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Mostly Easter Eggers and Whiting True Blues with a couple oddballs mixed in. Most of the eggs we get are different shades of green and blue.

It isn't really worth it.

I enjoy the fight.

My wife has to carry a stick to and from her car.

Nothing brings me greater joy.

-Jake

Slight gear change here, but it seems like a good place to ask,...

Does anyone have a suggestion on mail ordering chicks? My wife's aunt has done it quite a bit, but I never see or talk to her anymore.

I suspect that shopping the local TSC will be frustrating this spring, what with all the folks wanting to become chicken farmers this year.

I had this bitch ass white leghorn kept getting after the kids.

I stopped off at the fruit stand, old fella down there selling bunny rabbits had a couple of fancy game cocks. One had some spurs about 1-1/4” long. Paid $25 for him

Brought him home turned him out and he made a laser bee line for that suckhole leghorn. Whipped his ass for 20 mins. So bad that whitey wouldn’t roost inside the henhouse anymore. Coons finally snatched him one night.

The little gamecock was tame around people. No worries

Never a problem.

Several years ago Sara Palin and her band of misfit kids ended up at a party in Anchorage on the hillside (affluent part of Anchorage) anyhow a fight broke out between her son and someone other party goer. Sara Palin yelling do you know who I am. Her son the war vet rips his shirt off starts strutting around like a ph ucking rooster, his sisters are on a car hood yelling at other party goers. I guess it was a sight to see. Could of used you and your mop handle that night.

Fellow who used to work for me on the farm asked if he could turn his chickens out on one of the farms. He said they were bantams. I told him he could..............only they turned out to be game chickens. In a short time, they had tripled in numbers. They were wild, and fended for themselves, and ate mostly in the garden we had growing on the place. I got tired of them pecking holes in the tomatoes, and declared war on them. I probably shot about 20 or so of them, until a friend found out and said he could sell the roosters as fighting chickens. I gave him the rest of them if he could catch them, and he sold those roosters for some good money. I guess I'd been better off not shooting them. But, I hate a dang rooster.

Never a problem on mail ordering chicks? Or, never a problem with TSC?

Rhode Island Red and Barred Rock. No roosters.

Check Craigslist for a local hatchery you can pick up .

we had a pair of Bourbon tom turkeys, mean as hell

You could whoop em every day and that small brain just would reset and go again.

I wanted to try out a katana sword on them fouckers, mother wouldn’t let me kill them

Even thought about giving them some furadan 🤣

Furadan was some good chit

We got our ISA Browns back when lots of businesses were hurting from the COVID lockdown. My wife was picking up some dog food at TSC, and they had a lot of chicks that they hadn't sold. The guy over the chick department offered my wife a couple dozen at discount. My wife hesitated, so he came some more. This went on until my wife finally bought them at a fraction of the original cost. We didn't need 2 dozen for our own use, but the extra eggs we sell more than pays for the feed.

They are very friendly compared to the other chickens we've had.

have been thinking about starting in back yard a flock a problem how to keep in our yard not jumping the fence?

My feed store has chicks for @$8 each
Local hatchery has buffs $4.00 hens
Cornish cross $1.80 straight run

Murray McMurray hatchery. They’re in PA?
They are in Iowa.

https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/index.html


Ordered from them a lot. We order through a local feed store and have had good luck.

One year we were turkey central for 4H kids. We had around 22 poults delivered in a group buy.


Re: chickens, we no longer keep layers. Too much cost and trouble the second winter.

We quit getting the filthy, freak-of-nature, Cornish cross meat birds. A long as we can get Freedom Rangers, wont go back.

Dayum is that the new norm for chick pricing?

Our current flock is Easter Eggers (real characters for personality), Golden Comets and one Buff Orpington hen. We have had RIRs, Wyandots, White Leghorns, Araucunas, Plymouth Rocks and some guineas. We will continue with more of the EEs and the GCs come springtime. They are OK with cold temperatures and are decent layers.

The Buff Orpington rooster was a real pistol. He would challenge any man that came within 20 feet but seemed to like all women. He was a rapist rooster, so I'm not sorry that he has been replaced by a mild-mannered Chanticleer, who now does all the roostery chores without the damage to the hens.

Go online, look for Cackle Hatchery in Missouri and compare the breeds before ordering. If you order hens, they sex the chicks and they will send hens. Our orders have arrived safely and on time.

The Rural King here lets idiots and children (samey samey) handle and cuddle the different baby chicks.

So you might think youre buying pullets and get 1/2 roosters. I’m not an expert on sexing chicks so I got hosed one time before.