Posts by Pathfinders

Quote: Originally Posted by mmi 45  any good hatcheries that have good dutch   You will never get good Dutch from a hatchery. Find a breeder.

Well, I have a separate hatcher, but when I had just the one, I would always take them out of the turner, as I was afraid they'd get tangled in the tray/apparatus. 

Quote: Originally Posted by rrhounddog  I finally got some buckeyes! Woohoo!   Congrats! Hope they do well for you.  

Quote: Originally Posted by Marengoite    NYREDS,   Do you know who Blueface3 is?    rick   I do. He's the guy who bought three dozen hatching eggs from...

Quote: Originally Posted by suncatcher  ... but would like to take on a breed that very few are breeding, hence my problem|!!!!!   I prefer to raise what everyone else isn't raising, or what is...

I am not sure you'll have to throw eggs away using either, but check the labels. If there is a "withdrawal time" listed for poultry use, then follow what's on the label.

Hmm. I've never heard of Poultry Protector. Let us know how it works on an active infestation. I still think you might have better luck with Sevin dust, but that's just me.   Be aware that if a hen is badly infested with...

Well, it's a funny story, happened about five or six years ago.    That coop has windows with screens, but we felt they were too flimsy to keep the raccoons out (we had seen little raccoon hand prints on the side of the...

We not only lock our main coop doors, we added burglar bars to the windows, after having some two-legged predators come and steal some of our birds one year. Ain't nothin' getting in that coop now!  

I would follow the advice centrarchid suggests, all good stuff there.    And I will add, poultry wire (or chicken wire) is not an effective predator deterrent. It will keep chickens in, it will not keep...