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Fred's Hens : Quote: Each experienced keeper here will have their own take, based on their own experience. A chicken can survive, feral, on dung digging, bugs, weeds, grasses, scraps, found dead animals, you name it. They have for 4000 years. Scratch surely isn't going to kill them and as...

spurs are a good way to tell a rooster age up to a year after that, i couldn't tell their age.

Quote: my Dad could alway tell the true age of all his chicken.....everyone. . . WING BANDS and Good record keeping.........

Quote: As a new guy, I have both. A 2x4 mounted flat, and a tree branch mounted diagonally in a smallish 6x4 coop. Our birds will always opt for the tree branch. Also have one out in the run. They love it. The thought about covering cold feet is bunk, IMO. Edited to add: Al, not many...

culling start on hatch date.........none of this helping a chick out of the egg, if to weak to free itself ,it could be the genes and be past to its offsprings. Closed flock when you can. Cull; most sick birds, some that are cure of disease become carrier and past it to other their whole...

Like I post before I started incubating eggs in 1964...OT take on incubating. 1. First forget those sytroform ones look for used older models...most will last for well over 30 years....and you can get them for the price of those juck LG. 2. Set eggs 14 days of age or earlier. 3. once...

ok i may be a OT...got my first chicken in late 50s you do the math.....have had chicken on and off till this day...also many other type of birds 1. don't believe everything all the oldtimers tell you, some will not except change....new ideas have improve chicken over the years ,from the wild...