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nevermind .Not the right comb..

The second one to me looks like a Bovian Brown. Our 4-H gave these out to raise for the fair.

I have a dom that looks about like the same age as yours. She is a hoot..She laid me one egg last Monday. When I go out to feed my hens, she will peck my feet while I am feeding. I can lay my hand on her back stick my fingers under wing and scratch her. Then she will go eat wiwth the others. If...

I have close to if not more than 100 birds, 50lbs of laying pellets every 2 weeks, 50lbs cracked corn once a month. Feeding them grass cutting helps alot if you can`t free range. I free range mine but I have a couple friends that save me there clover grass clippings. I can toss it in the penned...

I recieve alot of out of date stuff, Gatorade, yogurt, cottage cheese, breads snack cakes..They perfer the Gatorade over the water, I keep both in the pen. I have`nt lost any birds from the heat. Am I doing the right thing by giving them the drink? Also I wiil toss a carton or two of cottage...

The BOVANS BROWN is a brown feathered, brown egg layer which has the ability to meet the expectations of a variety of egg producers with different objectives. She is the bird of choice for today's egg farmers who expects high egg numbers and a forgiving bird, all essential ingredients to keep...

We are in the central Ar area, Dover. We have a few different varieties of birds. We are looking into Black Copper Marans. Anyone know of anyone in the Arkansas area? [email protected]

Would it be ok to mix the powdered baby food & milk in with their food? And do they get any vitiamins out of the milk , food, oatmeal or will just go thru their system? I had read somewhere that the powdered milk could help some bactiera infections is this true?

Go ! And what a great time to do it. Good Friday ! If it holds steady you are in great shape. A chicken won`t stay on the nest all the time ,she has to eat and drink too. Me and My GQF 1200 has had a 96 percent hatch rate at 100 degrees. I`m suremy percentage will change after the power outage...

I had hatched out 3 sets of of random eggs and had great success. This Time I had aquired some cooper maran and some guinea eggs and the bator wants to act up. Go figure. I have been tweeking with it all morning and it seems to be holding its temp. I am guessing the storms that we were having...

My GQF 1200 incubator thermostat went out during a storm last week. it has been at 97 degrees for three days. I finally got it working again but I had eggs in it that were 5 days old. Should I toss the eggs and start over? Or roll the dice and wait it out?

I live in Dover Ar. North of interstate 40 Just off hwy 7. I am looking for chicken sales, poultry swaps in the Arkansas area. My grand daughter and I are raising different breeds of chickens, we are going to be touring the state and buying birds. If you have chicken for sale, eggs for sale...

My Mother use to hatch out chicks and ducks on the stove over the pilot light and a moist towel.3 at a time. I could not. maybe because my stove is electric. We have a old dog house that is well insulated, Today I put a thermostat and heat lamp in it for our 4 week old.s I have our last...

I have been reading on here for awhile now.. But what really caught my attention was, Homemade incubator forum.. Man! I have a old wine fridge with the open glass door, how cool would that be for the grandchildren to see. Life hatch right before their eyes. So we built the incubator and...

I had 4 more hatch out this morning, My grandaughter did not want to go to head start, because they need her . Well she went to school anyway. So far we have 17 chics and 10 eggs not pipped yet. My fingers are still crossed