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The city of Newton, Kansas is buying up all the farmland southeast of the city to lure in businesses, manufacturing businesses. They are calling it a Logistics Park. To make a long story short we are finding ourselves about to be annexed by the city. Farmers and the few folks that live out...

Hi all, It's a sad time here. My husband saw the dogs in our outdoor run and went inside for his gun. The dogs were still trying to get our chickens when he started shooting them. I got the call right at lunchtime while at work and went home. I have not cried so much since I was a little...

I hatched this six week old chicken. She? came out of a small lightly tinted egg. Is she mixed with a Polish chicken? The feathers on her? head are starting to stand up. My avatar is Petrie as a hatchling.

Hi all! I have found what seems to be a nice home for one of my roosters. I am getting some resistance from the post office and my DH about shipping him. Has anyone been successful or had any serious complications? I am thinking about using a trucking person I know to deliver him. The...

I began with 24 mixed eggs and a home built incubator. There were two chicks that hatched. There were several things that could have had an impact on my hatch. These eggs were shipped and arrived in 8F degree weather. Humidity was kept low; 30 to 40% till day 18. Temperature fluctuated quite a...

Chick hatched from a mixed egg shipment. The egg was small and aqua tinted. The chick has four toes, pinkish legs and is light yellow and silver feathering. Guesses? It is very pretty.

Hi all. I need to home a couple of roosters and it sure would be nice if I new what to tell people. Please take your guesses!

I wrote this note to my sister... Hello!! I am getting hatching eggs! Woohoo! Mine haven't started laying yet, grrr. It was kind of an accident really. I was online at Backyardchickens.com and I clicked the eggs and chicks for sale link to see what was out there. Man, I thought. These...