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Red Junglefowl from Asia, approximately 7400yrs ago.

Blueberry (Blue Cochin) and Stripes (Barred Rock) Taken today 4/8/14. Both are 2 days shy of 1 month old.

Diamond mesh on your extended run instead of hardware cloth....BRILLIANT!!! Much more cost effective! You have given me new ideas!

~~Holderread Waterfowl Farm & Preservation Center in Corvallis, Oregon breeds Silver Appleyards. I don't believe that they have any adults currently available unless your interested in a Silver Mini Appleyard. But, you could call and ask if they may have some spring or fall 2014. Shipping seems...

Have the chick sit in your hand with its butt on a warm wet paper towel to help soften it. We had to do this and I had to gentley rub it between my fingers in order to break it up. We also added a sprinkling of chick grit over their food every day when they were 4 days old and this really helped...

Billings, MT. I believe that in MT it is called Shipton's Big R. Thats funny that you live in Spokane. I moved from Spokane to Billings about 6yrs ago.

We are new to chicken keeping also and plan to put sand in our 4x8 run in the next couple of weeks. We recently built a 4ft x 8ft and 10in deep sand box for our kids and used about 1.5 tons of washed river sand (very much like beach sand). We paid $20 and halled it ourselves with our pickup. If...

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Farm store like Tractor Supply Company (TSC).

I am also very new to this. We have owned our first batch of 8 pullet chicks for a whopping 2.5 weeks now. Highly recommend buying "A CHICKEN IN EVERY YARD" by Robert & Hannah Litt, published by Ten Speed Press Berkeley. Amazing book that will give you really helpful information including a...