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We have barred rocks and doms that crossed with rhode island reds and the offspring look like the barreds or dom but have some red feathers inthere stripping.

We started out with rhode island reds and barred rocks and 6 pekin ducks. The pekins grow fast and taste great, we have 2 left and they lay about an egg a day for us.

18/24 2 chickens sitting 1 duck sitting 90 going into incubator tonight, going to split them with friends

look like doms to me. we have 5 for now soon to have 2. mmmmm dinner.

every where is different but farther away the better. dont take a chance on it.

We have our game chicken sitting on ours we swaped out with hers. She started jan 1 with a full load. rir, br and some dom crosses

we wash in cold water then n the fridge they go

We have some cause they look very pretty with there bright colors and all. Some of the hens are great moms some are not, we have one that goes broody alot so we use her as our incubator for our big stock chickens. They lay a small to med size egg mostly white but we do get some that lean more...

me either

We have a game hen that went broody yesterday and we put some duck and the chick eggs that we wanted and took all hers. Shes a great mom so she'll do good for us. We slide a few duck eggs under our girls so we dont have to buy any so far its worked out ok for us.

5 chicken 3 duck

I work at a chem/feed store here in hastings so its easy for me to get pallets that have no or very small space between boards. We have them in each pen to help keep the chickens up off the ground so when we do have bad rains they have a dry place to be. We tried using different types of litter...

Ours dont like the pellets either. We feed them crumbles in a feed bowl and it works out great. We cut the bottom of a drum off about 4in. deep. We give them some pellets but they dont eat them as much, also give them scratch grain with there crumbles at times to give them alittle variaty in...

We use different colored zip ties for our. They are cheap and we get a good deal on them at the flea market. Also easy to change out if it gets tight, we leave some growing room on the small ones.