Recent content by coloredcoat

So Oklahoma City only allows roosters if your pen with roosters can be 400 feet away from neighbors. Makes sense, but that's a big piece of land in town.

The experiment was to feed whole corn, and let them get what else they want from the yard. This works from April to October when there is a lot of green stuff plus insects. Now that everything is brown and insects are gone, I am feeding them the cattle cubes to supplement protein and greens...

I candle at one week(brown shell) and eliminate all infertile eggs since they don't count. I also don't want to keep infertile eggs at optimum bacteria growth temperatures for 3 weeks. I bought a Little Giant incubator for $35 from Tractor Supply and figured I'd save a little money from hatching...