We got an assorted dozen of eggs and hatched them. The eggs we were given were barred rock, EE (they were blue), and Rhode Island Red according to the egg giver. So, the 4 barred rock eggs hatched, which was obvious, because they were black. Then 2 of the blue eggs and 2 of the other brown eggs...
We have 16 Silver Laced Wyandottes (2 are roosters), 4 barred rocks (1 is a rooster), and 2 EE's (1 is a rooster). And 2 silkies. The barred rocks and EE's are 13 weeks, SLW's are 12 weeks, and the silkies are 9 weeks.
All of them but the silkies have lived together since they were 4 and 5...
We are in Wilmington, NC and moving out some of our Roosters. This is a pickup situation, though we would may be willing to meet in town somewhere.
1- Rhode Island Red -9 weeks 6 days old
1- Ameraucana - 9 weeks 6 days old
1 - Barred Rock - 9 weeks 6 days old
2- Silver Laced Wyandottes - 8...
Great!
We keep thinking we should check out other places, but I don't think they are unreasonable either. We are still on the Starter- Gro, so it's $16 for 50 lbs
What feed store do you go to? We have been wanting to try the one out in brunswick county, but we're always passing tractor supply so we just go there.
We love our chickens too. My husband designs shirts at a shirt company and said he's going to design me a chicken lady shirt because I just have so much fun with them. We have 25 (used to be 26, but one broke his leg and started getting very violent and had to be put down). Between chicken...
We are in Wilmington. 25 chickens right now, we have 7 - 7 week olds (4 barred rock, 2 RIR, and 1 EE) 16- 6 week old silver laced wyandottes, and 2 - 3.5 week old white silkies.
We built them a nice size run so they can be out but in, never had a predator issue other than the occasional hawk...
We did the same thing! We had these eggs in an incubator that we rented through our homeschool co-op. We had such a hard time keeping the temperature steady, one day it reached 113! We thought for sure they were all dead, but just left them in anyway. Then on Friday night, day 20, we heard...