Recent content by Over on Caney Creek

Issola, The Oct 20 instruction booklet has a 2-page section on humidity and ventilation that is very helpful. I found a .pdf of the instruction booklet online and am including the link in case you would like to read through it. It's got a lot of good information for incubating in general...

Okay, this is just mean, since it's not for sale, but when else would I get to show off my old Purina advertising scale? It's actually a Jiffy Way scale specially done for Purina marketing way back when. We owned a little feed store a number of years back and acquired several vintage promo...

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I'm happy to say we are going up now. Everyone has finally finished molting, prancing around in their shiny new feathers, and we're getting more eggs than we did in the some parts of the summer. I do have a light on a timer in the coop. So glad to see the sun today after so many days of rain and...

This little building was already on the property when we bought it, so all we had to do was move it to a new spot. Our home is earth berm, but the coop matches the greenhouse and tool shed. All we had to buy was the materials for the fence, and a few electrical and plumbing supplies inside. Came...

Thanks everyone. I am so pleased with this incubator and these chicks. We have a cabinet incubator, but this little thing is so handy and easy for a small hatch, and I keep telling myself I am not going to get into monster-size hatching anymore. Of course I also said I was only going to keep...

No they really don't, they stay clean all the time, BUT this is just the indoor feeder, the girls have a big hanging feeder outside in a pretty large run, and they free range in the late afternoons, so they don't really spend much time inside. You can see some more pictures on my page if you...

I'm sure it would if we left it up, but we will take it down and shut the water line off before the freezing temps set in. I'm lucky enough to have one of those no-freeze faucets right outside the hen house door, and electricity in the coop too, so I switch to a heated fountain. I sure do love...

We made PVC feeders too. A big one out of 4" sewer pipe for feed, and smaller ones for oyster shell and grit. They work great. Taz, I think ours must be kind of like yours, aren't they? You're right, the hens unclog them on their own. Here's some pics. You have to look close to see the smaller...

After reading many reviews here, I decided to try the Brinsea Eco 20, especially when I found it for $99 on their site. I really love the design. So easy to clean! I didn't get the auto-turn cradle (can add for another $49), but I don't see needing it when turning the eggs by hand doesn't...

We get our new ones from EggCartons.com when we need 'em. We buy misprints and overruns to save $ and have always been happy with them.

That's great because these folks never stop (talking chicken)! You're gonna love it as much as we do. So hello and welcome from SW Missouri.

Hi Mike, we're new here to BYC too, so welcome ! . Bet you are excited about your farm. You'll definitely want to add chickens, and this is a such great place to find out everything about them! We have a little farm here in Missouri and this is our first year as beekeepers - another...

Pol-Billy Farm, definitely. I like the way it rolls when you say it outloud. I wish we had taken a little more time thinking of a name when we "bought the farm" (har har). It's a farm. It's on Caney Creek. It's Caney Creek Farm. What a flare for the obvious.