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cmf12230 said:
Good morning everyone!!! Just wondering if anyone has any pullet chicks they are looking to get rid of in the Shavertown/Wilkes-barre area? I would also love to find a frizzle :rolleyes: I was going to go to tractor supply (again) to pick up more chicks and they had already ended there season :( if anyone has any ideas of anywhere else in the area to try that would be greatly appreciated!! (I've looked on Craigslist it's been pretty scarce) Thank you!!
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try the classifieds on Pennswoods.net, you can usually find something on there
 
Chick #90 just hatched (I helped by pulling the top off the egg after it got most of the way out). It was a BCM. Great hatch on the Marens this week, set 15 eggs and got 14 chicks.

I am super excited about some of the male chicks from the Welbar project. It really looks like they are the first "double barred" males. At hatch they look exactly like a Rhodebar male, so I need to band them and track them carefully, they are the critical stock I need to complete the process of creating a Welbar, and there are 3 of them out of 7 chicks !
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It's rare to get so excited about male chicks, but genetically these guys are exactly what I'm looking for (I think, got to see if they grow out as expected).
 
I've had quite the bittersweet weekend :/ we had to put down 3 of our birds due to MG. One of which was our gorgeous lavender ameraucana roo :( I'm so devestated. I have all the other birds separated into groups and quarantined for the next monthotel and the coop had been cleaned and sanitized. I'm praying no more end up with it. I'm watching them all super close And just praying like crazy.

The positive is I had 3 more turkey poults hatch this Friday/Saturday. Two slates and one bronze mix. That takes me up to 5 total and one more turkey hatch due next weekend.
 
LadyBehir said:
Giving in to chicken math later today.
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You know it will happen anyways... Lol

chiques chicks said:
Obviously no one here will stop you!
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Truth! :lol:

LadyBehir said:
Aiding and abbetting, yes. Stopping, no.
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dheltzel said:
Chick #90 just hatched (I helped by pulling the top off the egg after it got most of the way out). It was a BCM. Great hatch on the Marens this week, set 15 eggs and got 14 chicks.

I am super excited about some of the male chicks from the Welbar project. It really looks like they are the first "double barred" males. At hatch they look exactly like a Rhodebar male, so I need to band them and track them carefully, they are the critical stock I need to complete the process of creating a Welbar, and there are 3 of them out of 7 chicks !  :weee

It's rare to get so excited about male chicks, but genetically these guys are exactly what I'm looking for (I think, got to see if they grow out as expected).
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Awesome! What is your ultimate goal with your well Bars?
 
@dheltzel. Those chicks I am raising for Rose are SO healthy and fast growing. I have had them out many days on grass and they seem to be taking to it naturally of course.

Question for ya. My aunt noticed this, and I did too. The chicks seemed to grow faster than our original hatchery raised chicks. Also, they learned to dust bathe MUCH sooner, like at 2 weeks. I think my hatchery raised chicks didn't get how to do that until much later. What are your thoughts? This is all good feedback, we're both very pleased at heir quick development. Anyone else is free to chime in here too if you have any thoughts.
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
Awesome! What is your ultimate goal with your well Bars?
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The Rhodebars and Legbars are trivial to sex at hatch, but Welsummers are not as definite. I'm right most of the time, but there are some I'm just not sure of. Welbars would give me chicks that are as sure and easy to sex as the Rhodebars, but the dark eggs of a Welsummer. The "recipe" to create Welbars is well known, and I've heard of others that have done it, but no one actually selling Welbars, so I figure I'd give it a try. I was pleasantly surprised at how dark the eggs from my F2's are, though they are only 3/4 Welsummer (and 1/4 Barred Rock). The first few weeks of eggs did not hatch, but finally 3 hatched last week, but no double barred male chicks. This week 7 hatched and I think 3 are double barred. Statistically, 1/4 should be double barred (1/2 males, and half of them will only be single barred). So, with a total of 10, getting 30% is about right.

Genetically, their mothers could be considered Welbars, but not their single barred father, now with these males, I should have a true breeding line of Welbars.
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
@dheltzel . Those chicks I am raising for Rose are SO healthy and fast growing. I have had them out many days on grass and they seem to be taking to it naturally of course.

Question for ya. My aunt noticed this, and I did too. The chicks seemed to grow faster than our original hatchery raised chicks. Also, they learned to dust bathe MUCH sooner, like at 2 weeks. I think my hatchery raised chicks didn't get how to do that until much later. What are your thoughts? This is all good feedback, we're both very pleased at heir quick development. Anyone else is free to chime in here too if you have any thoughts.
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It would be hard to prove anything, but I feel like getting shipped through the mail is a bit more stressful for a newly hatched chick than the hatcheries would care to admit. I totally realize it's a "necessary evil" and supports a lot of people (hatcheries that ship chicks), so I'm not willing to say it should not be done, but much like eggs, shipping chicks reduces the overall vitality compared to the careful handling of local pickups. I've seen videos of how chicks are handled in bulk in the hatcheries. I've also handled a lot of newly hatched chicks, and they feel delicate to me, I can feel the yolk that they have not yet absorbed.

That's my theory.
 
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My 3 new turkey poults :)

My 2, one week old poults are so affectionate! Both will try to jump out of the brooder when I talk to them to try to get to me and the one will run over the second I put my hand in, cuddle up in my hand and go to sleep lol
 
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