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Thank you for making a thread available for those who wish to show their respects to Bob Blosl. We can also share comments here about how much this great man has inspired us in the field of Heritage poultry and continue to learn from what he started here. Hopefully there will other...

Well said!

I always carry a little notebook with me so that I can take notes on what the breeder is willing to share. I use my own version of short hand. I ask first if it is okay to take notes. I also get contact information. Never had anyone say no. Especially helpful if you are going to be...

X 2. Congratulations!

I keep my eggs for hatching in the back bedroom on a auto egg turner. I also have the incubators set up in that room. The temp in the house is 72. No special humidity until they go in the incubator.

Most of my broody hens this year have been Wyandotte and Wyandotte/Cochin crosses bred for broodies. In fact there are four Wyandotte hens sitting on Bantam Delaware eggs right now. The two Cochin hens that were broody were given 15 incubator chicks between them to raise. One is still acting...

Great process...thanks for sharing.

Does anyone have contact information on Ryon Carey from Kansas who breeds Rhode Island Whites? If so, please PM me. I have a friend who wants to visit with him because he thinks his birds come from Carey's line.

Congrats Walt. Lovely looking pair. And only 7 months! Wow!

Using a six foot 1/2 in diameter piece of PVC pipe make crawling around on the ground unnecessary. I have adult height runs too.

2 - 5 soaring here means either a cow has passed her afterbirth or they found the coyote hubby shot. Rarely there is a deer or road kill on the highway. We have been most amazed by a bald eagle in our front pasture with a jackrabbit and seeing pelicans on a local lake...in central Oklahoma..

Thank you Laura.

I have to show off the new Buckeyes! Don Gibson has bred Buckeyes for several years. Don brought me this young trio from this year's hatch today. His stock originally came from Craig McCary. He has been working on getting rid of the cushion above the tail. I am thrilled to be given the...

Broodies go broody when they want to instead of on a schedule. You have to be flexible enough with your expectations to utilize them on their schedule. I collect eggs for no more than ten days to place in one of my incubators. Some of those eggs could go under a broody when she decides to set...

A quality Cochin hen will lay 3 - 4 eggs a week and may go broody 2 - 3 times a year. Typically they do not lay when molting and will begin to lay within a few weeks when chicks are 8 weeks of age and still raise those chicks. I have some lovely white hens from Bo Garret that have not gone...

We fortunately have a 40 x 60 barn where I can stack extra cages. But I also hang a few extra cages on the wall above my 10 hole nest boxes to put a broody on a nest until her chicks hatch. Or to put a broody in that I want to break brood. Because we have a tall ceiling in the barn, I also...

We don't have weasels in my neck of the country...but great video. I'm setting a live animal trap with catfood tonight for a skunk .... Have a gun and a plastic sheet for transporting the cage. Will shoot it once away from the house and will dispose of it by burying. This is war!