Hello! I have a few of my chicks already for sale here in Utah with meet-up in the SLC and Tooele Valleys. These chicks are about 5-6 weeks old and coop ready. They've all been spending the nights outside and have done great! I'm not giving a gender guarantee on these chicks. Please be aware...
I had begun tracking my hatching journey on the hatching and incubating (don't quote me on the exact name) forum and it was kindly suggested that I could share my flock here instead. So I believe I'll save my initial thread for questions and use this thread as a sort of flock journal, at least...
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This is my first time incubating eggs! Chicken ownership isn't new to me, but egg hatching is so this will (hopefully) be a fun and educational experience 😁
I thought I'd keep a little "journal" here to track my journey and ask questions as needed. Today is day one. I have 16...
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I've decided to start a breeding group of Silverudds blue with birds from different sources to improve diversity. I'm about to start my first incubation (yay!). I've been studying up and am set to pick up a dozen silverudds blue (first import lines) hatching eggs in a couple of days from...
I'm posting this for my brother-in-law.
He purchased some chicks from Cal-Ranch labled as ISA Brown. However, the chicks have feathered out white and have begun getting crests. They are clearly not ISA Brown. They look like frost white legbars to me, but I know those are rare and it seems...
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We currently have a 7 month old buff orpington that we were excited about using to produce buff orpington hatching eggs. However, he has developed an attitude this past week. He went after my legs with his beak last week and again today, he went after my legs with his feet with my back...
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I wanted to ask all of the seasoned chicken keepers out there if they had any suggestions on lowering costs? I don't necessarily want to make money, but I would like to keep the amount of money I'm spending per dozen eggs that my chickens produce less than what I would spend for a dozen...