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Which Chicken Started Laying Eggs?

First Egg

When you raise hens from baby chicks, finding their first eggs can be exciting. Chickens don’t all start laying at the same time, so you’ll likely find an occasional small egg, then maybe one each day. Before long you’ll be finding multiple eggs daily. But since most chickens don’t lay an egg every day, how […]

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Silver Laced Wyandotte Chicken (Exhibition Type)

Silver Laced Wyandotte Chicken (Show Type)
  • Black Laced Silver Wyandotte (Exhibition Type) – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
     Minimums – Not Sexed = 3
                              Female = 3
                              Male = 1
                                Total of 3 birds to ship       

Shipped Early Feb thru End of Sept

MAXIMUM OF 5

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What Are Chick Days?

Chick Days

Chick Days occur during a brief period in spring when local feed, farm and home stores offer baby chicks — and sometimes ducklings, turkey poults and guinea keets — for sale. Nearly all stores have chicks around Easter time. With the ever-increasing popularity of chicken keeping, some stores start Chick Days in early February and […]

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Blue Egg Chicken: Ameraucana or Americana?

Ameraucana-Eggs

How do you spell the chicken breed that lays eggs with blue shells: Ameraucana or Americana? If you said Ameraucana, you are correct. So how did this breed get such an oddly spelled name? To answer that question requires reviewing the breed’s origin.   Araucana In 1925 a breed of chicken discovered in Chile was […]

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Why Does a Chicken Lose Feathers?

Chickens lose feathers for any number of reasons, some of which are seasonal, while others can occur at any time of year. Here are the most common reasons chickens and other poultry lose feathers and what you can do to help your feathered friends remain feathered.   Feather Picking Feather picking is most likely to […]

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White Ameraucanas Chicken

White Ameraucanas Chicken
  • White Ameraucanas Chicken – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –

Not Sexed = 3

Female = 3

Male = 1

Total of 3 birds to ship

Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru Early August.

Limit of 15

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Splash Ameraucanas Chicken

Splash Ameraucana Chickens
  • Splash Ameraucanas Chicken – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –

Not Sexed = 3

Female = 3

Male = 1

Total of 3 birds to ship

Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru Early August.

Limit of 15

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Buff Ameraucana Chicken

Buff Ameraucana Chicken
  • Buff Ameraucanas Chicken – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –

Not Sexed = 3

Female = 3

Male = 1

Total of 3 birds to ship

Shipped Early Feb thru Early August.

OUT OF STOCK FOR THIS HATCHING SEASON

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Cream Legbar Chicken

Cream Legbar Chicken
  • Cream Legbar Chicken – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –

Not Sexed = 3

Female = 3

Male = 1

Total of 3 birds to ship

Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru October

Limit of 49 on Females

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