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    Are they ready to move to their coop?

    I'm not sure my wife would call it "amazing." LOL She's about tired of them in the garage and the mower out at dad's.
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    Are they ready to move to their coop?

    LOL...I have the same problem, but it's because I elected to play it safe and now time kind of got away from me. Mine should have been in the grow out pen two weeks ago, but I wanted to wait until May to avoid any cold snaps (Kansas can have April snow storms, so I didn't want to deal with any...
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    Whitetail Creek Farm: Starting from scratch

    Apologies for the lack of updates. I've recently started a new job which is based in agriculture and guess what...it is now a very busy season for commodities farmers! Ugh. The layers will go to their grow-out pen toward the end of next week (will provide picks once they are there). They are...
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    Question About Zombie Chickens

    Curious if a White Rock would replace the Leghorn and still get a zombie...
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    Question About Zombie Chickens

    I had to chuckle as I'm reading this over a year after the post. I watched a video on YouTube of a guy who was at a chicken auction a couple months back where a zombie went for $80. Ridiculous. LOL
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    Chicks Dying Every Other Day

    Shipped chicks, especially when it's cold, need big heat early on. Cackle Hatchery maintains that they need 100 degrees plus (with heat lamps not plates) for the first couple of days after arriving. Not sure if that's gospel, but it's worth noting. Losses suck. I lost 4 of my 40 and I used an...
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    Whitetail Creek Farm: Starting from scratch

    Been a while since I've shared the goings on! Brooder layers are into the ugly dinosaur teen days, but thriving. The older layers have been closely supervised while foraging due to an obscene amount of red tails in the vicinity. Had to run a SpecOps, Zero Dark Thirty mission just now. The roo...
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    Brooding outside in March

    Do you like the cameras you're using? I want to add some to my grow out pen, as it is out of view of the house at my parents' place and I live about a mile away.
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    Brooding outside in March

    I've got mine going in my garage, but the use of the Ohio Brooder was great as they're now going into their 4th week and it was fairly cold for a couple of those early weeks. By now, that is out of the brooder to maximize space and they are just getting heat at night (unless it stays cooler...
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    Meat Bird Recommendations

    This is a very interesting thread. I'm wanting to run a batch of meat birds to get some in the freezer, but not so shockingly Cornish X are very hard to come by suddenly. I think I saw Cackle still had them available, but this has caused me to pause and rethink my plan. I, too, want to have a...
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    Whitetail Creek Farm: Starting from scratch

    Put some additions into the brooder this morning. Added some roosts and rearranged some things. Added more shavings and rearranged how their food/water is presented.
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    Bad Experience with Bresse Farms in Pontotoc, MS

    Cackle Hatchery is also adamant that the first week (maybe first few days after delivery) they need a heat lamp because the heat plate is not hot enough to warm them to proper temp after shipping...especially if it was cold. I use heat lamps, but have strongly considered changing over. I lost...
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    Bad Experience with Bresse Farms in Pontotoc, MS

    Please keep us updated! I have some layer chicks in my brooder right now, but want to get some meat birds in when they move out. Finding Cornish X is proving to be a massive undertaking right now, so, to avoid this I'm starting to think I want to use Bresse instead (so I can breed my own meat...
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    Bad Experience with Bresse Farms in Pontotoc, MS

    Man...what a thread. I'm re-considering what I want to do for meat birds. Suddenly, it is HARD to find Cornish X chicks. I've read multiple farms have decided to go with Bresse to replace the Cornish because they can breed/hatch their own meat birds and not be reliant upon the hatchery for...
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    Whitetail Creek Farm: Starting from scratch

    Not the best photo (tried to include as much action as possible), but here is an updated photo of the 6x9 brooder...minus the Ohio Brooder portion. It's finally warm enough so we pulled it out today and added the dust bath section, another log, and a raised platform for the food/grit (tired of...
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