Posts by Bedste

Do any of you pasteurize your eggs?  When making mayo in one recipe it was suggested.  Have you ever used Hydrogen Peroxide to pasteurize them? If so what percentage and for how long?

i want to keep the nests clean from poop so I am looking for a cute idea to close them up at night .

thank you for that advice.  I am going to move the roosts in the morning.  I am looking for an idea to close the nests at night ... any thoughts or pics?

Hi everyone!  I have fifty - 3 month old pullets.  I would like to keep my chickens out of the nests at night so I am searching for any ideas or plans for flip doors on hinges or lattice on a lever or anything that I can...

thank  you everyone.  I had it all down pat and have been hatching chicks for years.  This last summer was the first problem ever and I have been doing everything the same

thank you guys! I want to just quit hatching all together..  but reading your success rate encourages me.  I might just give it a year and try again.  I think it is something in the food.  I think that my laying...

Is anyone having any success hatching eggs in an incubator?  I finally stopped trying...  4 times I set 42 eggs and 1 or 2 hatched.  In 12 weeks I had 6 chicks all who turned out to be roosters.  A friend of mine...

no one has been vaccinated.  Today I bleached all the coops and destroyed the suffering one and moved the others that I am suspecting to become sick into a quarantine.  What else can I do?  Should I vaccinate the entire...

I really need some help.  Please help me.  Do I have to destroy my entire flock?

I hatched these chicks. How did I get this disease?  I just merged them in with the older hens.  I had already lost a few before I did this but I thought it was cocciodis so I added Corid to their water and continued to loose...