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  1. South Dakota Guy

    What am I?

    Thanks for that info. BTW, my wife is from Puyallup.
  2. South Dakota Guy

    What am I?

    Every Sapphire Gem photo that I have seen shows dark legs. My wife and I have speculated that she might be a Saphire Splash. We do think the white birds might be Easter Eggers. Hoover Hatchery supplies most of the stores around here and they do say that their EEs can come in any color.
  3. South Dakota Guy

    What am I?

    From this view you can see that the darker plumage on the head separates into three distinct rows going down the breast.
  4. South Dakota Guy

    What am I?

    My wife purchased three unknown chicks from a store that had a large bin of mixed chicks that held "Breeders Choice Pullets". Ten weeks later We are still not sure what breeds they are. The white chickens have a greenish tint to their yellow legs. The blue chicken has yellow legs instead...
  5. South Dakota Guy

    Blood on egg

    She is a little over a year old. She does lay the largest eggs of our little flock of silver laced Wyandottes so the stretching thing is a concern. Perhaps an Epson salt bath is in order. Thank you for your reply.
  6. South Dakota Guy

    Blood on egg

    For about a week one of our hens has been laying eggs with spots of blood on them. Today's egg had a lot of blood. Any recommendations? She seems fine but I know chickens can seem fine and then go down fast.
  7. South Dakota Guy

    South Dakota Thread!

    There is a Facebook group that my wife goes to frequently that is called Sioux Falls Chicken Tenders. People from all over the region post on it. That is where we found a home for an unwanted rooster. It is many times more active than the South Dakota section here.
  8. South Dakota Guy

    Mosquitoes

    We had heavy rains and flooding a few weeks ago which left us with similar issues. Our hens were spending a lot of time in the coop to avoid the worst of the bugs. We used a fan last year when bugs and temperatures were bad and we broke it out again this year. We set it up to blow into a...
  9. South Dakota Guy

    Prescott Chicken Ranch

    Welcome Carol and Herb! While I live in South Dakota now, I grew up in Texas and you didn't talk about the chicken ranch in polite society. That is before the musical and movie came out!
  10. South Dakota Guy

    Why do my chickens holler and scream so much?

    Wow, what an old thread you found! Security cameras are pretty inexpensive. I bought my wife a couple of solar powered ones on Amazon for about $90 each. She has one in the coop and one in the run. They both switch to night vision when it gets dark and you can make the light come on which is...
  11. South Dakota Guy

    HELP! My chicken won't stop attacking the new chickens!

    The original post was made in 2017 by someone who only posted 5 messages in that time frame. It isn't likely we will hear back from them. My wife and I went through something similar last year. Bleeding chickens with no feathers on their rumps. It took a toll on my wife. After about 8 months...
  12. South Dakota Guy

    City Issued a Citation and claims we aren’t allowed to have chickens due to neighbor’s complaint. What are my options?

    My unsolicited 2 cents is this: Try to understand your neighbor's point of view. I don't want a neighbor who is noisy, smelly and possibly unsanitary. Do what you can to mitigate your impact on her quality of life. Try to get to know her. Walk over and introduce yourself, bring a carton of...
  13. South Dakota Guy

    Our new baby chicks

    Thanks! My wife raised some from chicks last year and she really enjoyed the whole process. Ok, maybe not the wiping of pasty butts. It's interesting watching their coloring change as their feathers come in. I have heard tell that when it comes to silver laced Wyandotte hens, the more show...
  14. South Dakota Guy

    Our new baby chicks

    My just picked up a dozen female silver laced Wyandotte chicks from the post office last night. My wife and father-in-law think that they look like tarantulas. I think they look more like bumble bees. Now just image the incessant peeping from 12 chicks in our downstairs family room!
  15. South Dakota Guy

    Dahline Poultry

    My wife decided she wants to have an all silver laced Wyandotte flock so she placed an order for 10 female silver laced chicks from a small Minnesota Hatchery. located in Willmar Minnesota, named Dahline Poultry. We have never ordered from them before. The hatchery is about 3 hours away each...
  16. South Dakota Guy

    Are all Orpingtons friendly?

    We had only one of our 6 hens laying so we gave them some sardines. Two days later, 4 of them began to lay and by the end of the week all of them were laying. Sardines are packed full of readily accessible protein. The bones don't cause a problem, they are soft, and they add calcium to the...
  17. South Dakota Guy

    Are all Orpingtons friendly?

    Sorry that I missed your reply and thanks for your response. My wife picked up 4 female sexed silver laced Wyandotte chicks from a farm store that gets their chicks from Hoover Hatchery. One turned out to be male , and one of the three pullets grew up to have a single comb instead of the rose...
  18. South Dakota Guy

    How to get chickens from run to coop before night fall?

    In the beginning, you can use a light, like one of those under cabinet lights with sticky tape that runs on batteries. After a few nights, the chickens should go into the coop without any light when it starts to get dark outside. Just stick the light inside of the coop in a place that is...
  19. South Dakota Guy

    Are all Orpingtons friendly?

    I would like to hear of your experience with Hoover hatchery. The reason I ask is that Hoover is the closest Hatchery to where I live, Tractor Supply and Runnings farm stores locally all get their chicks from Hoover.
  20. South Dakota Guy

    One Hen Laying in the Evening - Flock is Eating the Egg. Please help 🙏

    We ordered some leg bands and put them on our Delaware chickens. They all look alike. I put a security camera in the coop (and one in the run). My wife has the camera set to alert her phone when there is activity in the coop so she can see who lays and when among other things. As a side...
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