Hello I am new to your list.  I am looking for contacts to chickens
in the eastern panhandle of WV, or Northern VA. Or panhandle of MD.

I have had chickens for years. At one time I had Marans, Buff
Orpingtons and several breeds of Tophats.  Also have always had
silkies.
This was when I lived in New Market section of VA.

Now I live in WV moves due to husbands work.  I have a small coop I
have built really very nice I need to post a pic.  I got the plans
off the net and anyone wanted a small 4x8 coop I would recomend this
plan to as it is eazy to clean and warm in winter and cool in summer.
I currently have 3 ameracauna hens which are excellent layers and
one Golden seabright Rooster.  The rooster is new.  When I bought
the hens last year I got them at the local tractor supply.  after a
dog pack killed all of my flock.  I now have my coop electrified and
keep it that way.  No more dog problems.
I just got the rooster the other day I just love him.  He is a total
sweetie.  The man who sold him to me only had roosters no hens.  I
am really interested in finding more seabrights.  I have hatched
eggs in my incubator in the past usually get about 80 % hatch with
shipped eggs.  Or I am looking for a few hens that are in driving
distance. I know the Shenadoah County fair is comeing up I may drive
over there for contacts.  They have a nice chicken section.
Anyway this is me and my current chickens hope not to long of a post.
I do enjoy my chickens.
Sincerely,
Lisa in WV

Hi
I am new to this list and feel lucky to have found it.
I bought a Bantam baby chick for a dollar at the Farm and Garden Market in
Saginaw, MI about 2 weeks ago. The Mother was small with black, brown and a
tiny bit of white in the feathers
and kind of small and plump - about the size of 2 fists. I have no clue if
my Bantam (that is what the owner said it was) is of any "breed" or
"variety". The Mother looked like a dark, small regular chicken. She was
really sweet. I wanted her, but I had to buy a chick. I was told this
chick will grow to have brown wings and a black and brown speckled body.

Doesn't matter at all to me. I am in love with her. She was two weeks when
I got her. We are together all the time - mostly outside right now. She
helps me pull weeds and eats bugs.
She is on MASH. In the afternoon, when I use the computer,
she sits on my shoulder and clucks into my ear. I play a "bird
sounds" cd to her while I type. She is learning other songs - at least she
is trying to imitate them! She is very smart. When the hawk song comes on,
I grab her and hide her in my shirt and go "oh oh, shhhhh!"! She is then
very still until I move. Good bird.

I named her Lucy after my departed sweet Mother. I know Lucy is smiling at
me somewhere in the heavens and saying: "You dern fool!" That was her
byline. Since this Lucy makes me very happy (my bloodpressure dropped 10
points each end in 24 hours after getting Lucy) my Mother is smiling for
sure.

Anyway, questions:
Lucy ate cheese that fell to the floor from my sandwich. She gobbled it
very fast before I could get it from her. Is that ok?
She really really loved it!

Is she allowed to eat whatever she wants to eat outside?
Any bug? Any grass? Can she eat seeds (she is almost 4 weeks.)?

Does anyone have Chicken Tractor plans? I saw one that looked like an A
frame house. It would be easier for me to make with measurements that I
could scale down for one bird. If you don't know about a chicken tractor,
it has no bottom and can fit into your garden. The chicks eat the bugs,
then fertilize. It can be moved easily to a new spot in a few hours.
Protects the chicks from predators. I love the idea of it.
Anyway - hello. I am happy to be on the list so I can learn
about Bantams - about my Lucy!

Gayle and Lucy (the Bantam), Hootie (the rescued Greyhound),
Gertrude (half Siamese and half Tabby cat) and Mr. Sweetie,
black feral cat, in Saginaw, Michigan.

PS: I uploaded two photos in the photos file in a folder
called: Lucy. Hopefully my link will work. If not, go
to the group on Yahoo under photos and open the "lucy" folder.

