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  1. PhantomSlayer

    I could use help identifying this boy's breed.

    Right it sucks that their so difficult to tell because they look the same. I was watching the buff orpington boy an the RIR boy crowing back and forth and I just stood there and there the big boy was next to them and not a single attempt to crow from him. The crowing wars is pretty interesting...
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    I could use help identifying this boy's breed.

    I got a little brave the other day and snatched up my boy Casanova and I can definately say the black boy is heavier than him lol. I've been considering names for him in the mean time.
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    I could use help identifying this boy's breed.

    I've never had a Jersey Giant. I have black australorp hens and buff orpingtons (2 hens and a rooster for now) to compare. I'm definately gonna keep this boy in my breeding flock if he remains this calm. Our main rooster Casanova is an pretty awesome EE so maybe he'll learn from him to be a good...
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    I could use help identifying this boy's breed.

    Thats my problem he seems to large for a australorp because i have 4 black australorp hens. But everything is pointing toward australorp with the feather shine and the lack of yellow feet lol. I don't think hes a orpington. I have 2 buff orpington hens and the buff orpington rooster thats in the...
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    I could use help identifying this boy's breed.

    I got 3 roosters from a friend who got them free from a farm. I've narrowed it down and I'm stuck between Jersey Giant or Black Australorp. This guy is big. I've looked up everything I can but his personality and size screams Jersey Giant to me and a friend because he looks bigger than all the...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Update: Still a few days short until official count of fertile eggs in the incubator, broody hen still on 12. Haven't candled as I want to only do it once or twice if possible. Only had to remove a fresh egg a few days ago. I'm checking under her roughly every other day as thats when she comes...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    I went based off of how the flock acts. Their usually fairly tolerant of me doing anything around them. I've even taken our housecat out with a leash and harness and set her in the run while I did morning bird chores. They weren't to alarmed despite never seeing her before. I think part of it is...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Guess I'm hatching more this year... Wasn't planned but when broody goes broody you gotta take the chance XD
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Pictures of our EE's from last winter.
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    Yeah I started putting them in around 3-4 weeks old but I always had to remove the runt because she was in a predator mode. But the chick as well was doing it so it became a hassle so I mainly did it once a week for a couple hours. I'm finding chicks to be quite hardier than people say they are...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    The timing is actually pretty good because I've been considering pulling the runt out to spoil her with higher protein feed. Before the single chick came along she for some odd reason was sleeping under the roosts on the poop board and I found she was getting her feathers pulled out. Once the...
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    My experience joining 6 week olds with 3 year olds.

    I hatched out 6 out of 12 chicks using dry hatch method with my 36 egg incubator. It drove people insane because it has a low water alarm. I was gone for 2 out of 3 weeks and it was in my room and my mom said the alarm was annoying. Somehow I slept through the alarm at night. Anyways I started...
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    Brooder feed/water systems?

    Yeah its in our basement. Unfortunately that wont work for me. Later I plan on investing in the rabbit hutches with the clean out trays underneath to tweak and use for brooders. But for now I have to use what I have. So I'm sticking to what I can do cheaply and planning ways to upgrade later.
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    Brooder feed/water systems?

    I saw some people take a metal cake pan and put a cooling rack in it. Sounds like it might be worth trying.
  15. PhantomSlayer

    Brooder feed/water systems?

    I have a metal version of that first feeder with a similar water version as well.. But it uses mason jars. Our brooder is made out of an old dresser. The front has doors with hardware cloth on the front and the top was cut out to be covered with hardware cloth for the heat lamp. Which I've...
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    Brooder feed/water systems?

    Anyone figure out how to prevent bedding in water and feed spillage? If so please share ideas. It seems since my 6 chicks reached around 3 weeks old the food is being spilled daily and its only taking a few hours before the waterer is clogged with bedding. I put them on blocks from our old...
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    Update! So far 3 have hatched. The yellow (#1) were guessing Buff Orpington egg, The Greyish one (#2) EE egg and once the dark one (#3) dries cause it litterally hatched 5 minutes before the pic either Gold Lace Wyandotte or Black Australorp. There is a 4th egg pipped so we might get a 4th...
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    What to expect with back yard mixes?

    Okay thank you. Its the con to having 7 out of 8 brown laying hens lol not knowing which hen laid which. I still haven't figured it out after almost 3 years of having them. It just looks so much like a buff orpington chick. I was told EE's are basically mutts of the chicken breeds so theres...
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    What to expect with back yard mixes?

    Decided to attempt a dry hatch for future goose incubation. I don't know anything about chicken genetics and how the mix of breeds goes. The first chick has hatched today on day 19 and its got me wondering what to expect from some of our girls. I woke up this morning looked over at the...
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    First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

    First chick to hatch looks all yellow. So I'm assuming its out of a buff orpington egg. Our EE hen lays green/blue egg. Our roo is said to be an americana mix but I'm just calling him an EE as well..
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