameraucana pullets 2 Ameraucana roosters ( free) We are 30 min. from Eugene. Email or call with questions. 541-942-6914 Thanks!

Here you go! These are 3 months old. This is one at 8 weeks:

I stumbled across a hatchery that offered a feather footed assortment of pullets, but now I can't figure out who it was! Does anyone have any ideas?

I got Murray Mcmurray's Feather Footed assortment. (Only offered straight run.) I got 15, and 5 ended up dying for unknown reasons over the next 8 weeks. Out of the lot I got 2 Frizzles, 3 Cochins, 8 Silkies, and 1 Porcelain. Of the ten that lived, 6 were roosters:( We also got their Rainbow...

The crests don't look very rounded when they are dry, so I'm pretty confident they are roosters. (They're eating wet grass so much I have a very hard time getting pictures when they're dry!) Thanks for the input!

Ok, I've read a lot about how to tell hens and roosters apart, but I'd like some input anyway. I'm pretty sure the following Silkie's are all roosters, but tell me what you think! (Sorry about the wet crests.) In this picture the two white Silkie's are the ones in question. Thanks!

We have several 2 month old bantam roosters to sell. Beautiful birds, we ordered them from Murray Mcmurray hatchery. Several breeds to choose from. These will make great 4-H projects! Most are tame enough that they will come up to you. Here is a list of what we have available: 1 Buff Silkie 1...

I had to put the Frizzle down this morning:( Not a great day to start the morning. So far none of the others have shown any symptoms, so I'm hoping they're going to be ok.

Good point.

For the next time this happens; try a live trap baited with canned tuna fish or canned cat food. That smelly food is really hard for most chicken predators to resist!

We have used the electric poultry netting from Premier for both meat and laying chickens. We had serious raccoon/opossum/skunk problems before we got a LGD, and we had no losses while using the netting. One thing is that panicked chickens can fly over it. Right now we are using the netting as a...

Yeah, it's pretty disappointing. I'm trying to be proactive with the remaining bantams, giving them vitamins to boost their immune systems. We'll see what happens. And now I have someone who wants to buy a bunch of them, so they are waiting to hear how things go. (I sure wouldn't want to infect...

They were vaccinated by the hatchery,(Murray Mcmurray) and I assume that is also where they contracted Marek's. We've raised chickens for about ten years, and have never had any problems with disease at all. We live way out in the country, and the nearest flock of chickens besides ours is half a...

Gorgeous scenery. Alaska is my dream state:)