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Ok, those who know how this is done, let me know if I got it right. This year I separate the two groups.. those with the even feathers to the male side, those with the unever layers to the female side. Once it become evident which are males & females, I sell the females with the even layers of...

Found a dead hen this morning. They are right about 6 months old, Buff Orpingtons.. this is one I hatched myself. I had 26 hens and 5 roosters. I have had a hen laying double-yolkers half the time.. but I don't know if this is her. It is puffy around her vent, and right over the vent is bloody...

I had two roosters in their own separate pens (they had both attacked my kids.. so I was keeping the restrained to put on weight before butchering). Yesterday I got a fresh batch of wet grain (it comes from the brewery.. it was still super hot out of the boiler). I let it cool, then filled each...

I'm trying to do a price comparison chart between buying pullets, near laying (4.5-6 months old). My problem is that the majority of my feed is free grain that has been boiled out at our local brewery. So, I've got 7.25#'s of pre-made feed into each bird.. so my cost is like $3 a piece in feed...

These are two I broke holes into because they didn't pip with the others (I hate finding full-term chicks that just die in their shells). So I just pipped them and put some paper towel around their beaks in case fluid leaked in. Anyways, I broke into 5, the other 3 finished hatching by...