Yeah, but I'm just hoping there will be an answer. With me losing more than half and the breeder having a lot of losses from that brooder it certainly seems like something went wrong.Sometimes the cause of death is not known.
Chickens just die.....
I'm sending in an order to Sandhill! Well, a reservation for an order next year. I've officially giving up finding my rose comb Rhode Island Whites locally. I'm not sure what else I'd round out the order with.Thanks for getting back to me. Ron and I have both talked about how we would like to find Australorps close by. I am not concerned about show quality as much as I am concerned about not supporting hatcheries. I adore my two hatchery AL girls though. One has been broody 3 times in the last year. The other is a very reliable layer who is the first to greet me at the back door. They are 2.5 years old and I don't NEED any more birds right now. Sand Hill has them SR and I was thinking about putting an order together one day with them. But, by the time I am ready you just may have some really great birds and it would be great if I could keep it closer to home.
I would be really happy if Reese is a pullet. She/he is quite a bit smaller than Magnus but the head spot at hatch threw me. I thought that was exclusively a cockerel thing.
Me neither but I take all votes that say I have a pair