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Thank you for your hasty response!!! This was very helpful and I look forward to talking more about this.

Thats just feathers growing out. Its new growth

I am an australorp lover and currently have several blacks. I have been wanting to breed for the blue but really dont know where to start. Any advice for a newbie?

Thanks!!!

What kind of rooster do I need to put over my RIR hens to produce a red sex link?

Th .Hi newburt I just got this feeder at tracktor supply its made by Harris Farms Hanging Feeder, 10 lb It has little dividers so they cant throw their feed around it has totally solved my wasted feed problem [/quotThat's the same feeder I have :-/. I don't know what exactly I'm doing wrong...

The pleasure was all mine Bob.

Love this picture and caption

I say this is a cockerel and a pullet but Im no expert LOL. beautiful birds

I say its a roo

This is such a beautiful breed of chicken to me and I hope to have a flock started by next spring

Where would a fellow purchase hatching eggs from one of these true heritage flocks?? I love the deep mahogany color of these birds and the heritage that goes with them

Thanks!!! I think/thought/thinking maybe worms. I wormed the whine flick after the third bird died in the same tractor and waited a day and did duramyacin next and so far everything is good for the rest of the birds. Not 100% sure what I had but I had the state board if animal health to come out...

Me too. I have raise my feeder and I still see the feed under the wire. You don't have any idea how much feed u have wasted until you can see it under the brooder. I bet for every 10lb I feed there is 1lb under the brooder.

Funny thing is I have 7 tractors in a staggered row and only that 1 tractor with barred rocks in it has had this problem. All 3 of the ones that died had almost no body weight. And the water bucket had a nipple that stuck open and the water drained out. It was in high 80s low 90s here but would...

I had six barred rocks 5 months old. Earlier this week I went out and one was down and couldnt walk. I ended up having to put her down. I go out there today and one is dead and another one is sitting down instead of standing up and every time I would get her up she would sit back down. Comb...

I will try lifting my feeder up a bit. They are a month old now so they are considerably bigger than they were when I started seeing the problem so I will try this tonight. I'm hoping to have them in a tractor in the next couple of weeks and then they can clean up their own scraps!!!

I have chicks in my outdoor brooder that will be three weeks old tomorrow ( monday ) and have had two other batches in there and had the same problem with them. I have tried the little auto feeders with the holes cut all the way around the bottom and now have graduated to the 7 lb hanging...

This was very well written and caused several outbursts of laughter in my living room today. Im sure everyone was wondering how on earth anything on a website about raising chickens could have been so funny. Thanks for a great read.

I cant speak either way on the deep litter method but doesnt compost go through a heat during the cycle where it is breaking down? I have never actually composted so im not saying this as a fact but more as a question. I definately wouldnt want to add any extra heat to my coop in the summer...