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  1. MeerKat

    What Price For B.Rock Hens

    I'll start out at 12 and see what I can get. Thanks for helping me out.All of you are very helpful.I've had chickens 3 times nd sold them because we were'nt set up right.Never had them long enough to get experianced. We are still learning about chickens.We started out with bamtams then...
  2. MeerKat

    What Price For B.Rock Hens

    Quote: We have jst been handing them over to feed store when we have extra hens or roos.They give us more for the ones close to laying or breeding,but figured we could use the money if we just sold them ourselves. It's only 4 or 5 hens we want to sell. We sure have a lot more money in them...
  3. MeerKat

    What Price For B.Rock Hens

    Quote: I would say this is very close to what it should be in a vast area of the country, I know where I am it's real close maybe a tad bit less. These chickens should be laying in September.I'd think they would be worth more than that,but guess I'm wrong. Thanks for reply.
  4. MeerKat

    What Price For B.Rock Hens

    Quote: Thanks Speckle.I was thining they would bring more since they should be laying in a couple months. Feed store got 17 for roos the same age,we got 15 each.Maybe they just go for more here?Never sold at this age. Prices may have dropped,but if so its the only thing thats went down in...
  5. MeerKat

    What Price For B.Rock Hens

    I have 5 14 week old B.Rock hens I want to sell.What price should I ask for?
  6. MeerKat

    My B-Rocks have Dark Legs,Beaks

    Fred's Hens : Barred Rocks are the favorite breed of many, many folks here on BYC, mainly for their personality. Most modern, hatchery strains have been selectively bred to be good layers. Not top layers like a production red hybrid bird, but decent enough. As for meat birds, the designation...
  7. MeerKat

    My B-Rocks have Dark Legs,Beaks

    Quote: I'm still not informed that much about chickens.I've had them off and on trying to get set up to raise a few for our personal use. We had 10 of the most beautiful BR roos from the same hatchery.One was so nice we kept him for about a year.So i guess I was expecting the hens to be as...
  8. MeerKat

    My B-Rocks have Dark Legs,Beaks

    Thanks, for the reply Miss. I don't expect a store bird,but hope they make good meat birds and egg layers. Are the beaks suppose to have dark spots in the middle too?All have one dark spot in the middle?
  9. MeerKat

    My B-Rocks have Dark Legs,Beaks

    All 10 of them have dark grey or black mixed in with their yellow legs and beak. Anyone else have this in their barred rock hens?What other chicken has dark leg? I would like to start knowing about raising chickens instead of learning everything the hard way. We wanted dual purpose bird,but...
  10. MeerKat

    Putting New Chics Where Old Ones Were

    Quote: No the only problem we had was them pecking each other to where they lost feathers on their backs and butts.But we sold all but 3 after we seperated them and healed them up.Never had that problem before.We tried Vicks,antibiotic and only thing worked was seperating them. Nothing like...
  11. MeerKat

    feeding

    We did the same thing.We used non medicated though'Dumor' for game birds.This is just a matter of choice and I'm ew too considering I keep startign over,so stick with the pros here,they are very good at informing us city slickers.
  12. MeerKat

    Putting New Chics Where Old Ones Were

    Quote: Thansk again,I have some of both.Will do that today.
  13. MeerKat

    Putting New Chics Where Old Ones Were

    Quote: Thanks .Paint would also look nicer than this old wood.We took the others out last week,we had to build nother pen for them.The little cannibals were pecking eech other so we had to build 3 seperate pens.Been doctoring them for months off and on until we seperated them. Never had a...
  14. MeerKat

    Our First Ever Chicks Have Arrived!

    They are cute and so much fun to watch. We just got ours 3 wks ago. The packing roos are so cute and friendly,it will be hard to get rid of them.
  15. MeerKat

    Getting more chicks!

    Good luck,we just ordred Barred Rocks another dual purpose bird,but don't know if I can kill them yet.Never killed anything,but I eat meat so guess I need to get use to it soner or later.
  16. MeerKat

    The "Pasty Butt" syndrome. How do you deal w/ it?

    We had 2 pasty buts out of 22.We just gently wiped their butts with warm water,then dried it with blow dryer on low setting for air and heat to keep the others from pecking at it.Before we dried them they pecked at it when it was wet. They were fine afterwards.We are new with chics.Becuae we...
  17. MeerKat

    Putting New Chics Where Old Ones Were

    Thought I'd bump this up. Could someone please tell me if I need to do anythign to the pen the older hens were in before I put the others in the coop or pen? They are in the brooder now but soon they will go into the 8X30' pen. There are 22 but will give roos away and keep the 10 BR hens.I...
  18. MeerKat

    Putting New Chics Where Old Ones Were

    I'm changing my chickens from Leggerns to BRs. Our peeps are 3 weeks old now.I took out the hens in the pen and put them in another one. Do I need to sterilize the pen for the peeps now?If so what do I use? Thanks
  19. MeerKat

    need help on deciding what type of meat chickens to raise

    After some research and much appreciated help from you people here,I've decided on Plymouth barred rocks for dual purpose. We are fairly new with chickens and learning as we go. What do you like or dislike about PBR?
  20. MeerKat

    Brown Leggerns From ideal

    Quote: Thanks . I had brown leghorns before and they were all brown with some dark brown or maybe black ,they all laid great but we sold them until we could get more set up so we ae now more prepared but birds are not what they use to be . This barred rock is black and white or grey . I...
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