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I got hatching eggs from Australia and hatched out this.

Using 2 sets of tubs and lids I made this device for propagating plants, I can do this by both seeds and cuttings. The real reason why I am doing this is to increase success rates on my pepper cuttings. One of my pepper plants is a hybrid so cuttings are the best way to propagate a hybrid...

Starting in September I slowly built a small 8x8 greenhouse.

This came in a batch of Barred Rocks I got from craigslist. She looked like all the others as a chick, black with a white dot on her head but she was a bit larger (turns out older) now she is the smallest in the barred rock pen. Also the meanest and a total rebel. I wish I could get a...

a friend of mine was wondering if this was a male or female so I brought it here to ask the experts because I am not certain. 7 Months old, breed unknown likely a mix. looks male around the neck, female everywhere else.

While cleaning out a brooder I found pin worms. I assume this means the chicks (and likely all my chickens) have them. Its even a good indication I may have them although I have no symptoms. I did handle the bedding and manure coming out of the brooder and that increases my chances of...

I am guessing Raccoons.

Tastes Like Chicken?

Cornish X meets Seramas, The Seramas are about a month older but they are close to the same age.

Been having trouble with 2 different types of feeders. My hanging feeders (not pictured) were making it too easy for chickens to waste feed. I know not all hanging feeders have this problem but mine did. I also have these long red feeders (pictured below) where chickens were not able to...

Its not as hard as I thought it would be.

Age Just under 6 weeks, separated 6 days ago. The ones separated for breeding are able to climb to the top of a large compost pile in search of food (and their feeder isn't even empty because they had left overs from last night)... The free feed Meat Birds are so fat they sit in the...

The thread title may be misleading but still a mystery involving crops and circles. I was moving plants around in my Tree Nursery and found these strange tunnels in the pots and what ever it was bored right through the pots making a perfect circle. The first one I thought maybe someone had...

I have a broody hen who has been sitting on eggs for well over 21 days. I estimated the 21 day point to be July 4th. So now its about day 38. Is it time to take her eggs and put her back with the rest of the flock? Should I candle the eggs she is sitting on just in case one or 2 might be...

I have been mentally designing different versions of an emergency brooder for winter if the power goes out. I thought about Solar Panels or a gas generator but I came to the conclusion that extended power outages come with disasters which means an expensive solar set up might have been...

I was going through pictures taken on the urban homestead and saw this I took yesterday. I am disassembling coops made from scrap material I collect. When you use free stuff to build coops they do not last long and besides I need to put a garden in at that spot for next year. I got a...

This actually failed due to the number of chicks I had and the space I was working in. But it has worked with other chicks. This actually worked until there wasn't enough surface space with 2 bottles for all the chicks to cling to it who wanted to cling to it. I added a heat plate over...

If I take a Crested Cream Legbar roos and mate him with a female Wellbar will the offspring and further offspring still be auto sexed at hatch? I am also curious if it applies to the reverse too. I am certain it should work out that way but I am also ignorant genetics so I figured I should ask.

I am not really seeking advice here, I know what to do but if someone wants to chime in with advice maybe it helps someone else so its still welcome. I just have 2 bantams RI Reds (male and female) who were raised in a cage with a bunch of other bantams. They are fully feathered but not...

When cleaning my Hovabator I broke a small part of the Styrofoam and I was wondering what the absolute best glue to use... I know that Super Glue dissolves styrofoam so definitely not that.