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[FloridaChickenChick]

I'd like to order some chickens from My Pet Chicken, but I don't want to pay $25 for the privilege of ordering less than 14 chicks. I want to order 4 but would take 6 if you like the idea of ordering 8 more than 10.

Is there anyone in Lake, Seminole or Orange County who would be willing to order with me? I work in Sorrento which is convenient to all three counties and am willing to travel a reasonable distance to meet you with your chickens. With gas prices going up so fast, "reasonable distance" becomes shorter every day.

 

[peepsnbunnies]

Welcome FloridaChickenChick!

Glad to meet you. I can't take anymore chicks - I am full up! But wanted to welcome you and what kind of chicks were you thinking of ordering?

Lisa

 

[love-my-wolves]

Hi FloridaChickenChick! I am right by you, but don't need any more babies

I have 8 more eggs in the bator!! Nice to see someone else near me!!! Welcome!! Steph

 

[FloridaChickenChick]

Thanks for the welcome!

I'm in Eustis - Mt. Dora area...unicorporated Lake County. Heaven is a local call!

We moved here from Orlando 3 years ago...it was hard to leave the house where we raised our daughter and had such good times, but we've never looked back.

I have just finished my little hen house and run and am itching to get some girls in there! I would prefer pullets but am getting over my fear of peeps...The more I read the more I think I'm capable of getting them to adulthood. I raised cockatiels for years so this should not be too much harder.

I would really like 1 silver lace wyandotte, 1 gold lace wyandotte, a RIR and there's room for one more...whatever she may be. Generally when I decide I want something, it sort of falls from the sky for me, so I figure in a couple of weeks I'll have some chickens running around the place.

Peepsnbunnies, Love-My-Wolves -- where are you?

 

[peepsnbunnies]

Morning FloridaChickenChick,
I live in Highlands County, about an hour or so south of Orlando. I have silkies and showgirls and a few other little hens that were my son's 4-H projects. Sounds like you have everything ready for chickies!

Lisa

 

[chickenzoo]

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I love my bourbans! They are a nice turkey with a good temperment. Mine are very friendly and follow me around the yard talking and watching what I'm doing. Thay just started breeding very easily and so far have been great to raise.

 

[joann]

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thanks for the offer but I am interested dual purposes birds.

 

[joann]

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Sent you a PM. PLease contact me asap about your needs.
thanks Joann

 

[FloridaChickenChick]

Thanks, Joann!

 

[Coop-a-kick]

Hi everybody! My mom is the one who will soon have chickens (she gave me the bug), but I thought I might share something that will make you Orlando-and-surrounding-areas folks laugh:

We moved into a little subdivision in October, totally 'burb-dom. Thanksgiving morning around seven my DH (DF at the time!)and I hear this godawful racket going on outside our second story bedroom-- we were really worried someone in the cul de sac was plucking a turkey or something! DH got brave and went out onto our little porch where he sees a HEN IN THE TREE, at least twenty feet up in the air. Just chilling and squawking her little heart out. As far as we could tell she had frightened everything else out of the tree.

DH was not thrilled and called Animal Control after a half hour of uninterrupted noise. But since it was the holiday, one of the city operators transferred him to the local fire station. When DH explained the situation and the guy on the other end stopped snickering, he created a family joke while delivering one of my favorite lines:

"Well, sir... The chicken is sort of in its natural habitat."

After we got showered I went to check on her and she wasn't in the tree. But when I went to go take some trash downstairs there she was, in our little fenced in yard! I put some scraps out for her and she hung out for most of the day (lots of adorable strutting and fluffing up and minor mildly irritating yard desctruction). My Mom suggested we name her Mayflower, and we saw her once or twice a week over the next few months. I miss the Turkey Day Chicken!

Beak-a-boo!