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    Black Soldier Fly Larvae for northern climates.

    I'm looking for the same kinds of info. Any luck so far? I'm in zone 5 or so. Not sure what I'm going to try first.
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    Backyard Brahmas!!

    LOL!!!
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    Cream Legbars

    In the past when I've sold hens that weren't very good compared to the standard I just priced them the same as local Easter eggers and call them that basically.
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    HYPOTHETICAL DISCUSSION: What to feed your chickens when we can't buy chicken feed anymore

    This is an important concept. Except system efficiency changes the answer about how much of any animal a certain landscape can support (per acre) and finding better ways to use the same stuff (or using more of what's available) is where all the interest comes in for me. I'm really considering an...
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    HYPOTHETICAL DISCUSSION: What to feed your chickens when we can't buy chicken feed anymore

    lol awesome. Best plan I've heard. Haven't read the whole thread yet. My current feeble attempt at this (aside from the usual garden scraps and fodder) is going to be meal worms and black soldier fly larvae. If I had a couple milk goats I would be giving the girls some goats milk too. Maybe someday.
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    HYPOTHETICAL DISCUSSION: What to feed your chickens when we can't buy chicken feed anymore

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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Lucky for me, someone gave me the welsummers and I just added them in because they were handy.
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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    My hatch is done early and I wanted to report my numbers. I got 12 out of the 27 in the hatch along. All 6 of the bantams hatched, but they weren't part of the hatch along. In general certain breeds did much worse than others even though they weren't shipped. All of the eggs from the...
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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Got a girl CL out of my fav hen and rooster. Yay!
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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Yeah I inevitably pull the chicks out and put mine in a brooder so they dry. I find my hatcher humidity rebounds super fast. I try not to open it more than once per day to get chicks out. Some people say don't do it! But it works out for me.
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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    I feel your pain. I had 1 Legbar hatch too and mine is a boy too. Ill leave the other 4 a couple more days though.
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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    One baby out this morning when I woke up. It's a blue Olive Egger chick. The first blue chick I've seen personally. One of the Legbar eggs pipped too! Those 4 Legbar eggs are the ones I'm most interested in because I sold all my birds a few months ago and these eggs are from a sweet cream...
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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    I have a bunch of eggs due to hatch on the 19th and I usually don't even hope to see a single pip in those eggs until the night before hatch day. Sometimes they surprise me and pip earlier. I guess it was lucky I had a few chicks due mid-week this week to get my fix so I can give the other eggs...
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    The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    5 out of 6 of the bantam d'uccle eggs have hatched out, and the 6th one is well on the way. I think it'll be 100% on the first hatch for the incuvue. These weren't part of the HAL though because a broody was on them a day or 2. They are so cute because they all have different amounts of white...
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    Cream Legbars

    Yay awesome news! Thanks for the update Tony!
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