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Good morning y'all, i have some bcm chicks that are a week old. when i got them home i tried getting them to eat the crumble by "showing" them but they were quite lethargic(they hatched that morning and my brooder was a little too warm) and did not eat it. on day two i mixed the crumble with...

hello everyone ! I have been wanting to get a flock of black copper marans for a few years and finally I will begin my journey! im picking up my first few birds next week. my goal is to create a functional flock(eggs and meat) but also try and breed to the sop. The stock im starting with is...

About $100. Medium sized. Up to 2 dozen or so at a time.

Looking to buy an incubator. There are a lot of options. What’s crap? What’s good?

Hello! I am wanting to order some hatching eggs this year but have some concerns. I was made aware by a breeder that he has had poor hatch rates from eggs Sent to Washington state. He said he believes they X-ray the packages thus reducing viability. anyone have any experience with this? Anyone...

Hello! Looking to expand my flock this year with some show quality Marans. Wanting to get a nice little breeding flock going. I live in cowlitz county Washington. I am partial to the Wheaten variety but black copper is nice also.

I found a 1938 version for pretty cheap. Do the standards change or just new breeds and colors get added? If working with heritage breeds would it matter how old the edition is?

$60......yikes

I’m new to this and not sure if this is a reliable apa standard or Not

I had some feather picking issues when my flock first came of age and started laying. I have corrected it with additional space as well as higher protein feed. I was expecting to see regrowth of feathers but I have not. My question is, do chickens only grow feathers in the molting process or...

I’m not sure if this belongs here or the pests and predators but here goes. So....I’ve got a lot of dead rats. I feel bad just throwing them away. They look a bit big to just toss to the chickens whole but idk. Would they tear it up? Try and eat it whole? What do y’all do?

Sorry to bump an old thread. But someone got a photo shoot this morning and wasn’t where where else to post these.

Update: Switched food over to a 20%protien flock raiser. Before I got home my husband had made a “mix” with the new feed, the old feed, split peas, oyster shell, grit and some scratch grains. All of which I was fine with except the scratch grains but I didn’t say anything cause he was real...

These are them

I have one Easter egger. She is very friendly. She is usually the first one to jump on my shoulder. And she lays a really pretty mossy colored egg.

I’ve been thinking of a solution to give them more outdoor space. I have a side yard on the same side as the coop which is on my north side and I don’t use for anything. I’m thinking of creating a tube or tunnel to the side yard and then gating it off. This would create an extra “run” that would...

Here is the coop. I agree the space is a little tight. I was having some rat issues and stopped putting scratch on the floor of the run but I just added a hardware cloth skirt yesterday so I should be able to start that again. Food and water are hanging in the run to free up space in the...

The coop is 4x4.

The other half just picked up a 20% flock raiser from tsc. Hopefully this will do the trick. As far as crowding goes I have 5 birds in a 4x8 foot print run. I have a lot of vertical space that isn’t currently being used efficiently at the moment. I had a high roost in the run but I also had an...

Ok that’s what I was thinking too. Thank you so much. It’s realy frustrating to put all this thought and effort into keeping happy and beautiful birds only to have them pluck bald spots on each other. :barnie