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After a year of have chickens the local wildlife found my coop last night and tore through ten+ chickens that were roosting outside in the run. I only am left wondering what type of animal did it though because these are big breed chickens and there are 8 out of 10 bodies missing. The two...

I am a bit of a tinkerer would there be any interest in a temp and humidity easy use plug in module for homemade incubators. Thinking of trying to design one for under 20 bucks and have it be reliable. I hate buying hardware as much as the next person but I am thinking this would help quite a...

my barred rock chicks are about 6 weeks old and today i went out to check on them after work and one was dead and rig had set in there is another chick that has a bum eye that is swollen and he is standing off by himself from the rest of them. There is one other chick that is doing the same...

She popped out a egg so large it almost didn't fit in a standard large egg tray is this normal or is something wrong with her?

what is the best way to keep the chicks off the back wall while moving a tractor around? Had 3 get broken a leg from very first move! help would be great in this case. Had to remove the rest move the tractor and then put them back in.

Built my first A-frame chicken tractor it's 10' x 12' x 6.5'. I was feeling really bad about how many hatched out from my last batch. The brooder I have setup is only for 20 chicks max and then only for one week. I read some posts about pasture poultry on the web and I wanted something like...

I have read most of the rules and regs about the sales of the chickens in Florida but i might have missed a few major components unknown at this time. Can anyone give me any good suggestions to get the word out besides craigslist? Not really wanting to do the 20,000 birds a year bit more along...

Since I know there is quite abit of traffic through the site I thought I would write to tell you about my incubator and it's hatching rates. I just got chicks last year about September and now it's gone full circle with hatching the little guys from eggs. I bought a Standard Tractor Supply...

Since i have started reading this forum my ambitions have run away with me. I purchased chicks last year at 2$ a piece and had 7 hens and 3 roosters. since then I have gone and caught all the wild chickens on the property 3 wild game hens of sorts. then I just finished my incubator out and...

Where are the most affordable places to get a motor that will work. Does anyone know what types of devices use that big of a motor that I could harvest one from. I was thinking a compressor, one of the smaller ones people use in shops. I am just looking for ideas at this point.

I have gone out and brought home an old fridge which is gutted and in the prepping stages for making a incubator box out of it. I like the rack systems I have been seeing people build with the tray hangers in side the main cavity the only thing I haven't found a solution for is the motor and...

Hello everyone, I have been coming to this site for about a year now and reading up on your different articles and some of the posts. Now for what it's worth I understand some of you .... well a lot of you have certain ideas about things. I am a do'er and I like to find the...