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I recently purchased 4 turkey poults. A day after getting them one got a runny nose and one eye was running a little. I immediately culled this bird because I have a small breeding farm and I don’t do antibiotics. Should I continue to raise the other 3 as long as they don’t show signs or should...

Hey everybody I just want to introduce our farm, and myself. I’ve been a member of backyard chickens for as long as I can remember. This is a wonderful community of backyard chicken raisers. My name is Tyler Crosby, me, my Wife, and 2 sons have started a poultry preservation/breeding farm here...

I recently purchased a used dickeys incubator and everything is working great except the automatic turner. The egg turner will move the trays fine in manual mode. But when I flip the switch to automatic it just moves the turner to the right one time and doesn’t turn them anymore. Is this...

I know there is people out there who make their living off of their farm. I’ve always wanted to be able to make my living with my birds, other animals, and forms of hobby farming. I would like to know any tips and tricks y’all might have for doing this successfully. I know it will take time to...

Hello everyone I am looking to get back into chickens later this year. I’m looking for breeders of exhibition type white rocks and barred rocks. Need someone willing to ship to South Georgia. Not just wanting 5 or 6 chicks, looking to buy atleast 20 of each variety if not more. Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone I havnt posted in a while but I have been busy building my career. But one of my true passions is breeding birds. I got out of it last summer and I am looking to get back into it this spring. I will be gone about 4 days a week and home 3. I am looking for some ideas on how to keep...

Alright y’all so we are gonna sell all our current breeds and start over with one breed. We are expecting our first child in August so we are gonna simplify our breeding program. I am very interested in the American heritage breeds. I’ve got a few in mind, but I need help deciding which one. I...

I just purchased an old style gqf 1202 incubator. My egg turner isn’t working because a rat chewed the wires. Could I replace it with a 1500 style turner motor?

Hey everybody it’s been a while since I have posted anything here. A couple months ago I made a thread about my Easter egger project. I just wanted to give a little update. We have been hatching like crazy in my little styrofoam incubator that my beautiful wife bought me. I don’t think it’s...

We all know that sickness and disease is part of raising birds. Everything from MG to Fowl pox. So what about managing it? I am a breeder, and I do sell stock. So I was wondering what everyone else’s thoughts were on this. I want to sell the healthiest most viable birds I can. So some of my...

Redrooster99 is officially back in the quail game. Picked these 10 up the other day.

I just acquired this handsome trio. They appear to be very well built, and have very good type. I believe they are coming out of a molt. They are a year and a half old.I would to know what all you Wyandotte breeders think. They are definitely much much bigger and beefier than my hatchery silver...

Ok so I just candles my eggs on their fourteenth day. About half of them havnt developed any since I checked them on the seventh day. I’ve kept my temp. At 99.5-100 degrees feghrenheit, and humidity is at around 40-50 percent. I use to keep it at around 30 percent till I read something about...

This is my main rooster for my Easter egger project. I think he looks like a blue Wheaton, but it appears he may have green legs instead of slate. If he is Easter egger what are his genetics? The people I got him from hatched him they said he was a pure ameraucana but he was a mix of two...

Ok so I’ve been slowly working on my on line of Easter eggers because the ones from hatcheries are not colorful enough for me, and I would like to have a more standardized line. And tonight I was blessed enough to get some vital genetics for my Line. Two purebred ameraucana cockerels. A splash...

I seen where cackle hatchery was on the albc conservation breeders list. What are yalls thoughts on this?

Hello all, I’m looking for secure breeding pen and brooder set ups that I can build this spring. Any ideas? Pictures?

We have a lot of chickens and when it gets cold there nose will get a lil runny, and it’s clear and they sneeze . But this isn’t like sick type sneezing if you get what I mean. I’ve dealt with mycoplasma before I don’t let chickens stay in my flock that have had it. This isn’t mycoplasma and I...

So I’ve had sick chickens before as has everyone. I’ve gotten my chickens from a few different sources and not all of them were npip. I wish I hadn’t of done that but oh well, as long as there healthy right? So my method of dealing with sick chickens is culling, at least anything that could be...

Ok so I have some d’uccle bantams, I actually have a quad of them which I was planning on using as breeding stock next spring, one has came down with some sort of respiratory problem, I will cull her, but what about the other 3 should they be culled as well or just watched? If y’all can think of...