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Awesome. Thanks

You take any photos of her hamburgs?

Try using a timer and lights

Found this egg this morning. This pullet has been laying for over 6 weeks. This is her egg from yesterday beside it.

If your strain is prone to cocci, do not use anything other than medicated starter. There's a reason why they make it. Coccidia affects many species of animals and you can lose a whole pen of chicks overnight to it. There are some breeds that have a strong tolerance to it but none are immune...

You could always keep them at a different location, hatch heavy from them one season, and then dispose of them.

I agree. I have 10 12x12 pens and I'm always short on pen space. One main reason is hamburg hens will fight and kill each other when you switch pens around. The males are actually easier to switch around and keep together.

Don't forget a coon can go straight through a 2x4 opening.

Spend some time and money on getting your pens fixed right.Makeshift pens and fencing is just an invitation to anything and everything that likes chicken.

I have an aisle down the center of my barns. I just leave the pen they are moving to open and let them have the whole length of the aisle plus the new pen for a day or two until everyone has a chance to meet. My rocks are fine just placing them in the pen together but the hamburg hens are a...

you might have better luck holding them up to your ear. They will tell you if they are boys or girls.

Just means the males won't be up to par. Must be double mated if you want great males AND great females.

Can any of you post pictures of your automatic waterers and plumbing?

Cold weather does nothing to stunt the insect or parasite population. Insects go dormant over winter. They are still there. Alaska is sprawling with Mosquitos and all sorts of bugs come spring. Yet people still think winter temps affect them.

I've got a quad of silver pencilled rocks but you would have to pick up in central ky.

Have you checked your local craigslist?

When the wing feathers come all the way in they will get back in order.

I'd say yard full of rocks would qualify?

So an ostrich should lay an egg about the size of a raisin?

If it was me I'd get the columbian right before I'd even consider mixing things up. Seems like your making a stew.