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Welcome!

Welcome here with all of us poultry enthusiasts. I’m only a member 2-3 weeks but am enjoying this site very much and learning things almost daily .

 

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I don't think this is good enough for chicks...it's only 16% protein.
I think you are better off buying a grower type feed with oyster shell on the side.

I have done well with Dumor products. They produce a large variety of poultry feed products both crumbles and pellets. I normally have 4 stacks of different types of their feed depending on who’s needs are what. I’ll always have Chick starter (20%), Layer crumbles (16%), Scratch 5 grains, and then if fattening roosters or growing 6-8 week olds on up, will have their Grower crumble but chick starter is fine to continue with I’ve found if one more feed is too much to keep up with for me.

 

[oldhen2345]

Howdy from East Texas- I am in Athens and have urban chickens- have been on BYC for awhile, learning, reading, posting. Love the Texas site.

 

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What is your guys experience with rehoming 1 month old chicks that are likely boys on craiglists/livestock forums etc? I got a bantam chick just near 1 month and I don't know if it's best to put a listing up now or wait until he's feathered.

If you can wait until he’s featured out and shows off his attributes and potential in several more months, the likely interested parties will be more interested if he is something they can’t say no to or fits their flock needs. If you have a family owned local feed store, often they will allow postings on a board with pictures. Just my opinion but most chicks are less than appealing at 2-6 weeks. Best of luck.

 

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Howdy from East Texas- I am in Athens and have urban chickens- have been on BYC for awhile, learning, reading, posting. Love the Texas site.

Can you have a rooster in town or just hens and do you have to count how many hens due to restrictions? By the way I think the Athens area is so beautiful. I lived in Dallas for 40 years making a living and wearing out my knees. My in-laws are in the Buna/Orange area. So when we traveled there of course we would go through Athens, Jacksonville and on. Soooo when is that dang highway ever going to be finished. I can’t remember a time it wasn’t under construction. My spouse passed 2 yrs ago December 27th from lung cancer complications that had moved to brain and bone. So may not see that drive again but do have memories on it. We were both from cattle ranching families just from total opposite ends of the state. Myself from the South Plains on New Mexico border where it’s all prairie grasses. I have been enjoying this site as a Newbie relatively too. So glad there friendly people that have been here for a while. But of course what else would we expect, it’s Texas! Bob

 

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New member from Montgomery ( near renfest) I’ve referred to byc over the years to get answers but now I’m a member!

Welcome, welcome. Have a sit and cup of coffee..

 

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Hey since you're comfortable letting us know you're up in the Lubbock area why not edit in your location information into your profile so we can all see what podunk part of Texas you live in? Under my profile feel free to click on laureles I wasn't lying when I said deep South Texas and we're a little Podunk here too! I'm pretty sure our GPS coordinates are just a hair over 26 degrees north an elevation of 24 ft above sea level. Living near the gulf coast is great we rarely see Summer and Autumn temperatures above 100 degrees and we don't have to heat or cool on average about four and a half to five months of the year. I live in a special part of Texas know as the colonias. Formerly I am a North Texan transplant but let's see I've lived in every major region of Texas accept the panhandle and Houston the city with worse traffic than DFW and Austin. Here you can't blame Diddley or squat for running late due to traffic.

First of all , I’m an Aggie and secondly NEW! Profile where? FB? Help me just a little in the right direction.

 

[oldhen2345]

Can you have a rooster in town or just hens and do you have to count how many hens due to restrictions? By the way I think the Athens area is so beautiful. I lived in Dallas for 40 years making a living and wearing out my knees. My in-laws are in the Buna/Orange area. So when we traveled there of course we would go through Athens, Jacksonville and on. Soooo when is that dang highway ever going to be finished. I can’t remember a time it wasn’t under construction. My spouse passed 2 yrs ago December 27th from lung cancer complications that had moved to brain and bone. So may not see that drive again but do have memories on it. We were both from cattle ranching families just from total opposite ends of the state. Myself from the South Plains on New Mexico border where it’s all prairie grasses. I have been enjoying this site as a Newbie relatively too. So glad there friendly people that have been here for a while. But of course what else would we expect, it’s Texas! Bob

