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This year we bought 100 Golden Comet hens and have sold the eggs at our local farmers market. Right now we are getting 80-90 eggs per day! What kind of numbers should we expect this winter. We live in the Appalachian mountains at around 2800 feet elevation. We get moderate snowfall and have...

I hope this isn't violating any TOS, and if so I apologize and understand removal. I am planning an order from Copper Hackle Coop for Black Copper Marans. Here is their website: http://www.copperhacklecoop.com/. It says sold out but I have been in contact with the breeder. They seem to have...

We have 100 Golden Comets and about 30 of this and that in production on our farm.... However, I have zero experience with ducks. Our layers free range in the pasture and climb up an 8 foot ramp into the barn to lay and roost. Would ducks follow the chickens in at dusk so I can shut the door...

Mine were so well packaged and they are all coming along so nicely now!

This is very exciting! I have some beautiful black ameraucana hens already. Now I'm off to hunt for some cuckoo Roos! Thank y'all!

Would you get barred olive eggers with this cross? I know very little about genetics. What color Ameraucana would you need? I have had really poor luck trying to hatch these out from shipped eggs despite the eggcelent packing they've arrived in, so I thought I might start my first project...

I'm looking for buff and blue orps bred as close to 100% English as possible. Anyone have suggestions as the where I might find this? Thanks!

Are these bantam sized?

We have always had chickens as a hobby but on May 14 we are picking up 100, 18 week old, Golden Comet pullets!!! We are adding egg production to the organic produce that our farm already grows and sells. I have cleaned out the entire top floor of an old barn for the girls and plan to let them...

So after 2 failed hatches (only 1 lonely chick from my last one) I am crossing my t's and dotting my i's. I will die if my Easter hatch turns out poorly. I read that people have better hatches if the eggs are put in lockdown in cartons. Is this the general consensus? I have always laid them...

Thank you all. I am just determined to be good at this!

I have been using the dry incubation method. The only thing I can think of is that these eggs were set about a week before I set the 2nd set. Maybe that prevented them from loosing water like they needed to. During Lockdown I try to keep humidity around 65-75. It did drop a few times bellow...

So my last 2 hatches both totally went down the tubes. Both time when I cracked the eggs to see what had happened I found chickens that had pipped the internal membrane and stopped there. There was 5+ DIS. with no obvious deformities. They were fully formed, good sized, and had already...

Thanks y'all! It was an emotional morning to say the least!

My wife woke me this morning at 4:45 in a panic! The power is out! What are we going to do about the eggs in the incubator? She scurried around, loaded the bator in the car, and drove them 5 miles to her parents house and plugged it back in. We think the power was off for about an hour and...

We are considering making this our first trip to a poultry show. We would have to drive a few hours and was wondering if this show is worth the trip??? This is the last weekend we have before farmers market season starts up and we want to get out and do something fun!

So I have been working 56-60 hr/wk + a 45 min commute. It's seriously putting a cramp in my chicken farming. Anyhow I'm miserably late entering my numbers but they are as follows: Started with: 11 Silkies 9 BLRW 14 Buff Orps 12 Olive Eggers 46 total All shipped eggs Candled last night and...

I had much better luck in my LG than in my Hovabator. I think it's due to temp inconsistencies in the external environment more than the incubator but I wanted to give you some hope!