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Quote: room tempeture is fine,put the canary type nests about 1/3 the way up in cage,don't bother them much when they are setting. the male does the cooing and bows to the hen as it spreads it's tail in courtship. hens make kind of a murmur or throat coo. when i lived in illinois years ago,i...

it is hard to answer your question the right way with out seeing the birds myself. it sounds like they are suffering from stress,the best thing is to keep them in a 2'by 2' foot cage in a warm place or put a 25 watt light bulb where they can get next to it next to cage. keep feed in front of...

Quote: i visited your pages and you are a manand a family afte my own heart. you folks are true americans and i enjoyed lookin and reading your pages,God bless you and yours. Larry

Quote: i'll tell ya folks,for years i had bought chicks from cackle hatchery in lebanon missouri and have always got got healthy long lived birds from them. but have always been scammed by local breeders,selling me pullet chicks that turned out to be mostly roosters,or the chicks were crossed...

Quote: Chickens have been grown for cockfighting, meat, and ornament (I have trouble believing anyone grows the Japanese roosters with three foot tails for eggs) as well as eggs for thousands of years. As you say, to each his own (except for the cockfighting). i understand your point,what i...

my self i just want back yard chickens that lay a reasonable amount of eggs for me. show chickens and colors are a mute point with me. i love to cross them or let them cross on their own,as long as they are brown egg layers. i only keep about a dozen or so and add a few every other year. the...

Quote: you are more related to your brother and sister then you are your father or mother,does that confuse you ? as a pigeon breeder for over 50 years,i don't think twice about a brother and sister mateing or a fatherXdaughter or motherXson mateing. the idea is to breed for qualities that...