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/bantamchickens/photos

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Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:15 PM

Subject: [bantamchickens] Howdy

My name is Pop & I have had one time or another about ever chicken breed on the list. I developed my own line of Fawn Golden Duckwings & was told by the guys showing them my stock was as good as thiers, I did not need thier birds to improve mine.
I started out with O E, but have about every kind since then.
My main breeding program now is White Rocks, RIRs & I am trying for a Turken Frizzle.
I have birds from 5 weeks old to grown & more to come from the bator every Sat. till the birds quit laying.
I hope to breed & sale Golden Coment bamtans by next if not in the fall.
I would like to hear more about all of you & your birds.
Where is everyone from?
POP IN RUTHERFORD CO NC

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Hi
I am new to this list and feel lucky to have found it.
I bought a Bantam baby chick for a dollar at the Farm and Garden Market in
Saginaw, MI about 2 weeks ago.  The Mother was small with black, brown and a
tiny bit of white in the feathers
and kind of small and plump - about the size of 2 fists.  I have no clue if
my Bantam (that is what the owner said it was) is of any "breed" or
"variety".  The Mother looked like a dark, small regular chicken.  She was
really sweet.  I wanted her, but I had to buy a chick.  I was told this
chick will grow to have brown wings and a black and brown speckled body.

Doesn't matter at all to me.  I am in love with her.  She was two weeks when
I got her.  We are together all the time - mostly outside right now.  She
helps me pull weeds and eats bugs.
She is on MASH.  In the afternoon, when I use the computer,
she sits on my shoulder and clucks into my ear.  I play a "bird
sounds" cd to her while I type.  She is learning other songs - at least she
is trying to imitate them!  She is very smart.  When the hawk song comes on,
I grab her and hide her in my shirt and go "oh oh, shhhhh!"!  She is then
very still until I move.  Good bird.

I named her Lucy after my departed sweet Mother.  I know Lucy is smiling at
me somewhere in the heavens and saying:  "You dern fool!"  That was her
byline.  Since this Lucy makes me very happy (my bloodpressure dropped 10
points each end in 24 hours after getting Lucy) my Mother is smiling for
sure.

Anyway, questions:
Lucy ate cheese that fell to the floor from my sandwich.  She gobbled it
very fast before I could get it from her.  Is that ok?
She really really loved it!

Is she allowed to eat whatever she wants to eat outside?
Any bug?  Any grass?  Can she eat seeds (she is almost 4 weeks.)?

Does anyone have  Chicken Tractor plans?  I saw one that looked like an A
frame house.  It would be easier for me to make with measurements that I
could scale down for one bird.  If you don't know about a chicken tractor,
it has no bottom and can fit into your garden.  The chicks eat the bugs,
then fertilize. It can be moved easily to a new spot in a few hours.
Protects the chicks from predators.  I love the idea of it.
Anyway - hello.  I am happy to be on the list so I can learn
about Bantams - about my Lucy!

Gayle and Lucy (the Bantam), Hootie (the rescued Greyhound),
Gertrude (half Siamese and half Tabby cat) and Mr. Sweetie,
black feral cat,  in Saginaw, Michigan.

PS:  I uploaded two photos in the photos file in a folder
called: Lucy.  Hopefully my link will work.  If not, go
to the group on Yahoo under photos and open the "lucy" folder.

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/bantamchickens/photos

i have a silkie who seems to have a running eye, foamy
doesnt seem sick otherwise,
now, new at this sooo,
question, do i seperate him?
what do i use to cure?
how do i know what i am dealing with?
no one else in coop has any signs of anything,
thanks,
wendy

Hiya guys and gals. Just wanted to welcome the new comers and get the
word out that I have Silkies for sale. I have two dozen little ones
right now and twenty hatching today. I currently have splash, blue,
black, and white. I have buff and more white hatching today.
If interested email me @ alldjs@....
You can view photos of my silkies;
www.photos.yahoo.com/davidj_mo

David

must find homes soon have a trio of black rose combs also black japs,
black cochin and barred rocks must take roosters and hens if u just
want hens dont bother emailng me

I narrowed my birds down to my standard brahmas and my favorite
Silkies. I want to really learn about the breed and possibly show.
Right now I have five buff silkies 8 weeks for sale.  Good stock, but
pet quality. Email me if interested. Thanks, Ruth from NH

I narrowed my birds down to my standard brahmas and my favorite
Silkies. I want to really learn about the breed and possibly show.
Right now I have five buff silkies 8 weeks for sale.  Good stock, but
pet quality. Email me if interested. Thanks, Ruth from NH

Hi, I am Tina and just joined.  I have bantam white silkies and red
silkies and ameraucana and salmon faverolles and various cochins all
in bantam. I live east tennessee.  I am looking for bantam polish if
any one has them.  I also have d'uccle.

