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That is my one gripe about our local Tractor Supply Store. There are usually no signs to tell the breed of chicks or ducklings on sale, only the price, and no qualified "farm" staff who know what they are talking about. I'm sure it is difficult to find staff who know anything about farming...

Bought l0 red colored chicks at the local Tractor Supply on March 9th to supplement a poor hatch I had at the same time from our incubator. No sign in the store to say what breed of chicks - just "pullets". That part seems accurate as I have no Roo's and when I telephoned a young person who...

The last two incubations I've had, I had about 20% of my eggs that didn't hatch but had a fully formed chick dead inside. . My first hatch I had none of these.. My incubator is a Hova-bator with an egg turner and is very consistant keeping temp at l00 and I keep humidity at 40-50% for first l8...

Does anyone raise White Dorkings? I am interested in finding chicks or hatching eggs (preferred) but only the White variety. The only place I know that handles the White Dorkings (Yellow House Farm in NH) is sold out for the year. Please contact me if you have any for sale or can collect...

My Pilgrim goose laid 12 eggs and began setting in May. She hatched one gosling about June l0th. She stayed about 24 hours on the nest w/gosling then left w/baby in tow. My Brown Chinese gander came in and guarded the nest and next day there was another gosling hatched. He led the baby out...

Started a hatch of 40 eggs on 4/2 from my own flock using two different roosters to make comparisons. Got the temp at l00 and humidity about 50% for 2 days, put in the eggs and all seemed well for a week. Now after a week the humidity spiked to 75% for some unknown reason and the temp started...

WANTED: Pilgrim Goose females or hatching eggs. Currently have 3 males and l female and would like more girls for my ganders. Anyone near the Western NY area? I am located 40 miles south of Buffalo, NY. I could also drive to northern PA. or eastern Ohio region to pick up if you can't ship. ...

Funny to see you finding your first goose egg while we in NY State are layering more hay into our goose shed and preparing for a long winter! Ahh to be in Florida and just starting laying season, not ending it.

We can buy Cornish Cross chicks to raise for meat at many hatcheries but has anyone tried to breed them on the farm? I just bought 15 Dark Cornish chicks and 15 White Plymouth Rock chicks and plan to use the WPR roosters on the Cornish hens (and vice versa) to see what develops as their...

Last year was our first year incubating eggs. We hatched 38 or 40 eggs (only 2 duds) and were flying high on our laurels - came crashing down this year!!! Put 24 eggs in on May 30th and today June 20th was the hatch date and we have only one little guy hollering his head off. He actually...

Don't know if my breeding results will be of any help but my Brown Chinese gander mated with my pure white Embden goose. She wouldn't set on the eggs so I incubated them in the house and the results were almost identical. The goslings had bodies that are white with soft grey feathers on the...

Thanks so much for the unique frying technique. I've soaked cut up fryers in buttermilk before but never for two days. The thought of double cooking first in a slow oven and then frying seems a lot of extra work - I like to cook and then get out of the kitchen. But I would gladly do it to use...

These roosters were 20 weeks - hatched first week of June so being within the 20 week frame I thought they would be ok. I usually save the wing tips, necks and backbones of all the chickens I cut up and store in the freezer and when I have enough I use that to make soup. Seems such a waste to...

Decided not to raise Cornish Crosses for meat this summer and instead do as our grandmothers did - hatch chicks and save the females for egg laying and cull the roosters for meat. I had some Barred Rock, Delaware & Buff Orpington crosses. At 5 months of age they were all a good hefty size (fed...

Have a food grade diamataceious earth which I sprinkle in their nestboxes, on roosts and sprinkle in their feed. My new pullets hatched beginning of May are very big and well developed - in fact the few roosters I had in that batch could have been butchered a month ago. But my older gals are...

Forgot to mention in my post that I noticed his poop was bright yellow and watery. This is the 2nd clue that got me worried. Will try and see if its any different tomorrow.

I have only two turkeys this year and I noticed one getting very dopey, hunched up and very lackluster with feeding. They always roost outside at night but I caught him and put him in a shed w/Duramyacin in his water and sprinkled hot pepper flakes over his pellets/corn dish. I used about l/2...

Hi Terry, Saw the photos you posted of your flock of Toulouse - they look beautiful so healthy and well feathered. I am so new to geese I am not that familiar with different breeds but after being given an Embden goose and a Brown Chinese gander I decided on buying 4 Pilgrims so hopefully I'll...

Pete, what lovely photos of the Swans - thank you for those. This same problem is played all over the States and Canada with the Canadas staying often in the north all winter long instead of migrating south.. In Western NY we have a small harbor which is kept unfrozen by the warm water outtake...

SkyWarrior - we would love to have more details - did you hand pluck it? dip it in really hot water first etc. etc.? And could you please expand on when you brine and how? I'm sorry to be a pest but we have 2 turkeys this year and we are wondering whether to do it ourself or take them to the...