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    December incubating

    Kudos to you, we dont start hatching until Mid January... Worst part of having chickens is in the winter, unless you have heated waters or a heated building.... I remember when we used to have to go break the ice out of the buckets.
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    Egg Laying Problems !!

    Your Welcome! God Bless & Have A Happy Season Greetings!
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    Egg Laying Problems !!

    Egg Laying Problems Here are the top problems you may experience with laying hens and how to fix them! 1. Floor Eggs Problem: Your new layers are laying all their eggs on the floor and the eggs are getting cracked, dirty and broken. The last thing you want is your chickens eating these...
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    Incubating Chicken Eggs- A Quick Guide

    Do you need chickens to start your flock? Breeding Pairs? What You Need: Eggs Incubator Thermometer ("Dry-bulb" thermometer) Hyrgometer ("Wet-bulb" thermometer) Important Things to Know: Chicken eggs take about 21 days to hatch Thermometers purchased from camera stores, science stores, and...
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    Chicken Nutrition- What Your Chicken Needs in Its Feed

    Providing your chicken with good, nutritious food will ensure that your bird is best able to stay healthy and provide you with high quality eggs and healthy meat (if you’re planning to eat them). Chickens, just like any animal, have their own special nutritional needs that must be met. What...
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    Education Article on Common Diseases

    Poultry Diseases and How to Prevent Them Poultry are not disease free, and it is important that you create an environment that will protect these birds from as many diseases as possible. If you intend to eat your chickens or consume their eggs, you will want them disease free for yourself...
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    what is a pullet?

    Pullet: A female chicken under one year of age. God Bless! edited by staff
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    Ameraucana winter hardy laying

    Here's some good information for you Ameraucana The Ameraucana breed was derived from blue egg laying chickens, but they do not have the breeding problems inherent to Araucanas. In addition, rather than ear tufts, they have muffs and a beard, and are very hardy and sweet. They lay eggs in...
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    Molting-Question

    If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. Might inspire us to write something different to answer the same questions many others may have.
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    Molting-Question

    Hope this great article helps you! What is molting? Every year, once a year, chickens will lose all their feathers as new ones grow in. They will stop laying until the molt is completed. During a molting is an excellent time to figure out if you have good layers or bad layers. The process...
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    first time

    Yeah my first experience was jaw dropping as well...
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    first time

    I found this on google, maybe this will help you. Home Processing of Chickens, ducks and other birds Preparations: The chickens or ducks to be slaughtered should no have access to any type of food for about 6-8 hours. However, access to drinking water until catching them is advisable...
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    first time

    Dont quote me on this but i do believe you are suppose to not feed the bird for 24hrs. Because that food goes into his stomach which makes him harder to scrape out when you go to slaughter him. I remember when we took some of our meat birds to the local slaughter house he had us put them in a...
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    Silver Penciled Rocks from Murray McMurray Hatchery- what are they like? (pics please)

    We have Silver Penciled Rocks There are pictures in our resources page.
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    Lost I need help

    Yes! The only issue you have is when you start mixing roosters in with hens and not having enough hens to roosters.
  20. Chick Hatch 150 Rhode Island Reds 1/20/2012

    Chick Hatch 150 Rhode Island Reds 1/20/2012

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