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Ive had chickens for about two years. I kept reading about chickens slowing down in the winter. Mine? Lay ed right through the winter, even through below zero weather. Now its warm out, around 80 degrees and almost no eggs? whats up? I tried varying their diet and increasing protein. Plenty...

I have two bantys that were beat up by another. They are missing feathers right before their tail feathers. It doesn't seem to bother them, and I figured the feathers would grow back? Well so far nothing, its been a few months. So is it permanent? anything that would help them? They appear...

Ive had two white chicks and three browns for a week.They were all suppose to be pullets but the one brown one seems to be growing bigger and faster than its siblings.Maybe a rooster? I noticed it had the pin feathers days ago and the other two browns are just mabe getting some. Im happy with...

I'm buying the wife her Pancit and fish and see quail eggs,then my egg hatching disease took over and i took some home. Ten eggs for 1.85.I guess ill find out if they are fertile. I have yet to get quail to hatch,maybe cheap ones from the international market well do it! Oh i went all out and...

I see pictures and have read a little about folks using blackout curtains for a coop. Anyone know why they would want to create really dark conditions,like in a commercial hen house? I saw this in farmtek catalog.I always figured you would want more light not less.Maybe trying to get them to lay...

Since ive figured out my digital unit was so off,ive figured out this model works great.It has a cup at the bottom for water to sit in and give you a warm liquid reading. ebay ,10' Pentair swimming pool thermometer 271094276775 And no i have knothing to do with the sale of these.

Well brag a bit on it. I live in northern az,its nice but so crazy expensive.I want to live somewhere with less government in my life. Many here must know what i mean.Can you have chickens and a garden? Build things without getting a permit everytime you nail something together. A lake big...

I used a digital thermometer i got off ebay.From china of course,and used this with my first hatch.Over 52 % success. So i decided to build a more permanant bator with a plastic insulated cooler.I bought a bi metal thermostat and was thinking about thermometers after reading some paranoid...

I put together a new incubator and used my old hardware except for a new styrofoam box. Anyhow ive only hatched once before with just over a fifty percent success,i had a lot of problems getting the temp. to stay between 98 and 102 degrees.So with the same thermostat i was having problems...

Im looking for white bantam leghorns.Maybe 8 eggs. I have brown and black cochins,so white would be the right color.Plus everyone keeps saying the white chickens lay better.

I used an incubator i built to hatch eggs i got from ebay.I had just over a fifty percent hatch rate and had never done this before. I got most of my ideas here and at a site called,confederate money farm water heater thermostat incubator.This site had good info on incubator heater use,the best...

Ive written on this before,so an update.Ive come down to about three things i grow in my small greenhouse,Thats where my chickens are also. My chickens go crazy for purslane(miners lettuce) it seems to grow like crazy.I snip some off and the gals just cant wait for it. Clover goes over...

My cochin bantams layed two eggs today,at 18 weeks! These hens are from my first ever incubator build.I think from looking at vents mabe one hen did this. I did a few things,i got some fake quail eggs and left them in the nest box,so mabe they would learn pecking on eggs dosent do...

Feeding those hungry chickens! I have bantams for pets some eggs and their use as an incubator.I would consider the chicken type,leghorns are said to consume less feed if you want eggs.The feed in Arizona is around twenty bucks a bag.So im trying to work past that.I buy small salad mix packets...