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This sounds great for chicks who brood in the house, but I brood mine in the barn. 26 degree nights happen, will the eco glow brooder keep the chicks warm enough, or do you need to offer a lamp on the cold nights? Cheers M

I did read that, and it made me decide to only do a small amount of actual fodder (as did another article on how grass leads to deaths from impacted crops and gizzards). I'm a little baffled with all the pro articles and all the con articles. On one hand, we are all told to go the less processed...

We buy feed in bulk from the co-op, and I could cut costs that way if I'd come up with some better storage options. We buy horse and cattle feed by the ton, but I'm afraid I'm pretty limited when it comes to space for poultry feed (plus rodents love poultry feed above all others). Currently...

Okay, I don't have a handful of pet chickens. I have better than fifty in my obsession, and feeding all of them is more costly than feeding that high bred cutting horse in my barn. Been researching sprouting and foddering (insert giggle here) as a way to knock some of the shock out of the...

Pm sent, rirjen... Cheers M

Ok, that innocent looking bag out there that looked like it held extra egg cartons had eggs in it. I went to toss out the "bag of egg cartons", and eggs ended up in the bed of the pickup. Hubby decides to use his boot to brush them out of the bed of the truck only to come under fire of what...

Sorry y'all, I'm using my so called smart phone to post and it redirected all my typings to who knows where. I edited, sorry for the confusion. Cheers M

I run an ameraucana roo on a mixed layer flock. Stuff got hectic and I didn't pull eggs for a while. Needless to say I had bunches of chicks born last week. I can tell my purebred ameraucana, but I have all these little crossbreds. Are they worth raising as replacement layers or should I have a...

I see people all the time on byc claiming that they pay their feed bill by selling their eggs. I have about 30 birds in my main hen house (admittedly too heavy on roos right now thanks to a 13/4 split on some straight run polish). I go through an obscene amount of laying pellets every day...

Y'all need to move to my neighborhood. I live in an agriculturally oriented neighborhood in "town" where almost every home has a barn and hoofstock of some sort. Because our neighborhood is in town (just outside of houston), there are all kinds of folks aroun here who buy fresh eggs. They offer...

I'm raising a batch of cuckoo marans now. Since they start laying later, do they keep up laying longer? Cheers M

This is fascinating! Shall I get some Maylay hens or roosters? On average, how many generations am I looking at before I am back to looking like full blooded red shouldered yokohamas? Thanks again M

Thanks for your reply. I guess my next question would be since I have three living Yoks at this point is there any way to improve the quality of the chicks I am starting with (hatchery chicks) or would you say that it would be fighting a losing battle? thanks again for your input. Cheers M

Got my order in last thursday of cuckoo marans, cochins, white leghorns, and red shouldered yokohamas. All chicks are in the same brooder with the same temps, food, water, etc. All chicks were shipped in same box and handled the same way getting them into the brooder. I have lost almost all of...

This is what I love about byc - people can have an opinion and folks don't get their knickers all wadded up over it. I don't think silkies look like chickens, but I don't necessarily think they are ugly either. I just bought two ideal hatchery silkie chicks in hopes that they will make good...

My husband thought they were buff ORF INGTONS... he felt pretty silly when I told him it was orpington. He is not a chicken person, but those buff orfingtons he likes. Cheers M

And while we are at it, is it LEG Horns or Leggerns? I'm in texas and you hear both. Cheers M

I must sound like a bumbling idiot. I was calling them duckles... Cheers M

Most informative thread for me as well. Thank you all. Cheers M

Would you mate best to best and then the two lesser individuals together as the first pairing? Best to best would be the rooster you and everyone else seemed to think was better. He has clean color but with a few black-edged white feathers in his crest. Best hen has a good black crest but a...