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Spring Chicks
- KETCHAM
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Spring Chicks
Well our local RKO..[Rual King Ohio] has chicks for sale....2 weeks now....To early I think....So I dropped by to see what they had...They discounted the older chicks to move them...I bought 6...minimum you can buy...Heck,,,they already had feathers on them..I put them at a month old...Well...one month less of feeding them..ISA brown pullets..So now the flock is at 12 with 6 to add when they get big....I got 5 chickens for an old boss of mine....None on them are laying....a couple are going to be killed if they don't start...been feeding them for a month now...not one egg......Kevin
47 CUB[Krusty] 49 CUB[Ollie] 50 H-- PLOWS DISCS MOWERS AND lots more stuff!!Life is to short -Have fun now cause ya ain't gonna be here long!!!!
- Trent M
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- SONNY
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Re: Spring Chicks
They have to be 4 to 6 months old ,--or more before they even think about laying! thanks; sonny
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Re: Spring Chicks
Speaking of chickens, has anone heard how many bottom plows these new Chicken Tractors I see advertised ,can pull.
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Re: Spring Chicks
Ketcham I was at RKO this past Sat. and they had a another load of chicks and they were on sale, I spoke to a couple of people that mentioned that they had better results at Tractor Supply with getting all hens in their selections. Pabst
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Re: Spring Chicks
Has anybody tried those blue eggs. I love them they have biggest yolks and orange color.
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Re: Spring Chicks
Kevin, if you can separate the ones that aren't laying, try giving them a heavy diet of corn. A old farmer friend of mine told me about that, he had over a thousand layers in the late 50's, early 60's. Both him and his wife have told me they made the mortgage payment with egg sales! John
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Re: Spring Chicks
A friend of mine bought 50 meat chicks. By the time we added the cost of feed and taking them to the Mennonites to be cleaned and bagged. We had $22 in each bird. Not counting our time or gas.
- KETCHAM
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Re: Spring Chicks
Well....the chicks are now little chickens and in with the others....The older chickens are picking on the young ones...that is to be expected...they are about 10 weeks....out of 11 hens ...getting 9 eggs a day now....I had a rooster.....didn't ever crow....caught him mounting a few hens....didn't want to candle the eggs...Wish it would get nice out...Cutting grass again so my feed bill will go down also......love push cutting the yard.....Kevin
47 CUB[Krusty] 49 CUB[Ollie] 50 H-- PLOWS DISCS MOWERS AND lots more stuff!!Life is to short -Have fun now cause ya ain't gonna be here long!!!!
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