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My DH made my cookie tin heater and it requires a 40w bulb base incandescent. I found some on amazon I think will work, just checking on what anyone else uses in theirs? wattage, or type of heat...

We didn't kill the first one that ate 3 chicks-have no Idea how it got into a metal brooder with only vent holes, my husband is going to cover those with hardware cloth-never been a problem for 5+ years. We drove it 20 miles away into an overgrown field. Today, it's friend is in the actually...

I'm trying a new feed and need feed back on ingredients: Country roads layer pellets: Ingredients are as follows: Processed Grain By-Products, Grain Products, Calcium Carbonate, Plant Protein Products, Salt, Propionic Acid (a preservative), Dried Trichoderma reesei Fermentation Product, Choline...

This has been used 3 times when I bought it... magicfly 12 count auto. no manual of any kind. can't seem to locate online. any links from anybody please?

My feed store found 4 25lb bags of scratch feed that bugs have drilled thru the bag and are inside with the feed. I was given them, and only took them because chickens eat bugs. is there any problem feeding this to my flock? it is stored away from the flock, away from the regular feed too. If...

I have a 3 week old leghorn pullet that keeps standing up in one place with it's eyes closed. Seems to be eating, no pasty Butt, I dipped it's beak in eletrolye water this morning, 2nd day for eletrolyles in water. this chick is on medicated purina chick feed, fresh water, at least 2x a day. has...

My Sister will be hatching out for me next month, using her incubator for the second time. It is the styrofoam type/ with an added turner. My question is... What do you sanitize that type with? I read it needs to be fumigated- but I have no idea what to use. I do have Oxine, But no activating...

I have a RIR that I was helped with here about 6 months ago when she had clean bubbles in her eyes and a sneezey cough. after a round of oxytetracycline she was fine. about 6 weeks ago it started up again, she's 13 months old, in a isolation cage, eating drinking-vitamin/electrolyte water, lost...

So, I needed red 7-watt bulbs for my brooder and hit the link here for Fleming outdoors. I needed them fast as the chicks were hatching at my sister's. While she wanted to keep them a bit-I was afraid she'd freak at the smell and I'd be unprepared to go pick them up. I ordered late on Tuesday...

I have 4 TSC bought 5 week old australorp chicks and hatched 15 3 week old SBEL( from dmrippy) chicks that I've kept quarantined from each other. I have the sbel in level 1 of a 3 level brooder. I have the temperature lower in the bottom two grow- out areas. when can I put the 2 groups close...

I have a three level brooder on wheels and can't find the owners manual, I saw the one I have on this site, poultryman supply, but they are not answering the phone and I don't know who the manufacture is- yes, we looked everywhere on the unit. any this is what it looks like. Except there are no...

which would be your (or the one you would recommend incubator) for 12 to 18 eggs with auto turning? ordering tonight or tomorrow...

Coop 1,1st hen, RIR laying 32 weeks, 5 days ago: displaying bubbly eyes, sight sneeze started second day. treatment so far, crated alone in laundry room, 2ml of long acting penicillin 2 days 1.5 ml penicillin today. One eye closed bubbly, staying crouched is eating and drinking treated water...

I needed a heated cookie tin: cheap and for a 5 gal font. I showed my husband the posts and he improved the design. Now, I have a heated dog bowl I love but needed one for the 5 gal font. Just in time for the polar plunge! By using a X- large single layer cookie tin, and a less then $6.00 lamp...

I have a English black orpington (Penelope) 3 years old this month, that I found with a swollen eye 2 months ago, this girl also has bumble-foot and this past week what we thought was a egg waiting to be laid is not. When we got her 2 years ago she came with bumble foot that i treated with long...

A group called Chicken legal, has been working for the past year or so getting Chattanooga to reverse it's law on allowing backyard chickens. The city council has put off it's vote until July? to allow the the Bill? to be written up, before voting. If your a resident that would like chickens...

http://health.yahoo.net/articles/nutrition/photos/8-cruelest-foods-you-eat#5 After reading this, I'm glad our family decided to raise our own layers, hopefully soon our own broilers as well.

My church had a big party and used watermelon halves as vases. I asked to have the few left over halves, and one of the lady's in charge not only gave me halves-- she also gave me 4 sacks of leftover watermelon meat! I froze it all in smaller bags, and today gave the girls a quart of frozen...

So, i bought my chickens almost 2 months ago. 18 days ago I happen to look them over and found that both my 12 month old black orpington's have a case of bumble-foot. Penelope's are the worse so That's the picture's I have . Day 1 we removed the leather like covering checked for hard area's...

Ok day 8, I think the buff orpington's first egg since she got here is this. seen one before?