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I apologize if this has been discussed before, I couldn't find anything in the archives. Are there any tried and true resources for realistic size of specific quail breeds? We breed for meat and I'm looking for live weights at the average butcher size. I've been burned three separate times...

This morning shortly before 8, our dogs started raising the predator alarm, and I look out the window to see a very large Siberian Husky running around my driveway and jumping at my fences. We ran outside and shoo'd the dog away, and found that my Giant Cochin Roo (still a juvenile), Phil, was...

When we first got them, they would range all day and were very friendly. I had six. We butchered two very aggressive ones and traded two others for a different breed of duck. The two we had left remained normal, and than about two months ago they decided they wanted to live under the coop...

It is day 24 for me on this hatch. I started hearing chirping late last night. Should I stop turning them now? I have about 25 eggs set, but some might be muscovies. Everyone is candling well, I'm just not sure when the pipping normally occurs on duck eggs. Any advice would be appreciated.

I have some extra juveniles that I picked up from HinkJC that will not be needed for my project. I have three roosters and two hens available. These are already BIG birds that had a hatch date of around January 17th. The roosters have been crowing for about two weeks. Some of the Roos have...

I set eggs the evening of April 18th. Do I lock them down this evening, or tomorrow morning, or now? It's just 12 Giant Cochins in my huge Brower. And should I be adjusting the temp at all? Thanks!

I placed an order January 17th for 100 Speckled Sussex chicks that the website said were immediately available. I always like to order my chicks early, so once weather warms up in may, They can be outside already. I received an email that my chicks would ship April 11th. Not the normal four...

I have a dutch doe who is sitting in one corner of her cage, holding her head tilted upright. She seems more pink around her nostrils and mouth and is breathing heavy. She also in the last hour or two has started chewing...like air. Her eyes are glazed over and she seems to just be staring...

Is there such a thing as a Hatchery that sells true heritage or purebred chickens that meet the standards? I'm concerned about someone selling...

I recently acquired some new birds to our flock, and I'm skeptical of the age. There are a couple extenuating factors, one being that I don't believe they had free fed and free water as they grew, and the conditions they were kept in. I don't really want to get to descriptive because the people...

I purchased some seaweed salad that I like alot, but unfortunately there's a big difference in recipes between brands. I don't like the type I currently have and I have three pounds of it. It's three types of seaweed, chili flakes, sesame seeds, and sesame oil. There is some salt but I...

I'm having issues with my flock. The past couple months we started getting thinner eggshells, lighter yolks. There was one chicken that was REALLY aggressively picking on the other chickens and we gave her a few 2 year old chickens to a friend. In May, a chicken died with no prior symptoms...

So today my I found a my RIR dead under her roost. It looks like she just fell off it, no damage, no symptoms, nothing. I'm concerned because last month I was in the hospital for 10 days, and we lost a chicken than. I can chalk one odd death up, but two? Of course, now I'm bummed because we...

I have a question. I'm honestly not a hawk fan, but I'm wildly curious. This morning while we're in the kitchen, I look out the window, and this large gray bird swoops down and perches on top of one of our lattices. I stand perfectly still and watch him, it looked at first to me like an...

We have a garden on the side of our property, completely fenced in. It's basically more to keep the dogs out than anything else. This morning the dogs were barking their fool heads off around 4 am, but it's often deer so we just brought them back in. So around mid-morning I went to...

Three beautiful, large buff orpingtons. Surprise, we aren't girls! I do not care if they are a pet or destined for the plate. No aggression towards humans, but an older brother was sent to freezer camp for being a bit overprotective. But they are getting louder by the day, the sooner the...

Well, I know what I want....finding it is the problem! I'm curious if there is a wall mount bin or something of the sort, that can hold, say 25 lbs, (or 50 or 75) of feed, and has a hopper or clamshell opening at the bottom that I can than discharge into a feed scoop. Similar design to what...

How young do roosters start..."feeling their oats"? I have a chick I thought was a hen, she's about 13 weeks I believe....possibly 14. She's never crowed, and she used to have a hatch mate of the same age that made a rooster squak when you picked him up..she doesn't do this. All her hatemates...

Over the winter, the chickens trashed their run like a...well, better than a rockstar! It's a big run, and I'm curious what the quickest, hardiest thing I can put in there...types of grass, clover, other groundcover..etc.. I have a small additional run that they could use while it's growing...

I think our barred rock eggs have bigger yolks, and taste richer than any of our other breeds. Someone told me (a neighbor) that they had bantams, and their eggs tasted horrible. Just curious what other opinions are, or if there's any documentation. It's almost sad I like the BR eggs...