Hello! My family typically has a batch of chicks in the brooder, and we just moved our Marans out to the coop. That leaves us with an empty brooder. Can't have that! So I'm looking for some young chicks to stick in there. We raise them up, keep a favorite or two, then sell the rest. My preschooler and his friends get a real kick out of it!
This time around, I'm determined to get a green or blue egg laying hen out of a batch of chicks. I'm therefore looking for Ameraucanas or Araucanas. Not Easter Eggers, the purebred ones. I've contacted several breeders, and no one seems to have any chicks available right now, due to hens stopping their laying in the heat, and the hatcheries all sell Easter Eggers, regardless of what they call them. Why am I picky? Because the EEs I've had have all laid brown eggs, and purebreds will be easier to sell when I have to move the extra birds. I'm partial to birds in the brown/red/buff spectrum of chicken colors. I may still order a batch of chicks and split them with my poultry group in the fall, but I've got the "chick bug"!
I'd also like to get a couple of "funny chickens," as my son calls them - polish, frizzle, Silkie, and the like. Interesting crosses, too. We love those funny Silkie crosses! Chicks only - I don't have room to quarantine adult birds.
Thanks to car-phobic kids, I can only drive at most an hour from Arlington, TX, zip code 76001. Thanks so much! -Julie
This time around, I'm determined to get a green or blue egg laying hen out of a batch of chicks. I'm therefore looking for Ameraucanas or Araucanas. Not Easter Eggers, the purebred ones. I've contacted several breeders, and no one seems to have any chicks available right now, due to hens stopping their laying in the heat, and the hatcheries all sell Easter Eggers, regardless of what they call them. Why am I picky? Because the EEs I've had have all laid brown eggs, and purebreds will be easier to sell when I have to move the extra birds. I'm partial to birds in the brown/red/buff spectrum of chicken colors. I may still order a batch of chicks and split them with my poultry group in the fall, but I've got the "chick bug"!
I'd also like to get a couple of "funny chickens," as my son calls them - polish, frizzle, Silkie, and the like. Interesting crosses, too. We love those funny Silkie crosses! Chicks only - I don't have room to quarantine adult birds.
Thanks to car-phobic kids, I can only drive at most an hour from Arlington, TX, zip code 76001. Thanks so much! -Julie
