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So as you probably read from the title of this thread... I absolutely LOVE my incubator... I picked it up last spring from someone on craigslist for $200 .. It's a 250 egg incubator, self rotating with 3 shelves for eggs and a shelf on the bottom for the chicks.. I don't know what the brand is...

So this afternoon i picked up my 3yr old niece from school and on the way home she explained to me why we have roosters and hens ( a flock of 54 laying hens with 5 roo's for breeding and then 100 meat roosters heading to freezer camp tomorrow and the next few days.. ) So according to Katie (...

I got two roosters for every breed i wanted for breeding so if for any reason one didn't make it or one was too aggressive we would have a second option. anyway i have two BCM roosters i am trying to decide which one i should keep, neither one is aggressive... which one should i keep for...

Right now i have 97 RR roosters that i am raising for meat... ( had 100 ) the RR roosters i have right now are around 12 wks they are about 4 lbs I'm guessing, they are heading to freezer camp first weekend in December and hopefully will be a few pounds more. I have been reading about...

I just put down 4 of my birds.. They have been coughing / sneezing for the last 2 weeks and the last 2 days started to have a discharge coming from the mouth / nose... do you know what could have caused that? I inspected them after i put them down they where draining lots of stuff through...

one of my br hens i hatched this year every once in awhile has a cough / sneeze... her crop feels like it is full of water with no rocks or sand in it at all.... what could be going on with her?

about 2 weeks ago i noticed that my barred rock rooster's NPIP band was kind of loose so i grabbed him and adjusted the band it just kept jumping around on his leg. next day he doesn't have it on and i can't find it.. last night i was watching the birds as they're free ranging and my HQ SLW...

I am thinking of getting a few turkeys to raise for thanksgiving dinner.. what breed would you guys suggest for my area ( southern NH) and they will live with my chickens i will need to know how much space do they need compared to chickens? please let me know.. u gave had some friends...

So just to give a visual i have 2 coops and 2 runs but there very close the runs they can see each other and if i didn't have super fine mesh over the chain link they would be able to stick there heads through and touch.... so now this past week on the 6Th i went out to take care of the baby...

I have 30 laying hens currently and i think they may have started molting i have 7 NH reds, 2 barred rocks and 1 copper rock that are 15 months old and. then i have 7 NH reds, 4 barred rocks and 9 ee's that are 11 months old... Normally i get 24-27 eggs a day the last 3 days where 16,13 and...

So all these birds are 10 and 13 weeks. I will list the age and what i think where its parents, these are all birds i hatched. Chicken #1 .... 10 week old EE X partridge rock hen... most likely a rooster Chicken #1 Face of EEXPR 13 week old EE x PR next to Chicken #1 (10 week old EE x PR)...

So i hatched out a hole ton of babys this year and i think this is a boy... it is from and EE roo and a partridge rock hen.. he/she is beautiful tho... if its a boy we have to get rid of him cause he is a brother to the girls so we dont want inbreeding... so here are a bunch of pictures of...

I have 8 one week old chicks ( they're my new roe's ) and i was wondering if i can add my 35 day old chicks i just got with them? the roo's are very friendly i hold them daily. would it be save to do that? I would put them in a 3 foot tall and wide dog crate that is 4 and a half feet long they...

So i have 8 baby chicks hanging out in the kitchen and i have another 35 coming Friday but my mom doesn't want them in the house she wants me to get a broody well multiples to take care of these chicks.... How do i get a hen broody? I have NH's, BR's and EE's which ones do you think would be...

What is a good age to cull BR roosters? I have 10 that i hatched ( not bad considering i got 31 hens as well ) We want to send them too freezer camp they are 8 weeks old today.. Thanks for any information you can give, -Hanaah

I've noticed over the last few weeks that one of our 3 roosters was getting kinda mean ( we have 30+ hens so we had a rooster for every 10ish) that worked very well until a few weeks ago. So today I went out to let the chickens out and collect eggs and saw one of my hens had a completely bare...

Those are what i hatched successfully out of 40 i only have 13 boys.. not bad much better then 50%.... i tried out the old wives tale with the pointed eggs being male and the round/oval eggs being female... I had 15 pointed eggs in but only 13 hatched.... and i have 13 boys so i think its true.

In my last incubation i hatched 16 out of 20 that went into lock down (3 didn't make it in the first few days) so now i have 13 three week old chicks and 18 one day old chicks that just hatched this morning plus 5 more eggs with pips in my bator! that is out of 35 eggs in lock down... So i...

So i hatched out some eggs from my EE's and NH red's they where in with 2 roo's 1 EE and 1 hq slw. what i was wondering is how can i tell who the dad was what comes through to show is it there legs will be green if the roo was an ee ( i hatched 13 chicks and 9 of them have very green legs ) or...

today is lock down and i had to move my incubator and the egg cracked.... right at the air sac but i damaged the membrane a little bit.. the chick is still moving will it still hatch or should i give up hope? please help