well up date on my eggs i put every egg ive gotten in my incubator from the day my dogs got my roo 4 days ago till today hopeing that i can get a roo from one of them the problem is ive got 2 barred rocks in the coop also but i said oh well hopefully i can keep them apart from the marans and...
im up in maine and im thinking about getting my incubator going now to hatch out some eggs i just lost my bcm rooster do to one of my dogs just wondering if i do hatch out somechicks if they would do ok in the winter in the coop well i do have the temp set and its been on just not sure about...
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this was something they got in trouble for within mins of it happening we heard the noise and ran out right then the problem was all the dogs were in that area so its just that they know ive been calling them bad dogs and not loveing up to them like i normaly would they have been fine...
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if i knew what dog did it id be putting it in the kennel crate and let him think about it while the rest of the dogs were getting treats but ive got to many dogs to know who it was so they all are takeing the punnishment for it
just as my roo was starting to look really nice one of my dogs desided to try to tear him up some how he got awat from the dogs but now his comb is missing a cunk out of it and he lost a bunch of back and tail feathers we arent sure what one of the dogs we have did it to him so they are all...
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well i have 7 bcm i got as day old chicks back the first of may one of them is a roo and they are just as friendly to my wife and my grandkids as any other chickens we have when i go out to feed and water them they always come over to get patted on the head and now they are already...
how long after the pullets start laying eggs before they get some size to them mine just started to lay on monday and ive gotten 27 eggs out of 8 pullets as of tonight out of them only 3 eggs id say are med sized the rest are small im hopeing that by the first of december the eggs will be big...
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Worry all you want.
i dont see anything wrong in selling chicks as long as the ones buying them know they are only egg layers not sq the hatcherys dont even come close to sq but they sell lots of chicks to people that only want eggs
well my bcm roo has clean featherless legs so i dont know if they will ever be up to sq but for me they are my back yard laying and dp flock but i really do want to learn what to look for and try to get as close to sop as i can and maybe in time i will learn what to keep and what to cull out but...