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Well won’t keep all 35. 20 or so to family who are helping. I’m leaning towards another small chest freezer but finding one is the hard part

We will be processing 35 Cornish X this fall and I’m trying to get my stuff together. Couple of questions. . . 1.) are the metal restraining cones necessary or do most ppl go the diy route for cones? Either way how many would I need? 2-3? 2.) also wondering what type of freezer space I’ll need...

Me too. Thanks. Pretty sure it’s the batteries but a representative has already been in contact. :thumbsup

I tried some other batteries we had and then I saw the message. They weren’t new batteries so I need to buy some, but I think the chicken guard batteries were low on charge or faulty.

Going out on a limb here... Installed my chicken guard extreme this evening and when I pressed the menu button to get it all set up there are no messages to display. Not sure what to do or what’s wrong but wondered if anyone has had that issue. I’ve reached out to customer service but figured...

I bought mine on Amazon.

I’m sure they’ll be fine in that weather. I typically wait till they’ve completely feathered out but we also have older hens and the chicks need to be able to handle themselves and be slightly older before I put them together.

Thanks. Ended up going with the Extreme as it was only $20 more. Hopefully it’ll give us peace of mind when we are away. Had coyotes take most of our hens and as we consider vacationing I need to be sure it doesn’t happen again.

I see the difference between the Extreme and Premium is related to weather, but could anyone be more specific as to what that means? We live in Iowa so would the premium not work?

Nigerian dwarf goats are what we’d get. Our pasture is pretty much open, all grasses and weeds, no trees. I’d probably just use a hot wire on the lower opening and then one at top but while that might work for goats I’m not positive it’ll work for chickens.

Hey all, we’ve got about an acre of pasture and right now our 20 hens have been sectioned off and are only using a couple hundred sq ft of it. Since they’ve beaten that area down they’re getting bored and jumping over quite a bit. On that acre of pasture it’s set up with 4 rail vinyl fence...

I'm in central Iowa. All good perspectives. I think I'll probably wait and make sure I have at least some idea what I'm going to be hatching and what I'll do with those I cannot keep.

A little of everything at this point. RIR, buff orpingtons, americauna, red star, black astralorp, barred rock and leg horns. We have 3 silkie roosters (2 were suppose to be hens) and our big rooster is a buff orpington.

We've always called a few days before and let the post office know. We give them our number and each time we've had chicks arrive, I get a call at 5:00Am letting me know they have our chicks. Never enjoy the wake up time, but always fun to head to post office and be back before our kids wake...

Both. We added new chicks this past spring along with 7 or so older laying hens. Now we have several that are laying fertilized eggs. We do a have a barn and yes, I am aware of the mess young birds create. I guess getting rid of the chicks we don't want might be more challenging in the...

Uh..Iowa....so maybe wait then I guess.

We finally have fertilized eggs from our rooster. I'd love to start incubating but obviously heading into winter makes me nervous. Should I just remain patient and wait till spring or is it a good idea to start incubating them now?

I live in Iowa and my chickens stay in horse stall that I converted to a coop. We've had a couple die, but I don't think it was the cold. The stall is easily over 100sq ft and open to s huge, uninsulated barn and houses 15 birds. I plan on building a smaller coop at some point but our Barred...

Yeah that's what I figured. We've had our chickens in our barn for 3 years, and it;s been great, but since we have a coop to use with a little modification, I think we may just go that route.