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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    I don't know if you are allowed to have roosters where you live, but if you can, it's not a bad idea to have one or two around. If you plan on letting them roam your yard, the roosters are what you need for hawk lookouts. Mine got to be better lookouts as they got to be a couple years old. When...
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    Yes, I am familiar with those lines. The cream legbars are autosexing, which means that you can tell which chicks are boys or girls at day old. I believe that greenfire farms originally imported the only cream legbars years ago, and then just a few years ago they imported the Rees line from...
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    This is what my egg basket looks like.
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    Yeah, unfortunately I've heard these stories way to often. I think that you'll really enjoy the crested cream legbars, I have them here too, they are usually very friendly birds and depending on the lineage, you should get some nice blue, and or green eggs. The autosexing trait is great too. As...
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    I'm sorry to hear that your chicks all perished. I'm curious to know what cities your shipment passed through. Like I mentioned before, I've heard several incidents of lost or misplaced shipments when they have gone through St Louis. Did your tracking info have them going through there? Now if...
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your chicks . And now I have to get up on my soapbox. Your experience seems to repeat itself way to often when dealing with Meyer. I also had a tragic outcome when I ordered from them. A couple years ago I received an order from them that had a dead chick when...
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    Merricks that I mentioned is a water soluble vitamin and electrolyte powder that I put in the water for my chicks. Meyer and my pet chicken both use outside breeders, if you look at the availability lists between the two, you will see they are exactly the same. If you really want to know about...
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    Just another bit of information, I am cautious about getting anything shipped that goes through St Louis, I've seen and heard a lot of horror stories about packages of chicks getting misplaced, delayed, and roughed up pretty bad when the shipping takes them through St Louis. My chicks just came...
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    Meyers, tracking and blizzard, oh my!

    My new babies made it through the snow storm and arrived from Florida to south east Wisconsin this morning without any problems. They were shipped with heating pads and grow gel. All 17 made it in great shape. I personally swear by Merricks vitamins and electrolytes, which they got in their...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    It took me a while to get that picture posted cuz we are in the middle of a march snow storm here in southeast Wisconsin. I just got back home from service calls and plowing all day. I'm so done with Wisconsin weather!!! This boomer is moving south, enough is enough.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Here's a picture of some eggs from the last few days. The smaller ones are from some pullets that just started laying. These are not necessarily the best ones I get, because I think a couple of my darkest layers are taking a break right now. Rob
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    The Sussex thread!

    Thank you, I did find some info that explains what's going on here. What I get out of it is that in a nutshell, the light sussex is actually based on a silver ground color that makes the white look better, and because my birds are directly from greenfire, they are most likely splits. That being...
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    Dogs killing my chickens

    It's fairly easy to train a dog to respect and protect your property and flock. (If it's your dog). At one time I had two dogs and a flock with chickens, ducks, and turkeys. The dogs initial instinct was to chase and attack the birds, after a couple scoldings they understood very quickly that...
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    Dogs killing my chickens

    The sad thing is that it's not the dog's fault that they have an idiot owner. Nonetheless you need to be very clear that the neighbor knows that you will shoot trespassing dogs. One warning, one strike, not three strikes. Once a dog starts killing chickens it gets much harder to almost...
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    The Sussex thread!

    Thanks, I sent them a message to see if they have some better pictures of their bird. I only saw one picture that was pretty vague. I also think that the way they listed them as silver coronation is incorrect, from what I understand is that the breed colors are light sussex, coronation Sussex...
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