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    Problem... What are my options(Incubating)

    Ok, so my grandkids are coming to visit in 3 weeks from tomorrow. They just saw me today and asked me to set some eggs so they can play with new chicks when they come for the weekend. So being the nice grandma that I am, I agreed. I have people that wants chicks if I don't want to keep them so...
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    Sex link Question

    Is a RIR rooster x a Delaware hen sex linkable?
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    Silkies and cold weather

    How do silkies do in cold weather? I live in Iowa and am trying to decide what to do with my silkies this winter.
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    Mash feed ?

    I am going to start buying my layer feed from an elevator the grinds their own feed. It is a mash. I used it one other time and found I like it best best mixed with some water but they did tell me that people feed it dry too. How do you keep it from blowing away if you feed that dry?
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    Nothing Tastes As Good As The Cornish Cross

    I really was hoping not to do the cornish cross again but I am so far not happy with the flavor of my dual purpose birds. I purposely chose to breed and raise Delawares but we are just not happy with the flavor. Don't get me wrong, I love Delawares and most likely will continue to raise them...
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    If you could only have ONE breed what would it be?

    Well my boyfriend has told me I can only have one breed of rooster. He really would like me to get to one breed period. I have to have a good dual purpose bird. He likes a white feathered bird for purposes of butchering. So I guess for now I am going with the Delaware. I do like the breed but I...
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    What flavors the meat in the chickens we butcher?

    I did a year of doing Cornish Cross for my meat birds and they were so messy not being able to free range or tractor them that I decided to use dual purpose birds now. So this year I am using Delaware as my meat birds. We just butchered some 5 to 6 month old roosters that were very tender but...
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    Higher feed prices and I am hearing maybe bad corn--what now?

    I am beginning to wonder just how many chickens I am going to have to get rid of due to the higher feed prices. I have also heard that some of the corn harvested this year may have a fungus so that won't be good for the chickens at all.
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    Young chick with bloody poo and gray swollen butt

    I went out to my brooder this morning to check on my approx. 3 week old chicks and notices a bloody poo on top of the waterer. So I did a bottom check and one of the small chicks had a gray, swollen bottom and a little loose bloody poo running down it. So I moved it to a different brooder by...
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    Silkies --- roo and pullet?

    I would love to have it confirmed that I have a rooster and a pullet. They are getting close to 8 weeks old now. I had 4 and a week ago Friday a raccoon broke into my coop and took two of them and these are all I have left. What do you think? Little rooster with the red wattles...
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    Silkies---give me some hope that at least one is female

    I was given some silkie eggs to hatch and only 4 hatched. I won't be able to get anymore of them. Please give me some hope that I have at least 1 female. They are about 4 to 6 weeks old. I just need one female please!
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    My Delawares producing many more roosters than hens?

    I have hatched out 3 different times this spring with some Delawares in each time. I collect eggs like 5 days in a row from all of my Delawares, most of them hatch and I am getting far more than 50% roosters to hens. Is there something I am doing wrong, do I need to change roosters? I just don't...
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    Trying to figure out what I have besides mutts! PICS ADDED POST #4

    To start off, I know they are mixed breed birds. I am just trying to figure out parents. They just hatched Tues. The rooster was a RIR and the hens were of the following.... RIR, Red Sex Links from Hoovers Hatchery last year spring, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Barred Rocks and Black Australorps oh...
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    Help me think outside of the box on some small coop designs

    I am desperately needing to get some secure outdoor coops built and money is tight. I need some 4 x 6 coops built but am not having a lot of luck finding free or cheap materials right now. Has anyone ever used pieces of furniture or other different things to build coops out of? I am having...
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    New to Silkies, babies hatched now a question

    I have silkie question. I have just hatched out some silkies. I thought I had 5 but it is 4, one that I thought was a silkie was one of my Delawares. So back to my question. I was told that these were white silkies. They have feathered legs, black skin, but some of them look like they have a...
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    How long do you keep your layers?

    If you are primarily wanting a good layer flock how old are your layers when you either sell them or cull them to freezer camp?
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    What would be the cheapest way to build a temporary incubator?

    I am in a situation that usually doesn't come up for me. I had someone ask me to hatch some silkie eggs for them. I told them when to start collecting their eggs and when to bring them to me. At the same time I was planning to set some of my own for a poultry auction coming up in my area about...
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    Staggared hatch humidity question

    How crucial is humidity between day 14 to day 18 when I go to lockdown? I won hatching eggs and they were suppose to be here this week or maybe I misunderstood. Anyway, I have to get some eggs in the incubator. In fact, I just set them about 15 minutes ago. I thought these eggs would be here...
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    Incubating and hatching in egg cartons?

    How many of you incubate and hatch in egg cartons? I am on my 3rd or 4th incubation, at lock down now. I plan to start another batch next week. I would like to do a larger batch next time but think in order to get all the eggs in I want I am going to have to use egg cartons. I don't have an egg...
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    HELP..... I went into lockdown around 3pm and can't get my humidity up!

    I have a Hovabator, no fan during lockdown. I can't get my humidity to get up to at least 60 percent. My temp is finally up to 100 but the highest my humidity has been is 50% and now it has dropped to 48%. I have a bowl with a large sponge in it soaked with standing water in it. What more can...
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