I have used Central Hatchery for several years and have ordered broilers as well as RIR. The RIR are a very nice dark red, much better than other hatchery "RIR". They always arrive alive and healthy and do extremely well. I received 100 last month and didn't have a single loss. I strongly...
Tractor supple DOES sell Rhode Island Reds, at least the stores in the DFW area do. The chicks come from Privett hatchery in New Mexico and you can see it on their website. You can also special order these chicks through tractor supply. Keep in mind, different TCS's in different regions get...
Mine go out in the rain all the time, when they have had enough or if it starts raining hard, they head back into the coop.
Just be careful with the young ones, sometimes they don't have the sense to get out of the rain and they can die from hypothermia.
I purchased some straight run gold laced Wyandotte chicks last spring. One is scissor beaked and the other one has white in its feathers. Anyone know why there is white in the feathers.
I'm familiar with the sex linking, I have those in another pen, these were wrong sex leftovers I could use for sex link and I needed to separate them but I decided to hatch and see what I ended up with. Have you hatched this combination before? Of all the various hatches I have done, I've never...
Our chicks hatched today which were all a cross between a barred rock rooster and RIR hens. They have been in a chicken tractor for many months so no possibility of other breeds in the mix. I'm curios as what to expect, some are black which I'm sure will be barred but does anyone know what the...
I just had my first hatch in the LG with the automatic turner. I wish I had seen this before,I'm gonna get a fan for the next batch of egg. When I took the turner out just before the eggs hatched I put a saucer with a wet sponge, its too hard to tell when to add water and if you miss, it runs...