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Our local Farmers' Co-Op has good prices, but I have noticed a definite uptick in the pricing of just about everything that I feed the poultry and the deer. Martha

We have a railing around the porch, but they scoot under the gates or fly over the railing. I shoo them off with a broom or squirt water at them when they roost on the railing, but all to no avail! I do like the idea, however, that they are nearby for my watchful eyes especially since I know...

The Three-Grain Scratch feed from my local Co-Op is cracked corn, wheat, and millet and the stated protein is only 8%. The Co-Op's Chicken Layer Pellets has a stated protein of 18%, which is what I aim for with all my feed mixes for chickens, guinea fowl, turkeys, and ducks at our farm. Bruce

My limited observation on our Frizzle Banty hen was that she was very protective of her little ones, even standing up to the full-sized chickens. I think that the chicks will be fine. By the way, the Banty hen gave her life to the fox to protect her chicks. Bruce

Our Jersey Giants started to lay about three weeks ago. At first, their eggs were graded as "small", but actually more the size of the golf ball in the nesting box. I've noticed a steady increase in the size of their eggs so that yesterday most of the eggs were graded medium to large...

I'm running a variety of chicken ages in the chicken house and recently inserted some new nesting boxes since I knew that within the next couple of months that I would have more hens laying than I had the correct number of boxes in comparison with the number of potenital laying hens. Yes, keep...

West TN has been having those same hot temps as Austin and our Buff Orpingtons have just about quit laying altogether! Our four hens usually give us three eggs a day, but here lately we've only gotten a couple this week. I believe it is the heat as nothing else has changed in our feeding...

A good dousing with the water hose seems to be working for us. That, plus the fact that we built a huge chicken run for our Black Jersey Giants! Bruce

We have problems with stray dogs, coyotes, and fox around our place. I carry a Remington 870 20 ga. Youth Model loaded with #3 buckshot at all times, but my biggest deterent will be my puppy -- a Great Pyrenees! Rex is only 6 months old, but really taking a keen interest in protecting his...

I am having the same problem with my GQF 1502 incubator. Temp is set at 99.5 degrees and the humidity is running at about 65%. I have the automatic bucket on top and have two wicks inserted into the water container inside the incubator. I have three different timings of eggs on the three shelves...

We put an attic-type exhaust fan from Lowe's in the side of our chicken coop. It has a thermostatically controlled switch which we have set at 80 degrees. They have plenty of shade all day long. We have lost a few small chicks in the brooder pens from what I would assume is heat stroke, but they...

Since we have a fox that visits our backyard and has already made off with several of our chickens, I have a Remington 870 pump in 20 ga. sitting at the back door loaded with #3 buckshot (approx. 20 .25 pellets). This fox is extremely fast so a rifle would not work for me! When I leave the...

We tried about five turkey eggs, fried, Saturday morning for breakfast and they were very good to three of the four of us. My son-in-law thought that the turkey egg yoke tasted a little "sweet", but I mixed mine all up and could not tell any difference with the Buff Orpington eggs that we had...