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Hi all, I bought some ducklings last weekend and I currently have them brooding in the garage similar to what I do with baby chicks - they are in a kiddie pool, with a heat lamp, food and water, and I have wood chips down. All week I have been adding additional wood chips because they have...

For the most part I cannot tell the difference when they are small. How old are the ones you will be selecting from? Watch them for a little bit before you pick them out... some of the toms will start puffing their feathers and doing a little "strut" and they start doing that pretty young, I...

Amazing! And I thought I had my hands full with a 32 pounder for Thanksgiving!!! When I did my bird, I did not stuff it, it was in the oven for about 10 hours, I basted every 20 minutes, and it rested for 2 hours before serving. It was yummy! I had to modify my roasting pan to accommodate it...

I think it is a tom... I've only ever seen my toms fluffing their feathers, pointing their wings down, and doing "the strut"

Personally, I think they both taste great!!! I prefer to cook a Tom for Thanksgiving dinner because they are much bigger than the hens and I know there will be plenty to go around plus left overs (2 years ago I served a 32 pound turkey). You'll be able to tell the difference between the sexes...

We had gotten some ducks a couple years ago and tried just moving them into the barn after they were finished brooding - I think they were 6-8 weeks old at that point. It didn't work out so well, something would snatch one of them every night, so we started rounding them up each night...

Tough call to say whether or not they will have Silkies... If I remember correctly, I think I've seen them there before being sold as pairs or trios, but I don't remember seeing any chicks. I could be wrong, and I think the variety varies from year to year...

I had a hen last summer that was particularly broody. She would have spent the entire summer on that nest if I let her. So I finally let her sit, assuming that she had eggs under her. I kept collecting eggs from the other nest boxes, and after a couple weeks, i found out that I sold eggs to a...

Awesome - Thanks!!! I was really worried that I may have missed it already because for some I reason I woke up this morning thinking that maybe it was in March...

There is usually a poultry swap meet held at the Eastern Michigan Fairgrounds in Imlay City every April... does anyone know which weekend it is scheduled for this year? Thank you! Kelly

Hello all! I'm not new to the site, however it has been a LONG time since I've been on... my, how the site has expanded!!! My name is Kelly, I live in Capac, Michigan. I have been raising chickens for about 3 years now and found the most valuable information from this message board! I have...

I've got 30 hens and 6 boxes, and they only lay in 2 of them! And it's always the same two...

Awesome thread! So many great ideas to increase egg sales!!! I've been tracking my egg sales for a few months now... I sold 28 dozen in the month of March and only got to keep about 4 dozen for ourselves (and I'll admit that the 4 doz that we kept were the smallest eggs laid each day). I...

Just a suggestion based on something I wish I had done when I built my first coop... design the coops so they can easily be added on to! Then, once your customers are officially addicted to chickens, they can purchase additions from you! Had I realized how much I would enjoy raising chickens...

I just read 31 pages of posts, and there are NO BABIES YET??? :barnie:barnie:barnie I can't wait to see how this turns out...

So much cheaper to make it yourself! Plus, you get the added bonus of feeling really proud of yourself for doing it... Anyways, you probably have several of the parts laying around the garage already. Search the posts, you won't have any trouble finding plans to make one out of one of those...

Hi all! Well, I think it has finally happened. I have my first broody that MIGHT actually stay on her eggs long enough for them to hatch! In the past, I've done my hatching with the incubator and kept the babies separate from the adults until they were about 18-20 weeks old. Here's my...

I'm in Michigan and I don't add any heating elements in my coop during the winter. I insulated the walls when I built the coop and I try to purchase chickens that are considered "winter hardy." I do keep a standard light bulb in there set on a timer so I can make sure that my ladies get...

Great topic! I just raised 6 turkeys this year, kept two for ourselves and sold the other four. My husband wants to up it to 12-15 next year. We sold them for $2 per pound, and we weren't profitable, but that's most likely due to the racoons breaking into the coop at night and eating all the...

Good job! I learned alot of the same things as well... in fact, I still have a batch that I need to make an appointment at the processor for. One thing I did learn with my meat birds this year is that I will continue the purchase the cornish x from Mcmurray (they grow BIG and FAST) and I will...