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  1. JohnandJacquelineW

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Thanks! We went ahead and moved her after dark. It was impossible to actually take her whole nest as it basically consisted of a bunch of fallen limbs/large branches. But we were able to give her a nice little setup in our brooder by putting a box in it filled with freshly cut branches to make...
  2. JohnandJacquelineW

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    We've never hatched any eggs or had a hen go broody, but we've got one now, I'm reading this thread to decide what we need to do, but thought I'd post our situation and see if anyone has feedback: Last Friday night, I went out to close in our chickens, and thought I heard a noise outside the...
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    Post your ''Other'' Uses for feed bags

    That's an awesome idea... any estimates how many bags you'll need for a barn? Is the barbed wire just to keep the plastic bags from sliding around on each other?
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    Processed our first chicken yesterday!

    We cooked and ate him tonight. The light meat was REALLY good, but the dark meat was a bit chewy... the skin was really tough too which surprised me a bit, but maybe that's normal? Is there a way to avoid having such tough skin, or is that just caused by him being a slightly older rooster?
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    Processed our first chicken yesterday!

    Cool, thanks for confirming that We're pretty excited about how smoothly it went... especially considering we weren't really prepared with a proper setup to do it quickly/efficiently. We're considering getting some meat birds in the Spring and doing more at once.
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    Processed our first chicken yesterday!

    One of our roosters was caught picking on our dog the other day and just being mean... plus we'd noticed he hasn't been very nice to the hens either. Our head rooster is a lot better with them. We decided this particular rooster was too dumb for his own good (seriously? attacking a...
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    Weak Chick, Hanging Head, Limp... HELP!

    Just wanted to post an update on here - and hopefully pass along a little hope to anyone in a similar situation. When we went to bed last night I was considering whether or not we needed to just put her out of her misery. I decided that if she got any worse we probably would, but we would wait...
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    Weak Chick, Hanging Head, Limp... HELP!

    We received some chicks in the mail last week and lost two in the first 3 days(out of 23 total) but just marked that up to the cost of ordering that many chicks - you're probably bound to lose a couple. We have one that has been a favorite from the beginning. She is the runt for sure. She was...
  9. JohnandJacquelineW

    Mealworm farming

    Well, we got our meal worms yesterday - and when we got ready to open the box we noticed at least 5 worms on the outside of the box. There was a slight hole/tear in the screen that had been used to add vents to the box and I'm guessing that is where they got out. Not sure how many more got out...
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    Mealworm farming

    Quote: Hi We ordered 1,000 to start us out. The plan is to essentially do the single bin setup, but we are going to do it in a three drawer tower. That just happened to be the most efficient and inexpensive setup we could find that gave us a decent surface area without wasting a ton of...
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    Mealworm farming

    My shipment of meal worms actually shipped a week sooner than I expected. Luckily my wife was getting groceries yesterday, so she was able to get some oats and stuff while she was out (otherwise to run to town would be an extra 25 miles one way and I'd rather not do that just for one or two...
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    Chickens not interested in dried meal worm treats

    How many were in the little bag that cost $9? If you shop around, the live ones may or may not be more expensive - Yesterday I ordered 1,000 from Southern Bait Worms. It was only $15 for the medium sized mealworms with free shipping. And they have a live arrival guarantee. I'm not sure how...
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    Mealworm farming

    We ordered 1000 mealworms yesterday from Southern Bait Worms. It was $15 for 1,000 medium meal worms and free shipping. So that seemed like a pretty good deal to me. I have already emailed their support with a question and received a response within 10 minutes so while I can't vouch for the...
  14. JohnandJacquelineW

    grrr...isn't it always the way!

    Quote: Are you sure "Get cracking" is the right choice of words?
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    Training the dog

    We've got a lab mix pup (less than 2 months old) that we actually have sleeping in a cage in the coop with the chickens to get them used to each other. Right now he stays tethered outside while the chickens free-range. They intermingle a bit (especially if they want to come steal his...
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    So many different breeds - How did you decide?

    I started this out hoping to get ideas on how we could decide for our flock - but even now that we've ordered, I'm still enjoying hearing how everyone else decided. Everyone's story is a little bit different though many share similarities. Quote: My wife and I were actually talking about...
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    The Legbar Thread!

    So the main things that make this breed so appealing are the quantity of blue eggs and the "auto-sexing" ability, right? That and I guess the rarity in this country?
  18. JohnandJacquelineW

    Mealworm farming

    If I were to keep these outside, what sort of critters would I need to watch out for? Obviously, I'd need to keep the chickens and any wild birds out, but do raccoons or opossums or anything else like that get into meal worms?
  19. JohnandJacquelineW

    A twist on the portable coop idea...

    Quote: Hehe, thanks - that is Ringold. When we picked him up at the shelter they told us he was about 7-8 weeks old, but today we found out his actual birthday which puts him at about 6 1/2 weeks now... closer to 5 weeks at the time of that picture... He seems to be getting along well with...
  20. JohnandJacquelineW

    So many different breeds - How did you decide?

    Thanks for the help - I just placed an order for some more chicks that are supposed to come in about a month(assuming their hatches go as planned, etc). We are getting mostly buff orpington, with the rest being a mixture of what will hopefully make a nice flock for us Pretty excited - guess...
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