I'm still tryn' to figure out the chicken growing cycle. The rhode islands that are obviously roos seemed to sprout combs and wattles overnight. All of them seemed to to grow bunches for the first month, now they've slowed down. Some of them look the same for a couple weeks then I let 'em out...
Yup.. they do have white earlobes. I didn't even look at leghorn pics for some reason.
As luck would have it 3 of the 5 straight run RIRs are roos and I'm starting to think that one of the 5 SLW pullets I picked up at a later date is a roo (I'll wait another couple weeks to try to determine...
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Well.. a couple months ago I sent my wife to get our first batch of chicks. I gave her general guidelines of what to get based on all the reading I was doing here and other places. She came back with 5 straight run RIRs and 5 Golden Comets (pullets). All looked healthy and normal...
Yeah.. I had planned on printing on sticker paper and sticking them on unless we went the 'brochure' route. I used to work at a print shop and have a bunch of sticker paper left and as long as I stick with grayscale art it will be pretty cheap. I'm not overly artistically inclined but its...
I'm not really sure if this is an appropriate place to post this but this is where I've seen most egg selling business talk goin' on.
We are soon to have more eggs than we can eat or give to neighbors. I'm sure we'll be creative with noodles, pickling, freezing, and other such storage methods...
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I didn't realize this was my first post. I've been lurking on here for so long I thought for sure I had posted some sort of dumb question in the past:rolleyes:.
Anyways.. Great site, very informative.. I'm not very chatty and guess I never posted anything previous due to with a little...
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I know there has been tons of questions asked about when to put chicks outside but I just have a quick opinion question.
I have 15 chicks between 6 and 8ish weeks old (I believe). All are fully feathered except 5 still have some fuzz on their heads. We are getting some storms...