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Yesterday I was outside doing the wiring for my new fishfinder on our boat. I heard some bird chatter that I thought was coming from waterfoul on the lake behind our house. After hearing it for a few minutes, I asked my girlfriend, "Is that coming from our girls? Check them out and see...

The chicks are 6 weeks old now and my GF wants 'em outta the house. Can't say I blame her . This what I got done on the first day. Things were really moving along 'till I started cracking open beers. One of my own sayings is "Nothing slows a project down like beer." Anyway, here's a...

We have some pullets that will be 18 weeks old when the local county fair is in town. I'd like to enter one of each of our breeds, BR, BA, and RIR. I know that they typically don't start to lay until around week 20, but I wondered if they will have the full adult appearance at 18 weeks...

Our girls are 1 month old now and i'm getting ready to change the bedding again. They have produced a tidy amount of manure for us to use in the garden later on. I know I can compost the manure along with the pine shavings, but i'd like to separate the good stuff from the shavings and toss...

We got these as "packing peanuts" with our order of 9 pullets. The brooder is getting crowded and we'd like to find homes for these chicks. We don't know what breed or sex they are. They came from Ideal Poultry in Texas. You can take some or all of them. I would travel a reasonable distance to...

Now that the chicks are feathering in, we're starting to get the fine dander dust everywhere. I was looking through the hardware cloth I use to cover the brooder and thought about how metal can be charged/magnetized with DC current (a battery). Just like how you can magnetize a normal...

My chicks are sooo happy to see the Spartans going to the championship game!

(pics coming soon when I figure it out.)

We got our 3 varieties of pullets from the hatchery along with 9 other individuals representing at least 3 more breeds. When I put my hand in to change water, put more feed in, handle chicks etc., seems like its always the BA's that come right up to my hand and stand tall like "I ain't...

We have 9 pullets coming withing the next 2 days, along with whatever packing peanuts Ideal sends us. The brooder is all set. Just wondering when you's take the paper towel off and let 'em walk on the pine shavings.

Not my personal experience, but a good story from a sportsman's site i'm a member of. http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=263640

We are getting 9 ladies shipped on 3-25. More than likely, Ideal will add some roos to the box to keep the girls warm. We weren't planning on any roosters but might decide to keep 1 or 2 to have some chicks down the road. The question is, when a roo breeds a hen, how long will she lay...

Searching the web one night, I found a hatchery that would sell and ship 8 chicks (# of chicks me and my GF are looking for). We'd like to get all pullets and 3-4 varieties of birds. I don't recall what the restrictions were for getting 8 birds, if any, but seems to be a tall order for most...