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I've got a sick new Hampshire red hen, she is somewhat lethargic, when she walks she has a stagger to her gait, and she holds her tail almost straight down it makes her looks somewhat like a runner duck standing totally vertical. Her eyes are bright and she eats and drinks. Her comb is still...

Just checked out a new feed mill, I had always thought he was just a feed dealer with commercial feeds, which he does sell but he also has his own mill feed, I went there as I heard he has a good price on pig feed, I got 500 lbs of that then asked about chicken feed he's just over 8 bucks on...

Well I'm diving into pigs head first, hopefully it works out, I've never messed with pigs yet but by this weekend I'll have 6 feeders. I was only going to do 2 or 3 but the wife got to talking to people and now we're up to 6 and if I had the room I could do a lot more, seems everyone wants a...

http://www.coopsnmore.com/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=2075 Look like decent prices, there's a side bigger for 50 dollars more there's smaller ones too

Those of you who have built or used electric or gas scalders with temperature control, do you find the propane vastly superior to the electric? I know propane can recover temperature faster than electric I'm just wondering if electric with 1500v heating element will keep up to the heat loss...

So I have been thinking on some sort of large capacity water system for my coop for the last few years since it's just simply a pain in the rear to carry pails of water out every day. I am considering ordering some horizontal nipples and running them into a 55 gallon blue plastic drum...

I'm thinking about finally building a cabinet incubator this winter and am wondering what the opinions are of various control systems, I have read both good and bad on the incubator warehouse incukits, have they been improved or are there other options?

I ordered some bags from them, I am interested to see how they work out I think it should be far superior to food saver or freezer wrapping. Has anyone ordered from them in the past? How long does shipping generally take?

I'm gonna throw a hoop coop together for my meat chicks tomorrow, probably be around 8x12 then I'll have a large area electric fence around it for them to range should be a good project. Almost wish I would have built a large hoop coop for my layers it would have been far cheaper.

A friend wants me to raise them 30 meat birds so I looked around for reasonably priced chicks with availability asap and decided to go with Hoover's. I ordered 30 red rangers 20 rainbows and 25 isa browns. So far I've been impressed with their service, I messaged them both by Facebook and...

Ever heard of someone allergic to store eggs but not farm fresh chicken eggs? I've been with my wife for 7 years now and her mother has always avoided eggs saying it makes her sick, but in the last year she has started eating my fresh eggs and they don't bother her. I wonder what that could...

So I am sure this question has been asked before but here it goes, I just got a pressure cooker (20qt) for use in canning and soups mainly. I wanted to use to to cook up some stock. I have a few dual purpose roosters I butchered this fall I am planning on using them whole or cut in half or...

I don't know what the heck is going on with my chickens. I have 24 chickens, 2 roosters 22 hens Just over 1 year old. Up until last weekend we were getting a decent number of eggs, anywhere from 10 to 20 per day, now all a sudden they have up and stopped laying, I don't understand it. The...

I know this has been asked before I just want to make sure I know what I am doing. I want to treat my birds for bugs, what do I use, I figure I may as well worm them right away as well just for good measure. I was reading somewhere on here that you can make a dip to immerse the bird in rather...

Forgive my ignorance, but I haven't been able to find anyplace on this site with DIY incubator examples other than scattered threads on the subject, is there such a place on this site with examples of DIY models? I am considering building a larger model to be ready for next spring out of an old...

I just hatched my first batch of chicks out of my incubator, they are just mixed breeds, I have 3 roosters, a NH, a BR, and a Sicilian Buttercup. I have NH, BA, BR, WR, SLW, EE, and Light Brahma hens, I ended up with 26 chicks hatched 6 are looking like the EE chicks I got last year with the...

My eggs started pipping at 18 and a half days, I had 2 chicks the night of the 19 day and now am up to 9 chicks early day 20, they all seem to be doing ok but I have a few questions, 1. If an egg pips and after 24 hours or so the chick hasn't hatched is that bad? The pips were on day 18...

I read different things on here about how to properly feed the CX, obviously not leave feed available around the clock, I hear of 2 main feeding schedules, a 12 on 12 off schedule, which I assume means leave food available free choice for 12 hours a day then take away for 12 hours, I would think...

I have just set my second batch of eggs in my Styrofoam incubator, Farm Innovators forced air. I have a thread on my experience with it thus far, this time I set a full incubator of eggs, had the temp regulated well and didn't add any water. After being set for a day now the humidity in the...

What is the most accurate thermometer hygrometer available? The ones on my Farm Innovators incubator are off I am reasonable sure, so far I have tried 3 different cheap thermometers which all read different, like none are calibrated properly and I don't know which to believe, I put them all...