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I’m looking for some chicks from a reputable breeder. Anyone know anyone who has them now and available to ship? Located in southern WI. Kids need them for 4h projects.

I’m looking for some quality eggs to hatch for my daughters to show in 4H. In particular my one daughter wants some Buff Orpingtons. Anyone got some good quality chickens they breed for the standard?

Anyone know how to get a number or a form so you don't have to pay sales tax on your feed? I'm having a hard time getting some difinitive information and just how to go about it. We did start an llc recently and are also looking to do cows. We live in Wisconsin.

Any body have 12 to 24 barred rock hatching eggs that are good examples of the breed? My girls may show them in 4 h. I would also like them shipped asap as my daughter is doing her learning fair project on incubation and it would be nice for them to be hatched before then. Please PM me...

I am looking for some eggs to hatch with my daughters. Both will be first time 4-H participants. This will be the second time I have hatched eggs but we currently have no chickens at our house. I am looking for a good show quality breed of chicken. We had EE, Buff orpingtons, and Barred...

Anyone in the Beloit Area intrested in attending its at 6:30 Wed. in the Forum on the first floor of city hall at 100 State st. Also anyone have any advice for owning chickens in the city? I am going to try to make the meeting and wanted to know what kind of points I should bring up. This...

For the last 3 months I had some chickens at my moms house with no problems. The neighbors all around me thought it was a neat idea and liked having the chickens out back. One had looked at doing it herself. This is an area with 1 acre lots and fairly secluded. The other day my mom noticed...

I had 3 EE eggs that hatched and only one of them turned out to be a frizzle... Unfortunatly it died..... The other 2 are just fine. But my daughters loved the frizzles and I would like to get some more for them. Anyone have chicks?? I would prefer chicks over eggs, but let me know what...

Me and my daughters favoriate chick today got trampled....... They are almost 2 months old...... Usually I always get home to let them in to the makeshift roost at about 7 (coop is getting renovated) .....today I was late and didnt get home till 8. It was horrible... they were all crammed in...

I came back from church and breakfast this morning to see a chick that looked like it was pasting so I used a wet cloth and a trickle of warm water to clean her off. It wasn't pasted bad but I kept on whiping and getting more and more poop. It was as if the chicks vent was bulging but couldnt...

I was wondering how much I sould let my girls hold the chicks? I know you should hold them so they get used to people but is there a limit? They are usually pretty good at being gentlle. My one niece however I think is too young and she uses to much grip. Anyone got any ideas on this?

I have 20 new chicks. One isn't walking for some reason. She seems to just scoot around on her butt. Kind of like she is trying to walk around on her hind nuckles. Any clue? She is less then a day old. All the others didnt have this problem. Just this one. My wife said she had her...

Im looking for some info on how to grow and store your own feed for chickens. Anyone have experience or know some good sites? Also anyone use a mill to grind up the grain? I was looking for a relatively inexpensive hammer mill or mill for grain.

Well I candled them all today with my girls. Looking for the good and the bad ones. I could only find 3 that were bad for sure. Ill post those pictures. 11 of them I wasnt sure about... I could see veining in all of the 11 but I could not see any embryos moving around. a few looked like...

I bought some eggs on ebay and the seller is repeatedly contated me asking for feedback. The last time they kind of threatened me more or less. I say more or less because they cant leave negatives... and at any rate my feedback is about 900 with 100% positive and theirs is under 100 and about...

Ok so I started my eggs that I got in the mail today. The incubator has been a pretty solid 98-99.5 degrees with 51% humidity. I let the eggs sit out in the air for an hour or 2 and now they are in the incubator. Is there anything else I should be doing? Am I missing somthing? The big...

Here is my incubator. It has been holding temp fairy good. For the most part I have just been adjustiing the dimmer switch on the back and the thermostat hasnt turned on the light at all unless I have opened it up. I was thinking about moving the stat over by the light and the fan so it has...

Well I'm going for my first hatch here soon. eggs are ordered and Im just waiting for them to arrive. I have read all the basics about hatching... not I am reading the posts in incubating and hatching to get more tips and review what people have been telling me. I figured I would go...

Anyone can help me out? Looking for 8 each of these fertile eggs. Easter Egger prefered to be green and blue if its possible. 8 Buff Orpington, 8 Barred Rock, 8 Easter Egger

I can't decide what kind of chicken eggs I want to get....... I guess I want it all.... One thats good with kids around. Good egg layer. quiet. Friendly. Any sugestions? What are most people using out there? For WI.