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I love barred rocks. They lay in cold weather. They lay in hot weather. The body size & type is excellent as bakers/stewers when they are too old to use for layers. A very useful versatile chicken. Any of the rocks are good I'm told.

I think it was an awesome use of found items.

I'm going to give it a try. My last blue egg layer died of unknown causes - she had a limber neck so she may have eaten something nasty that killed her. I had 5 in the frig and one sitting on the dresser to try. We'll see if any hatch or not. If not .....it is what it is.

Well I finally found instructions on Lyon. They are disguised as a "bulletin" rather than "directions". It takes a bit of surfing through their site to find it. The link above didnt' work for me which is why I kept searching about for the directions. I love this forum!

I just set mine up to hatch some americana blue eggs. (I wish I had some of the real blue egg layers eggs) I found the temp should be 99.5-100 and the wet blub temp should be 84-86 degrees. I can't find the instructions so I assume I can set the temps correctly using the dial at the top for...

Seems I remember reading these are hybrids created by crossing a White Rock with a Rhode Island Red or was it a New Hampshire Red? Does anyone know which kind of red is used?

I just had to catch one of the Jack Russells today. If one of them gets loose they want the chickens. The chickens taunt them by scratching around their pens and they behave like prey when chased. I have a large greyhound mix lurcher that probably would chase them as he likes to course things...

Quote: I'd love to take a course with you on creative writing - how cool! "our chicken empire"! I like that.

Quote: I love hawks! We have wild geese here that fly over and a greater blue heron that shows up in winter to sun bathe next to my little pond. But hawks have always been favorites. The red tails. I like all things wild including the land. The hawks scoped out my chickens when I first...

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I'm a state certified general appraiser. I appraise residential, commercial, industrial property and land. I also rehab houses and sell them. On the side I etch and engrave on glass, paint with water based oils, make linoleum block prints and bead. Of course we have a garden, chickens...

I have 18 pullets (first year layers) and I'm averaging 12 eggs per day. I'm thinking the Americanas are the biggest slackers. The RRR, Barred Rocks, NHR, & Jet Stars are the best layers. Although I have a NHR bantam and a partridge bantam hen that are both really good layers of tiny bantam...

Quote: Some of my hens will stand in line for a specific spot!

This was my first phase and my wife said it was the ugliest coop she had ever seen. But the chickens just love it as I do your picture isn't posting

Quote: I used a 4'X4' puppy pen with a wire floor covered in cardboard bottom and sides when they got too big for the plastic tub. Cardboard is cool. It's disposable and you can compost it or burn it when you're done.

Quote: lol well where I live, you'd be calling yourself a Yankee that can hardly read and runs around hanging people while wearing a white hood. And worse. But anyhow yuk it up and call yourself that but don't ever call me one I've tried to explain that it is offensive to some of us and if...

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Quote: I like your coop. Baby chicks here stay inside in a large plastic tub with sawdust or wood pellets on the bottom. I have a heat lamp held over the top by wood laid across the rim that I bolt to the plastic with wood clamps. It's important that it be well supported so it doesn't fall...

Quote: Me too. I consider myself a Southern Red Neck. I get my neck red all the time out hunting, making a garden, building chicken coops etc. ;-))