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    Ended 12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Incubator!

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    Ended 12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Incubator!

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    Canadians check in here....

    Sounds like you have a good plan, when I built my walls I put 1/4 inch hardware wire in the walls as well to keep rodents out also in the floor and ceiling. As far as roost space goes I have way too much room it seems. I went by recommendations of 1’ per bird and they generally cram around one...
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    Canadians check in here....

    Also :welcome
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    Canadians check in here....

    Hi @Missjlee4377! I’m in northeast Ontario this was my first winter with chickens, both my crested cream legbars have frost bite on combs but doing well in general, the rest of my flock has been unaffected. I have a Brahma cockerel, a Hedemora Cockerel, 2 Ameraucana pullets and 5 bielefelder...
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    Canadians check in here....

    Thanks for the info! I’m excited to give it a try 🥶
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    Canadians check in here....

    Thank you! I’ll give that a shot too, what size of bucket do you heat?
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    Canadians check in here....

    I did see the one at premier 1, it is actually in my virtual shopping cart lol I just had run out of money by the time I found it. It has really promising reviews, maybe I’ll be able to buy it this summer.
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    Canadians check in here....

    It’s horizontal, it freezes around the outside and the center usually has open water... these two
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    Canadians check in here....

    Just curious has anyone found a reliable heated waterer? I have 2 styles the one with nipples freezes in the mildest temperatures the open trough style has been reliable all winter until today it froze over but for some reason the nipple one wasn’t frozen... ugh I don’t understand lol
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    Canadians check in here....

    Great advise! Wish I’d thought of that last year when I got my first chicks! They were different sizes and some of them were stretching to reach the brooder plate and others were crouching, I would try to make mounds of shavings under the plate but they would scatter the shavings. This would...
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    Vaccinate or Not

    I don’t breed but I do unfortunately have experience with Mareks. I started my first ever flock this past summer and I lost one pullet in oct. Histo confirmed mareks, I called and spoke with the histologist she told me she frequently sees mareks in small backyard flocks but never in large...
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    A Bielefelder Thread !

    Lol thank you!
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    A Bielefelder Thread !

    The breeder told me they have brown eggs and sometimes they can be speckled, I am so happy I have a speckler!!
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    A Bielefelder Thread !

    My biels are 25weeks old now and I got my very first egg today! So pretty
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