I just came from Echo Valley Feed, where I bought FlockRaiser (because I have so many different-aged birds) for $15.99. I don't normally buy Purina, but they didn't have Nutrena products, so I don't know if that was a deal or not. It was a bit more than Nutrena would have been at my regular feed store - a whole dollar and 1 cent. Whoop te do. Plus a five lb bag o' chick starter, supposedly for my GrandChick and Buffy....... but....
----I also came home with 4 more chicks!!! What is WRONG with me???
There was this bin o' bantam breeds on sale, 3 weeks "plus" - buy 3, get 1 free. Who can resist?
Two light colored EEs - I'm still trying to get one that feathers out all white - and one GLW. BANTAMS! That's only 1.5 chickens, right?
Oh, and the free fourth chick was a Black Jersey Giant, which was not supposed to be in that bin but they honored the sale.
As I was pointing out likely candidates, the young lady who assisted me did say, twice, "No, that's a rooster." So, even though they're sold as straight run bantams, she still tried to identify their sexes for me.
(She missed on a bantam Buff Brahma some weeks ago, which new2chooks warned me about. And which I ignored, thinking this was a DIFFERENT bantam Buff Brahma.)
So, new2chooks, thanks again.