Looking for Chicks

[Walker]

Banty

Bantam

[Bazo]

My wife orders her from the Meyer Hatchery.

https://meyerhatchery.com/

[BlessedVeteran0305]

Tractor supply or atwoods should have some.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Ideal Hatchery in Camron TX hatches every week and they have many breeds.

Yep, they have pages and pages of selections with really good write ups on their characteristics... Last time my wife ordered, we got this recommendation off here, and have been very pleased... Good strong birds. Not sure which breeds she ordered but was 3 each of 4 different varieties and they all lay LARGE brown eggs... Well, for about the first month when they first started to lay, they laid cute little eggs, but now some are so big the foam cartons will not close easily on them... few double yoked ones from time to time...


Go browse their catalog web site. It has expected hatch dates and such so you can plan pretty accurately with them. IF they hatch early they will notify you and ask if you want them early. If you don't, they will not ship until the scheduled ship date window...

https://www.idealpoultry.com

[SaltwaterSlick]

I am looking for bantoms ( spelling ?) small breed yard bird , either chicks or fertile eggs at least one roster

From Ideal's web site: (58 varieties of Bantams!)



More Than 50,000 Poultry Breeders: Chickens, Bantams, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Turkey, Pheasant and Chukar

Ideal Poultry maintains more than fifty-thousand breeders on its company owned farms. Ideal currently hatches and sells 79 Standard Chicken Breeds/Varieties, 58 Breeds/Varieties of Bantams, 9 Breeds of Ducks, 3 Breeds of Geese and 4 Breeds/Varieties of Guineas. In addition, Ideal has available, as a service to its customers, 9 Heritage Breeds of Turkeys, Ring Neck Pheasants and Chukar.

[Chew]

Trip to the post office this morning...

https://youtube.com/shorts/AaKnofCDFQQ?feature=share

[deerslayer64d]

Appreciate the links and I have bookmarked them I believe walker has me fixed up .

[Draco]

If you have hawk problems then get a few black chickens. Hawks think they are crows and leave the chickens alone, not wanting to mess with crows. An old lady told us that and it seems to really work for us.

[chunkinlead]

If you have hawk problems then get a few black chickens. Hawks think they are crows and leave the chickens alone, not wanting to mess with crows. An old lady told us that and it seems to really work for us.

There may be something to this. Last year I bought a mix of yellow, red, & black chickens. Within 2 weeks we only have black ones left. No sign of the others.


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[Lynn21]

Belle Starr back in the day.

[BTLowry]

If you have hawk problems then get a few black chickens. Hawks think they are crows and leave the chickens alone, not wanting to mess with crows. An old lady told us that and it seems to really work for us.

Guess we will test this theory, mix we are raising now has at least 6 that are supposed to be black australorp

[deerslayer64d]

We have been fortunate not having any problems with hawks but have taken out many coons and foxes around the coop

[SaltwaterSlick]

If you have hawk problems then get a few black chickens. Hawks think they are crows and leave the chickens alone, not wanting to mess with crows. An old lady told us that and it seems to really work for us.

Well I'll be...!
Never heard that before, but we have 3 black (or almost all black), and haven't lost a chicken out of this flock since we added those! They are safe from aerial predators when they're in the coop, but most days they roam free... in the past, if we didn't check on them regularly or if we weren't out with them, we'd lose one/two a week... Until I put a wire top on the coop, we were losing one/day!

[tps7742]

That’s inyon the black chickens. Makes sense I guess because the crows around here I have even seen them run off the younger eagles.

I just picked up three dozen eggs this morning from one of my local guys.

[Walker]

Once the hawks find them they will be regular visitors.