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How's that keyhole attached to the watering pipe? Looks like smaller PVC pipe cut down, but how did you attach it? It would have to be very secure, as the main pipe would get pretty heavy when filled with water.

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I just ordered from Bonnie's Hatchery. I'll see how the chicks do over the next little bit. They just arrived. Good customer service and pleased so far.

I checked out the links previously given. I'm not too excited about Freys (due to previous bad chicks). Rochester Hatchery is far so will need to fly the chicks out to Ontario (I'm in the Niagara area). I'm looking for 100 day-olds of either Rhode Island or New Hampshire Reds. The shipping...

What was your hatch rate? Did you need to make any modifications to it after?

I don't want to feed medicated starter to my chicks. Organic is super expensive (2x the regular price), so the guys at the farm store thought duck starter may work as it's not medicated. The protein percentage in the duck feed is also a wee bit higher than in the chick starter too. These are...

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I sure wouldn't have thought egg, it was rock hard and partly hollow. But I spend an hour and a half yesterday morning looking through backyardchickens and found lots of info on retained eggs, 'lash eggs' and ovarian tumours. It sure looked...

It's day 6 for my chick eggs! The incubator is in my bedroom on my dresser. This afternoon, I closed the curtains, crouched underneath a blanket on the floor, and tried to candle the first egg with the strongest flashlight we have. Just then my dog, Keltie, (German Shepherd x Whippet) walked...

My brother's rabbit had a goopy eye infection one summer. A rabbit breeder friend of ours said to bathe it in warm salt water several times a day. Worked great and cleared it all up!

I picked up some 2 yr old layers from some guy today for $1 each and butchered them. I've done several butcherings before (mostly my own birds), but never come across this before. When we gutted the birds, we found that two of them each had a fairly large, ovalish, hard mass inside. It was...

It's very embarrassing, but I have a rat PROBLEM in my chicken coops. Snap traps, live traps & bucket traps have only caught under a dozen this year. I've seen a couple other dozen rats at LEAST. I have an 8x10 coop and a 5x7 coop side by side. What would you guys do? I tore up the 8x10...

I found a couple of great webpages on trap nests I thought I'd share with you all (no idea if anyone else has already posted these). I love the simple trap nest on this page and think I'll give it a try. http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/ppp/ppp5.html This one also looks easy...

Just emailed them. I'll ask my dad too: he's good with electrical stuff. Thanks

Do I have to buy the special adapter for my hovabator (genesis 1588) or can I buy an adapter from a local hardware store? As long as it can adapt 110V AC to 12 volt DC settings it's fine, right? Thanks

Thanks everyone. I'll keep feeding it and maybe add some of the grains that I have for my ducks too.