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Eggs pointed end down in an auto turner, right? Its been a couple years.

I am planning on buying fertile eggs and hatching out either 50 or 100 birds, strictly for butchering. My questions are, how big of a cage would I need to grow these birds to eating size, and how old is usually the best age to butcher?

My chickens started slacking off on laying about a month ago, and are now down to about nothing. I put a light in the coop on a timer about a week ago, and was wondering how long should it take for them to increase laying. I have the 40w light coming on at 3:30 am and it gets dark around 5:30...

Can't seem to find it at Tractor Supply or Southern States, and other suggestions? Also what does DE stand for I know it is something earth, but can't remember the first word, thanks.

I also painted the inside of my coop for the above mentioned reasons. But wanted to tell you what I did to save a little money. Since you and your chickens will be the only ones seeing the inside of the coop, does the color really matter? To me it didn't, so when I bought the paint for the...

I am clearing land for a pasture and have two questions. 1. Small saplings "thumb sized" do they need to be pulled up roots and all or could they just be cut off flush with the ground? I will disc the area after clearing, but wondered if the stumps left behind would damage hoofs, frogs, etc...

I had a hard time getting the pics, my camera does the "red eye" flash so they would run before the actual picture was taken. I was just wondering if this breed could be sexed just based on the light and dark colors. I hatched them myself, they are Ebay eggs out of NC.

The second is colored just like the first, the flash just washed the color out, he is not a leghorn.

I have 5 three weeks old BLRW's. Three are light colored and two are dark colored, does this determine gender? Here are their pics.

Here are a couple pics of some buffs we hatched out about four weeks ago. There are several that have the large comb like the one pictured. Is this a dead give away that they are roosters? I would hate to get rid of them if there would be a chance that they are hens.

If you are really hands on and want plans for a lot of equipment, go to www.beesource.com. They have plans to build bottom boards, hive bodies, frames, wax melters, and a lot more. Just click on the "build it yourself" link on the left side of the page. Be extra careful with the measurements...

We just hatched out some Buffs about a month ago, and several of them have significantly larger combs than the others. Is this a sure fire way to tell if they are roosters?

I am in Fayette County, near the gorge. Who is close by, for trading, buying, selling, advice?

How many hives are you talking about? You can keep 10 hives in a small space the size of a bedroom, so unless it is a lot more than that you will not "loose" much of your land for storage. Even though you don't have crops, the bees will forage for up to three miles from the hive, so that is no...

Thank you, it had me worried. But you seem to think its normal, so let it go to this evening I will.