Search results for query: *

I want to put in the order for chicks to be raised at my camp this summer. We get them, we raise them, and then in August we rehome them. Tell me now what kind you would like to pick up in August. I can make a random interesting selection, but I'd much rather have their ultimate destinies...

Same as last year, but with more organized this time. I'm going to be ordering chicks from Ideal Poultry for my summer camp. They arrive in June, we raise them all summer, and then come August, they need to go away. Worked pretty well last year, except I had multiple people wanting certain...

We have in our flock a Golden Sebright, about the size of a pigeon. We figured she'd just be for cuteness, with the occasional nearly-pointless egg. Well, she started laying first (a week or two shy of five months old), and quickly settled into almost frightening regularity -- in one stretch...

He's a beautiful guy, but we have a laying flock and he's chasing them in circles. We'd love it if someone would give him a god home. Bhadrika

We have a few mellow roos to rehome. We were waiting for them to get obnoxious before unloading or eating them, but they are carefully avoiding being obnoxious -- don't quarrel with each other, don't harass the hens, and haven't even crowed. Still pretty sure they're roos (the Cuckoo has the...

We have a mixed flock -- 6 year-old hens, ten cornish rock crosses, and about 10 other fancy chicks, all around 8wks old. The Crosses are for meat, and we were planning to have our Sweeney Todd Party this weekend. Last night, we found one of them dead. Slight abrasion on the tip of one wing...

I work in a camp where we ordered and raised a delightful group of 17 chicks, representing 16 breeds. Well, camp's ending, and it's my job to deal with the chicks (all about 6 wks old now, healthy, and fairly tame from being handled by campers). I plan to keep some, and we have some other...

At the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, what are the steps one has to take to enter a bird (or several) in a show, or bring them to an auction? I have chicks with a Pulorum certificate from the hatchery, but understand that they will also need to be blood tested. How much does such...

I just wanted to send out a feeler, to reassure myself and my boss. I'm ordering chicks for the camp I work at (I'm the nurse, but will hover and force the Nature Guy to take good care of them). At the end of camp, I'll then have about 15 birds of various breeds (more of the pretty/interesting...

The short version is how important are the "rules" about what to feed who when? We have 23 birds, about 2/3 meat and 1/3 pullets, all about eight weeks old. Everything says the meat should have ideally been eating meat-bird-food from the start, but definitely by now, and the pullets chick...

We were planning to build a coop, but then I was at Costco... I know it's rather small for our eventual 8-9 hens (42"x48"), but it was incredibly cute, and they'll have a large pen and move to a bigger space in our heated shed in the winter, so it should be okay, I hope. (I was going to link...

My 4wk old Cuckoo Maran has one leg growing twisted -- at the hock, it bends outward, so she looks decidedly knock-kneed. I've found out that this is not "splay leg" but just twisted leg, happens d/t genes or nutrition (only one in the batch, so I'm guessing genes), and the site I looked at...

One of our 3 1/2-wk old chicks, one of the Cuckoo Marans, has one leg that bends at a strange inward angle -- looks like it's been put on crooked, almost. I think this is a recent development. he doesn't seem to favor it much, but is a little more clumsy. I think this is spradle leg, yes? Is...

we're pretty sure about 22 of our 23 chicks, but not sure about this one -- either an Americauna, or just about anything else (ie, the free rare chick). Her feet do not look terribly green. She had the typical chipmunk-stripe thing going when she was a puffball, but just a fairly narrow dark...

We finally have pictures of our chicks, who arrived 2wks ago yesterday from MM. We planned on bonding with 10 egg layers and not bonding too much with 15 meat birds, but have run into some problems with telling who's who. Here's the flock: 2 Cuckoo Marans, one Buttercup, one Egyptian Fayoumi...

Hello all, We've just joined the fine ranks of "what have we gotten ourselves into?" Our order of chicks from MM arrived Monday. Things going well: I quickly gave up on our coffin-sized cardboard box in favor of just using our bathtub, with a screen cover and all the usual supplies. The...