I'm having a hard time finding a reasonable price for an assortment of egg colors near me. I only found one person selling eggs near me and he wants 20$ for 12. Is this normal pricing? I've only purchased a dozen a few times but they were never over 5$. Any ideas?
I already have some brown...
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about 11 posts down you will see my pictures. . I plan on closing the red barn door pretty much making it a wall. I plan on building the run to the left of the barn and will include posts in the middle to support the top netting. Currently...
Thanks for the response! I have another mini storage building attached to that one and it has a concrete floor. For thihave hads reason, I plan on storing extra food in a 50 gallon drum. As far as how many do I want, I want about 30-50 but I'm worried about over crowding them.
The ground...
I have about a 15 x 12 building I am going to use as a coop and will be building a run about 38 x 15. It will all be at the lowest 6 feet high. It will of course have all the bells and whistles of a traditional coop. I do have a few questions before I start though. .
1) how many chickens...
Is anyone good at making bulk feeders/waterers? I seen on YouTube (Google rob bulk chicken feeder) where a guy in Australia took a 50 lb drum and made a bulk feeder using pretty much pbc pipe. I am not very handy myself but would love to have one. . And maybe one for water as well with the...
Why is it so hard to find local rir fertile eggs or recently hatched chicks? Am I looking in the wrong area or just blind? Ha
btw checked Craigslist but all I see are adults, mixes or long distance away
Is it because of the time of the year or just my luck, I can't seem to find RIR hatching eggs anywhere,,, I had a guy that was selling them 3$ a dozen but by the time I had decided to hatch them, he was sold out with no plans of restocking till next year.
A friend of mine gave me a RIR roo...
That is so sad! If you still have them, and are within reasonable distance, I am interested.
On another note, if anyone has any extra wyandottes, roos included, let me know please :)
Always brightens my day to go out there and see eggs. :) I have 7 hens now, out of my three RIR'S two are now laying. On average I get from 4-6 eggs a day atm, unless you classify my double yolker as two. :D
I find it so hard to get RIR hatching eggs. I have an incubator and I would like to...