04-16-2020, 03:57 PM | #1 |
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Wife ordered chicks today - delivery not until August 8th.
I reckon they can only hatch them so fast.
Used to be about a month wait time. Not anymore! I could get some at a feed store, but they pretty much only have leghorns and Rhode Island reds, which tend to be pretty goofy as they've been overbred over the years. Plus, I've never liked leghorns. Still remember getting attacked by a rooster at my grandpa's house when I was a little kid.
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04-16-2020, 04:10 PM | #2 |
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What kind of chicks did you order?
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04-16-2020, 04:45 PM | #3 |
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04-17-2020, 09:31 AM | #6 |
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I got some Ameraucanas from Tractor Supply 3 weeks ago. They had 5 or 6 different breeds when I bought mine.
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04-17-2020, 11:09 AM | #7 | |
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When I was in there last, they only had a mixed tank, some leghorns, and ducks. Last mixed group I purchased had too many roosters. |
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Foghorn Leghorn? That was one of my favorites of all time. Classic Cartoons!! |
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04-19-2020, 10:25 AM | #9 |
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Do you eat these chickens as well?
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04-19-2020, 11:13 AM | #10 |
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When they get old and stringy and quit laying. Then they get butchered and canned. Makes them nice and tender. At least the ones who don't get killed by chicken hawks, or coyotes.
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04-19-2020, 11:45 AM | #11 | |
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I have to the store and get chicken once their here and start hanging out I call them pets. Gators snatch my neighbors chickens across the canal here once in awhile. You think the coons and birds are bad you should see what a big gator does to the cage.
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04-19-2020, 12:47 PM | #12 | |
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I used to really like the Rhode Island Reds, but like the Leghorns, something has gone wrong in their breeding and they have become a really squirrely breed. I'm thinking too much inbreeding or something. |
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04-19-2020, 02:48 PM | #13 | |
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I didn't see nuttin. Yup if things go south we have enough between the forest and the river to survive with all the critters and my local Red Neck buds. I cook they catch. ADD: Sign on the road were putting out: Young single girls we have food and shelter your fleeing Daytona like the hurricanes. Follow the arrows to Tims house. |
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04-23-2020, 07:54 PM | #14 |
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I butchered my flock of 12 anticipating the sale of our house and retirement. Then BOOM! China virus hits. Everything is on hold. Now for the first time in decades we're buying eggs. Oh well... This too shall pass.
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04-24-2020, 09:32 AM | #15 |
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I’m going to order a couple for tonight....
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