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heatherscooby77 said:
Me too mama!!!!!!!!!!! I am having a heck of a time deciding what to do....................... This is where I am at: I am doing a lacing project with my B/B/S Ameraucauna so they stay, they are my favorite. Then there are so many other breeds that I like, and I want to have an egg flock. With these ladies I will sell table eggs, and if I want to hatch out some EE. So for my project I was going to use Blue Andalusians. That didn't work out because the roosters had red leakage on them. The hens will mask it, but the sons can then have the red leakage. So I am going to use Silver Laced Wyandottes for my project, I like them a LOT. I already have 5 hens, and 2 crosses. I just need a SLW rooster. I want to buy a chick/teen so that I can control his socialization.

My other egg flock members are 1 Black Naked Neck, 1 Blue Marans, 1 Blue Sumatra, 1 Splash Sumatra, 2 Blue Andalusians, 1 Blue Orp, 1 Black Orp, and pretty soon some LF Cochins. Some of these are not even laying yet. I want 15 for my egg flock. That should be enough. The bantam Cochins are my daughters, but she doesn't seem to like them. She likes the bigger chickens??? go figure. So even though I love them, I will probably sell them. I don't want a separate bantam run. That is no longer in my long term plans. My grow out pen is still hovering around 100, every time it empties a little bit more get put in. I am down to 35 adults, not to bad. 3 Roosters, 32 hens, 2 geese, and 2 turkeys.............
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Oh, Sumatras are gorgeous! Are you breeding them?
 
I'm not living in PA (we started our marriage there,though) Just popping into your thread because someone who was recently transplanted into PA was asking today just when is the best time to hatch out new chicks. He is from the south where they want them big and strong for the hot summer months (opposite from us in MN) So, Pennsylvanians, if you'd like to give him your 2 cents, his thread is:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/700930/northern-breeders-please-help#post_9514950

and this is what he/she wrote:

I am completely out of my element up here and need some guidance.



I have been in Oklahoma and the method there is to breed early in the winter to get them grown before the ridiculous heat waves that halt growth. Up here, the winter wasn't as harsh as it could have been, but I was constantly worried that the electricity would fail and I would wind up with about a hundred dead chicks downstairs.



What do you do?



Do you start hatching early in the fall (now?) and get them past the need to have heat supplied before the extreme winter hits? Or do you hatch in the spring (mid-April) through summer?



If you have a larger breed, that is more what I am after. The bantams seem to thrive no matter what I do to them.



Thank you all for your help, I really appreciate any advice or insight you can give with these issues. I would like to get a really good start on my next year's hatch and think I may need to go ahead and start hatching. Some will have to wait as my splash male is not nearly old enough to breed.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/700930/northern-breeders-please-help#post_9514950

Thanks for caring
 
NEAR READING, PA - PLEASE HELP - FREE TO GOOD HOME

So I get a frantic call from my sister this morning who lives in Lebanon that someone dumped a bunch of baby chicks in the ally next to their house last night. She went to take the dog out this morning and he was playing around with something and that's how she found them (that chick is ok). Two were dead (probably because it was so cool last night) but there are 9 left. They look like they are only a couple of days old. They appear based on a lot of researching today that they are probably Barred Plymouth Rocks. One must have gotten attacked by something because it only has 2 toes left on one of it's feet but I cleaned it up and it appears that it will be ok, it is walking around and eating and drinking fine. I cannot keep them I already have 8 chickens. Please if someone is interested that can give them a good home let me know. Thanks!
 

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