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I will! Thank you very much :-)

Aha, thank you for the info! I'll have to factor that in to my thinking about how I proceed. You know, I had asked about local chicken keeping clubs and it seemed like there weren't any, around here at least, the online group format was taking its place. But I used to have bees and the local...

Is it typical to have a minimum at processors? I remember finding someone who had the $100 minimum but dismissed them as being too big for me. You can tell I don't know what I'm doing!

I saw their website but it did not list chickens as being among the animals they process, I will still call them though, even if they don't they may know of someone else who does. Thanks!

I'm not planning on a rooster, but would like the option to buy some fertilized eggs and have a broody hen raise them up on an occasional, or even regular, basis. Which would mean ending up with cockerels, which I'd want to eat up, potentially along with other chickens that weren't suitable or...

I will post it here if I do, I'm going to check with a farm vet that I know and also with Tufts and our town Ag rep. If we don't hear from someone in MA maybe I'll post on the NH, VT, and CT threads also, since those are driveable for me, although I bet you need a vet transport cert to take them...

I hope everyone's flock is well, I admit to feeling concerned about a neighbor's small flock, he has one of those teeny plastic coops you get from tractor supply that has no insulation and no ventilation and is sized with maybe a square foot per bird! Everything opposite of what I've learned...

I'm going through the coops posted here in detail hoping to get DH to build something this spring. Thank you!

I have just joined the forum and posted in the new member section. I'm in Mass between Boston and Worcester and I'm in the research phase of planning my first coop. Could I ask a couple of questions specific to the local area? I keep seeing references like "join your local chicken keeping...