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Love it!!! We had a tree with bugs. No good for fire wood so we put the rounds around our apple trees to keep the gals from pushing all the dirt down hill. They also like to perch on them

SO!!! Our 10 are almost 2 months old - Our Rooster is a Brahma here is what we got - our goal was Brahmas - learned not to gather eggs when the two ladies are molting!! DUH!!! 6 Barred rock mix 3 Black sex mix 1 Brahma - at least she is a SHE!!! Then we had the brilliant idea to let Spec...

we have 1 BR and she totally went broody -- hatched 5 chicks - of course this was after we incubated and hatched 10!!! now we have two groups and Spec will not let ANY chick near hers -- very strange that most all of our chicks are BR (our rooster is a buff brahma) -- we got 1 pure Brahama...

we hatched 10!!! Started with 30 -- 9 off the bat were infertile unhatched investigation revealed 2 were good to hatch but probably got knocked over 1 too many times -- working on a plan for that -- the remaining died at various stages - so reach is needed - we do have the list of vitamins and...

Up to 5 and one more on the pip!! So far only one pure brahma the rest are all mixed One has a super cute blonde patch on its head. This was the first hatched

thank you!!!

Update We have two chicks - one more on the pip -- what is the best bedding newspaper that has been shredded or the shavings?

[/IMG] So a pic of the little giant and c1 C2 is working on it. They are talking to each other!!! This is soooo cool Having a hard time getting the humidity up Add an oz of water thru the hole?

I don't know what I am doing right now!!! We got our fist baby chicken!!! We have about 20 more in the incubator - C1 (as it will be named for now - Taco if it is a boy) my problem is that we left the turner in (it is off) we have egg 22 on a good zip I am so spazzed out I cant type and I...

ED _ You ROCK Will be getting to the pics in a bit - thanks for the space requirements - we are thinking to build it big enough to have no more than 30 birds - is that too much? we want them for meat mostly and have 2 Brahmas (plus Stud) but thru breeding the generations of other breeds we...

Thanks Ed!! When I got home I started to think wood on top of the2x4 and I did see a coupe with tar which I like too Ill grab a pic later-- it is a small coupe and by small I mean not tall too. Don't hold back with ideas - i truly believe we need help-- we built in a rush last year, and lets...

We have a raised coupe - currently there is rigid wire on top of the 2x4's. Then we secured cardboard (don't laugh!!!) to the underside of the 2x4's for the winter Of course it is all now a falling apart mess What if we created (using press board) 4 or 6 trap doors on the underside with...

Well, there was some confusion oh my hubby's part. He insisted we needed to keep turning the eggs after day 18 Long story short a big fat 0 upon further investigation we found 4 were not fertile 4 died at various stages of growth and the peeper, well that one is on us. Grand kids took it...

I am new and have to say i love all the info that is shared -- this in particular is very helpful to me. We just tried our fist hatch and well - let'z just say we are gathering eggs for another hatch. Our rooster could careless about us, but loves his 7 ladies -- took on two dogs that got into...

I will try to get a pic- we need to improve our method as it requires a lot of fumbling and hubby is at work WELLLLLL Our first peep just started early this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited I chose to take time out of crazy life and share On day 14 we...