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I have a incubator project that I started but did not finish. Come and pick it up and it's free to you! It is a 54 quart coleman cooler and has a plexiglass window in the top. I have a hot water heater thermostat, fan, and lights. I couldn't quite get the right setup to control the temp as...

Hi, I am looking for some bantam chicks for my kids to raise for showing at the 4H fair this year. I tried looking through the for sale section here, but the problem with that is I want to find someone local. Anyone in the Southeast Michigan area got bantams for sale? I would like a pure...

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There use to be a section on here for small, medium and large coup pics/designs. Does anyone know where that is now?

I was telling some people at work that the chicken they buy in the stores are only like 6-8 weeks old when they are butchered. Then someone asked how old chicken are before they lay. I told them mine have all been around 16 - 20 weeks. Then came this question.......where do meat bird chicks...

I have a young 8-10 week old FBCM rooster that had the back half of his scalp pecked off by older mature hens. He is still alive and breathing. He does not open his eyes, but was able to hold his head up for a short time. His right ear was taken off and his right eye lid was pulled a little...

I'm liking winter time trapping better than anything this year! I used a bridger 165 connibear trap and caught this 18 pound boar coon only 20 yards from the coup. Since the fur is prime it has been skinned and is on the stretcher. I'm saving the skull to mount along with some of my other...

I was in the basement making some homemade jigs for ice fishing when I thought I heard my wife say "baby coyote". So I go up and she tells me she just saw a small coyote come right up to the back gate in out back yard. A mere 30 feet from the coup. So I grab the 12 gauge (loaded with 00 buck...

I live in the country and I know I have plenty of predators, but I trap and kill anything that cares to wander too close to the coup. Yesterday the DW goes to collect eggs and yells to me to come out and see what she trapped inside the coup. I guess the hens were making a fuss and when she was...

I wasn't sure where to post this so I picked one of the most used forums. Mods move it if appropriate. I've been looking around the site for some "getting started" kind of info for breeding chickens, but really haven't found what I am looking for. Here is the situation. I want to hatch some...

Hey All! I am building a new 24' x 24' run for my coup and need to find a good source for galvanized washers. I am going to use deck screw with washers to secure the welded wire fence. At Home Depot they are 10 cents each and I need about 350 of them! Anyone know of a better place to get them?

The real shocker is all of them were taken in a live trap with no bait. It all started with another varmit that I dispatched and it bled all over inside the trap. I always reset the trap even if I have no bait to put in it. Now I have gotten 3 coons all with no bait in the trap. I am...

I don't usually write much here on BYC about my personal life, but this week I am in Germany on a work trip and thought it would be a good diversion. I left Detroit at about 7pm yesterday (Saturday) and arrived in Amsterdam about 8am this morning (that's like 3am back home in Michigan). After...

I search on this topic, but I never really found anyone with a solid plan on how to do this. Also everything the searches came back with seemed to be old. So I have an old garage door opener that the nylon screw gears disinegrated. I am thinking I could fit it with a pulley and use some rope...

I couldn't resist the title! My turkey sure seems to shiver a lot. He is in a 6' x 8' coop with 6 chickens. The coop is not insulated, but it is finished off inside and not drafty. The chickens seem to do just fine. He gets plenty of food and water. Is he really cold or is this just his...

I was working on our new coup and heard a peep peep peep about ten feet away. I looked over to see one of my hens pecking the snot out of a sparrow. It tried to get away but she just kept at it. I left her to her prize and to play keep away with the rest of the flock. Strangest thing I've...

I have one tom turkey that I was sold as a poult and told it was a bronze heritage turkey. There is no mistaking he is a bronze. What I wonder though is if he isn't really a broad breasted bronze and not a heritage? There is a slight difference isn't there? He is getting so big and it just...

Ok, so I built a coup for my chicks before ever coming here. I found out after the fact that it was too small. So I am planning for coup #2 now and need it to be ready for fall. I want a 6' x 8' coup built on skids. I have some details that I am not sure of so I thought I would ask everyone...

I think I just found the solution for my coop lighting. I'd like to NOT have to run electricity to my coop. Anyone ever use something like this? http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xi0/R-100676462/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

So I have 6 hens and a turkey, all about 6 weeks old and all were moved last night from indoors to the outdoors. The turkey started doing a little strutting last week, but wow, when he got outside for good in the sunshine he was really strutting his stuff! It was so cool to see a tom that...