I have tried ordering different breeds from hatcheries but the quality is not great. I am looking for good breeders that have quality chickens that I can grow in my backyard. I am looking for Jersey Giants, Australorps, RI, Orpington, and Marans.
I would like to suggest if BYC can add favorite section for bookmarking favorite link or page. This could be a post, portion of a post, auction page, and picture.
I have to pullet that started to lay eggs last month but now they have stopped laying for the past week. Is this normal for Welsummer and Cubalaya breed?
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I saw this auction on Ebay and wanted to check if this a good deal or not.
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I am planning to put some hatching eggs in my incubator next week and I having problem raising the humidity from 39% in my home made incubator cooler. My incubator is made up of chest cooler that is divided in two section. The first section is where I put the light, water, thermostat and...
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I would like to get a list of breeder in state of California. I am not talking about hatcher but breeders who breed certain selected breed of chickens.
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My pullets have started to lay eggs and I have noticed that certain chickens are really quite when laying and some are really loud. My Australorp is the quietest when she lays an egg. Buff orpington is little louder but still not too loud. My welsummer is really loud when she lays an egg. I...
I was interested to see if anyone has this chicken and whether these chickens lay 365 days a year. What kind of chicken breed is this? Is it mix of Leghorns? These chickens are sold in Marti's Poultry farm.
I was feeding our chickens this afternoon and I checked the nest box if they laid any eggs and there it was, a beautiful egg. I couldn't believe it. I don't know which one of our pullets laid this egg but I am guessing it must have been Australorp.
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I want to process few of my chickens and want to know what is the best water heating element that I can use to boil the water to 140-150 F in a galvanized bucket. I don't want to buy a scalder because it is too expensive. I think a good portable water heating element should do the work...
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My daughter is doing a project for her school about chicken and I can't seem to find black chicken plastic toy for her. Please let me know if someone knows where I could buy couple of them.
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I think it would be great to search for inquiries within a specific topic. Let say, I wanted to find out how to best process chicken I could go to Meat Bird ETC section and from there I could narrow my search in this section.
Same thing if someone wanted to know about best egg layers then they...