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Check out Central Hatchery in Nebraska.....He has Reds similar to the ones seen on farms back in the 1930s-1950s......Big, Dark Red Birds....Not show type....Fifty chick minimum order I recall....You can find him online....

Check out Central Hatchery in Nebraska......While not show winners, they are close to the Old Fashioned Farm Bred Reds of the 1930-1950s......A family hatchery with great service......Great laying chickens and good size also.....Minimum order of 50 chicks, I believe.....

Was wondering where you got the information to support such sweeping and questionable generalizations?.......... Just to give one among several examples.....Cackle Hatchery New Hampshires and Rhode Island Reds look nothing alike..........The owners of that hatchery say that their flocks date...

There is no one "Best" egg layer or meat bird.....If you want really quick results with the minimum amount of cost and time, get Commercial White Cornish for meat and a hybrid such as Red Sex Links or White Leghorn for eggs......If you want something in between Freedom Rangers or Kosher KIngs...

Most of the Silgos will be like other commercial Red Sex Links: brown/white pullets, rusty males, with a few dark female chicks.......Seems like the original Silgo or Sil- Go breeders were the Parks Family of Barred Rock Fame........Marti's from MO sold them for years and some of theirs were...

Notice the white in the earlobe and leghorn type comb........Thick breast and squat large legs..........Brown eggs....What shade of brown, maybe cream colored?.......Too large for a Leghorn/Leghorn Type Cross but too small for a Cornish Broiler...........Where did she come from...

Sorry about my answer......Ascites in chickens is retention of cavity fluids caused by organ malfunction......Same in humans, usually liver failure.....While the causes are similar functionally, there is no causal connection between the two......Ascites is an organ function failure not a disease...

NO!........Google ' ascites'...........

Actually the narrower width is a Blessing.......I hate to read the wider columns because they are unnatural in scope and are not set up to correspond with normal eye movements.....Narrow columns allow us to read and comprehend more easily.........The ads are not a distraction, and if you guys...

Please ignore what I said about dewormers....Seems that I don't really know what I am talking about.......There is a thread on this forum entitled simply, "Deworming chickens page 4"....These people know more than I do about this....Sorry for the false info......Always been anti-meds except in...

Your leghorns appear to be considerably less than 16 weeks old.....I do know of a flock of different breeds from Murray McMurray that started laying even earlier than 16 weeks, and they weren't even leghorns.......Also, on the deworming.....I've been around chickens for 73 years.......Unless you...

White Leghorns will start to lay anytime between 17 and 20 weeks of age.........The surest sign of being ready is bright red, enlarged combs and wattles.......Start them on layer feed about that age.......

Barred Rock, pullet; RIR ? because of stance; d'Uccle, cockerel; Polish, ?......Not much help .....?

NO........Some VERY EXPERIENCED breeders may be able to sex the babies from down and shank coloration.....But the average person is deluding himself/herself when they claim to be able to .......However, if you use a RIR or NH Rooster over a Barred Rock hen the chicks can be sexed at once because...

McMurray Hatchry people are real pros....They would never send a bantam alone in a box of large size chicks.....Also, have never heard of them using any bantams as mystery chicks...If anyone lives in a rooster prohibited zone tell them to mark your order NO MYSTERY CHICK....I used "never" twice...

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Thanks for the post......Really talented guys......

The little guy seems to be a cockrel....Maybe some small chance a pullet...

Your post is a good read....CAUTION: Don't take much of this thread to be reflective of how most rural folks act and treat their neighbors.......

Raising chickens is really easy....DON"T OVER THINK IT!.......Any of the production breeds from commercial hatcheries will do fine as starters...New Hampshires are an excellent choice because they grow quickly....Production Reds or Red X Rocks would do fine as well and should be available from...