Rural Gardening: New chicks coming, 0 by gallesfarm

gallesfarm wrote:
I decided to go ahead and get some new chickens this year. I wasn't going to, since we got chicks last June/July that are now only one year old. But, I'm a little disappointed by the size of the eggs we're getting. These are standard heavy breed birds (Wyandottes, NH Red), and we mostly get small or medium eggs, with some larger ones only once in a while. And, I wanted to try some other breeds as well as go back to breeds we had previously that I liked - Barred Rock and Turken. The other three I picked to try are Australorp, Black Giant, and Speckled Sussex. We actually have one SS now, and I wanted more of them just because they are pretty and personable - or our one SS is anyway.

So, chicks should be arriving the week of July 6. They are coming from Murray McMurray this time and I hope there won't be any problems. We ordered from them in 2005 and everything was fine, but I know over the last year or so they seemed to be having issues of one kind or another. Some people had good luck, and others didn't.