Comments on: The Chicks are Hanging Out

By: Reverse Phone LookUp

Reverse Phone LookUp — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:58:23 +0000

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By: Linda L.

Linda L. — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:06:07 +0000

How about some baby ducks or little lambs? Please post some photos of those cuties!

By: Jo Le

Jo Le — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:02:58 +0000

Allen, I love your pictures of the little chicks. Especially the one who looks angry: caption: “This is mine — you can’t have it”. On the one above: “Hey gang, look what I found!”

Thank you so much. Visiting your Farm is one of my “Life Checks”. I want to see it before I go. Hopefully sometime this year I will get my wish.

Jo Le

By: Sandra Rode

Sandra Rode — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:05:02 +0000

I can’t resist baby chicks, my hatch out and yet I still buy them at the feed stores when I go in or the farming supply store. My husband gets frustrated yet he talks to them as if they are real babies. The hard part butchering the meat hens. We try to be humane and not ever let them suffer. Home grown meat birds are so healthy and taste so much better than store bought. LOL

By: P. Allen Smith

P. Allen Smith — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:28:05 +0000

Good tip Diana!

By: Georgetta

Georgetta — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:02:38 +0000

In the spring my mother would order baby chickens through the mail & they would be delivered to where we lived in the country by our postman…all were sound & healthy. They were placed in their very own little enclosure in our house and eventually to their own little chicken coop in our back yard. Of course I made ‘pets’ of them all. I would sit on the grass and they would hop all over me and even sit on shoulders, To this day I go to the feed stores just to hear & see the baby chickens. You sure bring back a lot of good memories Mr. Smith…Thank You!

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:19:04 +0000

Memories of childhood days. Good Pics!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:38:11 +0000

We all love you Allen, keep on chuggin’! Great website!

By: Diana Fendley

Diana Fendley — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:43:52 +0000

You can order them from McMurry Hatchery, or many others, they ship them one day old and you pick them up from the post office as soon as they call you. Be prepared to bring them home before hand and have everything ready. There are many websites that will tell you what you need. Also make sure you get them vaccinated against Merks and use only medicated chick feed to prevent them from getting coccidiosis, which will usually kill them. And read, read, read about making everything preditor proof.

By: Brenda Powell

Brenda Powell — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:31:46 +0000

I would like an address of where to buy chicks. I want some odd looking chickens and leghorns. I will be building a chicken house the end of March 2012. I live in north Louisiana

By: Cindy Medvid

Cindy Medvid — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:41:05 +0000

These little ones bring back memories of going to the 5 & 10 store around Easter and seeing all the pretty colored chicks pink, yellow, green, rose, blue. I just couldn’t understand as they grew up they turned yellow. Wonderful flash back I just encountered.
Thanks

By: Alice Marcotte

Alice Marcotte — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:49:20 +0000

Really cute. Love the 3rd one. He looks like he is defending his turf.
Like the newsletters. Come them coming.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:57:42 +0000

When I was a child we ordered our baby chicks from Sear’s and picked them up at the railroad depot.

By: Wilma Erlandson

Wilma Erlandson — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:40:59 +0000

Years ago they shipped baby chicks from the Santa Cruz Post Office to the San Joaquin Valley, etc. I remember going in the Post Office and hearing this cheep. cheep, cheep, and I knew they had baby chicks to ship. This is a pleasant reminder.

By: Franki Parde

Franki Parde — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:16:51 +0000

I, too, remember…”the chicks are coming, the chicks are coming…delivered IN THE MAIL no less. We always had a favorite…then…they grew up and we had to “catch them out of the trees when it got cold…with a chicken hook. Ahhh, the “good old days…” franki

By: Cindy Martin

Cindy Martin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:45:30 +0000

We just purchesed 12 new chicks 4 for our flock and 8 for my daughters house. they are so much fun to raise and it is great to get a little present from them each day

By: Carol Thompson

Carol Thompson — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:34:35 +0000

How adorable!

By: Barbara Breuer

Barbara Breuer — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:40:16 +0000

I remember when my father used to buy baby chicks in big boxes. When he took off the lid in the chicken house, they spilled over the edges in bright yellow piles of fluff. I loved it and I am smiling now!!!

When I encounter tasks that seem to go all over the place and be uncontrollable, I compare it to “gathering baby chicks.”

By: Rita Hopper

Rita Hopper — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:22:09 +0000

Love the newsletters.
It is interesting to see your fascination with various chickens here and on your TV show and the varieties that they have. When I was growing up all we had were Leghorns – but had good eggs and good eating!

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:20:18 +0000

OMG too darn cute!!! I remember when my Grandmother used to purchase her “chicks” at the farmers market in Wisconsin each summer…..such fun as a kid to have a box full of little chicks to play with on the kitchen floor!!
thanks for the memories!!!