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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    25 Bovan Browns + 12 Cornish Crosses = 37 total 25 Plus 17,741= 17,778
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    water quality question

    Chickens might well drink out of nasty mud puddles if they have to but that doesn't mean that it's good for them, nor that they like it. Up to recently i had been giving my birds water from the main, and when i started giving them (chlorine-free) water from a nearby mountain stream, their water...
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    Essential Oils

    How would you dilute lavender oil to spray it on the chickens themselves? How many drops to a cup of water?
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    Single Rooster Pen

    Farmhand, i was happy when i came upon this thread. I've been wanting to do exactly as you, keeping a rooster or two separate from the flock for breeding purposes. Thanks for saving me the trouble having to ask all the same questions . (-: I don't want my boy (maybe two eventually) to be with...
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    Broiler hen crossed with bantam cock

    How heavy did these crosses turn out to be?
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    red sex link crosses?

    Living in rural Jamaica, i don't have access to any of the breeds you mention. All i can put my hands on are bovan brown hens, and what is locally called "common fowl", i.e. mutts. I am planning to cross the bovan browns with a common/mutt rooster, knowing they don''t breed true. Then keep some...
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    red sex link crosses?

    What would i get from crossing red sex link hens with a mutt (i mean REALLY mutt) roo? Would they be good layers?
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    Breeding a red sex-link hen with a red sex-link Roo? a few PICS

    Darn phone. )-:< Would it be worthwhile breeding just the best ones (assuming they can be identified)? Would that give good results a few generations down the line?
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    Breeding a red sex-link hen with a red sex-link Roo? a few PICS

    ( I don't know if this thread is still active...?) For egg production, someone said that Sex link birds are best at the first cross. Later generations will give some good layers and some very poor ones. Would it be worthwhile breedind the more productive ones
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    Breeding old layer hens?

    Here in Jamaica, all commercial livestock feed is imported from abroad and therefore very expensive, so a hen that doesn't lay 5 eggs a week is barely earning her keep. Maybe the weather is just too hot, or the feed of poor quality, or i-don't-know-what, but 18-month old hens are usually sold...
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    Breeding old layer hens?

    I finally have everything in place to get things going. I was set on using a homemade incubator but local farmers convinced me to use a "common fowl" (local mutt) hen to hatch the eggs. I'll try that and see how that goes.
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    New here

    I'm a Catholic priest. There's lots to do here as far as feeding the countless poor, sending kids to school and, of course, spreading the Word and the Love of God.., all the while trying to make ends meet!
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    Breeding old layer hens?

    (Sorry, writing fom my phone, so there are often typos!!!) Everything is different: climate, method, hatching birds buying day-olds, diseases, different predators, everything!
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    Breeding old layer hens?

    I'm not new to chicken farming, as i grew up on an egg farm in Canada. But the parameters are completely different here: climate (tropical vs Canada), the methods (industrial vs deep bedding), the birds themselves
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    Breeding old layer hens?

    Hello, everyone , I want to put some layers in an old coop i have in the backyard but because of high demand , hatcheries have none available for many months to a year. (I live in rural Jamaica.) I found out i can get some old (approx 18 months but still laying some) Bovan Brown hens from a...
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