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I consider myself to have a pretty good palate. I can't tell them apart from any of my other eggs.

All I was getting at is that it's hard for everyone to agree. You probably can drive all over washington and never see an american game. If you drive down a country road in the south you'll see there little huts all over the place. You will also see the hens in alot of coops. People here get...

I can't say that the american game is that popular nation wide. I can say that from Georgia to Louisiana there are alot of them. I would say at 1 in 10 people I know around here have american game. About half of them that do raise them raise alot of them.

Looks like a five week old roo to me. It's alot easier to tell when you have several of the same breed. Some lines differ. Some you can sex from day one with the head spot but not the line I am raising. I am hatching alot this year so I am going to try to band several chicks take photos at...

I have a sebright bantam rooster that has no problem keeping the ladies in line. The downside to a silkie rooster is they can't fly, they aren't big enough to offer any kind of physical protection, and the good ones are vision impared because of the fluff so can't give much of a warning for...

I usually go unmedicated but have sat a pallet up on bricks and put the medicated chick starter under there. I put the feeder for the layers on top of the pallet. By the time the chicks get big enough to get up on the pallet I switch to flockraiser.

I would say in the southeast I see few backyard flocks with austrolorps. Here it would go RIR, Barred Rock, Orpington, Easter Egger, American Game.

The first thing you need is a spacious predator proof coop. Then I would put three wires on your dog run. One close to the ground that is on the extensions that put the electric fence about six inches from the fence. Then another in the middle and the last across the top. You can allways lose a...

I have an A frame coop I call a halfway house. Half of it is closed off and the other half is open I put chicks out at 3 weeks with a heat lamp in the closed off section. One thing to think about is even if they can stay warm enough at night the calories they burn will slow their growth. A...

There's no fence tall enough to keep guineas in. I have seen them in the tops of tall pine trees. Just wandering how do you plan to contain the goat.

We have been hatching dominiques. 16 this week and another 40 or so to hatch out over the next three weeks. Just hoping to get a couple good cockerels and maybe three pullets. Maybe everyone is just busy cleaning brooders and dealing with new chicks. I know we've been busy around here and...

I have a hard time picking breeds for other people. One old breed that I rarely think about is sebright. Your already raise rosecombs so at least your used to dealing with the comb. I think they are an overlooked variety and I don't see many good ones. I really like OEGB but If you want to show...

If your looking at hatchery production reds and rhode island there's no difference that I can find. If your looking at good RIR from a breeder there is a huge difference. The RIR is a bigger bird, has a different shape and a dark righ color. The production reds will lay sooner eat less feed per...

The red pullets at TSC are buff colored chicks that only get darker as they grow. Basically production reds or hatchery RIRs. I also think they look small for cornish-x. Our tsc usually doesn't get leghorns either but hybrid california whites. They should show a few black feathers here and there...

I'm not knowledgeable enough on your states laws to comment on legalities. You say you want to process over several weekends. If your going to stagger proccessing you need to stagger chicks also. Especially since you plan to grill the chicken. There's a big difference in cook time between a...

There are a couple of diseases that could cause it but there would be other symptoms. You sure the rooster isn't grabbing it with his beak when mounting. If so neosporin would probably help a little.

I would use something with a 3-4 inch blade that is sharp. A good cone makes it alot easier.

Unless your showing in 4H I would stay away from hachery birds if you even think you may want to show. Nothing wrong with hatchery birds they just aren't show birds. I can't help you on a particular breed. I have commited to raising dominiques foir now but If I lost my whole flock tomorrow they...

This is an older thread but I will agree with this post. If you could get 5 dollars per bird just out of the brooder you would probably have more profit than selling a 10 month old for 25 dollars. You would at least have a better profit margin. Of course you would have to get good at it and not...