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Anyone else from Middleburg Fl.

Yea people call me crazy to.well be laughing if a food shortage happens and we get to eat. Are neighbors will kiss are butts then.

Also you should select traits that you want by selective breeding.

Yes their is a way it's called vent sexing. Basically you check its cloaca read about it that's how most factories do it.I myself am not that good at it only being right about 35% of the time.if you wait a month look at the comb and waddles that's when it's easier to tell male from female...

Hi you folks love wyandottes almost as much as me.I live in Florida and am breeding heat tolerance into my own strain of silver laced wyandotte.I used a aracauna rooster and Maggie my favorite hen the rooster came out silver laced and the hen came out black.the hen is a superb layer. This coming...

I heard orpingtons are quite. Though I have a orpington/Rhode island/Leghorn who's only slightly less noisy than my wyandotte/americauna.

Get a small dog and train it to herd.It use to be 20 mintues of chasing hens. Now my three 13 pound dogs do it in two minutes.

They are dachshund chiweenie pitbull mutts and their super smart.

I ask because I use my 3 dachshunds to herd the flock back in the coop in the evening after letting them free range in the yard. They work the chickens great.They don't even nip at them and cut out the turkeys and geese like border collies. It only took three months to train them.

When I hatch the chicks never have problems with illness. But when I order from a hatchery were they are immunized.They get sick easy can anyone tell me why.

Under natural incubation. I let my brood hens sit in September in northeast Florida. We had some early cool snaps.I got 4 hens and one rooster.

Anywhere from 3 to 6 months.but if there mutts they may never show up.

Asking because one hatched and wanted to know what the little rooster is going to look like. Thanks

Yes kids love chickens. My two year old niece loves petting the chicks,collecting the eggs, and helping feed the girls.

I use a old rabbit hut as a growout pen when I hatch layer flock replacements. I put up to five chicks in it for three to four months. It works great don't put wood bottom.as wire allows droppings to fall to the ground. If your worried about your chickens cutting their feet use a thin layer of...

On second thought chick 2 could be a rooster

I raised two this year you have barred Plymouth rocks and both are hens from pics.I know because it breed chickens and can tell a hen from too at a month old.

No live in north east central Florida zone8 my chicken fine at 32for8 hours. 18 to 16 some nights lows last winter.

I already have keepers 2 wyandotte aracaunas.2 new Hampshire orpington legorns. Dad started that strain with rooster. An one Cochin aracauna they are all hens

I live in north Florida, I,m making two strains.Have been breeding for two years in a 12 by 20 foot coop.Also thanks for the advice