I've been looking for Light Sussex hatching eggs for a while, no success.
Have been out of keeping poultry for a while, now I am back.
Light Sussex is one of my favorite breeds, had them in the past.
Beside many desirable traits other dual purpose breeds possess Light Sussex...
City council in Spring Hill (Hernando County Fl) will consider allowing keeping up to 4 hens on residential property.
Several communities in the area (St Petersburg Fl among them) already allows hens so residents can enjoy their own fresh eggs.
Reported on...
There is not too many hatcheries carrying Cornish (Indian Game) breed.
The major ones are Cackle, MCMurray and Stromberg's (Meyers?) I believe.
Which one has decent Cornish?
If you ordered Cornish from them or some other hatchery please post your...
Please share your experience (s) and opinions regarding sources of pure bred Cornish chicks or eggs of any color from commercial hatcheries like Cackle, Murray, Strombergs, or individual breeders. NO COMMERCIAL X-crosses.
I know White Cornish are hard to come by, do...
Hi all meat chicken breeders and experts. Is it possible to cross 2 common breeds for the purpose of emulating big chicken broiler companies F1 meat hybrids?
I do not care about all white featered breed, or record fast growth and all the problems connected...
Hey Florida chicken and other flock keepers
What are you paying for:
50 lb of Chicken crumble ?
50 lb of cracked corn ?
50 lb of high protein feed 26-30% like game bird type feed?
Please post locations and prices in Tampa Bay area.
Just hatched Heritage RIR's shipped eggs, 92% hatch rate.
Incubation started in Brinsea ECO 20 at 100F . Cause of several species hatched at the same time I switched them to my homemade small cabinet bator after one week. Temp 99.5 humidity 50%.
Lock down...
Looking for cabinet style preowned bator (Sportsman or Dickey) within 3hr drive radius from Pittsburg PA.
This is for my dear friend in PA.
Please forward condition and price, serious buyer, no games or kicking tyres.
I hatched many species and hundreds of birds but my first Turkey eggs are in my bator.
Do they tend to hatch early like some other species lets say 26-28 days?
I want to postpone the date of lockdown for logistic reasons
That's why I am asking this question...
I have trouble locating a breeder of dark mahogany RIR's which have RETAINED proper egg production for this breed.
Seems that those bred for show lost their egglaing capability od "real" RIR's.
I do not care about winning prizes on shows, I want dark mahogany RIR...
According to reports they are becoming rare and in threatened breed.
"Rhode Island Reds" sold by most of hatcheries are so far away from the standart , they are a joke.
Bred for egg production only, they are becoming lighter in color and weigh, look fluffy, and lay...
I am thinking of raising some turkeys this year, what do you guys raise in Sunshine State? Or perhaps beeter put it this way: do are all turkey breeds take well our wonderful hot weather?
Have your (turkey) hens started laying lately?
http://www.petsask.com/birds/light_sussex_chickens.html
Reads in middle of the page: "It is impossable to vent sex chickens, they have NO sex organs!"
What a discovery!
but wait it gets better than that... Six lines lower it reads:
"It have something to do with holding them butt...
I am considering raising meal worms for my birds, mostly for my quail since they are caged and t can not forage.
Did anybody try it?
Is it time consuming and troublesome?
I did some research and it seems that worst part is separating them beatles once in the while, but it is...
I am itching to get a few gamefowl hens, anybody keeps those beauties here?
How many eggs per season game hen will produce? I can use them for hatching peacocks, since they are excellent and protective mothers.
Brower TH120 is a great bator, all plastic, larger capacity than any styrobator, build in universal egg turner for all kinds of eggs from quail to goose, no need to purchase and sweep extra racks. It is easy to clean, (Dishwasher) very durable, easy replacable , cheap and self...
These breeds cought my attention lately, they are suppose to be survivers and excellent foragers.
Do they lay decent amount of eggs? They are surely very pretty birds.
Anybodys experience with them will be appreciated.