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and by how skinny he was.....he's hungry!! But I guess that's a good sign, not enough mice to eat! This Rat snake was about 5 foot long and has been hanging around our place for about 4 days now.

We've located a source for Barred Rocks so we are no longer looking. Thanks, Jeff

Here's the known ones I've seen. 1. Harvested square that can't be plowed. Delete harvested field and a plowed field is underneath it. This happens all the time to me. 2. Ghost players from the Market Place. They follow you to your farm, you see them but they don't see you. (Most I've had...

Got the locks on the chicken door and the clean-out door and mounted the entry doors yesterday and moved our first keets out to the coop and our new (lpurchased not hatched) arrivals. Still have 10 keets in the house, which they will stay there for the next 2 weeks then be moved out to the...

one decided he was ready to come out early last night. Sue and I were planning on removing the egg turner tonight but that got pushed up to this morning when I looked into the incubator and was going to add water and saw that an egg was broke open....the little guy was just laying there...

OK, we have one keet that seems to be stuck in his shell. It looks like his feathers are dried to the shell and he can't make it out all the way. He's also not opening up his eye or eyes (I can't see the other one) Is there anything I can do to help him get the shell off of him? Doesn't look...

I see 2 eggs with holes started, they're a couple days early, we were expecting them on Saturday. Got 24 eggs in the incubator and are hoping that 18-20 make it at least. A neighbor down the road wants 12 of them if most of them hatch. We're going to keep at least 12 ourselves and then what's...

I have 11 RNP's that can be sexed (they're around 3-4 wks old) and I'm interested in trading for egg-layin' chicks. Must be local, I am not interested in shipping the RNP or receiving the ELC via shipping. LH chicks are my first choice for trade, RIR would be my second. If you're local and...

I PM'd Rob (Admin) with a suggestion of making a sticky topic at the top of the Coop & Run Design and Construction Section so users would reference "key elements" of building Coops & Runs. This would be a standard generic list of Do's and Don'ts in constructions and some "how to's" also...

I will be hopefully finished with my coop and run by mid-july and would like to purchase a few Leghorns for egg laying. Please contact me via PM if you might be able to offer up some chicks to purchase. Whites are ok...but we are also interested in other colors too. Thanks,

Got a call from the wife saying that three of our chicks (3wks old) are missing feathers on their backs. When I got home not only were there 3 but I found another 4 of them missing feathers too. I pulled them all out of the main container and moved them to another one. What's going on? They...

My current plan (which is buggin' me) for the rafters is using 2 x 4's but the span is an estimated 11' with no truss' (see coop topic for photos: My coop photos I'm wondering if I need to re-think my design on the rafters to use 2 x 6's instead, I was trying to avoid the expense of the...

Could someone tell me what breed chicken lays the standard white eggs? I've tried brown eggs and I don't care for the taste ( I know, a lot of people pick those over white) I like sunny-side up and scrambled so I'm looking for the best white egg possible for this from a chicken, which should I...

Well I've started on the coop this morning. Poured 9 footings for the 10' x 16' coop. Went to Lowe's and picked up the supplies for the base and floor and started laying that out. Decided to take a break since the temps are in the upper 80's and I don't have any shade around the work area...

I'm posting for both my wife (Sue) and myself (Jeff), we're located in the Richmond,VA area and are new to the bird world. We currently have 11 Ring-necked Pheasant chicks(not sure they're called that) that are about 8 days old or so. We also have 24 Guinea eggs in the incubator going on day...