10-09-2007, 04:16 PM
Aloha KathyH,
I called my Friends (they are Quakers, so the capitol "F" is appropriate) and they do have some adult hens available should you be interested in purchasing them. I'm not sure of the exact breed they have available right now, though. They generally have mostly araucanas which are the chickens which lay light blue or green eggs. They have had some brown egg layers lately too, either Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire Reds as well as various crosses. Several years ago they did have the Sex Link aka "Red Star" chickens. We had a Red Star hen and she was a great little critter. She was named "Hendini" though, since there wasn't a fence made she couldn't get out of.
Sometimes Del's brings in chicks although they sell out quickly when they do. Probably the easiest way to get chicks is to mail order them and they arrive in a box at your Post Office. Murrey McMurrey is one of the standard mail order hatcheries. Here's a link to a page full of hatcheries:
http://www.feathersite.com//Poultry/BRKHatcheries.html
The last hatchery I got chickens from was Valentine's Hatchery in Florida. Brought in some Cuckoo Marans hatching eggs since I wanted some hens who laid really dark brown eggs.
http://www.vhatchery.com/
Lately, though, I've just been getting a dozen or two fertile eggs locally and running the small tabletop incubator. Saves on shipping costs since most of these will be meat birds.
We keep the mongoose out of the chicken coop by building them up on metal post legs. The hens can jump up the three feet to the coop door and the mongoose can't. We also have dogs which chase the mongoose out of the back yard. One of our dogs ignores the chickens, the other one tries to herd them into a group all the time. Usually that works until the guinea fowl charges the dog and then there's critters every which way.
The County sprayer has about a hundred and fifty feet of hose so if you can get the sprayer fairly close, then you can pull the hose the rest of the way. It sprays out about sixty feet from the end of the hose so between the hose and the spray itself, the County sprayer does have some range. We used it last week and Sunday night to cut back some frogs around here.
I called my Friends (they are Quakers, so the capitol "F" is appropriate) and they do have some adult hens available should you be interested in purchasing them. I'm not sure of the exact breed they have available right now, though. They generally have mostly araucanas which are the chickens which lay light blue or green eggs. They have had some brown egg layers lately too, either Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire Reds as well as various crosses. Several years ago they did have the Sex Link aka "Red Star" chickens. We had a Red Star hen and she was a great little critter. She was named "Hendini" though, since there wasn't a fence made she couldn't get out of.
Sometimes Del's brings in chicks although they sell out quickly when they do. Probably the easiest way to get chicks is to mail order them and they arrive in a box at your Post Office. Murrey McMurrey is one of the standard mail order hatcheries. Here's a link to a page full of hatcheries:
http://www.feathersite.com//Poultry/BRKHatcheries.html
The last hatchery I got chickens from was Valentine's Hatchery in Florida. Brought in some Cuckoo Marans hatching eggs since I wanted some hens who laid really dark brown eggs.
http://www.vhatchery.com/
Lately, though, I've just been getting a dozen or two fertile eggs locally and running the small tabletop incubator. Saves on shipping costs since most of these will be meat birds.
We keep the mongoose out of the chicken coop by building them up on metal post legs. The hens can jump up the three feet to the coop door and the mongoose can't. We also have dogs which chase the mongoose out of the back yard. One of our dogs ignores the chickens, the other one tries to herd them into a group all the time. Usually that works until the guinea fowl charges the dog and then there's critters every which way.
The County sprayer has about a hundred and fifty feet of hose so if you can get the sprayer fairly close, then you can pull the hose the rest of the way. It sprays out about sixty feet from the end of the hose so between the hose and the spray itself, the County sprayer does have some range. We used it last week and Sunday night to cut back some frogs around here.
Kurt Wilson