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  1. WalkingOnSunshine

    I'm stumped--death by breed

    Hello everyone, I'm a relatively experienced incubator. Recently my husband made me a smaller homemade incubator to replace my old, gigantic, upright freezer incubator--I didn't like the temperature fluctuations in the old one, and the new one is computer controlled and doesn't fluctuate more...
  2. WalkingOnSunshine

    Wanted: Black and/or Blue Copper Marans

    I am searching for some decent Black Copper Marans. I would like birds that are being bred towards the French standard. Bird age is relatively unimportant, as long as they are less than two years old. I had a lot of predation, and lost my best birds. My remaining birds, while nicely shaped, do...
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    Need help with slow-growing Cornish X, please!

    We have a batch of two dozen male CX that aren't growing well. They are from Townline, hatched September 8. Brooded in the barn on chick starter for two weeks, then moved outside to a largh pen. They have a calf hutch for shelter with a heat lamp inside for warmth. They are eating a 23% wet mash...
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    Need opinions ASAP on whether to sell these chicks...

    OK, quick background. We have over 150 birds, and we're selling all but six (lots of reasons, but not making enough money for my work is the biggie). I have two people coming over today to look at my nine week old EEs (they're kind of fighting over them, lol). I was planning to keep one Olive...
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    Weird Question--does it matter what color ceramic eggs I buy?

    I've always used golf balls to test my broody hens before I give them real eggs, and they've always worked in the past. This year, three broodies broke the day I moved them to the broody nest. I have one more lady trying to brood, and instead of putting her on golf balls I put her on four real...
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    Super Blue Layers

    Add some color to your egg basket with some blue egg layers. They will lay large blue eggs with better feed conversion than a standard Easter Egger. Check out the blue eggs in the bowl, with some Olive Egger eggs on top for contrast. Birds will hatch from white eggs, and be white with some...
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    BBS Olive Egger hatching eggs

    Blue/Black/Splash Olive Egger hatching eggs. Will hatch out of dark brown eggs as shown in the photo above. Add some color to your flock AND your egg basket! $24/10 + shipping (which runs around $16), or come and pick them up fresh here in central Ohio. I include extras if I have them. PM...
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    "Artisan" tomatoes?

    I've seen several seed companies have tomatoes from this company this year. Has anyone had a taste of them yet? I'm trying to decide whether to try them or not this year.
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    Anyone familiar with the hens from Cackle?

    I used to order from Murray McMurray. Then I found that I could simply drive to Meyer, so I used them for two years. However, my last cohort of pullets simply isn't performing the way I'd like them to, so I was considering moving back to MMM. However, someone told me that Cackle has more...
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    Darkest egg from production bird? I'm on a mission.

    I'm on a quest, and I'm hoping that BYC can help me out. Have you seen the Eggland's Best Organic eggs in the store, the ones in the clear cartons? They are the most gorgeous rich brown. Not as dark as a Marans egg, of course, but far darker than my Golden Buff eggs. I want some! Eggland's Best...
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    Photos of Rhode Island Red and/or Sex Link eggs from different hatcheries, please!

    I'm on a quest to find the most beautiful colored deep brown egg from the most prolific hen. So far, my favorite egg color is from Eggland's Best Organic Brown Eggs. I called up EB, and they told me that they only use RIR--but wouldn't tell me where they get them. My RSL from Meyer lays a paler...
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    Plastic or metal waterer?

    Apologies; I know this has been asked before, but I have some specific questions not addressed in other threads. I have been using these waterers from TSC: http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/harris-farms-poultry-drinker-35-gal-capacity?cm_vc=-10005 I like them because they are...
  13. WalkingOnSunshine

    Broody hen stepped off her eggs on day 19!

    I have a Buff Rock hen that tried to go broody about five times this summer. We keep Dark Cornish as broody mamas, so I broke her every time. Finally I'd had enough this last time, and gave her a dozen eggs. She settled well, kicked one egg out--who knows why--and sat down to brood. She's been a...
  14. WalkingOnSunshine

    Any online tutorials on how to evaluate poultry?

    When I learned how to evaluate horses, I was actually taught by a judge what to look for. Same thing with dogs. Thank goodness for 4-H! But I have no such resource to learn how to properly evaluate chickens. Are there any resources out there that show you (with photos would be great) what to...
  15. WalkingOnSunshine

    Is is broody season, or what?!?

    Ok, is there something in the water lately, or what? I understand hens going broody in the spring, but we just had a cold snap and I have FOUR broody hens, including a broody red sex link, which just shouldn't happen. I put two of them in broody boxes and gave them eggs, but the other two are...
  16. WalkingOnSunshine

    Does anyone know where Eggland's Best buys their RIR?

    I am in love with the rich brown of the eggs in the Eggland's Best cartons, so I called them up and they told me they use all Rhode Island Red. I've had hatchery RIR (from MMM) in the past, but they didn't lay super well (not as well as my RSL), their eggs weren't this rich brown color (much...
  17. WalkingOnSunshine

    When are birds old enough to be able to judge quality?

    (sorry for the double post, but this got buried in a very long thread and I really want to know!) Hi, question for everyone, I have a clutch of 12-week-old black and blue Ameraucanas. Most are male, which is fine with me since I was actually looking for a rooster from the group. They are the...
  18. WalkingOnSunshine

    Wanted: Blue Copper Marans ROOSTER

    Looking for a blue copper Marans rooster within an hour's drive of Columbus, Ohio. Would be one of the flock roosters for a largish flock of pastured layers. If you hatched some eggs or got a surprise cockerel in your last batch of chicks, here's a good home for him with a big, airy hen house...
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    Good way to mark hens as they are laying?

    I'm trying to figure out a way to mark hens as they sit in the nestboxes. I'd like to be able to mark faces or backs, whichever is presented to me. The plan is to go out once every hour for a few days and mark the hens in the boxes. At the end of a week or so, cull those without marks--so I'd...
  20. WalkingOnSunshine

    What type of leg bands stay ON?

    We need to use leg bands to ID various cohorts of chickens. So far we've been using the numbered plastic bandettes, but they fall off all the time and I'm left guessing as to the age of my hens. I've used the spiral type, but I had a chicken injured by one when it came off partially and the...
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