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me too! So @ronott1 uses a HB 1588 to hatch? Does it work well? I have lovely wooden cabinet incubator and am using the hatching tray. I'm considering NOT because it is SOOOOO hard to clean the back of the incubator! I've wondered many times if the Brinsea thermometer was worth the price...

I know! I learned the hard way ;)

She is 2 today! I love her cuteness too Thank you We LOVE pallet houses! They are the new favorite on the farm and we have some nice ones! Our largest is 5 x 16 That's a man door hidden by the tree. Exterior egg boxes on the right (unseen). Just don't do what I did. Straight bleach...

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We have Swedish Flower Hens. At this time we have a closed farm - meaning I don't let people past the picket fence :) That's my level of biosecurity right now. Now birds in - only eggs if I want to diversify - and no farm tours. It's too scary with the AF running amuck. We also don't...

Thank you Ron. I read this and was surprised at myself for not considering parasites a possibility. Thank you for the ideas! I did not know about the sensitivity to cocci. Planning to do all the less intense healing methods before trying a de-wormer. In the fall we get a truckload of...

Hello friends! We are off to a running start with our hatching this year. I had planned to catalogue the number of chicks from each hatch. Guess who hasn't wrote down a single number? That isn't helpful! Most of our breeds are going like gangbusters and it is just fun. I so enjoy chicken...

That is a good idea!

Incredible information. When it is not nearly midnight I shall go through and look at all of it closely. Thank you so much! I knew someone would be able to point me the right direction. Such a weird thing to have happen. I hope it isn't contagious! Awesome sauce! You should be excited...

I would have liked a photo from the front because it shows that she looked like she had an engorged crop. Except it's not, it is all air.

Strangest thing. Getting my chicks out of the newly hatched brooder (they are about 3 weeks old) and getting ready to upgrade them to the next cage so I can sanitize the brooder and refill it. The chicks are all different breeds and some are Orpingtons so they are huge, right? I didn't pay...

Oh that is so very exciting! His BBS are lovely! I ended up selling mine from him so I didn't have to build another breeding pen this winter. I want BBS eventually but I only had the one blue cockerel (I was after the blacks for lavender improvement). Anyway, the boy was huge at 5...

Showing ignorance here... what do you use the fish meal for? So done with the heat! I think the chickens are too!

I beg to differ. Having melted the top of one. Severely melted it with smoke and plastic both running free. We survived a house fire 14 years ago. It wasn't our fault, the fire went from a neighboring structure to our home. I've obviously never forgotten that kind of fear. One cannot be...

Our daughter plans to use a beautiful black Orpington. I'm quite excited as we learn to navigate the world of poultry showmanship.

That is terrible! We should probably band but we don't. Since I've made a few mistakes I've decided not to sell day old chicks if I can't tell what they are. End of story. I make more on them at a month or 6 weeks anyway. At that time I can also eyeball faults and make sure to set aside...

I used to use rubbermaids and an old icechest but I needed something that could hold 2 hatches (roughly 100 - 120 chicks) under one heat lamp. At one time I had something like 6 different plastic containers to maintain with feed water and lamps. Not very efficient at all! So DH built a 4 x 8...

And girls! Maybe four of them? The hens are starting to lay again! Got 10 eggs last week. That is way better :)

We had a bad Cocci outbreak in the brooder. I'm hatching weekly and the entire family had the stomach flu last week. So, we have temporarily abandoned our brooder until it can be re-vamped and sterilized. Rather than put more chicks back in that Cocci-laden environment, I built a chick condo...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Until the next morning anyway