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My kids are raising cornish x for our county fair. They have all turned the color of the shavings that we are using for their bedding. Any idea how to clean them up?

These two chicks came from our local feedstore. They told me that they came from one of their customers. One is gray with green legs and white toes. The other is brown and has a cream colored butt and chest with what appears to be some ticking in the feathers coming in Its legs appear brown...

I am starting my 4th summer season raising home grown eggs. I purchased my first batch of RIR chicks and the hens are getting tired. My hens some 30 odd have been giving us maybe 1 egg a day for the past 2 months. Not even enough to fire up the ol' bator. It is time to raise another batch of...

Looking to buy plucking machine. Either tub style or drill style.

Anyone else play Hunt & Jump Inc? It is a hunter/jumper based game where you show and breed your own horses. Half the fun is learning about horse genetics. I'm so excited that breeding season just started today! I can't wait to see some of my new foals. My current goal is to get more...

One of my EE pullets laid a olive green 3 oz egg today! The thing is huge & makes the large sized eggs my hens lay look like runts. Unfortunately, the 3 oz egg is cracked on one side. I'm saving the egg to show my dh and kids tonight then plan to open it the rest of the way to see if it is...

Free Easter Egger Roo. Hatched in February 2010. Is handled daily and sweet. Ready to take care of your hens.

I'm looking for someone to chicken sit for about 55 chickens and feed my barn cats while I'm on vacation the first week of August. You would need to live nearby and agree to open the pop door each am, feed and water the flock and then to stop by at dusk to make sure everyone is safely tucked...

Conroe, TX Animal Trading Days 5/16 @ Montgomery County Fairgrounds. Gates open at 8 am. All kinds of animals. Usually mostly chickens. Anyone going?

Thanks for the advice on what to feed my Free Cornish x Meaties that were county fair culls. We butchered them last night. I didn't feed them anything yesterday and their crops were still full of scratch. I'm not sure if my kids snuck them scratch or if they had just eaten so much the day...

It is fair time here in TX and 4Hers are busy culling their fair chickens. I just got 11 free from a 4Her. I am not sure exactly how old these guys and gals are, but they all probably weigh 6-9 lbs. I plan to send them all off to freezer camp on Friday. What should I feed them until then?

I have 5 RIR Chicks available they all hatched on Feb 19 & 20. We like to call them Sunshine chicks because these chicks are all from my best hen, Sunshine, that layed daily all through the winter. These are not show quality RIR chicks. Sunshine was from hatchery stock herself. Here are...

I have apprximately 6 ee chicks available all hatched on Feb 19 & 20. All came from blue & green eggs $4/each. Here are the eggs these chicks hatchd from in the bator. The ees are in the top left corner of the bator along with some brown RIR eggs.

I am searching for poultry leg bands. Need to be several sizes as I want to track them from chicks to adults. I found some tiny elastics for newly hatched chicks on ebay and they arrived last week, but don't think they will fit very long.

Has anyone ever attempted to convert one of these warming "coolers" into a bator? http://houston.craigslist.org/grd/1593578189.html I know that the description says it heats 110 degrees, but maybe the thermostat could be regulated?

Anyone using Producer's Co-Op layer feed? Producer's Co-Op is located in Bryan, TX. I have been having problems w/ my hens not laying. I have 22 hens and only 1 has been laying since mid December. Other chicken owners in the area have not been reporting a drop in egg production. I have been...

Please don't bid. PM me if you are interested. I bought a season pass for our family to this year's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Needless to say with 3 young children in school we cannot attend every night. I have 5 tickets together for sale to the following shows: Jonas Brothers Tim...

Newbie incubator owner w/ "dumb" newbie question. So today is the big day - lockdown day. Eggs are due to hatch on Jan 20. They are currently in a turner and I will be removing the turner shortly and adding water along w/ sponges to bring up humidity. So here comes the question.... Wait...

Today I am starting my first hatch in my Little Giant bator. I got the bator for Christmas along w/ an auto turner. Two days ago I pulled the bator out of the box to start getting it all ready. Following the temp regulation directions provided by LG very quickly spiked the temp to 120...

I just spent the last few hours blowing leaves around my back yard. I live in TX and the majority of the leaves wait until December to fall. So here I am making these huge piles of leaves along the chainlink fence for the chicken's run. I got to wondering if the leaves would be useful and...