Posts by gnatboy911

Please check out the pictures of my rooster.  Free to a good home, preferably not a stew pot.  very gentle.   http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/729763/buff-orpington-roo-needs-a-new-home-silt-co

I ordered two pullets from McMurray's hatchery earlier this summer.  They arrived to me the last week of July.  Well, it turns out one of them is a rooster.  He's a really gentle bird.   Pretty big, and very pretty....

A few years ago my parents had a skunk with a bunch of little ones take up residence under their shed.   They got some fox urine and put it around and they never saw the skunk again.   I tried it around my place and it didn't...

just an update....got the skunk in the trap this morning and was able to dispatch it without it spraying everywhere.   Chickens will be safer now.

Well no skunk last night.   No trail cam pics of anything.   It rained last night off and on most the night, which hasn't happened in a long time, so I think maybe that kept the skunk in its den.   I've done some...

So a few days ago I began to notice there were lots of dig marks and some of the large rocks were moved around the edge of my run.   I borrowed my dad's trail cam to see what I was up against in regards to trapping.   Here...

I'm going to try the weighing method next time also.   I didn't this time and I only got 12 out of 32 that went into lock down.   I candled them before lockdown and they all looked good.   I'm kinda...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Sweetlilbaby      You know the more you mess with the egg the less likely it is to hatch?  I did this by mistake earlier this year and ended up causing a...

good question, i'm in the same boat.  Sadly though i've got 18 that are sitting that way.   started with 42, 32 went into lockdown, 2 didn't make it out, 12 hatched successfully.   The last 18 are still just sitting....

I wanted to put my bator in lockdown yesterday, but I didn't get the chance to.   So, I went into my classroom early this morning to do it.   When i was taking the eggs out of the turner i heard some tapping, looked closely...