No roosters in the city limits and you can have up to 10 hens. However, I do hear a rooster every morning and there is a feral flock that migrates around the neighborhood. I got so tickled one morning on Hwy 19. The traffic had come to a complete stop while the chickens crossed the road.
I am from Colorado City in West Texas and went to college in Odessa. This area is farm and ranch area and my grandmother lived on a ranch outside Sterling City. We would go there for the summer sometimes when we were little, so I am a little bit country, ok more than a little.
Yes, the area is beautiful, thank you. I love the trees - hate mesquite scrub.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I know how devastating that can be. I lost my husband 8 yrs ago on Feb. 6th.
The Jacksonville highway is still under construction. I do not understand how the Romans built roads in Europe that are still there today and we can not seem to get a good road to last a couple of years.

 

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No roosters in the city limits and you can have up to 10 hens. However, I do hear a rooster every morning and there is a feral flock that migrates around the neighborhood. I got so tickled one morning on Hwy 19. The traffic had come to a complete stop while the chickens crossed the road.
I am from Colorado City in West Texas and went to college in Odessa. This area is farm and ranch area and my grandmother lived on a ranch outside Sterling City. We would go there for the summer sometimes when we were little, so I am a little bit country, ok more than a little.
Yes, the area is beautiful, thank you. I love the trees - hate mesquite scrub.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I know how devastating that can be. I lost my husband 8 yrs ago on Feb. 6th.
The Jacksonville highway is still under construction. I do not understand how the Romans built roads in Europe that are still there today and we can not seem to get a good road to last a couple of years.

I am very sorry to hear that about your husband and yes I’ve been devastated and truly lost since then but starting to get the idea there may still be a life to live and reasons not known to me today. So I have a large flock of chickens now and sell chickens and eggs locally. Do the world just got really small again. I’m blown away..... I was born in Colorado City and Dad ranched , made the rodeos riding in all rough stock events, mother taught school, and they tried raising a poultry egg farm just outside Colorado City. Brief period like a year and a half. My paternal grandfather died there in 1970. Our immediate family only stayed there 3 years but we had Aunts, Uncles and Cousins to visit always. From CC folks moved up here above the caprock in Lamb County and in Bailey County ranching both. Now it gets more interesting than that. Grandad Dugan Wilson had a brother outside of Sterling on a ranch and his son (Curtis Wilson?). My dad’s cousin, we too visited and they hunted hogs and scared us kids. Saying y’all be ready to climb a tree anytime. I’ll ask to be sure of the name. My dad’s brother that lived in CC or outside depending, was Merle Wilson married Audry. Their family was a real piece of work. Are we cousins? We were kin also to the Wares and O’Donalds our there. My folks are still living at near 89 yrs both and married this August of 68 years. Most of my paternal family is buried at Blackwell cemetery out in the country and one of Dad’s cousin managed its affairs and lived just outside with their ranch.

 

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No roosters in the city limits and you can have up to 10 hens. However, I do hear a rooster every morning and there is a feral flock that migrates around the neighborhood. I got so tickled one morning on Hwy 19. The traffic had come to a complete stop while the chickens crossed the road.
I am from Colorado City in West Texas and went to college in Odessa. This area is farm and ranch area and my grandmother lived on a ranch outside Sterling City. We would go there for the summer sometimes when we were little, so I am a little bit country, ok more than a little.
Yes, the area is beautiful, thank you. I love the trees - hate mesquite scrub.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I know how devastating that can be. I lost my husband 8 yrs ago on Feb. 6th.
The Jacksonville highway is still under construction. I do not understand how the Romans built roads in Europe that are still there today and we can not seem to get a good road to last a couple of years.

I too not a big fan of mesquite scrub but it helps the quail to nest up. It grows only about 3’ up here due to lack of moisture but also altitude. We are at ~4,000 ft and climbing every step to the NM mountains. Nice thing is cool nights, and we can plant pines, blue spruces, piñon pines, Arizona cypresses and the like and with a little attention bring the flora of the mountains here. Columbine, Penstemons, and Red hot Pokers (Tritoma) and salvias and agastaches all luring In hummingbirds.