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Who is picking up new spring chicks for 2019? As yall know I have lost several chickens over the past year. There was a recent incident where I left the gate to the chicken yard open - https://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=912434 I recently picked up: 7 Barred Rocks 7 Rhode...

How are the chicks doing? I have not lost a single one, and they are all doing great. Chicken breeds in this video: Buff Orpington Australorp Barred rock Dominique There are two roosters: Buff Orpington Australorp The rest are hens, a dozen of them. This brings my chicken flock to...

I keep going back to the same four breeds: Buff Orpington Australorp Barred Rock Rhode Island Red If the feed store has them in stock, I will sometimes pick up Jersey Giants and Dominickers.

Two of my 4 month Barred Rock pullets have been getting out of the yard. One came up missing a couple of days ago. There were some feathers outside the chicken yard and nothing else. This evening my wife found this one outside the yard.

We got the new order of chicks in Thursday August the 14. Friday while my wife and I were babysitting the grandkids, they decided the new chicks needed a chicken house. So the kids built a chicken house on the kitchen table. Related thread - my next order of chicks The order ended up...

My wife and I are planning on ordering some chicks friday August 1st. Breed / Quantity Australorp - 5 Barred Rock - 5 Buff Orpington - 10 Dominicker - 5 Rhode Island Red - 5 Plus the 17 or so we have left after the dogs, fox and chicken hawk got finished. 47 hens with 3 roosters. My Rhode...

List your favorite types of dual purpose chickens. My wife and I are getting ready to order a batch of chicks. Yes I know chicks are supposed to be ordered during the spring, but oh well. After a fox killed off half our flock we need to order some more. We are looking for good egg layers...

When my wife and I bought our newest set of chicks last February we bought 6 of each breed, for a total of 24. Out of that 24 we lost around 10 to various predators. Looking across the flock this evening these are my estimated looses over the past month or so. Barred Rock - 3 Buff Orpington -...

It is amazing how fast chicks grow. In 1 month they went from being totally helpless, to foraging for food. With every passing day the chicks move further away from the chicken house. The more I watch chickens, the more I understand why the species has been so successful, and why humans have...

Who here wishes to contribute to a chick weight / growth chart? In my possession I have buffs, rhode island reds and australorp chicks. All of them are less than a week old. Yesterday I weighed a random selection of the chicks and recorded the weight in ounces. Ounces did not seem to be...

My wife has 11 Buffs on the way including one rooster. When we pick the buffs up from the feed store I am probably going to get another rooster and some more pullets, but not sure which kind of rooster to get. We will probably walk away with around 20 chicks that day. The feed store will...

Every night its the same thing, my barred rocks are the last ones to go into the chicken coop. Australorp, speckled sussex, silver laced wyandotte, rhode island reds all go to the coop while there is still light. The barred rocks stay outside until I can barely see, then they run into the coop...

Can yall believe it’s been a whole year since my wife and I got our first chicks? For the first few months I posted several videos about building the coop and how the chicks were doing. After the chickens start laying, there is not that much to post about. They are chickens, they do their...

How do you ensure genetic diversity in a homestead chicken flock? A few weeks ago a buddy of mine and I were talking about the genetic health of a chicken flock during a complete collapse of society. Such as a WROL (without rule or law) or TEOTWAWKI situation. One of my long term goals is...

What would you consider to be the best overall chicken for a self-sustaining homestead? Lets not limit ourselves to a single breed of chicken. Instead, lets throw out several breeds and discuss the merits of each one. Traits I would look for: Good layers Broody Good forager Good meat bird...

In this article I hope to talk about how my chickens are doing in the winter time. All of the hens were bought as chicks within two weeks of each other. The first chickens were bought on the last weekend of February 2012, the next batch were bought the first week of March. The final batch were...

Let the chickens out of the coop this morning, and noticed one of my barred rocks lost its long tail feathers. The hen still has its short tail feathers, just all of the long ones are gone. The Barred Rock is 9 months old.

In this article we are going to be discussing how to design your chicken flock for a long term SHTF / TEOTWAWKI situation. How many chickens would you need to produce enough eggs for you and your family? What about breeding, chicken coop and chicken yard size? Do you want focus on egg...

For you chicken farmers out there that have experience in this matter, what you do feel is the best egg laying chicken? Types of chickens I have: Barred rock Rhode island red Australorp Black jersey giants Wyandotte After doing some reading, it seems that some people say the Rhode Island Red...

Getting 4 back yard chickens and would appreciate suggestions on what type of breed/s to buy. I live in an area that gets mild to hot summers and winters are snowy and wet (but I have a pretty decent area to keep them in during winter if needed). I was thinking some rhode island reds, but...