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  1. branwyn

    New Chicks in with the Chickens

    Thanks so much!
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    New Chicks in with the Chickens

    Hi! I kept 15 chickens this year, 4 roosters and 11 hens (out of 26), and I was thinking of ordering another batch for next year. However, we raised this year's batch in the bathroom until they were old enough to go outside, and that was incredibly tough to clean up once they'd left. I'd...
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    Genetics for dummies?!

    I asked this somewhere else, but I think it was a thread no one was looking at: We have a black Ameraucana hen, and I think a blue-wheaten Ameraucana rooster. They came from Sand Hill, and I ordered them as "Ameraucanas/Easter Eggers", so I'm not sure whether he's careful about the genetics in...
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    Blue and Wheaten Ameraucana genetics

    On the same general subject, I have a black Ameraucana hen, and I think a blue-wheaten Ameraucana rooster (he's gold with some blue around his neck and back). I really like him and his color (I am not showing chickens, though I might someday), and I don't want to kill him when I cull the flock...
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    Hello from western NY

    Thanks! The crooked one got better (not certain why, but glad it did). We lost two, and one was definitely complications from pasty-butt. The other we don't know why it died, but the rest have been fine. They're six weeks old now, and I'm starting to be able to tell the genders.
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    Feed Mills NYS

    Hi! I'm from western-central NY, and our 26 chicks are 6 weeks old. We're looking at transitioning them off chick feed, and I'm wondering A) when is a good week to switch B) whether there are any mills in the area if we didn't want to go with commercial feed (or how to look for them if no one...
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    Hello from western NY

    So, I never did get chickens that spring, I got pregnant instead. Now I have a toddler and we FINALLY got the chickens this morning (and 3 alpacas a few weeks ago)! We ordered them from Sand Hill Preservation Company (where we also get 50% of our garden seeds and our sweet potatoes). We got...
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    For those selling Fertile eggs???

    (this may sound stupid but) if you have the rooster in with the hens you can still sell the eggs for food? Is there any way of making sure your customers won't end up eating baby chicks by accident? I had thought that's why you'd candle them, but the more I read the more it seems like candling...
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    Hello from western NY

    No, but then, we're really not involved in the community yet. I've only met maybe five or six people in town.
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    Hello from western NY

    horsejody, I'm in Palmyra, which is about halfway between Syracuse and Rochester. Thanks!
  11. branwyn

    Hello from western NY

    Hi! I'm not quite a chicken owner yet, but I'm planning to get them this coming spring. My husband and I have been working on turning our 8.5 acres into a self-sufficient farm for the last three years. So far it's just a really big vegetable garden and some pasture. I have some farming in my...
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