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I'm going out of town for Thanksgiving. Usually don't need a farm-sitter and shouldn't this time either but with the cold weather our 3 pet ducks have come in off the pond and now spend every night trying to swim in the chickens heated water trough. It's been bone dry every morning and the...

I have a 55 gallon drum with a faucet, I attached some PVC with 5 chicken nipples and every nipple was done the same-- 2 stream water, 3 work fine. Any thoughts/advice/suggestions?? Thanks all!

I have one of those Farm Innovator, white styrofoam incubators. It has forced air and an automatic turner. It has 40 eggs in it and they are due to hatch this coming Saturday. My first hatch (last month) was terrible. Only 8 chicks from 42 eggs. Mainly that's because in spite of all I...

We've only had chickens for 3 years but we're ready to go egg-selling-crazy. We've got a great market and have had lots of requests. So, I'm planning to expanding my current flock of 15 hens 1 rooster into 3 flocks living in two coops-- is that even possible? The numbers and sq ft works out...

Hello, I've been using this site for years... finally got around to joining. We started just 3 years ago with 6 little pullets and we are hooked. My daughter even took 2nd place overall in the poultry competition at this year's fair. We have 20 chickens, 1 rooster, 4 ducks, and 17 quail...

A 4 H group was giving out free quail chicks at the fair-- only to other 4Her's but still, reminds me of all those dead gold fish in colored water... Anyhow, a friend picked up some but couldn't remember what type of quail they are. Now they're ours. They are probably about two weeks old. Any...