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Hi everyone! Last fall, I incubated the first eggs from my flock. Rooster is a Gold Laced Wyandotte and the hen from the chick in question was an RSL. Somehow I got a red pyle cockerel out of the mix! I've been playing around with the chicken genetics calculator and cannot for the life of me...

Hi everyone! So I’m going to drop a lot of info in the next paragraph and I’d like to hear your advice and opinions on what went wrong! I’ve had laying hens for about 5 years and added a rooster to the lineup this year. He’s a GLW and really takes care of his hens! I was super excited to raise...

Hi, I'm the Director of Agriculture at a golf course in Ohio. I've recently raised up a flock of 85 guinea fowl which were released to free range the property about a month ago. They are protected by 2 Jersey Giant cockerels, a Cornish cockerel, and a giant, feather-footed, mixed breed roo named...

I have 6 RSL's that will be 19 weeks on Tuesday. Overnight their combs and waddles got way redder. 2 days ago Amelia, one of the pullets, did the chicken squat when I pet her and now she squats and pecks me like crazy when I touch her. Now another pullet is starting to squat when I pet her. When...

Currently, we have 6 red sex link pullets. They live in a 7x5 coop and can go into a 16x7 chicken wired in run whenever they want to. We also let them out of the run at least every other day (usually daily). We are already thinking about additions to the flock next year. Here's what we are...

Got 6 supposed red sex links at tractor supply. They're 5.5 weeks old. This one looked pretty light when we got "her", so much so that we named her Blondie. "She" is the largest of the flock and seems to be in control as well. The rest are almost 100% red but "she" seems to be too light to be a...

So I live in a small city and a chukar has randomly come in my yard. We have never seen one before and have no idea where it comes from. Its hanging around the yard so we started feeding it. Would it be okay to put it in the coop with 6 layers? The coop is 7x3.5x6 feet tall. The run is a little...

So just by complete coincidence my dad and were just finishing putting our chicken coop up last night. I live in a small city in Northeast Ohio and out of nowhere we see a weird looking bird kind of like a cross between a chicken and a turkey walking around across the street. Its remained about...

We currently have 6 four week old red stars. We're finishing up the coop and run construction in the next 3 days. The coop is 7 x 3.5, with a peaked roof that stands at 6.5 feet high. The enclosed run will be a total of 110 square feet and 6.5 feet high. How many egg laying hens total could fit...

Recently we purchased 6 egg laying chickens to lay our eggs. Our coop is 7x3.5x7 feet tall, and their run is about 100 square feet. Would this be big enough to throw in one or two turkeys to raise for meat? Also how does integration go with introducing one or two turkeys to the hens? Or is this...

So this is all just a hypothetical dream of mine. I was looking around on the McMurray website and it inspired this. So I would get a Jersey Giant rooster, a New Hampshire Red Rooster, and a Dark Cornish Rooster. I would also order the McMurray Brown Egg Layers Package of 25, which contains a...

These are our first chicks and we got the random pulleys at tractor supply. Any idea what they are? The people there said they are all cold hardy and lay brown eggs.

So yesterday we officially became chick owners. We bought 6 pullets from tractor supply. We have them in a cardboard box with newspaper shavings, the food in a chick feeder we got at tractor supply, and the water in a chick waterer we got at Tractor Supply. Feeding them organic chick food. They...