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Not sure exactly where to post this but I am being given a 3 month old Great Pyrenees, and I plan to train the dog to protect my chickens from critters. I have never owned or trained a livestock guard dog. The dog has a good blood line just not of livestock guard dogs but I figured I would give...

I have 40 chickens (30 EE's, 10 australorps) in a coop that's 20x11 I have always had a issue with the hens laying on the floor, not all are laying yet, there 6-7 months old now. The ones that do lay, seems about half use the nesting boxes and the other half make a nest in the corner of the...

Hey everyone, I was curious to know all I can about Dr. Tom Whitings birds, does anyone have any? If so how is the quality of the egg and production compare to the Easter eggers? There cold tolerance doesn't seem to be as high as the Easter eggers, were I live we can get some nasty winters so...

This chicken has been this way ever since I can remember, it's about half the size as the others and makes a hell of a mess when it eats bacause it rakes most the food out of the feeder but it hasn't died yet and is always the first chicken to chow down on treats or atleast attempt to lol.

Here's the deal, I'm wanting to feed as much of quality as I can get for price, so far I have fed my hens Country Road from Rural King and Purina from the local feed mill. When I order I get 500lbs of chick starter (this order will be layer feed), 300lbs cracked corn and 200lbs scratch grains. I...

Hello, I am looking to expand a bit on my property, currently I have 44 chickens and am thinking of fencing in a larger area of land, my question is, is there any money in emus or ostriches? With chickens I can sell eggs to help pay them off and pay for feed, after there done laying I can fill...

Hello, I got a shipment of 23 baby chicks in today and one is sickly, it barely can balance when it stands, and I thought it was dead at first. I forced it to drink 4-5 times than it opened its eyes, it's smaller than the rest and its wings are less developed than the rest. I poured some chick...

Hello, I decided to make and design my own incubator so I ask what does an egg need to hatch? What temp heat? How long? One sided or two sided heat? I just need to know the mechanics of hatching a chicken egg, I don't want to do research because I will be tempted to look at someone's design or...

I have 3 different chickens, Araucanas/Ameraucanas/EE, Australorps and a Turken/ naked neck which I'm pretty sure is a rooster. My question is which of these three makes the baddest rooster? I ordered one EE rooster and a Australorp in my shipment from McMurray so I should end up with at least...

Hello, I would like to write a review of my experience with McMurray hatchery. This is my first year raising chickens, my family has a farm which I didn't grow up on but visit as often as I can, my first cousin once removed decided to get back into chickens this year also so when I was over...

sorry I don't have a better pic of the chicks but I have 4 chickens that I do not know what they are, I can tell you I ordered 15 hens and 1 rooster from McMurray and got sent 19, 4 I don't think are what I ordered so they either shorted me a chick of my desired breed or gave me an extra 2 of...

Hello I received this mystery chick among a few more from McMurry, I have only one with a bald neck and I don't particularly like the look of a adult turkin . I just wonder how it will taste in soup after a few years, chicken or turkey P.S. It's around 4 weeks old

Hey everyone, I had some ideas that I have been pondering about a chicken run, first of all I think a small run would be a waist of money because the chickens eat all the bugs and plants in that area until dirt is all that's left so what's the point in that. Second I want them to be able to...

Hey everyone, I have read enough forums off this site in the past few weeks lol, I decided to sign up. I bought a house on 3 acres that has a barn with 3 stalls in the back, I decided to turn one stall into a chicken coop and it was really easy to get it ready for chicks, I never did a brooder...