Our local Tractor Supply carries them in the spring.Most farm and ranch stores have them in, Sutherlands lumber has them in some stores
Your need to find some free range yardbirds & just convince them of your better amenities you plan on offering. Just remember Free Range yardbirds, not Free Shit Army.They have chicks... I don't want chicks...
If I have chicks, I have to raise them. If I have chickens, they can raise their own chicks.
Check out Craigslist. People all the time advertise full grown chickens for sale.I had chickens for years from 1998, which I started from chicks, and now haven't had chickens for even more years... They were all free range, with most roosting in their coop and the rest roosting in a tree over my welding table with obvious results...
They did mostly lay in the coop's laying boxes, but the one's who didn't kept the population growing. I had so many eggs, I kept the General Store supplied!
My dog and I had pretty much cleared out all the varmints and I only occasionally lost a chicken to fox or hawks...
Then, in 2009, I had to have hernia surgery, that turned out more complicated than expected, and the dog and I ended up away for 3 days instead of the expected one... When I got home, I found all my chickens dead and strewn around the fields and around the house and a cur Pit Bull and her pups feasting on the carcasses. Somehow, either the dog or my sheep and goats, which were also terrorized by the dog, had gotten a yard gate open so even the yard wasn't a safe haven for the chickens, though my fruit trees did serve to feed the goats that even stripped them of their bark.
Still in pain from the surgery, I nonetheless blasted the dogs with my 12 ga and only started cleaning up and burning all the carcasses the next day.
Though I've almost yearly thought to get chickens again, I never have. A few years ago pullets were available from some hatcheries for about $20, which was really reasonable considering the cost of chicks and the feed to raise them to pullets... Now, that doesn't seem to be an option.
I'd like to have a few chickens, but apparently like the OP, I really don't want to start them from chicks...
I still have a good roosting coop, but I really don't still have a good place to keep chicks.
He could be replacing his dogs!You can buy them online already sexed. I like Road island Reds and Barred chickens for laying hens. Had 21 hens until my neighbors dogs broke into the hen house. He offered to replace 21 laying hens with chicks from the feed store. Idiots!
And if you start a thread about chicks, or chickens, or raising them, you can take it any direction you want to.They have chicks... I don't want chicks...
If I have chicks, I have to raise them. If I have chickens, they can raise their own chicks.
Say what? Shady wants chickens...And if you start a thread about chicks, or chickens, or raising them, you can take it any direction you want to.
Y chicken shit on Shady?
For any NW SA peeps, we got a couple of Smallish roosters we could rehome.They have chicks... I don't want chicks...
If I have chicks, I have to raise them. If I have chickens, they can raise their own chicks.
closer to Central Tx I was going to say Austin but that that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I am about 1 Hr from AustinHuffman, Tx