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I'll give my county extension agent a call and see what I can't find out. My flock is going to be a closed flock as well. Only chicks that will be introduced are chicks that I have incubated or have brought in from a hatchery. Thanks Ridgerunner you've given me lots of good information to get...

Ok I'll get a bag of chick starter. My chicks will be in a 12x12 run when they get big enough and in a coop at night. Once the grass, weeds, ect are ate down in their run, they will get let out to roam and then back to the coop at night. Any vaccines I need to think about?

Oh so much to learn. What about crack corn? A neighbor told me to feed the chicks cracked corn with the chick starter.

Thanks for the information Ridgerunner. What kind of diet would be best for the comets?

Well I checked out Mt. Healthy's website and they seem pretty good but I wouldn't know a whole lot since its my first time raising chickens

The TSC in georgetown Kentucky gets their comets from Mount Healthy Hatchery but the guy wasn't too sure and the TSC in frankfort kentucky didn't have comets but they had red sexlinks and red pullets and they also got theirs from Mount Healthy in Ohio.

I went to TSC the other day to look at some chicks. TSC only had bantams and comets. The gentleman that I talked with said the comets were a cross between white leghorns and rhode island reds and the pullets would lay white eggs not brown. My hubby said to purchase six of them and now wants more...