INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

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checked out my scrap pile in my barn. Lots of fun parts and pieces out there. Coolerbator would be easy but this is stuff I don't have to pay for to make more incubators.
The oven
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700

An electric grill
700

And 3 furnaces
700

700

We bought this place from a hoarder so I have no idea if anything works, but I would love some ideas on how to reuse parts or all of these things before we scrap them this summer. I am eager to learn.
 
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The Ancona has begun to crow.

Heard the weirdest strangled sound today, like a cockerel learning to crow for the first time. I have a grand total of ZERO roos and when i looked out to check on the girls I saw Duchess sitting on top of the coop, making that god awful noise all puffed up and proud in the storm.

Chickens are odd birds.
 
@ChickenCanoe , what do you do with your hens once they stop laying?

-Kathy
Years ago when we kept 100 leghorns for egg sales, we just butchered them all at once when replacements were onsite.
I try to sell culls before they're a year or two so they can still be productive for recipients.
Other than that, I've never had a hen that lived long enough (predation) to consider it an issue. I lost a hen to cancer, one to heat, another to fatty liver and that's it other than predators after thousands.
I have a 7 year old ameraucana still laying that survived 3 predator attacks.
When they're truly spent, I'll eat them.

There you go.
 
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@LocalYokel

Lost the quote, but the laying banty hen is not the one with scaly leg mites. I have 3, only 1 has the mites..... Tried soaking her feet, didn't work and I ran outa time and just put her outside because having 4 chickens in the cellar was WAY too smelly and it is too cold to soak them outside.
-Banti
 
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