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I came home from a 4 day trip & found my first pullet egg of a color I was not expecting. It is very dark brown. My 10 new birds are supposedly 4 Crested Cream Legbars, 4 Blue Australorps (1 is a roo) & 2 EE. None of my 4 Legbars have a crest. 2 Turned spotted and look similar to what I would...

2 of my 9 Blue Wyandottes have not done their first adult molt & will be two years old the middle of April. I don't remember seeing this in the past 28 years of chicken raising. Their hatch mates did a slow molt in Oct & Nov while still laying & then stopped laying all of Dec & Jan & finished...

I raised my chicks in the coop this year. I left them out of their safe zone at 5 weeks. The integration during the day has been going great, they went in the run by day 2 & use the big girl roosts, feeder & waterer during the day. The first few days I made sure they were back in their safe zone...

Picked up my 8 Columbian Wyandotte chicks at the feed store yesterday morning, at this point all are doing well. I had ordered Black Wyandottes, as I presently have 9 Blue Wyandottes & that was the only kind of Wyandottes they had on their fall chick days list. They called last week to say the...

Just a heads up for those that are searching for feed with animal protein. Kalmbach has 2 gamebird feeds Wild Flush Breeder 18% mini pellets & Wild Flush grower 18% mini pellets that have animal protein on the label. They also have 22% Fancy & Feathered Show Bird & Breeder that lists porcine...

I saw this feed on the TSC website today. It is a layer feed with insect protein from soldier fly larvae. I have read that producers were looking into this since 2016, so I guess Purina is the first to come out with it. Supposed to be better for the environment, as it takes less input then soy...

I moved my chicks to the coop yesterday, they turned 6 weeks today. All is well so far & I can finally get a better look at them. I have 3-4 that appear black like this one. Then I have one that almost looks lavender. And a bunch of pretty blues like these.

Anyone looking for Green Mountain Organic Feed Or Poulin Grain Feed now have some more options in SE PA. Suppliers can be found on Poulingrain.com. Any Poulin dealer should be able to order in any Green Mountain products that they don't keep in stock with their normal grain orders. The website...

Put my 13 chicks out in the coop last Wednesday. Finally opened the door to the inner run on Sunday & most marched right outside. They were back in by 7 huddled in the corner for the night. Just turned the auto door back on today. The coop closes at 8:13 (sundown) & we will see if they are...

Just saw that my feed store started selling Purina Organic Poultry feed yesterday. As usual I can't find any info on the Purina website. They are touting how competitively priced it is in comparison to Nature's Best. The dumb thing is it is all cheaper by a bit except for layer pellets &...

Just wanted to let everyone know that my local TSC finally had Nature's Best Layer Pellets in the store 40 lbs./$22.99. Nature's Best had been promising they would be in stores by mid May, but they were finally in their ad this morning. Went to the store & they had a whole 3 bags, of which I...

I have 5 females & just got 5 eggs for the first time yesterday. On the 7th of April, I started letting the eggs in the nest box to see if they would go broody. On the 18th I decided to start taking out the new ones & leaving the 27 old ones so they would keep laying in there & was today going...

It's been almost a year since Agway brought out their Hearty Hen no soy layer feed. Has anyone used it and what do you think of it? I go round & round with the poor feed choices around here and like the sound of no soy, but still have to contend with the GMO corn products in it. Can anyone...

I sent some questions to Natures Best Organic and got a really nice reply. They may be coming out with a soy-free organic feed in the future. Anyone who uses their organic feed may want to let them know if you are interested in a soy-free feed and help speed up the process! May impact a lot...

These are the 6 new guineas I picked up on 9/16. Lady said they were about 10 weeks and I thought they looked at least 12, unless they can grow faster. She said they were about 7 weeks younger than her chickens that she got in May. There is one male & 5 females in the group of six. Their...

I just picked up 6 new guineas this afternoon. The lady said they were about 10 weeks, but I'm guessing about 12. She knew they were about 7 weeks younger than her chickens. She wanted them for tick control, but decided they were too noisy. I believe there are 3 girls & 3 boys, so with my...

My flock of 3 females & 2 males is now down to Gilbert (stray male) & Whitey. The last female was taken in my yard yesterday afternoon. I had one taken 2 months ago & one taken 2 weeks ago. I have been letting them out several hours a day & changing up the times to no avail. My two males...

What the heck!!! I bought Purina Game Bird Flight Conditioner today for my 9 week old chicks, so I could get them off of the Start & Grow & Ultra Kibble I have been feeding them. I wanted game bird expressly for the animal protein..............well after I poured it in the can I read the...

I had the guineas out yesterday & around 1 pm they started screaming and I could hear they flew further down in the yard. I ran out to see where they were going & they were heading into the woods. Just in front of them I saw a red fox through the brush. After turning to look at me, he headed...

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