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I am trying to plan what chicks I should get this spring. My wife has already made her list and ordered her chicks. This thread about which chicks I should order. My wife has already ordered 11 Buff Orpingtons including one rooster. I am torn between Dominiques, Rhode Island Reds...

Over the past couple of years I have looked at several chicken breeds to develop a self-sustaining chicken flock. Some of the breeds I have looked at are the Barred Rock, Buff Orpington, Dominique and Australorp (only to name a few). This article will focus on the Barred Rock, which is part of...

Lets talk about a good breed of meat chicken that does well on free range. Jersey giants are one of the largest chicken breeds out there, but they take a long time to mature. If someone had the time to dedicate to jersey giants, they might be one of my first choices. I have 2 jersey giants in...

Built a brooder over the last couple days with some new but mostly scrap wood I already had. Its kind of a two part brooder which removes from the base so I can take them out to play in the grass some as they grow. Half of it has a bottom and a larger half is bottomless. Its about 2ft by 5ft...

The chicks are going on 5 weeks old, they passed the one month mark almost a week ago. My wife and I got the chicks on February 25th. The rhode island reds are about 7 days younger then the rest of the chicks. When my wife and I bought the chicks we were told they were only about 2 days old...

I know that everyone who has chickens, has favorite breeds, and I have seen great info on specific ones among the threads here. But a conversation between between the daughter and her older boy had me wondering. Of all the breeds out there, do any of them combine the wonderful qualities of a...