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  1. VinFin

    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Spit it out. See what happens.
  2. VinFin

    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Oatmeal, cucumber peelings, okra, dried cat food, dried dog food. leftovers in fridge, bugs (their favorite) apples, pears (fallen from trees), chewed gum.
  3. VinFin

    barnyard mix incubating

    Will post photos.
  4. VinFin

    barnyard mix incubating

    Put 35 chicks out of 41 eggs into brooder a few minutes ago, 34 black ones, one white one. Monitoring temperature of brooder and incubator with more peeps hatching. Chicks stopped yelling once they had a drink and I spoke with them. Brooder at 99.
  5. VinFin

    Warning! Chickens died in pvc feeder!

    From what I know of chickens, if they can find a way to hurt themselves that seems impossible, they do. Been raising chickens 50 years plus. Started helping Grandma with her 100 RIR each spring.
  6. VinFin

    I'm getting the itch. Anyone want to hatch some eggs?

    Many peeps this morning. Humidity 63 Temperature 100.3. My wife and I tend to 30 plus maybe 40 chickens, when let out, chickens divide into three groups and go their separate ways on this 50 acres. Also have eight cats and one dog sleeping on couch. Probably, because I never know what I might...
  7. VinFin

    I'm getting the itch. Anyone want to hatch some eggs?

    Yes, thinking of it, I have another rooster, a Polish. All my chickens free-range together, devouring June bugs as I speak.
  8. VinFin

    barnyard mix incubating

    Does anyone suffer from wanting to open incubator while on shut-down. Going through that now. Is it a baby chick or parakeet making that sound?
  9. VinFin

    I'm getting the itch. Anyone want to hatch some eggs?

    My wife has cured chick butt problem many times by continuous effort.
  10. VinFin

    Comment by 'VinFin' in article 'How To Raise Mealworms'

    Thanks. Quit my first batch of meal worms when I got sick. It seemed so hard following the directions of others. Now I'm better and found your directions, which are simple and straightforward. Will order 1,000 and start again. Thanks again.
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    Comment by 'VinFin' in article 'How To Raise Mealworms'

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  12. VinFin

    Warning! Chickens died in pvc feeder!

    Imagine. John Lennon.
  13. VinFin

    Warning! Chickens died in pvc feeder!

    Don't blame yourself. Have discovered chickens can get in fixes I didn't consider beforehand. When this occurs, I count it as lesson learned and to be remembered. Been learning about chickens for 50 plus years and still can't predict every danger. Have 41 eggs due tomorrow and hearing peeps. If...
  14. VinFin

    I'm getting the itch. Anyone want to hatch some eggs?

    Yes, forgot about my Polish Rooster. That makes 3 roosters with hens. Australorp rooster has the most followers. Buff the second and ,of course, the Polish coming in a far distant third. Eggs on shut down. Tomorrow at 5 p.m. will end 21st day. Planning to photograph. First time Polish in mix...
  15. VinFin

    Baby chicks and free feeding

    Today is the yesterday we will look back at tomorrow.
  16. VinFin

    Baby chicks and free feeding

    Today is the yesterday we will look back at tomorrow.
  17. VinFin

    I'm getting the itch. Anyone want to hatch some eggs?

    Hatch ready to start Thursday, July 24, in Hovabator with turner and self-installed fan. Temperature 100 to 101. Humidity 35 to 40 first 18 days. Now 60 to 65. Eggs from my flock of 40 or more. Hens - Jersey Giants, Barred Rock, Buff Orpington. Australorp Cross, Colombian, Eggs - Dark Brown to...
  18. VinFin

    Replacing Bottom Little Giant.

    Thanks.
  19. VinFin

    Replacing Bottom Little Giant.

    Top of incubator with everything needed. Bottom has seen better days. Have 42 eggs for incubator ready soon. How would you replace bottom. All my LG's are this way. Thanks to rats in work shed, which have been eliminated.
  20. VinFin

    hens life without a rooster?

    Nature knows best. Been raising chickens since little boy. Taught by Grandma, born in 1908. Hens need roosters. This is way of life. They lay better. Hens with baby chicks are happiest. In flocks without roosters, at least several hens will try to assume roosters place. Since getting big RIR...
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