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I know there was a lot of hullaballoo last year around the way chicks were being managed in these in-store last year (employees not cleaning pasty butt, mostly), but has anyone used one of these stacking brooders at home? My first batch of meat birds arrive in 3 weeks, the standup brooder I...

Hey All, Wow, it's been a while since I was active here! So, I'm moving from 1.5 acres in CT to 35 acres in northern NY (St Lawrence County), and looking to scale up our poultry operation. However, the move is happening in mid-April, so we've already missed our normal brooding window, and...

Hey All, just had a very successful first goose egg incubation attempt - 6 of 9 hatched and so for 5 are surviving (one looks a bit weaker than the others). But now I'm having a heck of a time telling what my goose/gander breakdown is. All the photos of these goslings I see online are obvious...

I have a Nigerian Dwarf doe in need of a new home. We rescued her from a bad situation in April and, after 3 months of observation and care, we think she's ready for a new home. We have full size Alpine/Nubian girls, and she deserves to be in a herd of goats her own size. Since this was an...

I had chicks shipped this year, and due to a one day delay they'll be arriving while I'm out of town, leaving my wife to pick them up. I tried to find where she'll need to pick them up, but am getting two different results from USPS. How do I tell where my package is going to be waiting?

I'm contemplating the possibility of a few layer ducks, but having trouble finding a source. Homestead blogs and other articles say Campbells and runners will lay 300 eggs/year, but the hatcheries I know list their stock of those breeds as producing about half that. What's a realistic...

Do you raise turkeys for meat in a tractor or similar setup? If so, what's your routine for raising good sized, healthy birds? I raised 3 BBWs with my meat chickens this year (and then on their own after the meaties were processed), and it went pretty well. 0 percent mortality, even! I think it...

My wife and I have Brahmas and Australorps but recently decided we'd like to try and raise some tinted egg layers for flock diversity and "carton appeal." For those of you who raise EE, OE, Araucana, or other blue and green egg layers, what breed do you recommend? Where do you get them? We want...

I have this incubator, but not the automatic turner. Is anyone looking to unload one?

I want to run 20-40 layers on grass, in a miniaturized version of the Salatin eggmobile. I looked at Justin Rhodes' ChickShaw and love the design, but for such a simple construction (6'x6'x2' box, wire mesh floor, corrugated walls, egg crate nest boxes, on 2 wheels) I was surprised to see his...

I raised 4 Light Brahma (LF) chicks this year. All 4 turned out to be cockerels. Selling 3 of them. They're 8 months old, crowing, and healthy. Raised on conventional feed and allowed to range the back yard when I'm home. $20 each or $50 for all 3. I'll post pictures later today. Located in...

I processed all but 4 of my Rangers this morning and was sitting down to figure my final costs per bird ($10.43 if you factor in amortization of plucker and scalder), when I noticed something odd. Looking at the price sheet from the place where I bought the chicks, they have three meat birds...

I'm looking at getting my first dairy goats, and been talking with a potential seller. He sent me pics of two does, both currently dry. The lower hanging one has kidded twice. Other is a FF. I'm pretty sure the 2F has poor attachment, but only reference pics I can find are when the doe is in...

These three hatched last summer and I got them in late winter. Proven breeders from a good line - unfortunately, a well-timed power outage caused me to lose all their eggs (there's a thread about it elsewhere), but they'd produced 20 fertile eggs this spring. Hoop coop on wheels is 12'x8'...

I've got 35 Red Rangers who are 2 weeks old. We got them later than planned, and I wound up having to have a pet sitter watch them this week. I got back, and about half of them look like this - their crops feel fine, but are huge, and their feathers are matted. I'm guessing the crops are normal...

I posted about this in the turkey thread, but didn't see a response. We had a major power outage Tuesday thru this morning. I got our incubator into my electric car, and used an inverter to keep the Bator going, but temps fluctuated a lot in the first 24 hours because of the new environment...

Does anyone have experience with the "Robust White," "Imperial," or "Royal" broilers from Moyer's hatchery? I saw some posts last year about folks considering them, but don't know if anyone followed through. Would be interested in how they come out when processed, and also if anyone's discovered...

We've had our breeding trio of Narragansetts for a couple weeks now, and got our first egg two days ago. And maybe (?) our second egg yesterday. Now we have no eggs, and I'm trying to do some crime scene reverse engineering. Last night, we were doing our evening rounds, and wife thought she...

Got this young lady and a couple sisters about a week ago from a seller who owned a roo. She's been like this for two days now. Is it worth trying to give her some eggs and see what happens? Or has it been too long since they were covered to hope for much success?

Has anyone purchased Brahmas from Ideal and used them as a dual purpose bird? I've seen pictures that look like they're nice and big, and could be even bigger after a few generations of selective culling, but I've also seen claims that no Brahma you get from a hatchery will ever be large enough...