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After a failed attempt last night at our city council meeting trying to get the chicken ordinances changed, they tabled the issue because they didn't want to pay the city attorney to change the ordinance if the Texas Bill prohibiting municipalities from banning chickens passes. Anyways I have...

Can anybody give me a rundown on dark egg genetics. I have searched and haven't found much info. Theoretically if I just keep hatching dark eggs will they just keep getting darker. I have welsummer roosters and cuckoo marans hens and barnevelders. I was going to try to just keep breeding the...

I purchased black jersey giants last year and I lost my rooster. Now I have black broiler (I was told they are dark Cornish x australorp cross) chicks that just arrived. I'm wondering if I'd get a good meat bird if I keep a black broiler rooster to breed to my black jersey giants. Any Ideas??

Can anybody tell me what to expect from this I've tried the calculators but there isn't a buff laced option. My rooster is blue and my hen is buff laced. Will they be sex linked?

I'm looking for a reasonable priced chicken plucker? And a good brand? Any suggestions on where to purchase or a good brand?

I recently found out about Joel and his sustainable agriculture methods and wonder if anybody here has attempted his chicken tractor methods? I don't raise near as many broilers but was considering down sizing the tractor. And will coyotes not dig under them? Or any ideas how to stop them...

I have two male buff American geese and one female. I ordered two grey saddlebacks females and one male. Will they cross breed?

So I bought ducks and geese last spring and I assume they will start laying soon this spring. I haven't had them before just chickens and guineas but what do ducks prefer for nests? Is a laying box on the ground efficient? Inside their coop even though they only stay in there long enough to eat?

When I ordered my dark egg layers I had ordered a banevelder rooster a welsummer rooster and a maran rooster with their matching hens. After some unexpected mortalities I still have the cuckoo maran hens the welsummer hens barnevelder hens but just a welsummer rooster. So my question is if I...

I have raised poultry for most of my life. Granted I'm only 26 yrs old. But I had to give it up two years ago to take care of my grandma while she was dying of cancer. Her and grandpa are the ones that started this hobby with me and now that grandma is gone grandpa has nothing to do I say that...

I have kochia weed everywhere the chickens love it I can't pull it fast enough to for them to eat. I have been doing some reading about it and saw that in other livestock it can be poisonous and was wondering if it is the same in poultry? The protein content to my surprise was 22+%. Does anybody...

I was wondering if it is okay to feed rolled oats? I let my flock free range and they get laying pellets and corn but I'm trying to find lower cost things to feed chickens and ducks.

I have some cuckoo maran hens and was wondering if I put my Welsummer rooster over them will the offspring be sexlink? Also will the eggs still stay dark brown from the offspring? Thanks Jared

If I cross a gold laced polish rooster with gold laced Cochin hens can I expect gold laced offspring since it is two different breeds? Will the lacing breed true?

I order 65 buff orpingtons from ideal poultry but this one looks different.

I'm sure there is already a thread out there. But anyways I just ordered 25 Cornish rocks from ideal that will be here next week. My questions are: 1.) It is recommended to feed high rations and high protein feed from what I have read. Would purina flock raise be good enough? And if so what...

Two weeks ago I ordered welsummers from ideal, and I know hatcheries don't breed to the standard, but does anybody have pics birds or eggs from ideal stock? I have purchased Marans from them in the past, and the we're good layers, with dark and speckled eggs! I just hope that they will lay...

I was wondering if I could feed rabbit pellets to chickens, because they are a higher protein? I would mix it with the layer pellets.

My water reservoir leaked, and I had a chick stuck in the egg, I helped it out, I have hear this is a NO NO! Did I mess up, or is there a chance it might make it?

I have several leghorns and minorcas and having hard time selling white eggs, if I put my maran rooster with them and hatch the eggs will the offspring lay brown or cream eggs or is their a chance some could lay white eggs still? Thanks, Jared