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    Question

    Race? It looks to me like a heritage breed Barred rock cockerel. MeyerHatchery has them and it is heritage because you can tell by the smaller black parts. Barred rocks are more splotchy
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    How much would you pay for high quality bantams ?

    thx
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    How much would you pay for high quality bantams ?

    thankyou so much for the help
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    How much would you pay for high quality bantams ?

    show silkies,fizzles, polish ,etc
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    How much would you pay for high quality bantams ?

    Yes I mean show quality and different breeds for example silkies,polish,frizzles, etc.
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    How much would you pay for high quality bantams ?

    How much would you pay for a high quality bantam pair that is 6-8 weeks old someone told be easily $100 but don't know if that is too expensive?
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    Guess The Breed!

    look like a buff from meyer hatchery
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    Guess The Breed!

    maybe a buff duck mixed with indian runner
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    Coop Ideas

    my biggest thing with chickens is keeping up enrichment! I constantly involve them in fun. One thing that I like to do is go down to the river and get long pieces of driftwood and spray it off and let it dry. I put it in the coop as a perch or little stump and my chickens love exploring it and...
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    Helpful hints for building coops

    One thing I recommend that was a lifesaver for my new coop is add a flip-up opening/hatch under your nest boxes or somewhere in the coop so you can back your wheelbarrow up to the back and scrape the poop, old bedding, nasty nesting left behind, or whatever. Make sure you have a good latch so no...
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    Sexing barnyard mixes

    All pullets!!!! I have a jersey giant and olive egger pullet right now and they will peck the snot of of you but they are pullets and I thought they were roosters for a minute but no!
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    Chicken Mama from Tennessee!

    I am also raising chickens in Tennesse. I have always been around chickens but got my own this april for easter from tractor supply and some from Meyer Hatchery. I have 14 hens and two roosters(on accident ) , I have 3 barred rock hens and 1 rooster, 3 Isa brown hens and one rooster, one olive...
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    Barred Rock laying age

    I bought four barred rocks in april and and four ISA browns at the very end of april. Since ISA browns are layers they started laying at 20 weeks and that was before my barred rocks. My barred rocks started laying about the second week of august so at about 26 weeks
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    Tasty treats? (pumpkins)

    Mine ABSOLUTELY love it. It is literally their favorite treat
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    Is it ok for my hens to be evicted from the brooder?

    no problem hope they do good
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