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    Wanted: Quality Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Eggs

    Hello, I've had hatchery stock in the past. I'd like to start out my new flock with something of better quality. Please let me know if you have any eggs (photos of adults please) or if you can recommend a reputable breeder who sells eggs. I'd be interested in about 24 hatching eggs. I'm in...
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    New coop build.

    Done. Not perfect but the bosses wanted it done by August 1 and I did my best to make that happen.
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    New coop build.

    Are you asking about materials only? Because I don't think so, I haven't added it all up yet. Thankfully we had some metal and plywood on hand. My bosses had to pay for labor so they have to figure that in the cost. If you are building one yourself you could build it for less than 5K if you had...
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    New coop build.

    Haha, I looked a lot of coops, many of them were nice; some seemed overly complicated so I just deciding to design this one from scratch. Took a single 103 degree day and I sat inside the air conditioned office and designed it to the 1/16th of an inch. Every cut was written in the plan so all I...
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    New coop build.

    First couple days in August is the chick delivery. 20 cornish x meat birds to start and some various breeds of egg layers and others that are more for fun. We have some BLRW, barred rocks (standard and bantams), Polish variety pack, blue eggers, and buff brahmas for the first delivery. I'm...
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    New coop build.

    Just a little update with some photos. As of today I'm almost done, just a few last minute things, the paint and hardware cloth which will be going on next week.
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    New coop build.

    Good insight thank you. I’ll pop some of the blocking out and put some hardware cloth up instead. Should be plenty of ventilation because the entire north (tall) side and 1/3 of the east and west sides will be hardware cloth. The doors will have small hardware cloth windows too. We are in the...
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    New coop build.

    I'm a ranch manager for a beautiful property in the Sierra Foothills and the owners want chickens. I've had chickens all my life and all my previous coops I've built were on a strict budget or were done from free materials. It's nice having a little larger budget to work with. Most the...
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    Looking for Bourbon Red Turkeys and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes

    Hello, I haven't been on in years. But I'm looking for some new stock. I don't do shows or anything but I like myself a good specimen of the breed for aesthetics. I'm trying to get some heritage turkeys. Raised lots of turkeys in the past for meat, ready to breed my own. I love the bourbon reds...
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    Is the Hovabator Genesis to good to be true?

    I just bought the Hovabator 1588 a week ago, I set it up and let it run for a day than placed some eggs I already had in my Little Giant to finish in the Genesis because I'm using the LG as a hatcher. I do not have a thermometer in the Genesis because even if the temperature was to high or low I...
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    Some Eggs Hatching 11 Days Early

    Three chicks hatched and are going strong. I bought a new incubator because of this yesterday, I've been wanting to get the hovabator genesis and so far it is awesome. I moved all the highly developed eggs into the old one because the hovabator has a turner, so there are only a few eggs that...
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    Some Eggs Hatching 11 Days Early

    I put some eggs in the incubator 9 days ago. I noticed at the first candling at 5 days some were way over developed and I could see them still moving. There were only 5 that looked that way. I left the incubator at a low humidity because there were 45 more eggs in the incubator that were normal...
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    Incorporating Chicks

    Here are the some of the chicks I hatched. I really like the red one I'm kind of focusing on.
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    Incorporating Chicks

    Hello, my name is Shane. I am new here and I have been raising chicks for a few years. I currently have only mixed breeds including 8 hens and a rooster that are heavy egg layers. I have 28 mix chicks. I will be uploading pics soon. Anyway, I just hatched 28 chicks on Saturday. They are all a...
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