Posts by Dutch552

I've found that the 2x4x2 is about the perfect size for an all-around brooder for us. Nice job on the construction.

2 x 4 x 2 stock tank is what we use for our brooder. You can get a metal one at a farm store and reuse it as your brooder as it is easy to clean/sanitize between batches and easy to make a cover for out of hardware cloth to keep...

Spray with bleach water and scrub it, then allow the bleach water to DRY-this is what will kill any harmful pathogens that might be on the plastic. Then rinse it out with lots of clean water-like in the bathtub or garden hose and dry...

I just ordered one online. Hopefully it will be here before my next round of fuzzbutts next week.

This will be an awesome resource!

No prophylactic Duramycin for the chicks-only if you have a known illness among your flock. Stick with medicated starter feed with a coccidiostat to prevent coccidiosis in the young ones. Nothing else needed.

Certain cochins, speckeled sussex, some hatchery lines of partridge rocks, EE's, certain OEGB/MGB color variants I have seen look just like chipmunks with the little stripes and all.

Feather sexing will work for all breeds, as far as I am aware. It has held try for my 1-3 day olds since I learned how to do it 3 years ago and hasn't let me down yet-even on batam breeds.

If they get some healthy barred rocks then I'm game for 6 or 8.

My wife came home with 8 straight run bantams from TSC this afternoon. It looks like all but one are pullets. She picked out at least 3 cochins, one English game that has a bad attitude already and one clean-legged black pullet that is...