Recent content by MTchicknman

I bought 5 MMM's ( all pullets :>( ) earlier this year from Rural King in Maryville, TN. They were all pitch black by the time they were 4 months old - no more white feathers. When they started laying, the egg color started out fairly light (just a little bit darker than regular brown eggs)...

We bought some Midnight Majesty Marans (from Rural King via Hoover's). We bought them for the dark chocolate eggs. No feathers on the feet or legs, some are looking more like the Black Copper Sex-Link Marans from The Chick Hatchery, and some have white feathers on the wing tips, rather than the...

We've moved to Tennessee, but we got most of our chix online from Hoosiers - Brahmas and a male Turken. The ones we got from Tractor Supply in Lewistown were NOT what we wanted, they just mix them up in the water trough/bin and tell you this is a RIR, this is an Orpington, etc. We specifically...

A dozen pullets - eggs coming soon!

@ Rolltide - " Sorry. Here's one of my pullets with the white ears... I looked closer, one pullet does not have the white. But I don't feel like I can trust the line. I also kept a cockerel from this bunch, he'll have to go as well, I guess. " Too bad I live a couple of states away here in...

Hi, I got back on BYC to find out about Bielefelders. We saw them in the Murray catalog, and are interested - not for show, but for meat and eggs. I found them on another hatchery's website and the prices are much too steep for barnyard chickens $18 for males and $27 for females! Murray's is...

Thanks, I'm going to use CraigsList as soon as my wife can take some pix.

THX, I can't edit that first post to add Montana to the title, but I did post it again in the state chat thread - something I missed! Now if I end up moving there, I'll have to be the TNchickenman ;>) - Yeah, we'll have fun, the G-kids live there, so it will be nice to see them more than every 4...

SELLING THE FLOCK! We're selling all of our Chickens - 23 brown-egg layers, and 3 Brahma Roosters. They all are less than a year old, we collect about 9-10 dozen eggs each week, and sell them locally. This is a mixed-breed flock - a couple of Australorps, two or three Buff Orpingtons, 1 Naked...

@ Mrs K - Central Montana - about 35 miles east of the geographical center of the state, which is at the Yogo Inn in Lewistown, MT. We live in Grass Range, the junction of Hiways 87 and 200 on the map. (a lot of maps don't show our town becuz it's too small). anyone interested can shoot me an...

We're selling all of our Chickens - 23 brown-egg layers, and 3 Brahma Roosters. They all are less than a year old, we collect about 9-10 dozen eggs each week, and sell them locally. This is a mixed-breed flock - a couple of Australorps, two or three Buff Orpingtons, 1 Naked Neck, some brown...

:goodpost:I like those NN/Polish - will you be selling fertilized eggs in the next two or three years? We are contemplating a move from MT to TN in the next year or two. (getting older and want to move nearer to family for the ":lau Golden Years :gig" ) Wife says no more MT for her with the...

I spent all day of a few days ago shoveling out 2 feet of snow so that the hens have room to run around in their pen and the roosters in theirs. So then the day before yesterday, it dumps another foot of snow (with high winds) on us, so guess what I did today!! At least the chickens appreciated...

I'm sure that you wouldn't be referencing the nice "sales person" who sold me a few RIRs that grew up to be a couple of buff Orps, a few midget comets, and nary an RIR! /sarc In other words, I got hatchery choice of field-run brown-looking chicks! It turned out OK, tho, because those little...

@ Alllen K - I like your c&p about limestone. It wasn't a farm store flunky I called, it was the limestone company (in Minn.?) and talked to what I'm now guessing was a secretary, rather than a person who might have known more about limestone (as you pointed out in your Google search!) Thx for...