Recent content by primaknits

That's what the gal from Meyer said, GL Wyandottes. They didn't have any Austra Whites on their availability list when I ordered, so I don't think that's what they are. I am thinking White Rock or Buff Orpington.

My guess for the lighter ones is Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire Red, Buff Orpington, and maybe Delaware or White Rock. I'm basing this on what they had listed under their available to ship section. The darker ones I am not sure, this is only the second time we have had chicks. Here is a...

I ordered from the brown assorted that Meyer had a special on w/free shipping on Wednesday. Here are my 16 new fluffy friends. :)

Have things changed with the laws at all recently? This is the farm that I am talking about. http://fonddulacfarms.com/ Unless they are going to put for animal consumption only on all of their products that get distributed? My friend had Nubian goats for a while before she moved into a...

I didn't know there was a tractor supply store around here, I'll have to check it out. I was looking at ones online and it looked like it was going to run us $200-300. My husband is pretty handy, so it sounds like he would be able to set up something similar to what you did. Thanks for the...

Awwwww, SO CUTE! I have dreams of getting more farm animals some day. My husband and I are originally from WI, and my mom lived on a dairy farm when she was a child. I would love to be able to give my family fresh cows milk, but there is no where really local for us. I've thought about goats...

Wow, it looks like I'm not the only one with losses this week. I'm getting over it, and planning with my husband as to what we are going to do. I really would like to get an electric fence put up eventually but we need to save for that. In the meantime, when he gets back from El Paso I think...

This is a picture of the damage to the coop.

THANK YOU. :) As soon as my husband comes home this next weekend we are going to assess the chicken coop and see what needs to be done before we get more chickens. The part that got ripped open is just 2x4's and wiring so the chickens wouldn't get to hot but maybe we need to put some plywood or...

I've been out of the loop for a while, I don't think I have been on BYC in at least a month or two but I just needed some advice. I'm going to go back and read through the thread in a little bit so I can catch up. We had 4 adult laying hens, and 15 chicks that I got from Meyer back at the end...

Yes they were, but the reason it took them so long is because they had to have someone else that is familiar with the breeds at this stage. The original person I talked to said she is good at naming breeds when they are small chicks because that is what she usually deals with, but once the...

I have credit for 2 chicks as well and I am debating what to do with it. We are going out of town once or twice in the next couple months so I wouldn't be able to have them shipped until July. So is it worth it to order a couple chicks and start all over again, or just get a credit back to my...

Cute! They do look the same as mine! Well when one of us gets it figured out than the other will know as well. :) If this makes any sense, my Blue Ameraucana looks like it has the same type of comb as this one below. They both have one that is very, very flat. All the rest of my birds look...

Wow! I wish I could have a chicken coop that big! I'm going to follow this thread as we live in southern Arizona (south of Tucson) so it gets HOT here! My husband built this coop for our chickens last year, but I *had* to order chicks this year so I currently have 15 more birds that need to go...