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Wow, sorry for the damage. I agree, trim the young maple up neatly and give it a chance to come back.

Here's a couple of photos of the top 2 Barred Rock cockerels I took to the Tucson show this past weekend. They were both ones I liked, so I'm glad the judge concurred. They are both a mix of Good Shepard and Stukel lines, a mix I've been working on the past two years. Last year, something dug...

I use the galvanized hanging feeders like you picture above but I also bought the cover for them. The cover is not rain protection, since it has a hole in the middle and sits on top of the handle. It will tilt back and forth so if a bird tries to sit on top, they are foiled, plus it is easy to...

Buying hatching eggs is a crap shoot. If you are wanting to start with good stock, buy chicks or started birds from a reputable breeder, preferably someone who shows. The time and money spent raising and trying to breed up sub par fowl is just not worth it as you can spend years and still not...

I just put this ad up if anybody is looking for Standard Bred Barred Rock chicks. It is time sensitive. They need to be shipped out by the end of the day 4/14. Thanks for looking. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/969206/standard-bred-barred-plymouth-rock

I've got Barred Plymouth Rock chicks due to hatch 4/12. Sending you a PM.

Quite often people tape boxes together. I just sent two boxes out Tuesday taped together. I thought, hmmmm...maybe I ought to at least write the receiver's phone number on the box that didn't have the label? Just in case! Word to the wise to anyone shipping birds this way.

What does PPFA stand for?

Anybody close to you going to the Tucson show this coming weekend, or Safford, AZ (show run by James Smith) in January? I'll be at both those shows.

Walt, do you have any extra cockerels? I ask, right after posting I wasn't going to work with the NH anymore

If you are in for a road trip, I'm about a day and a half from you. I have a group of eight pure German line New Hampshire hens and no male to breed to them due to a series of unfortunate problems. I'm finding I can't work with as many breeds as I had anyway, so haven't tried to find a...

The contortions were more on the bird's part, not me

Good observation! Yes we are, we are friends and both members of our local poultry club.

I recently wing banded about 25 adult large fowl hens. I wanted to combine these 2 year old hens with a group of 1 year olds and wanted to make sure I could identify the oldest of the group. Since I just started using wing bands this year, these hens had never been banded. I had very little...

What do you know about vaccines for Mycoplasma?

I second what Walt says. I suggest building your pens as tight and secure as you can because it is cheaper in the long run to do that then to have to re-do when some predator you didn't know you had comes looking or new one moves into your space. That happened to friends here, 20 years with...

I was told use marshmallows with grape jelly. Never had to try it, thank goodness. I've only seen one coon around here in 34 years and it was a sickly, mangy looking thing. There are some places around Tucson that have problems with them, though. I thought bobcats were bad. Now I'm (almost) glad...

Have you tried the fencing stores rather than HD/Lowe's? I bought 8' T-posts from Stark Fence, they had to order them in for me, and they are very sturdy. I believe they carry two different grades of T-posts. You might try calling them and ask. Edited to say, they had to order because I needed...

Karen, as soon as you see the cockerels start to pick on or hassle the pullets, I would separate them. I started using numbered wing bands this year and really like them. Only a couple of birds lost their band. It makes identification so much more secure. I keep a large spreadsheet with the...

Good dog