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So we have had to integrate new birds several times over the past two years. If you can achieve as many of the following as possible, it will ease it a bit: >Make sure they are as close to the same size as you can. With older birds, we have found this to be as important or even more so than age...

So we lost 2 young pullets to an opossum the first night out in their temporary coop. I have been setting traps since and have caught 4 juvenile opossums so far, one of which is most likely the perpetrator that squeezed under the run wall in a low spot. My questions are, how many opossums are...

Only certain breeds are game and will fight like that. Unless you specifically bought gamebirds from a cockfighter, I seriously doubt that would be a problem. Now making Chicken Tetrazini out of them? That's another thing all together.

We have a few roos from a hatching project at my daughter's school. One is a gold laced polish and one is a beautiful bantam cochin frizzle. Before we take them to live on a friend's farm, I thought we would offer them out here if anyone was in need. I am hoping to trade for some hatching eggs...

mine are going strong but haven't started turning yet.

So sorry to hear that.

We put an egg under our Cochin and she has been setting pretty well but yesterday she got off the nest for her daily eat, drink and stretch. Well, she got back on the wrong nest and we aren't sure how long but the egg felt cool. Luckily it was one of the 75 degree days. The egg had just shy of a...

Had a fourth this morning. Hopefully two more today.

Hatching Question... We had six eggs under our silkie and came home to three hatched. We didn't disturb the other three but we didn't see any pipping either. They all looked viable at 14 days but we haven't candled since andwe don't want to disorient them by moving them round. How long would you...

TSC sells a wheel kit that should work.

Unfortunately, I still have a rotary dial cell phone. =)

Sure thing. Started with an Oatmeal canister spray painted black. Add a ceramic light fixture mounted on a plywood disk, attached to an old Christmas village power cord. (fixture is $1.47 at Home Depot). Install a 120 watt CFL for high light, low heat. Assemble the pieces. Note- I pulled...

We are having the same dilemma, exacerbated by the fact that we will have a 6 and 7 year old with us and will have to occasionally stop by the kiddo tent to milk a cow or something. My wife wants to do a lot of the cooking and food preservation classes. I want to do more of the homesteading. I...

We are planning to hit the Dickson show and meet a few of you as well.

My wife and I are going with kids in tow. We are staying at the Best Western in Henderson.

I built a ghetto fabulous Candler out of an oatmeal can tonight and we candled the eggs under our little silkie. It looked like we were 6/6 on day 14. We also had one extra from our school project that we had gone ahead and stuck under our cochin that was broody also. It was so cool to see the...

You are very welcome and that is one kick butt coop. Daddy really loves his little girl!

Call your county ag extension agent. 4-H is run out of the county office.

Frontier Days in Lynchburg and TomatoFest in East Nashville? Have you guys heard of the new event they are going to have in East Nashville on Mother's Day Weekend? "ChickenChase" for those that want an alternative to Steeplechase.

Once they are feathered, you can move them outside as long as the coop is enclosed. We had a small coop and used a standard 60 watt incandescent last spring when we moved ours out to their coop. It was just enough heat to knock the chill out and they did fine. Too often people add heat lamps and...