So my mother works for a fiber glass company and they tend to have 10-20 of these boxes just waiting to be picked up by the garbage man well I took 4 told her I may need 5 more hahaha
So I have been feed my chickens a combo mainly consisting of 20% AN cattle cubes (20% all natural protein mix) and either cracked corn or chicken scratch if you ever seen cattle cubes they are just really big pellets and HARD to break so what I have been doing is filling up a bucket or 10 gallon...
Think I lucked out with my 2 Toulouse geese and ended up with one of each if you can tell from the pics one has a slender under belly the other has a hanging one both same age [/IMG]
Hello all, my name is David and I'm looking to expand my little "hatchery". I've been selling chickens, chicks and eggs for 3 yrs now but locally only in looking to start selling across states and expanding my incubators and acquiring more breeds. I'm looking to focus on the rarer breeds and...
So I came home today and when I went to get eggs I only had 2 in one of my nesting boxes then I noticed a hen in the other one when I went to grab she screamed so loud, this is my first and her first day on eggs I'm thinking of moving her out of the coop since she shares it with about 40 other...
What is a humane why to kill the males of my sex-links when they hatch. The first batch is set to hatch this Wednesday and I already know I'm going to have a hard way selling them but don't want to raise them to slaughter when I have other breeds I already do that to.
Has anyone had a constant early hatch and I don't mean by a day or 2 but by 4-5 days early my incubator is home made and works fantastically I have 2 thermostats in there one digital and one alcohol thermometer I first thought I was running it too high so I keep the temp on the digital one...
This little chicken happened to be in a group of white duck eggs I bought but im not sure what breed it is black legs orange feet white spot on head tips of wings and yellow belly
I'm looking for 1-2 black australorp roosters to breed with my barred rocks 6+ weeks old may be interested if they are younger I live in amarillo, tx so I'm willing to drive 3 maybe 4 hours out of town to pick up or we can meet half way. Thank You.
Has anyone every tried making a coop out of styrofoam. I work at a pharmacy and we receive tons of styrofoam squares normally measuring 2 ft by 3 ft and we just trash them, I've taken a few of the chest we get and made some awesome incubators and nesting boxes from them but never really thought...
Got this little girl in a surprise special order the other day, this breed never really got my attention but seeing it in person I just fell in love think I will name her Weezer
I have a few chicks I want to make sure what breeds they are before I sell and tell people what they are (yeah for surprise chick orders)
Buff orpington
The others I'm not sure of a few are bantams
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