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maijuub92 said:
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..her at auction, and she is a bit bigger than the others. Is it age or breed or both?
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Size is both - breed and age. They won't completely "fill out" until about a year to 18 months old. But then some breeds are just HUGE compared to others. I had no idea a large-fowl Cochin could so big until I hit the Buggy Town auction last week! And I never knew leghorns were actually horrible meat birds and far too slender for eating until I was researching them to buy one. I thought they were the standard chicken for the meat-bird industry (in addition to the egg industry I already knew they dominated)! I never knew the commercial meat bird title went to the cornish breed.

And then there's the bantam type, bantam crosses, and those with "ancient bantam blood" that are really large fowl because they've been crossed back so much.

Oh what I could do with a large-fowl silkie....
 
sanchabird said:
Wow, that's a bunch of chickens!!
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Lol

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26 leghorn mix chicks (24 although already sold)
15 EE chicks (12 technically already sold though)
8 silkie chicks
6 easter eggers
1 bantam EE hen
1 phoenix
1 cuckoo maran
3 blue-laced-red Wyandottes
4 frizzle cochins
1 smooth bantam cochin
3 silkies
5 sumatras...
(Current total 74, keep total of 38 though)

And in a little over one week I will be adding:
2 more phoenix
7 polish
3 more wyandottes
5 more silkies
5 more (possible) frizzle bantam cochin
5 more bantam cochins
5 large-fowl cochins
5 silver sebrights
2 barred rocks
3 more cuckoo marans
(Ordered total: 42)

For a grand total of 80 chickens that I plan to keep...
Twenty six is child's play, lol!
 
ChickDancer said:
Quote: WOW that's a lot of chickens!!!
I only have 5 - mutt game hens(I think) 6-Buff Orpington chicks and 2 - baby ducks. total of 13. Im such a newbie to this
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