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Now, I don't want to go pointing fingers, but I would really like to ask if anyone else has ordered online through Welp Hatchery in the last year and if your credit card has been hacked sometime after your order charged? A little less than a month after my first order, my PayPal Mastercard was...

I have a Pyrenees mix that lives inside and out depending on when I'm home, but sleeps outside because the house is too hot for him. He has a big dogloo house in a covered kennel inside his huge pen, and I've been filling it up with straw. The problem is, the straw keeps getting wet, and it's...

So I bought 6 supposed Cinnamon Queens from Rural King this January. They have started to lay and they lay...green? And blue? What's up with that? I know it's them, they're with 3 Barred Rock hens and that's it.

Who, when asked what I might want for Christmas, responded with, "A chicken scalder!" ? :lau:lau:lau I cannot express how excited I am to finally be getting a scalder with a thermostat :wee

I'm having a frustrating issue and I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing it too. Since late spring last year I've been getting ruffled feathers over my juveniles' and pullets' backs. The first issues were in my first hatch of the year, well hatches really, where I had a lot of infertility...

I have a sparrow problem in my barn. I winter the chickens in there and also that's where I keep my grow outs. I do not want the sparrows in the barn for the winter. I realize there is very little I can do about them coming and going in the outdoor coop and run, but this over-wintering and...

I'm very confused right now. I bred a single comb cock to 5 single comb hens. Have 32 chicks of varying ages. Tonight I noticed 9 of them had what appears to be varying levels of a partial pea comb. How could this happen? Is there some sort of modifier one of the hens might lack that was...

So, I know I've commented a few times that I want to try pithing. I have finally gotten organized and I have managed to find a knife that looks like it will be perfect for the job, from Stromberg's: https://www.strombergschickens.com/product/Killing-Knife/Poultry-Processing-Tools-Accessories...

So, I'm getting some outside eggs in to hatch soon. Something swept through my flock in the last cold spell we had (-30F, it was miserable) and I can't quite tell for sure if it was Infectious Bronchitis or Mycoplasma. I'm leaning IB, but I'm just not 100%. I have an email in to our state lab...

I'm finally getting ready to get my brooder set up with a wire floor. What I need to do is build a frame (or two, depending on how wide the opening is vs. where the floor will sit) and stretch hardware cloth over it. That part I'm fine with, gonna get some 1.5" square furring strips and screw...

I'm getting to the point where I really want a drum plucker for myself. My bestie is building one right now, but the thing is heavy and isn't going to be moved between our houses, and I really don't want to haul birds up to her place every time I want to process. So, how many people actually...

So, I'm wanting to single mate two or three hens this year. I want to be able to mark their eggs, so obviously I need to keep each hen alone. I plan to breed them in my big barn stall where my male currently resides. Have an idea for how to do this and want to know if it sounds stupid or is...

Can we have a thread to share some knowledge on these things? I've been searching and reading old threads (working my way through the 1500 page (!) Heritage Large Fowl thread) and I'd like to see some info about what breeders currently are up to. Especially dual purpose exhibition breeders...

So, I generally have rather few management questions, but I'd like some input on my current situation, preferably from users who have dealt with a similar situation. I have a ~2 year old cock. Respectful around me, usually just did his business and moved on with the hens (older pullets...

So, I've seen how people use aquarium or stock tank heaters in regular buckets with the horizontal nipples for winter, and I may end up doing that. BUT, I have a five gallon heated flat-back bucket already and I'm wondering if anyone has drilled through the sidewalls of those before? Is there...

So, my coop sits within a chain link dog kennel. I really want to get a tarp over part of it for this winter so that they have a snow-free run. I know that there are better ideas (mainly wiring cattle panels over the top so that they bow up), but they involve finding someone with a truck :lau...

I don't know why it's been bouncing around my head, but I've always been curious... Does anyone that breeds to the SOP ever do a sexlink cross here or there? I wonder how they would measure up to the hatchery models. Like, I have Barred Rocks. Wondering if, someday down the line, I picked up...

Preferably near Illinois. Looking at my cock, I really would rather not use him. Looking for a cock or cockerel with good wing carriage and a good (upright) tail to complement my Good Shepherd pullets this fall/winter. A Stukel line would be a plus. Anyone have any leads?

I have some nice Frank Reese pullets growing out right now, parents are big and show winners. One of them has two black blotches in her feathering. Obviously this is a fault. My question is: is this something that just crops up, or do I want to pull her from the breeding pen when I want to hatch...

I have a playpen full of show line Barred Rock chicks. 16 of them, about 4 weeks old, with a couple that are a week or so older. Noticeably a bit bigger. They've been fine and dandy all this time, but yesterday I came home to one of the biggest pullets dead on the floor. Can they really be...