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Hi all, I'm curious what others scald their chickens at. After years of trial and error, and close to 4000 broilers, we've found that scalding between 170 and 173 at 3600ft elevation yields the best results, and produces a totally 100% plucked chicken. It also works best to have 2 to 4...

Hello, The wife and I have a small farm/homestead (1000+ poultry, hogs and rabbits). We have 3 rabbits, 1 is a buck, 1 is a doe, 1 is unknown but I suspect female. The rabbits are in our uninsulated, unheated brooder building in a separate pen. We are at 3600ft in the Appalachian mountains...

Hello all, A lot of local farmers are starting to go under with the pork supply backing up due to processing plants being shut down. Our local community of farmers and rural folks bought a local farmer out of his piglets so he wouldn't go under. I picked up 2 piglets for feeder pigs. I am...

Hello all, We are raising our first flock of turkeys this year. I've noticed these two black spots near the beak of this Turkey. Several others have the exact same spots in the same area. Any thoughts on what it could be? The turkeys are all healthy looking except for one, which I will be...

Hi all, we have an acre run with about 35 to 50 hens and 3 roosters. About 10 to 15 of our hens are losing feathers on their backs, and tops of their heads. I am 99% sure it is our 3 roosters despite there being 10 to 15 birds per roo. The run has plenty of grass, brush and trees for the...

One of our BR has an odd pupil. I've noticed it before, but never bothered to ask about it as she and the others are all fine. Any ideas what it could be? Her, and the entire flock are perfectly normal, I'm just curious what could cause it. Attached images of good eye vs bad

Hi all, We've reached the point where we no longer have to order laying chicks as we just hatch all of our own now. However, we have a mixed flock, so the resulting chicks are mixes of high-egg production birds. I am curious what the chances are for different colored eggs that the following...

Hello, We hatched several baby chicks last Thursday and one of them was a White Leghorn mix, so it had the typical light yellow fuzz. We also got 50 cornish cross on Friday and we put all the chicks in the same brooder for now, so they're all about a week old. The problem is the cornish...

My wife and I are heading to my kin up in the mountains this weekend for 5 days and we have about 30 eggs we are hatching, half are bantam, half are a barnyard mix. The trip will take about 3 hours. My current plan is to crate the eggs, and put the crates in the incubator so that they don't...

I uploaded a 10 sec video of the chick to youtube. I'm not sure what the problem is. Any thoughts of the issue? I cleaned off her pasty butt, but I am not sure if pasty butt can cause this? Pay special attention to the slight gasping action of her beak in the last couple seconds. When I...

Hello, I picked up 9-ish straight run Salmon Faverolles at a feed store about 2-3 weeks ago and am curious about sexing them. I had heard, and seen some posts here, that you can sex them by the color of their wings by week 2 or 3. Is it really as simple as lots of black feathers = boy and...

Hello, I bought 25 straight run Mille Fleur D'Uccle Bantams from Ideal. They are 4-5 weeks old. I want to attempt to sex them to keep all the pullets + 2 cockerels, and sell the rest of the cockerels. Are they old enough to sex somewhat accurately based on comb development and redness? I...

I just received my order of 25 black sex links pullets [eggs] and 25 straight run Mille Fleur d'Uccle bantams [for breeding] I fought this one odd guy/girl amongst the Mille Fleur Here's one of the normal Mille Fleur bantams for comparison:

Howdy all, I got some cockerel chicks from Ideal for my flock for breeding purposes, and also got 6 surprise pullets to round out to the $25 minimum. I've identified the breed of the surprise pullets as a variety of Easter Eggers, Barred rocks, and leghorns, but I am unsure what this pullet...

Hi all, this is my last thread in here for today [I promise]. I've cared for my sister's flock before, but that was after all her birds were identified as hens, so I'm lacking experience in sexing my own. They were supposed to all be pullets at the feed store with 90% accuracy. They're...

Hello, We have 3 of these Easter Eggers, and my wife and I are unsure of the breed. Perhaps a Lavender something?

We have 50-some odd layers, mostly RIRs, Barred Rocks, and a couple Easter Eggers plus a few others sprinkled in. My wife saw some Bantam Easter Eggers in a feed store a couple months back and just had to get 2 of them as "cute pets" that we wouldn't kill or eat. I figured that was fine since...

I just moved my 4 week old cornish rock chicks into the smaller coop on our property a week ago. Today I saw they had soiled their bedding, so I added a new, thick layer of fresh flakes. When I was spreading the flakes around I noticed these small red bugs crawling around quickly on the old...

Hello, This is my first time raising chickens. We have 56 in total of varying ages: 14 Cornish Rocks [1-2 weeks] 5 Easter Eggers [2-4 weeks] 1 Bantam Easter Egger [2 Weeks] 2 Buff Orphingtons [3-4 weeks] 2 Amberlinks [3-4 weeks] 12 Barred Rocks [6 weeks] 20 Rhode Island Reds [5 weeks]...