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    Baby Chicks!

    Where r wild chickens at never seen any.
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    Baby Chicks!

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    Baby Chicks!

    Chicks i hatched this year from my own group already liking the colors in the feathering.[/IMG]
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    I sold prolly 60 cbicks last year on craigslist its a great place to sell and buy chicks.Here are some i hatched recently some delawares and others crossed with the delaware rooster like barred and partridge rocks and olivers eggers also have one buff orpington hen there maybe a cross there...
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    While some piped but "shrink wrapped" you still did ok the pipped shrink wrapped ones can be saved if you help them abit.Most people say dont but mostly its because the stuff drys out to fast that warps them and they exhaust themselves.I have helped some before and there perfectly fine...
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    nice birds hope they look nicer fully feathered out.
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    It isnt so much the drafty house as the temps stay solid its collecting the eggs my coop is unheated and chickens have been healthier unheated this year then a heat lamp last year as they got sick and didnt adjust as well the good ventilation and straw down keeps them better ive noticed but some...
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    Yeah i know its hard to tell phone camera wasnt so good at getting a clear pic either.
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    Can any one tell the sex of this 1 to 2 day old chick was kinda hard to get the pic.Regardless i have a 50/50 chance.
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    Tried to start earily this year set 24 eggs even got a turner this year so far 1 baby Delaware is all i got.Hatched like 50 to 60 last year later on.Mostly oliver Eggers and silky olive eggers. Sold out fairly fast at 2.00 to 2.50 a bird on my first year of trying to hatch.Anyway im in Ohio its...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Get a brown egg hen and a americana roo ive gotten good results with that roo over brown egg layer hens.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Still have her and my other females I thought sex was based on temp of eggs and male I use an incubator at 99° roughly a cheap one too a square syrofoam one.Hoping to breed my Delewares and partridge rocks this year from the trios I have I may also cross the delware with barred and some...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have crossed white rock hens and americana roo.If you like olive lighter colored eggs this proved to be the best combo out the crosses I breed.I had 2 birds but one got killed by a predator.The birds were fairly large in size and produce solid extra large to jumbos like there mom.I did breed...
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    Is $4/dozen pastured eggs to much? Suburban upstate, NY...

    4.00 doesn't seem to bad especially for your location.I live in northwest ohio currently I sell my eggs for about 2.00 to 2.50 a dozen and have roughly 25 to 30 birds.I can buy layer feed for 10 to 11 a 50lbs bag which lasts me a week.I figure I need 6 dozen sold a week to cover costs which...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I like meyer hatchery some people aren't to fond of them online.I ordered and picked mine up at there facility in Polk, Ohio took me about an 1.5 Jr drive from a suburb of toledo but it was worth it.They added the olive Eggers last year to there site and it looks like you had great results...
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