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Are you looking for live birds, or hatching eggs. Many breeders are putting their incubators into high gear right now getting ready for spring but I suspect you can contact some of the contributors to this thread and find hatching eggs. Live birds might be a little harder to comeby. As a...

You might have to wiat until after they are a year old, but I had one go broody last year at 9 months old. She raised 7 chicks and was a very protective mother.

The box is a medium size flatrate box from the usps. The silver looking material is a double sided aluminum foil backed bubble wrap used for radiant insulation. I buy the insulation to use when building incubators cabinets, you can get it at Lowe's, HomeDepot, etc. The pink stuff is just plain...

Quote: Like This. The brown looking material inside the shipping box is actually sawdust. It works well to poke around the egg rolls to keep them from shifting inside the box. I will admitt that I have recieved eggs and reused the extra bubblewrap in the place of the sawdust...

j.luetkemeyer : I have also had really bad luck with shipped eggs and those that hatch are usually cockerals. I'm wanting to begin by own breeding program and have been trying for a year and a half but do to these poor hatch rates I haven't been successful. j.luetkemeyer : Eggs received...

There are at least three things I have seen to lead to picking. Low protien, over crowding, and to much heat. I have also noticed that my birds dont lay as well if I use a all plant protien based layer feed. Sometimes my feed store runs out of the animal protien based feed and I will go ahead...

Quote: From the picture you posted, I thought he looked as good as you can get, show-worthy. Shanks look thick! I thought about showing, but since i work away from home during the wk, I dont have the time to tame them or prep them as they need to be. While my wife gives them plenty of...

I thought it might be the lighting, none of your birds that I have actually seen looked as light colored as the one in the pic's I really need to take some more pics of my birds and post them. I know the pic posted was poor quality, but what do you think of that roo at 7 months.

Chris, I have been noticeing the color of a couple of your buckeye pics. the pic of your first Urch roo and the one in the coop. It seems to be the color is very light. Is this just the camera playing tricks or are these birds really that light red in color. I know the roos I raised out of your...

Quote: My buckeyes, being young have been laying in sputter and spurts. One day getting only a couple of eggs and the next 7 or 8. They now seem to have settled in and I am getting anywhere from 6 to 8 a day. Right now, almost everything I own are in molt and they look like they have been...

Jim, NC doesnt require AI testing either, but they offer it free if you want it done. as far as I know there has never been a verified case of AI in the U.S. and according to my state inspector, they havent found a case of P/T in a great long time either. You get right down to it, NPIP testing...

Quote: Janet, I dont know how Missouri does it, but NC will test all birds their first time. After everyone has been tested, they just select 15 random birds for followup test, (every three months). I am sure the number will also vary according to just how many birds you own. One thing to...

Punky, My birds came from what where probably the first batch of eggs from Chris's stock after he brought them back from the Ohio Nationals last year. I picked the eggs up in Dec and hatched them Jan 11th. Mine are actually a result of two different hatches, the first hatch being from Chris's...

About the band question. In NC, when the bird is inspected by the state for the NPIP cert., they place a permanate metal band on the bird. Do they do this in other states or is it just NC. Also, is this the only band required if I decide to show my birds, or do I need something else. I wont...

Maintaining your pasture for your free range birds is going to be your best method of insureing adequate nutrient levels for your birds. This not only includes fertilizer and lime, but also insureing adequate Macro/Micro nutrients such as Sulfur, boron, copper, zinc are available in your soils...

The problem with adding the soymeal to the pellets is my birds just eat the pellets and theres soybean meal left in the feeder. I had similar problems, but I just mixed the same amount each time I filled the feeders and it always seemed to be the same amount left, so they had to be eating some...

I like to use Faithway feeds layer pellets. Its 22% protien. ( also available in 16%) They are located in Guntersville Ala. Their feed is made using animal products and my birds really seem to like it. The pellets are also a smaller size than other pellets I have bought/used. My biggest problem...

I need a little more info about this site, http://www.americanbuckeyepoultryclub.com/ . I visited the site, but there is absolutely no info except how to join and a list of directors. Would like a few details about what the club is all about and what their goals are.

I have noticed that a lot of folks will run several roos with their hens. I have heard of very few problems with flocks using this method of breeding. I think the biggest problem would arise to someone trying to improve a flock by breeding out imperfections. If you dont know which roo is the...

I have my BE roos all in seperate pens with hens. All of them runup to me when I enter the pen and until this last firday, non had ever shown any aggression to anyone. My wife was feeding and one of the roos decided to fluff up at her and she hit it with the watering can. When she told me about...