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    Hands on hatching and help

    Hello BYC, my kids and I are doing our first incubation of hatching eggs in the Nurture Right 360. We had 10/16 fertile farm eggs hatch into healthy chicks on day 21 yesterday (we picked eggs up on the farm, so weren't in the mail). Hatched chicks are in the brooder. What do people do with the...
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    ISO dark hatching eggs: black copper marans, olive or blue eggers (Vancouver, WA/Portland OR)

    Hello--we've had chickens for many years, and my daughter wants to try incubating eggs to get rich, deep egg colors in our basket. Does anyone know of places we could drive to from Vancouver WA/Portland OR to pick some up? If not, we're willing to mail order but know the post office can be hard...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Penny1960 and Hintori, thanks for all your help! Goodnite!
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Can junebuggena sex new chicks? I'd love to support small scale breeders rather than hatcheries, but really want only girls....
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hintori--Cool! It would be neat to see the Pacific Northwest Poultry Association show at the Clark County Fairgrounds! I just really want girls only--I'm a softie and have chickens for pets and killing the boys is hard. Do you think there would be any sexed chicks at the fair?
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hinotori, thanks for the info! I will have to mull over what to do...it is rather simple to get unvaccinated sexed chicks from the feedstore if I go the route of unvaccinated...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Penny1960, I wanted to get a Cream Legbar, an easter egger, a red-laced wyandotte, Cuckoo Marans, and a Plymouth Barred Rock to round out our flock. How many chicks are you looking to get? I could get even fewer if you were interested in getting more...(I was originally thinking 3, but it's hard...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Interesting! We had one mutt chicken with progressive paralysis, so we suspect there could be Mareks in our area...I've heard it is widespread in the PNW. It was traumatic for the kids, so want to get vaccinated chicks in the future. Can vaccinated birds pass Mareks to unvaccinated ones? Our...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hi! Anyone in Vancouver, WA interested in sharing a February order of chicks from MyPetChicken? They seem like the only source for sexed chicks vaccinated for Mareks. There is a 15 chick minimum now, so I'd love to have a partner in this....
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    Oregon

    Hi! Anyone in Portland interested in sharing a February order of chicks from MyPetChicken? They seem like the only source for sexed chicks vaccinated for Mareks. There is a 15 chick minimum now, so I'd love to have a partner in this....
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    Chicks are lost in the mail. :( USPS has no idea where they are.

    Great news! They found the package this morning and I successfully picked up the chicks at the local post office. Whew, what a relief, I'd really been stressed out about this!!! All 26 chicks (Welsummers, Blue/Splash Ameraucanas, Marans x Ameraucana Olive eggers) are alive and well, scooting...
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    Chicks are lost in the mail. :( USPS has no idea where they are.

    Thanks for the tips--I will head out to the supply store in the am, in the hopes that Nutri-Drench might help once they *hopefully* arrive. Sending all my hopes and wishes out to the lost chicks out there!
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    Chicks are lost in the mail. :( USPS has no idea where they are.

    Well, sad to join this thread....an order of 25 chicks was scheduled to arrive via USPS at 3pm today in California and no dice. Called USPS and the package is lost--the last record is departing Maryland last night, but no receiving post office has scanned the package in today. Paid premium for...
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    ~10 Welsummer roo chicks from breeder, free to good home

    Hi BYC, My order of straight-run Welsummer chicks is likely to ship in late April from William Morrow at Whitmore Farm. The chicks in this line of Welsummers have sex-link coloration, so I plan to give away ~10 boys as I'm not supposed to have roos or that many chickens where I live. I'm...
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    ~ Ten Welsummer roo chicks from breeder, free to good home

    Hi BYC, My order of straight-run Welsummer chicks is likely to ship in late April from William Morrow at Whitmore Farm. The chicks in this line of Welsummers have sex-linked coloration, so I plan to give away ~10 boys as I'm not supposed to have roos or that many chickens where I live. I'm...
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