The group Chickens_1 has been deleted. Thanks t all of you who particaapated in
it.
Harley, where you from?
POP IN RUTHERFORD CO NC

Hi Everyone!!
   I am new here and I raise Silkies!!! =) This is my
Second year and I am just getting into selling
them.....=) I have 3 buff Lace Polish and 4 Sultan
chicks that I hatched out a couple weeks ago. And, I
also raise guineas and am just getting into
Turkeys....=)

I am located in Wrightsville, Pa.

Thanks!
~Lacey

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For the past two years I have lived in town and have been unable to
raise any chickens. I have recently been given the opportunity to
live in the country again, and if all goes well, I will be able to
have a few breeds again. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can
find Bantam Blue/Black/or Splash Sumatras, Black Australorps, Salmon
Faverolles, New Hampshire Reds, and Silver-Spangled Hamburgs? I'm
really excited about having the chance to raise birds again. Thanks to
anone who replies.

I have found a breeder for the Hamburgs and Black Sumatras but I'm
still looking for the other.  :)

Colt

I am new to this board and wanted to say hi. I have actually not had
any birds of any sort in just over two years because my dad kicked
me out of the house and got rid of all my birds. And the week before
that the owners of the hobby farm I worked for, Critter Run,
seperated and the thousand or so birds they had were gotten rid of
to say the least. However I love poultry of all kinds and have
raised somewhere around 60 or so breeds: Easter
Eggers/Ameracauna/Aracuanas, Standard Black Australorps, Partridge
Welsummers, Barnevelders (single, double, and triple-laced) Golden-
laced, Blue, Black, and Splash Cochins, Black, Mottled, and White
Javas, Cuckoo (Fugate, Ripley, and Braden lines), Black, Black
Copper, and Birchin Marans, Sicilian Buttercups, Standard Salmon
Faverolles, Golden, Silver, and Blue-laced Red Wyandottes, Light and
Buff Brahmas, Rhode Island (Straight-combed) and New Hampshire Reds,
Speckled Sussex, Dominiques, Spangled Russian Orloph, Crele and
Black Pendesencas, Bantam Black Australorps, Bantam Black Sumatras,
Belgian d'Anvers (Quail and Self Blue), Bantam Red- shouldered
Yokohamas, Bantam Blue-laced Red Wyandottes, Straight- combed
Nankin, Mille Fleur and Silver Duckwing OEGB, Black-tailed White and
Buff Japanese Bantams, Bantam Faverolle (Salmon and Self Blue),
Bourbon Red, Royal Palm, Black Spanish, and Eastern Turkeys, White
and Brown Chinese and Pomeranian Geese, Mallards, White Pekins, and
Fawn and White Indian Runners, Helmeted Guinea Fowl (Pearl,
Lavender, White, Chocolate, Royal Purple, Slate, and Pied), Ring-
necked Pheasant, Chuckar, Bobwhite and Cortunix Quail, and a few
other breeds of chickens like sex-links. My screenname on
backyardchickens.com is Chickndaddy so if you are on there you may
have seen me around. I would love to help anyone out and I will try
to answer anyone's questions that I can. I look forward to being on
here.

Colt

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the near identical double post. My first
post to you guys was sent back as undelivered by
yahoo,so I re-wrote another one and sent it. Finally
my original post made it to you guys-go figure!

Asia in Oakland

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I am from Southern Indiana, We raise LLamas and are just now gettingin
to Silkies and Bantams.

Lily I love your site and would like som emore info on the Turkeys.

Hope we all have a great time hear,

Matthew Sites
Briar Hill LLamas
Mitchell,IN

Hi everyone,

I only have 1 Bantam -a white Silkie Bantam rooster
named  " Sunny ".

I  also have 2 adult full-sized hens ( a
Langshan,"Chalotte", a Wyandotte,"Heather "), 2
full-sized adolescent  Aracauna hens ( "Chicory " + "
Mirabelle "), and 14 baby chickens-all will be full
sized hens- an assortment of  'Rarest of the Rare' + '
Top Hat Special '  assortment from the McMurray
Hatchery in Iowa.

