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    I hear chirping from my homemade bator!!!!

    Today is day 20, and I can now clearly here chirping inside my homemade bator!!!!!!! I can't believe that thing really worked!!!! just had to share!
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    3 day old chick too cold-hanging out in the incubator

    I got my new chicks today, didn't expect them, so no brooder set up at first. I had to take them with me on errands (OH temps) and finally home to sit while I wipped together a mock up brooder. Well one was over on his side, eyes closed, not with the group. I tried to get him warm, but he...
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    My eggs are fertile!!!!! What do I do now?

    So I was curious as to whether my eggs where fertile. I butchered my barred rock roo well before my girl started laying. She's been laying for a week, the eggs are in the fridge, and there is a frizzle banty roo and a few cockerels (20-24 weeks old) . So I cracked an egg and got one with a bulls...
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    bummed out, they're nearly all roos

    Spent months raising this flock, just to hear another crowing birds day before yesterday. I've been trying to leave them be, not harassing them about eggs. And it's been pouring, so they've been fed, watered and in the coop. Well I found another roo, and took another look at them all, and the...
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    The coop part deux

    Here's the new coop, much bigger than the old, holds 13 birds, 11 barred rock, two bantam cochins. Dad put the timer on the back patio light so I'm all set.
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    Where to get Heritage Barred Rock

    Can't find the Barred rock thread. Where do I get heritage barred rock, or at least something besides hatchery stock. I've checked the web for weeks, can't find anything but a few eggs. If I have to I'll hatch, but I would prefer chicks or pullets. Anyone know any breeders? The contact info...
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    Is my backyard lighting enough for egg laying

    I have four flood lights on my house near the coop. The first set is about 10 feet from the coop, shining into the east side, they are 60 watt lights. The second set is shining into the south side, about 2 feet above the coup and 6 ft away. There is enough light that I can see the chickens on...
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    Genetics of this cross

    I breed dogs, so I am a serious student of genetics. I have two hens ( I think). One has the body of a barred rock, but it is buff/barred with white feet. The other has the feathers of a BO, but it has yellow feet. There's a barred rock, buff orphington thing going on here. I would like...
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    BR Buff Orphington cross?

    These too look like they have the same banding on their necks like the barred rocks. Maybe they are Orphington crosses? Looks like the barred rock rooster covered every hen in the mixed flock, hehehe...
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    Is this a roo?

    I saw some picts somewhere of adults hens that have combs and waddles like this. Mind you it's only 8 weeks old, and the other two have considerably smaller combs. I tried to look for picts of saddle feathers and hackles, but the picts were not there (on the forum). What do you think?
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    Bantam Frizzle Cochin girls 8 wks old.

    Bantam Frizzle Cochin girls 8 wks old. One black and white, one black. PU Ohio.
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    There are 2 approx 6x8 windows in the door, a 6 x12 vent in the side, and 2-3 inches around the roof that is just mesh. On the bottom under the nest box is an 1 1/2 inch gap I use to sweep poop out of.
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    Black bantam Cochin Frizzle free NE Ohio pickup

    Black bantam Cochin Frizzle free NE Ohio pickup. he's too pretty to become dog food, he needs a home.
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    The danger of buckets and Chopper saves the day!

    There are several misc buckets laying around the yard, mostly dog drinking buckets. The chicks were out while I was cleaning, inspecting everything, hopping up on buckets and drinking from dog dishes. When I went to put them back in the coop, I found I was missing one. Two days ago one got...
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    Gonna be roos, need new homes, 2 Cochin and 3 Bantam frizzles

    Two standard and three bantam frizzle cochin cocks to a good home. Born 5-9-11. P/U in Cleveland, Ohio. Take all or one.
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    Newbies first attempt at a humble coop,phase two new picts

    My first pass at it. I build dollhouses, and this is not like a dollhouse!! First a dollhouse usually comes with all of the pieces cut, I have not power tools except a drill, so I had the guys at home depot do it, and when I got home, well the sides were way off!!! So I hand sawed a few...
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    Who's a roo?

    I'll get more picts tomorrow. Meanwhile I have 13 Cochins-- five standard and eight banties, (seven are frizzles). I think the buff (?) cochins, the one in the front, are hens, but the big black ones look like roos. Then I have a few of the frizzles is noticable red combs.
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    Hello from Ohio

    Hello from Ohio. I'm a third grade school teacher, and I got some eggs and an incubator from my sheep herding instructor (more on that) for my school. Had 22 eggs, hatched 13, 4 weren't fertile, on Mother's Day. I have 5 Cochin and 8 bantam cochin chicks, seven of those are frizzles. I...
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