Commercial fades in to a family sitting around the dinner table. Boy #1: "I want a drumstick!" Boy #2: "I want a drumstick!" Boy #3: "I want a drumstick, too!" Dad: "Now, boys. Three of you can't each have a drumstick." Mom [beaming]: "Oh, yes they can! I bought a Chernobyl Chicken!!" Fast-forward to bedtime. Mom: "I told you boys to turn out the light." Boy #1: "The light's not on, Mom. It's Timmy. He had a second helping of Chernobyl Chicken."
I don't think the spelling matters; I knew exactly what you meant. And in my family (south GA), when we say biddie we are referring to a newly-hatched chick. Here's a retailer at Ray City, GA... https://www.bobsbiddies.com/
I was just thinking that Ray City is just a crossroads with an old gas station, haha. I have driven through there thousands of times back and forth to Valdosta.
That's probably because it's a "wide spot in the road." Also my home state, but since I grew up in Berrien County I've been through there many times. It's just a few miles from Moody AFB.
We need 4 hen's pullets, don't want to order biddies aka peeps although that's what we always got, too much care for those at the time. Our 3 hens are almost 5 now and about to slow down on laying eggs.
You might want to check out the link below don't know if they have pullets. Back in the '80s I ordered 100 day old segregated mixed chicks. We were allowed to have chickens back then today new laws restrict having them. https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/index.html
My goodness Tony what a crock! You can't have chicken's ,well guess its good we only want 4. No telling when they will come after everyone's. 3 hens is plenty for us and we have eggs lefe over. Our 3 old hens keep us in plenty of eggs. We had 7 but somehow 3 years ago something got in killed 3, then Goldy got killed last year,so only 3 left.
Well, Marie, Florida isn't really known for livestock sales. Now, if there's a Tractor Supply anywhere near you, they sell baby chicks. As far as livestock goes, we have a place called CLA (Centennial Livestock Auction) about 20 miles north of us. They sell cattle, horses, goats and sheep. We've been there before. But, of course, Florida isn't Colorado or Wyoming!
Marie, The hundred chicks weren't all mine I split them with a friend of mine so we had 50 each actually 49 each two died in transit. I got a pretty good mix I had leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, even some Easter chicks. I kept them in a permanent pen with 12 Nest box but I also had a portable pen where I would take some into the garden to eat weeds, seeds, and bugs. The only chickens that ran free on the property where 2 Banton hens. For a while we couldn't figure where they went at night, until I follow them one night, they would Circle under a tree and jump ( flap) up to the lowest branch and stay there for the night. Before this I had a rooster for a while roaming the property every time I bend over to Garden it would Peck me on the butt he wanted to get to the earthworms. One day I chased him with a shovel when I turned around to go back to work he jumped on my shoulders and started pecking my head, I got rid of him and never had a rooster since.
Where I live there are tone of private sellers and lots of trading going on. I'm not in the market for critters but I'll stop by to watch.
Thanks yall for the help ,I'm still cleaning floors 'finally' got most of them mopped now. Have to put furniture back in place.
I would check with a commercial egg farm. They usually dispose of laying hens yearly. Saturday market is also a good source. Also if your local radio station has a buy, sell, or swap show, you can usually put out the word there. 4 H is another source. I would imagine there is a local buy and sell online. In my later years of chickenry, I raised my own. I had Araucana and half a dozen hens kept me in eggs plus some to sell during the spring and summer. I canned the extra roosters. I always kept the meanest rooster because they kept rats and even weasels away.