Posts by mattblackburn

I just bought a store bought incubator with egg turner and all and upgraded from my home made ice chest water heater thermostat project and was finding worse results than before with the home made one.   So i had some chicks...

Sorry it's been down a while they are mature and laying eggs I have had to butcher 5 roosters because of the annoyance of many roosters in a neighborhood and have two left may butcher one or both depending on how loud they are ill hatch...

sorry i was just being funny.  I dont mind them eating the bird seed they dont get much they just think its treat time and treats for birds means treats for them.  Its fun to watch.  I throw garden stuff and they will go...

usually the feed is in the pen but when i let them out and the door open the dog will sometimes eat from their feeder this day i spread some on the ground when i let them out to scratch for it.  The dogs and chickens were eating...

i revamped this system.  kept the drinking cups the same but cut a hole in the coop and ran 1 " pipe outside and converted it to a 2 " elbow and stuck an ozarka bottle in the elbow to make it a vacum waterer just like the ones you...

get a five gallon waterer or get a nipple system.  This was not that expensive but the toilet float valve needs pressure to operate so unless you plumb it into a water hose or pipe fed by water system youll constantly be having to...

but hatcheries will tell you males are more hardy to conditions outside of acceptible range.  If your temp is way off (11/32 hatching could be key if they were all fertile)  then maybe only the males survived and the females...

my camera was waterproof i as going to follow it in the surf and swim with it but the waves were kicking it around so much i was afraid to accidentally hurt it so i opted not to, but this was good enough for me just to capture it the...

ok its not a chicken but i caught this footage on vacation figured you might enjoy.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6bZzVIsM7Y&feature=plcp