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It's been a few years since the raccoons got the last of our chickens but we're ready to start again because we miss them! I'm hoping to order ISA browns from Townline (we've had lots of them before along with some heritage breeds and pet silkies) in Feb, coop has been ordered. I've been looking...

I have 22 hens and one rooster who started sneezing, a wee bit of coughing, and sound congested...all a few days ago. There is no nasal discharge, they are not mouth breathing, eating regular rations of Layena as normal, drinking fine, acting normal, egg production normal. I also just moved 32...

Any suggestions? I'm near the West Coast and prefer not to ship chicks across the entire US, from the Midwest is ok with me. I'm purely interested in egg production and creating a good sexlink chick in the future. I have already tried Privett delawares and was very disappointed. The eggs...

My ISA's were hatched around March 30. The first one layed an egg on July 27, about 17-1/2 weeks old. They are now 23 weeks old. I have about 65-75% laying, but now every day. Yesterday I got 17, today I got 9...from 23 girls. And they are not laying the large eggs I expected. My RIR's...

My ISA's just turned 16 weeks old and I am getting eggs from 3 out of 15 already. They are definitely pullet eggs (it's only the 4th day) but they are mighty cute!!! Go ISA's!

I just started raising up some ISA's from Townline this Spring. In your experience, how many years can I expect to get from them for good egglaying? Previously we had RIR's (productions I'm sure) from Privett and they petered out after about 18 months to just a few eggs each per week. Just...

Our first time ordering from Townline. A bunch of us split an order of 100 ISA's. Awesome service, and great birds upon delivery...happy, healthy, ready for their first meal!!! They are all perky little girls...looking good! And only two days from Michigan to Nevada...WOHOOO!!!

I would like to add an RIR roo to my flock for breeding purposes. We already have an incredibly sweet EE roo. He's very docile and good with the hens. We are expecting to increase our hens from 20 to 30 with new chicks this Spring. Our ranch store has told me that there is no way I'll ever...

If I can afford the express mail charge (zone 7) I am thinking of ordering from Townline. I really want to see their ISA's and it also looks like they have some awesome white rocks and RIR's. I'd like to think that I can sell off some of the ISA's (no one offers them or golden comets here) to...

I'm interested in ISA browns, golden comets, and maybe some RIR's. So I noticed that Randall Burkey carries all of these...do they drop ship from other hatcheries? Anyone have experience with them? Last year's chicks came from Privett via our feed store. We ordered EE's, delawares, and...

I have some egg customers who would freak out at the thought of eating a fertilized egg (i.e. "we're killing a potential baby chick!") and as luck would have it one of our juvenile egglayer pullets turned out to be a roo. The reason I'm asking is because I made scrambled eggs tonight (from...

I live in northern NV and have a difficult time finding anything other than Purina feeds. We also have Farmer's Best but my birds didn't really care for it and their ingredients are about the same as Purina's. I was wondering if anyone could reccomend a feed store between Sacramento and NV...

For those who have built these how do you elevatet he bucket off the floor? I'm intending to put the nipples on the bottom of the bucket and mount the buckets high enough that the birds can reach up to access the water. But I'm not quite certain how to get the buckets off the ground 18" or so...

I'm thinking that I would like to have a method for really clean drinking water, a nipple waterer seems the way to go. I want to attach a hose to a pipe that contains the nipples, to place in the coop. So, besides the hose and pvc, do I need a pressure regulator for the hose (I can always turn...

Some friends have a wooden horse shed that they no longer use and have offered it to us for our chickens. I love the shed but we will have to disassemble it and move it about 25 miles, and then reassemble it. I'm hoping that we can take it down as four walls and the roof, load it on a trailer...

We have 6 RIR pullets that were raised together and have always been in the same coop together. They are just about one year old. Recently we noticed that 5 of the 6 hens have broken feathers on their saddles. One is pretty thin-feathered down there, the others have varying degrees of broken...

Ok, I bought the bottle of Oxine. For disinfecting coops and using as a nebulizer for sick chickens...do you use the activating crystals? And what dilutions of Oxine : water do you use for each task???

Our two week old silkie started sneezing and sounded congested while breathing about 3 days ago. We separated her from the rest, giving Polyvisol 1 drop 2x per day, Tylan in the water. She is eating, drinking, pooping normally and has good energy. I understand about dust and sneezing, but...

I purchased four silkie birds from a breeder. Two of them were 8 weeks old and two of them were day-old. On the first day it was apparent that one of the 8 week old birds had a brain injury (pecked by the other 8 week old bird in the box on the way home), did the prednisone thing etc, lost the...

I acquired this silkie about 10 days ago, all seemed well. She is about 2 months old. This morning we noticed that she was mopey. So we introduced her to the baby chicks in the box next to her. When we did this a few days ago she was terribly mean to them, pecking them until they ran in the...