I also have 13 rabbits + 8 Guinea Pigs (all
spayed/neutered-I do animal rescue), and 3 cats. All
my animals are my beloved pets.

I have one rabbit who is a house rabbit- he doesn't
get along w/ my other 12 rabbits. He likes my  Bantam
rooster " Sunny ", who comes in the house @ night and
sleeps in the kitchen w/ the rabbit " Paddington ",
because his early am crowing disturbs one of my
neighbors.

Asia, in Oakland, CA.




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Hi everyone

I have only 1 Bantam .( The rest are all full sized
chickens:a Wyandotte "Heather",a Langshan
"Charlotte",2 Aracaunas-"Chicory + Mirabelle", and 14
baby chickens-an assortment of standard sized breeds
,all pullets from the' Rarest of the Rare '+ 'Top Hat
Special' from the McMurray Hatchery ).

My Bantam is my rooster  "Sunny ". He is a white
Silkie, and very sweet. He is my only rooster. He
comes into the kitchen @ night (as he disturbs one of
my neighbors  w/his early am crowing ) and has the run
of the kitchen. I also have 2 cats and a house rabbit
inside who he gets along with. " Sunny " and my house
rabbit " Paddington " are in the kitchen together @
night.

I also have 12 rabbits +8 Guinea Pigs ( all
spayed/neutered who were rescue animals) who are free
roaming outside w/ indoor/outdoor options who are all
beloved pets, along w/ my chickens. I love them all.

I live in Oakland, California.

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I am in Sandown, NH (near Derry, NH)

Caroline

At 07:40 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote:
>wondering where you all are from?  I live in
>Dartmouth, Ma. (near begining of Cape Cod)

My name is Pop & I have had one time or another about ever chicken breed on the
list. I developed my own line of Fawn Golden Duckwings & was told by the guys
showing them my stock was as good as thiers, I did not need thier birds to
improve mine.
I started out with O E, but have about every kind since then.
My main breeding program now is White Rocks, RIRs & I am trying for a Turken
Frizzle.
I have birds from 5 weeks old to grown & more to come from the bator every Sat.
till the birds quit laying.
I hope to breed & sale Golden Coment bamtans by next if not in the fall.
I would like to hear more about all of you & your birds.
Where is everyone from?
POP IN RUTHERFORD CO NC

I keep Nankins, Araucanas and BLRW.

I keep Nankins, Araucanas and BLRW.

I only have chicks at this point.  I have silkies - some that I hatched
and some that I picked up at the poultry swap & sell last weekend
in Brockton MA; I also have three mille fleur d'uccles that I got
there.  And, because I have been seriously bitten by the hatching
bug, I have hatching eggs coming for some more mille fleurs, some
silver sebrights, and some seramas.  They're all so pretty!

I have some big chickens too, but I adore my littles!  Besides that,
they're so small they can live in the house with me (in a wire dog crate)
much longer than the big girls!

Caroline in NH
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At 08:38 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
>i have some black rosecombs, and several auracanas, and a few mixed
>leghorn and rosecomb hens.  2 roos and 11 hens.
>
>i only keep them  as pets and for eggs.
>
>i really enjoy them because they are all characters.

i have a few bantams iwould like to give to a good home there are more
roosters than hens take one or all have black japs black cochins and
barred rocks

i have some black rosecombs, and several auracanas, and a few mixed
leghorn and rosecomb hens.  2 roos and 11 hens.

i only keep them  as pets and for eggs.

i really enjoy them because they are all characters.

Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
bantamchickens group:

What Bantam breeds do you own/raise?

   o Americanas
   o Araucanas
   o Brahmas
   o Buckeyes
   o Cochins
   o Cornish
   o Rosecombs
   o Polish
   o d'Uccles
   o Japanese
   o Old English Games
   o Modern Games
   o Seabrights
   o Silkies
   o Rhode Island Reds
   o New Hamsphires
   o Leghorns
   o Dominiques
   o Wyandottes
   o Rocks
   o Quail Antwerps
   o Other Bantam Chicken breed
   o Call Ducks
   o Black East Indie Ducks
   o Other Bantam Duck breed


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