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just dawned on me..once i integrate my chicks (in a few months ) what do I feed my mixed flock? right now i am feeding the big girls layena, and i'll be doing flock raiser for the chicks... do i just feed them all flock raiser and leave out oyster shells to meet calcium needs or what? My...

so i am getting some chicks plus running the bator so i better get on a brooder. does anyone know where i might find some pallets in IF area free or dirt cheap? I thought I saw something on here but not sure now lol

anyone have LF cochin for sale? lookin for a girl or two.

hot diggity! FINALLY our first eggs. A year of keeping chickens has finally paid off. We started chicks in GA a year ago, grew a flock up to point of lay and had to sell before we moved. We never saw one egg from them. We started over in August with new chicks and I bought two pullets that were...

well he did it... he started crowing the dummy. He can't keep his mouth shut. I'm kinda sad cause he's so sweet. Our BO is no longer a chick, he's a roo and nw have to either put him in a pot or find him a home. Just to decide which... I don't know how to process chickens so I gotta find smeone...

Dang it BO is a roo :0( anyone interested in a sweet roo?

Think my buff Orpington is a too :0( they are keeping toasty in their straw filled coop. But they aren't laying yet and I'm going insane. I think I've got a couple more months for one that I can tell is a girl if the Bo is a girl too they were hatched end if August. The other two slw and blrw...

yeah no i doubt they'd own up to it. just is the only explanation that makes sense. we searched our yard and my dogs were crated over night like they always are so there wasn't anything in my yard to do the damage to the bird and it was rather close to the fence so... i just wish things weren't...

so I think the chick got into the neighbors yard. then their dog killed it and they threw it over the fence! I went out this am to take care of chickens and there it was with bite holes in it about 5 ft from the fence =o( All the others are doing well just have a sad little boy

so so sad. I went to move chicks to the big coop today finally! One was dead in the brooder, it was fine last night but today no dice. Then went to make sure the babies went to the coop and one was just gone...no sign of it any where. My 3 yr old little boy's chick was a buff orpington x barred...

The BLR is sold =o) I'm coming today!

how much? and where you at? My oldest won chicks from the fair and they are like ranging btw 7 days and 3 days or something.

anyone near IF have chicks? i need one more or somethin like that =o) lay on me what breeds and ages..

well my chick feeders and brood lamp is not here in ID....anyone got some i could borrow? I am in Idaho falls

so we were going to get started pullets and had just talked abut getting some so i can commune with the chickens before winter starts. My oldest entered a raffle ticket drawing at the Eastern Idaho State Fair and he totally won 5 chicks from hatch a batch hatchery... I wasn't going to brood any...

I have disbursed my flock here in GA and my beastly coop. We are packing and leave on the 16th, so in three weeks we will be in Idaho Falls. I will start over with a new smaller flock. Do I need to know anything special for the winter? I'm new to chickens and haven't had mine through a winter...

looks like a roo to me..very much like my pullet who turned roo

oh it gets hot here too. Usually in july/august it's over 100 the temps do not drop much at night and we have 100% humidity it's like living in a flippin sauna or arm pit... My husband is going to school there so I have not much of a choice =o)

we are moving from Athens GA

the cochin by far I love them. I currently have buff orpinton black jersey giant white cochin black cochin ameraucauna red sexlink light brown leghorn speckled sussex mix blue laced red wyandotte mix dominique mix light brahmas gold laced wyandotte my very favorites are the brahmas, cochins...