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writing a persuasive speech on the benefits of raising you own chickens for meat and eggs verses the store bought meat and eggs. can anyone help me with links to where I can find info on the feed rationed to meat and egg producers? I only need 3 and I have 2. the last one has to be from a...

Got this guy as a day old on April 20, he was hatched by a game hen... I thought he was going to be a birchen game but he is HUGE! My gamecock is 1/2his size! Could my cramps have slid some eggs under his hens? Idk? What do y'all rthink?

Lets all show off our longtailed fowl!

we have no idea what the cross is with this one! we had a blue olive egger over most of our flock for a lil while! his firls are big and blue! but this one is smaller and about the same age... our breeds are: HENS: ................................ ROOS: NN ...

i recently had 2dz eggs shipped to me, one from here in TX and another from NY. out of the 2dz only 5 hatched! i know i need to work on my incubation methods bt i want to know what everyone that normally has eggs shipped to them... this was my first batch of shipped eggs and i would lie to...

We have a mixed flock, mostly brown egg layers.... My goals in this process is 2 seperate crosses.... one for eggs, the other for meat. Our flock consists of: pullets/hens 2 Production Reds 2 Golden sexlinks 2 EEs Necked Neck Barred Rock GL Cochin SL Wyandotte a mixed polish(march hatch hasnt...

We have a mixed age flock.... 3 are almost 7months, a few are 5-6 months and the majority are 4 months. Out of almost 20 in our flock 1/4 are cockrels. Only one so far will mount and try to mate with the older POL hens we have 2 prod reds that he likes to mount. They so far are the only layers...

I was wondering if it was or is rather possible to start a city thread? I know there are nor cal / so cal threads as well as other "demi" state threads. Lol i just was wondering due to the fact that there are some BIG cities out there. There are also ALOT of BYC'rs out there that may benifit...

So today i had orientation at the Vet Tech Institute of Houston.... kida excited.... Ive always wanted to be a vet... and a soldier... now i can put both things on my "Done" list! Classes offically start monady and already im nervous! All the kids in my class are well.... KIDS!!!! Im one of...

I'm building my girls a tractor/brooder (a broctor) for their broilers (incomming). I am using 2 pallets that measure 4x5ft I plan on having it 2.5-3ft tall. Would I be able to raise chicks in this first broctor and then trans the over stock to a new tractor when they out grow? Or will the first...

He must be stopped!

Over the past week and a half these lil ants have invaded our home! All the articles I have read have told me nothing we ca do other than move! Has anyone had these pest before? My chickens can't keep up with them and today we killed over a pound of them! AND THEY ARE STILL COMMING! Any...

I plugged in "how to make a tie hitch" in the search engine and even in the advanced search, but to my suprise there was a ton of threads about making everything else... I have a bunch of left over 550 para cord from my army days and need to do something with it. I have looked online for them to...

Hello, Been reedin thru the forums and lookin at great pics of beautiful birds! We just started raising chickens round easter. I have had a small flock before but it was taken over by my gramps..... he wanted the fighting blood.... old skool lol As of today we have 7 lil chickletts.... we had 8...