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  1. habadaba

    Anyone else have chicks shipping this week?

    lil blue roo - that is awful! There is a thread here somewhere that is a running review of hatcheries, you may want to consider posting your experience to save others the same disappointment. I have received 2 small (10 pullet) orders from cackle hatchery, the only problem being that they were...
  2. habadaba

    Anyone else have chicks shipping this week?

    The 7 extra chickens i received look like the dark chicken above. I hope they are pullets, we are not allowed roosters, and it is much easier to find homes for extra layers. Any breed guesses would be greatly appreciated!
  3. habadaba

    Anyone else have chicks shipping this week?

    I received an order from Ideal today, I ordered 3 americaunas and 5 production reds, but received an additional 7 chicks! Does anyone have a guess at what a black chick with a yellow belly and a yellow spot on the top of their head could be?
  4. habadaba

    Unheated Coops

    we ran electricity out to our coops along with a thermostatically controled heat lamp. we tested it, so we know that they work, but the chickens being in the house heats it enough that the lamp never turns on with them in it. we placed the control unit close to the door, and left the door...
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    Coop door to run

    we have catawba chicken coops, so the door is a portion of the floor that drops down to make a ramp. we have a pully system to raise the ramp from the outside of the house. our hens are like pets, so we thought that we would spoil them by adding shop lights with heating bulbs that are...
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    Best breed for backyard coop?

    We have some rhode island reds, some bantams, americaunas, and brahmas. Individual chickens of each breed are different, some loud, some quiet. The real difference between the reds and everyone else, is that we get an egg a day from each red, and because they were our first chickens, they got...
  7. habadaba

    watering nipples

    we ordered our nipples from amazon, they came in 5 packs. to teach the chickens to use them, we drilled some into the bottoms of soda bottles and hung them in their brooder, but we still used the traditional waters. when we moved everybody outside we switched to the largest size gatorade bottle...
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