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I guess I'll need to buy an incubator as I don't have one. Any suggestions on brand, type, etc?

HELP! I'm freaking out just a little bit. No, that's a total lie. I'm freaking out a LOT! We have two hens broody at the same time and sharing the same nursery room in our new coop. It's a fairly big room with a sand floor and it's own separate pop door with access to a fenced in area...

In addition to fermented feed (layer crumbles, scratch and BOSS), our chickens get pretty much any leftovers we have but it's usually not more than half a plate full of whatever it is and it ends up being split up amongst 35 birds. I don't give them anything citrus but most everything else gets...

I live in north Alabama so the worst temps I've ever had to deal with were only single digits with a wind chill of just about 0 degrees F. Obviously I've not had to worry about the kind of temps you experience way up there in the North but I ran across something yesterday that I didn't even...

I've been keeping chickens going on 6 years now. My first chickens were given to me by a woman I used to buy eggs from. She was selling her eggs to make money and had about a dozen birds who were older and weren't laying enough to make it worth her while to keep them. They were members of her...

You were concerned about weight. I don't know how much ours actually weighs but we installed a large rope at the front run through a 3' long piece of PEX tubing to keep the rope from cutting into the hands and I am able to lift and move it by myself and I am not a bodybuilder or anything like...

Here are a couple of pics of our chicken tractor we are building that is 6' x 12'. It is modeled primarily after the Suscovich chicken tractor you can find on YouTube but we changed a few things to suit ourselves. We are building 2 of them. Instead of buying a conduit bender and metal conduit...

Good morning to folks in Texas! How are you this fine Thursday morning? I hail from north Alabama but I have a co-worker whose daughter lives in Texas, the west Houston area. He has been buying my eggs for her but she only gets them when either he and his wife go there to visit or when she...

KGreene - Heat tape - you can get it at Lowe's in the electrical section in various lengths.

First, let me say there is no such thing as a true "mini pig". The only way to keep a potbelly or teacup pig small is to starve them which is sadly the way most so-called breeders keep them small until you purchase them. Pigs grow proportionate to their diet. They all start out cute and tiny...

I order my UACV online from Vitacost.com. Their brand is cheaper than Braggs but just as good. I order six large bottles at a time since I use it in my waterers as well.

Bamadude - I have been fermenting my feed since last summer. It is so very easy and my birds love it. I use a 2:1 ratio of layer crumbles and 3 grain scratch, sprinkle in some BOSS, add water and a healthy splash of UACV. Stir it all up and let it sit for a couple of days until you see it...

Oh, I'm jealous. I live too far away to visit Wisher...

What are Violet (l) and Helen (r) thinking? BTW, that's Adrienne the BR hen facing away from the camera. (My BR rooster is named Rocky....get it?)

Sunday was SO nice and warm that all my girls, and Rocky, decided to treat themselves to a spa day in their new enclosed area which was my garden plot last season. Have you ever seen so many dust bathing birds before? It was hilarious to watch them throwing dirt all over each other.

Okay, another newbie question. If I wanted to buy a few chicks and stick them under my hen who refuses to NOT be broody, what would I feed them? Would the chicks eat the same fermented feed I give all my birds or do they have to be fed something different and, if so, can the "mother" hen eat...

I drove all the way from northern Limestone County just to buy some hens from Amy and her family last year - I think they were her son's 4H project. Amy's GREAT!