NY chicken lover!!!!

[Beer can]

@Purpletie3 How big did your
barbezieux get? I thought about getting some when rancher posted a clearance GFF list, they were half price. I thought of getting them when I read they were the third best tasting chicken in the world, better than the bresse. Then I figured I had to find out what that French magazine considered the #1 chicken. Took awhile to find the list, couldn't find it on the American Gault Milloue (spelling?) website, had to go to the French version and Google translate. Figured it would be a rare unheard of unavailable breed, nope!
It was Label Rouge redbro con nu. Pasture raised under specific French guidelines, Naked Necks!
Wish I could afford to get S&G poultry's naked necks, min order is 100, or 15 dozen hatching eggs..

 

[Beer can]

@Chicken girl 15 That's a good deal on cackle's broiler special all large breed roosters. I thought of ordering them to practice caponizing. They were .28cents ea @100 a couple yrs ago. Other hatchery's fry pan special roosters bargains are white leghorns.
S&G poultry sells red rangers 100@ $1.95ea, and what they call 'heritage whites', they're not, they are a slower growing, not as many health issues cornishX, according to reviews I've read. They are 100@ $1.10ea. If they say unavailable just email them, they become unavailable/available, off and on.
They sell hatching eggs 15doz minimum if you can handle that many Lol!

 

[Lapeerian]

I was going to stop in there yesterday when I was in Cortland, but I was in a hurry and I can be in there for a while just standing there looking at the chicks..then god forbid a fellow chicken lover comes in and we start talking. I can be there for over 30 minutes so I knew I had better not stop...maybe next week.

They did have cute little Australorps And of course the silkies. And khaki campbell ducklings.

 

[Purpletie3]

The hens are normal size...I was wAiting for my tall chicken...lol guess I need a roo. They are in the incubator. Eggs are due in 9 days! Woot woot!

 

[rancher hicks]

Hey everyone, while working closely with another chicken lady: I traded two silkie chicks for a lovely little Cochin bantam! It's 4 1/2 weeks old and might be self blue or something we will have to wait and see BUT is it a pullet or a rooster?! Here's a pic

I'd say pullet.

 

[rancher hicks]

Wouldn't they have tested for toxicity? I do know that plastic "off gases". Which is why it dries out and gets brittle. You should see those milk jugs after a summer in the sun. Shatters like glass.

Too I'd hate to be the one to find out that white plastic chair is on it's last leg. Literally.

Are you interested in buying some hens?

 

[rancher hicks]

I was going to stop in there yesterday when I was in Cortland, but I was in a hurry and I can be in there for a while just standing there looking at the chicks..then god forbid a fellow chicken lover comes in and we start talking. I can be there for over 30 minutes so I knew I had better not stop...maybe next week.

I keep saying the TSC near me needs to put in a cafe'. Or at least have a sitting area with free coffee.

 

[sugarstark]

I'd say pullet. 

Thanks rancher! I hope so

 

[Gramma Chick]

Hey, here's a Q.....if I get my 7 RIRs as planned, would it be a problem to add in 1 different breed chick, all the same age? My Ma has announced that she wants a "pet" and I'm thinking that they'd be okay for a bit. Maybe one of those Buff Orphingtons? Or would they hate eachother?

Also they are close in color ...so there should be less problems between them ..
Honestly ..I would get 2 chickens for your mother ..chickens are very much flock animals
Or if you get one for her you should let her raise it ..it will bond with her...

 

[Gramma Chick]

It's 4 1/2 weeks old- could be a a rooster?! It has a good size comb & wattles I dont know much about cochins ..it is cute though