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smitty775 said:
Anyone around Cedartown have any baby chicks for sale?
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I've got some baby roos! They are 7 weeks old. I am also going to be putting some eggs in the bator next week. Most of those will be for sale. I sell chicks from my hens for $3. They are mixed, but will lay blue and green eggs. Dad is a Crested cream legbar X White leghorn (so he carries the blue egg gene) and my hens are all different breeds. Will be fun to see what I get! I also hope to be hatching real rumpless Araucanas and Croad Langshans and will sell those chicks for $8 as they are pretty rare. Will be hatching some Seramas for a friend, too!
 
Ugh! Do you know how upset I am right now!? Had 6 eggs under a broody. Went out today and found my 4 juveniles had ramshacked the nest and were finishing up eating the eggs, babies, shells and all! So, now not only do I not have any babies growing, but I now have to deal with egg eaters! And these were going to be my super blue egg layers! Put them all in a crate for now. Gotta figure out what to do with them? Any suggestions? Can they be cured of that? And one pullet is at POL! I am sooooo disappointed!
 
Bigbiddy said:
Make sure they have plenty of food at all times and collect your eggs often. Several times a day. Sorry you lost your hatch
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The only eggs they seem to like are the ones under the broody. She lost her last eggs, too. We didn't know what happened to them at the time....we thought some friends of my sons had taken them by mistake or that a snake came and got them. They only got them when the broody got up to go eat/drink. Yes, we collect eggs every couple of hours because we hear the egg song and run to get them. We still get excited over getting eggs! And, it doesn't happen when they get to free range.....it's only when we have renters and the renters don't want the chickens out.....like this weekend. (They had a wedding here, so I really don't blame them for not wanting chickens running everywhere!! LOL! And the rooster got sent to the barn so we had no crowing during the service!) So, anyway, I will have to keep them crated by themselves when renters come until I know they won't eat other eggs!
 
Sorry for your loss. I only have three laying right now, no broody hens.

I have a question regarding my 21 wk old Gold Laced Wyandotte that started laying the 28th of last month, she is the first and only from her group of assorted breeds of the same age laying. She lays 95% double yoked eggs, only missing two days of laying since she started. My 2 EE rarely do this and lay daily also. It is no wonder she is a chatty thing she is major hormonal. Any suggestions?
 
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Well both coops are done and everyone has settled in. Our suspicions on one of the little babies being a too have nearly been confirmed. When our adult too case did his nightly 'time for bed' crow I heard one of the babies from the coop right next to it attempt a crow. It was adorably high pitched!
 
I had a man at the Dept of Ag once recommend I dispatch an injured chick by putting it in a ziplock bag and putting it in the freezer. It was pretty painless and fairly quick - although the 'peep peep peep' from the freezer was a little disconcerting.
 

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