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I made a chicken tractor for the purpose of killing grass. No kidding, put a few chickens in a tractor and leave in one spot for a few days and anything organic will be gone and the soil will be turned! Then you can move it to a new spot while seeding the previous area with whatever you want to...

I designed and made this chicken run out of electrical conduit. Steel. It’s now 14 years old and though I had gotten away from chickens, with the recent uncertainty, I decided to get back in the roost and resuscitate my old digs. I have made an amateur, at best, video on my cell phone. It could...

This is insane, I know, but I got this chicken that somehow lost it's upper beak, a little farther back than the hatchery type modifications I suspect it was a coyote. It is an old injury and is at the nares and not symetrical. This is an older hen, like 4 years and she doesn't lay. But she has...

I have read a few posts here about people putting eggs in the incubator that were derived from food sources. One post started from White eggs and produced a Leghorn or Leghorn variety chick. My Mom gets her eggs from a whole foods place and they are dark, and obviously, there has to be more...

I can't keep a Roo... And I want fertilized eggs So... If I built a tractor and placed it on a friends property (that has roosters), allowed my laying hens to stay there, then put a rooster in with the hens, THEN brought the hens home... How much would the hen's egglaying capacity be reduced...

The internet is AWESOME!!! Years ago I learned about chickens the old fashioned way, I bought them and the weak ones died. The rest made it because someone at the feed store could answer questions or the library had a book that explained it all... Now, I look online and there is a thread with...

I have read all the information on how to store/prepare eggs for shipment. Don't jostle. Keep 50-65 degrees, incubate at 10, no more than 14 days. However, once that box is packed at the post office, all bets are off. They could sit on the tarmac at ice station zebra, be taken 4 wheeling, or...