Ive been looking for some hatcheries to order meat birds from in the spring and stumbled on hoovers hatchery has anyone had good luck with them?
Were the meat birds good as far as feed conversion and growth?
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At around 4:00AM I heard the chickens going crazy so I go out to look and by chicken pen it had took a huge glob of feathers out of my mixed breed bantam that was sleeping against the cage and the wire was all bent and pulled out. I lost a Buff Orpington 2 days ago and thought it was a hawk or...
Not sure if this should go in the hatchery section or here but. I just got finished building my broiler pen and started looking around for meat birds and came across Meyer Hatcheries White Cornish just curious has anyone bought these and was happy with them.
The pen I built can hold 5-6...
So my rooster attacking me is definitely wearing thin so, I'm thinking about processing him but I every video I watch their processing hens. I'm wondering if there is any difference between the butchering procedure of a hen and rooster. Do you butcher a rooster differently .
Also what would be...
So Southern States was having their "Chick Days" yesterday so I went and got some chicks.
Here's the breeds I got.
2 Barred Rocks
2 Rhode Island Red (That's what they called them but I think they may be some sort of production red)
2 Buff Orpingtons
I was trying to get each and every one...
Not sure if this should go in the coop and run page or not but.
So I figured out my sq ft of my coop and how many birds will live comfortably in there, I currently have five in there I can only fit ten standards my local Southern States is having chick days and the ad says they can only be...
Alright,
So I have almost successfully convinced my parents on ducks we still have a few questions before we start raising them.
- Our pond is about 50x50ft and 3 ft deep will they be happy with a pond that size?
- Will they fly off for any reason, Because I really don't wanna clip their...
So I'm thinking about switching to the "Nipple Watering System" in Spring and using a heated waterer in the Winter But I have a question about it.
Do the chickens just automatically learn how to use or do you have to teach them how to use it?
Would I just use a normal waterer when I put...
So my project for the past two days has been to make a heater for the coop to kinda take the edge off and so their waterer wouldn't freeze.
Supplies.
1.Large Clay Pot.
2.Small Clay Pot.
3.Old Extension Cord
4.Male End Plug
5.Silicone Based Caulk
6.A 40,60,75 Or a 100 Watt light bulb
7.A...
So we have about 3 acres acres of underbrush where someone timbered out 2-3 years ago and there is some underbrush about 2 foot high and we would like to have it cleared out for a cow..So my question is will be able to have goats come in first and eat all the underbrush/roughage? and then have...
1) What type of bird ,age and weight. Mixed breed bantam,2 yrs old and 3-4 lbs
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Non active closes eyes every 5-6 seconds at a time
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? 8 hrs
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? Nope
5) Is there any...
Went out to go check on my chickens for the night and I heard some peeping so I went to the broody's nest and she had one that just started to pip and now I have another one that is pipping and the first one is now starting to zip ( I guess that's what you call it) So I should have some fuzzy's...
So my eggs that are due to hatch Wednesday is going pretty good but I watched her today she got up to get a quick bite to eat and drink then once she sat back on the eggs she shook her stomach but her eggs were under her so she shook the eggs with it???...So my question is if she shook them but...
My 2 year old Bantams are going through a molt right now so I've heard you can throw a handful of cat food in the coop for extra protein but I don't have a cat but I do have a bag of 20% Starter/Grower for the eggs under my broody but I was wondering if I could put a handful of that in their to...
So I have a broody hen that's been trying to hatch some eggs but they were infertile so we got some chicks and one was a roo so now those hens are laying and I put four of those eggs under her and one was already cracked because their is 3 in one nesting box trying to hatch chicks...
So my...
So you may have had multiple broodys at one time before but have you ever had four broodys on one nesting box before????They've been like this for a month now and it's practically impossible to break them so I took some eggs from my other hens that are fertile and I put them under...
Did a search and can't find anything on it...
So if I breed say a RIR with a RIR and I will get a RIR chick but how if I cross say a RIR with a Delaware how long before I will get a Delaware chick???
Thanks