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Hi Everyone! I posted this in Buy ~ Sell ~ Trade last week but only got one taker. I want to add mail order hatching egg sales to my hobby farm's list of goods and services, but I haven't done it before. I thrive on customer feedback, so I'm offering y'all free hatching eggs from my Welsh...

Hi Everyone, I have an abundance of hatching eggs from my Welsh Harlequin ducks. I have a load in my incubator now, and 50 out of 56 appeared fertile when I candled them at 7 days. The parents are good looking (to me) young 7-month-olds of Metzer stock. I'm interested in adding "mail...

Hi everyone! At this point I'm somewhat experienced with poultry slaughtering, but still learning. Let's talk guts! It's important to me to waste as little of each carcass as possible, but I just can't tolerate the flavor of innards. My 6 month old Kangal Shepherd puppy feels quite the...

"Rainbow" was sexed female at hatching (Metzer) but is presenting more like an immature male. (Pictured with a WH drake and hen at 5 months.) Besides the plumage, the voice is generally non-existent for the soft quack, and what I call a "deep peep" for the hard quack. In behavior, Rainbow...

I'm wondering what I'll feed my coturnix as adults. My local feed stores carry Purina Game Bird Startena (30% protein), but not the Game Bird Layena (20%) or Flight Conditioner (19%) that Purina recommends for adult birds. I'd very much like to avoid the long drive to Tucson to get those. I...

Hi, I was going to post this in the Incubation section but it's specific to quail eggs so I thought I'd have y'all look at it first. I just set 110 "hatchery choice" Coturnix eggs, which have a significant variation in size and shape, in the "large egg" carriers with the "small egg" dividers (I...

Hi everyone! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I had chickens, ducks, turkeys, and guineas from 2007-2016, but a pair of bobcats picked them off while I was on business trips. I'm getting ready to Fort Knox level secure my side yard for a flock of 14 ducks...

Brilliant!!! I want to print posters and flyers for my farmers market booth! May I, and is this the highest quality image available? Thank you! Bryan

Howdy, y'all! I'm planning my first meat bird project. In checking hatchery websites, I found Murray McMurray's Jumbo Cornish X Rocks, with the phrase "Please Note: These birds are not recommended for raising at altitudes above 5000 feet." We live at 5100 feet, so this grabbed my attention...

Howdy, Y'all! I've been successfully raising dual-purpose chickens for several years now. I'd like to try raising a batch of CornishX birds, and I'm looking for no-kidding advice about the differences I should expect. I understand they're dumb eating machines, and food should be removed for...

Hey y'all, I've had a small flock of Midget Whites for about a year now. Started with a pair, then raised five poults for seven total. Three are definitely toms, three are definitely hens, and one seems caught in the middle. It looks and acts like a hen most of the time, but will sometimes...

Howdy! I just received a pair of Midget White turkeys. (Love them!) The tom is tall enough to nibble out of our rabbit feeders, which he seems to enjoy quite a bit. My first thought was it's probably okay, as rabbit chow is unmedicated and mostly alfalfa (18% protein), but the vitamins and...

I may be losing what little bit of my mind I haven't already lost , but I'd swear my ducks' eggs have been getting smaller the past few weeks. In the summer, they were about USDA Large to XL, now I'd say they're about USDA Medium to Large. These are 10-month-old Khaki Campbells. No drake...

I'm lonely, and want a pigeon-raising pal! But seriously, I'm having difficulties finding a good local source for pigeon supplies. The shipping costs for 50# bags of anything are more than the product! And feed stores' websites tend to just list location and hours of operation information...

Hey Y'all! I'm at the Scratching My Head phase, trying to plan an inexpensive, portable, bobcat- and snake-proof quail pen. I'm leaning modifying this PVC hoop house design http://westsidegardener.com/howto/hoophouse.html , and hope y'all can give me some advice. Mostly, I'm concerned...

Howdy! I've been surfing the 'net to find examples of pigeon pedigrees, and thought I'd pick y'all's brains as well. I've been pedigreeing rabbits for several years now, so I probably know enough about pedigreeing pigeons to be DANGEROUS! LOL I figured the National Pigeon Association would...

Howdy! I have three Jumbo Brown Coturnix hens, raised together, about 4 months old. One has been laying like a champ, about 6 per week. The other two - nothing. I wonder if it's the decreased day length that might be affecting them, as with my chickens? They're otherwise very healthy, and...

Our 8' chainlink fence keeps out everything but snakes and bobcats, apparently. Here's a young (I think - or female?) bobcat I trapped this morning And a 20# tom we caught a few months ago I'm still trying to figure out how they can get those big paws into the 1" spaces in our chukar...

Greetings Ratite Wranglers! I'm getting ready to write an Emu article for Backyard Poultry Magazine http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/ , focusing on Emus but with a little on other ratites as well. I've found plenty of general information on the birds, but a lot is geared toward commercial...