Thanks for the encouragement and suggestions everyone.
Update: We have lived in town now for five months and still no luck on chickens. I attended a village board meeting in March with some information on chicken keeping, regulations for bigger cities from around Nebraska, and what I'd like...
My family and I are going to be relocating due to a job change. We found a great house in a rural village (340 people) in central Nebraska. I talked to the village treasurer and come to find out that village regulations are as follows:
"A. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or...
Any chantecler breeders in or near southeast Nebraska? I just started with chickens last year (Buckeyes and Favarolles) and loved them. As winter egg laying slowed to a stand still in the area this winter I got to thinking about white Chanteclers. I just can't find any around and Sand Hill is...
Does anybody know of any breeder in Nebraska that has white Chanteclers for sale? I'm possibly looking for day old chicks for this spring and they've been hard to find anywhere nearby. Sand Hill in Iowa has white chanteclers but they're sold out through 2014. Last year I bought my chicks from...
Got four salmon Favarolles from a breeder friend of mine along with some Buckeyes. Pretty pleased with them but compared to the Buckeyes the Favarolles were very spooky. It made them very difficult to catch when I was planning to transport them. Don't know what the cockerels are like because...
in 2013 I got five Buckeyes as part of a batch of nine chicks that were the first chickens I've ever owned. They are great! The only downside is that I ended up with four cockerels and only one pullet out of this batch of straight run. They were easy to keep, they quickly took to free ranging...
Question for those who know more than I do about Salmon Faverolles (which would be just about everybody here): Do you think this is a pullet or cockerel?
I'm thinking pullet. I've got some other birds with much darker primaries that I presume are cockerels. My oldest daughter named one...
I'm wondering what to expect with a really light colored Buckeye chick that I've got. We've taken to calling it blondie because of its light coloring. Here are my lightest and darkest for comparison, both at two weeks old. I'm curious what to expect to see as an adult. It's the smallest of...
A few pics of my chicks at a week old...
"Big Red" is the biggest of the Buckeyes. She is also the best socialized and most curious. I'm hoping it's a she so I don't have to butcher or give it away.
This is Fuzzy, a Salmon Faverolle. It's amazing how fast they are growing!
And here are...
Got my chicks out to free range for the first time today. They are 10 days old and really starting to scratch a lot in their brooder box, so I thought to give it a try. We had 96 degree temps today so I didn't have to worry about them getting cold, so I went for it. They did really well...