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  1. TXChookstead

    Replacement brackets for steel coop?

    Moving neighbors left behind one of those somewhat flimsy steel/chicken wire coops and said we could have it. They had it fairly well secured and fortified in their yard, but while we had it sitting outside our fence in order to move it inside, 80 mph winds sent it tumbling. (D'oh...why did I...
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    NR360 or Maticoopx

    I have a NR 360 and it has done well, but if I was in the market for a new 'bator, the Maticoopx would be quite tempting, esp. if hatching shipped eggs due to the vertical egg placement.
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    14th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    We had 18 out of the original 22 hatch. Already pooping up a storm!
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    14th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    And here we go! 😁
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    14th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Set 22 barnyard mix chicken eggs on March 18th. They are primarily Australorp/Easter Egger and Crested Cream Legbar. Candled again yesterday and only had to pull one. Also set 22 Welsh Harlequin duck eggs on the same day, but they will take another week. Still have to get the brooder ready to...
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    Chain link gate fell on hen, prolapsed?

    Thanks so much for your reply! She was down probably no more than 5 minutes. Her comb is a healthy red, and she's eating and drinking...but not much. (She did gobble up some sorghum given her this morning. Guess it was extra tasty.) She is standing and will flap up to my arm when I clean out her...
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    Chain link gate fell on hen, prolapsed?

    Graphic photos below text. Late Saturday afternoon, I found one of our almost 1-year-old Legbar hens trapped under the chain-link section of a 4' gate. When I ran to get it off of her, it looked as though the force of it had created a prolapse. Poor girl! I quickly read up on prolapse, cleaned...
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    How much do u charge?

    I also like to give them a chance. Today I sold 2 beautiful, well-behaved Australorp x Easter Eggers to a family who didn't have roosters but wanted some. Didn't charge much, but it was an effort to be sure they weren't just going to be dinner, and they won't be. So happy for them. As you...
  9. TXChookstead

    Pricing 3-month-old Welsh Harlequins

    Thanks so much! That is a good strategy. I don't like FB much at all, either. Have not put them on Craigslist yet, but I will.
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    Pricing 3-month-old Welsh Harlequins

    Thanks Thanks so much, Miss Lydia and Relicshunter. That helps. I'm still trying to figure out the local market. I bought the parents from 4-H advisers in the next county. (They had hatched them from multiple batches of shipped eggs, as they were so hard to find here.) They had priced them at...
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    [POLL] If you had to choose between getting a Welsh Harlequin or Silver Appleyard, which one would you get?

    I have all Welsh Harlequins after doing a lot of research, because we were interested primarily in eggs, but Appleyards are beautiful, and rarer. Probably depends on if you want them for meat, too, or if you want to help support a rarer breed. (Ok, so we have 1 Pekin, because she was the only...
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    Pricing 3-month-old Welsh Harlequins

    I have around 13 Welsh Harlequins of about 3 months old that I'd like to sell. Their parents placed in the county fair, and their markings are correct, to the best of my knowledge. Our area of E. Texas doesn't have a lot of this breed, and I am trying to figure out how much to ask for males and...
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    Texas

    Haven't winterized the coop yet, and I can tell my girls and boys aren't very excited about the cold. Definitely huddling together. Tomorrow will be warmer...
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    I am having my chickens carve the pumpkin this year!

    LOL! I bought one just for mine to eat. They had a blast.
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    Is it hard to sell baby chicks?

    I've been blessed to sell them to friends. Haven't really needed to branch out past that yet. You do have to figure out what to do with the extra cockerels, though, since not everyone will want them.
  16. TXChookstead

    Leg banding ducklings - orthodontic elastics?

    Theoretically yes...a good idea for the future. 🙂
  17. TXChookstead

    Leg banding ducklings - orthodontic elastics?

    I learned from our last Welsh Harlequin hatch that you can't leg band according to sex quickly enough. Less than a week and *poof* all the bills were dark. I had thought of using colored orthodontic elastics next time. Has anyone done this, and if so, what size would you recommend? We are...
  18. TXChookstead

    I want ONE breed...DUMB???

    I tried to start out with Black Australorps for the very reasons you have mentioned, 762. It was a nice thought, but it turned out that our rooster was probably crossed with something that produced blue eggs, making him an Easter Egger. We discovered this when his daughters started laying...mint...
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    A rooster showed up on our porch last Sunday -- what do we do?

    This is exactly what happened to us! First, the rescue rooster, then the three hens, then, "Wouldn't it be fun to hatch some eggs?" A year later, there are 27 chickens running around the yard and 14 ducks (if you don't count the ones that just hatched), and 23 more chickens in addition to those...
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    All-flock feed vs layer feed, and brands!

    I just signed up for auto ship on this same product, too. Chewy gives you a nice discount the first time with autoship, and 5% thereafter. I think it worked out to about $25/bag the first time with free shipping (I bought two). I signed up for 2 bags every two months, but LOL...we have gone...
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