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Wow! You're up at at them birds before 6:15 AM! It was 15:35 before I realized I'd not yet let them out. Course, they've a larger enclosure and, when I do let 'em out (they've their own rooster), they get their choice of some 20ac if they don't cross my property lines.

Hmmm, I dug two quarters out of my left front pocket and gave one to my wife. Then, we each flipped the quarters and recorded how they fell. So, based on that, it seems you should see me for heads and my wife for tails. What is the AMBIENT HUMIDITY in the room where your incubator resides...

I would think it much higher since the 'natural' method involves laying a living hen atop the clutch - think of the humidity under your armpit.

I buy a couple bags of crumbles with five bags of CC and mix them a bit as I transfer them to my (rat proof?) feed storage barrels. Then, when I refill the feeder I get a mix of the two. I pay about ten bucks for the CC and eleven for the Crumbles or pellets and think I'm treating them with...

Jeeze, you are awfully sensitive. Didn't you notice the ;) in my 'nomination' comment? It was meant as a bit of humor. I see over sixty posts - a number of which appear to be people taking your first warning to heart. My wife is always 'announcing' stuff she reads on FB or some such...

Thank you. I did find lids for $2.99 but only after I'd solved my problem. I do find the hens strew an awful lot of the cracked corn about in the process of pecking out the bits they do consume!

"lay a light speckled egg" No, they seem to lay a middle of the range or tan egg, darker than some, lighter than some others but definitely NOT Hershey Bar Chocolate or even close. Thanks for the FB

Right, we can but hope - thanks for the feedback. Don't forget, National Pinhole Camera Day (last Sunday in April) is fast approaching - very difficult to shoot a duck with a pinhole camera, though.

You said the bowl was under the coop and the rain that got into it must have run off the roof into a bowl that had been sitting under there for quite a while. You admitted 'it was hardly Scientific,' so there's that mea culpa. Given this effort you went through to confirm this Black Rubber Bowl...

I got the (orange*) "Chicken Feeder No Waste Automatic Poultry Feeder 12 Ports Kit 6 Chicken Feeders and 6 Water'r Set for $13.99 @ Amazon" And installed them in two old plastic buckets. Set them up on blocks and the hens went right at it as if they'd ordered the things on the Coop Shopping...

Now, I did try online w/o success - did not find an easy way to id these two new (to us) birds we bought cheap at a flea market. So, I thought to take three pictures and post them here on the chance someone would look and exclaim "I know that there bird well!" Then post a response sharing...

What is it you are raising these chicks for? Meat? Eggs? Pets? I raise 'em for eggs and buy Golden Comets. When we first started, the birds were as much an attraction for the grandchildren as a food source so I bought whatever was cheapest and a couple of Polish and a pair of ducks (Cheese and...

Lots of detail.. But my neighbor smmed it up nicely when I first started with chickens some sixteen years ago "You can't poison a chicken." Now Joe was about seventy or so at the time and had come up in a house w/o inside plumbing etc etc. So, I trusted Joe and fed my (free-range) birds...

You know those Teflon coated aluminium griddles they sell off for $9.99 each Thanksgiving/Black Friday? When the Teflon's no more they still heat nicely and the temperature is adjustable! Now, couple it with a temperature-controlled outlet (for instance) and hang it on a wall in the coop or...

Generally, when you come out the next morning to find stiff fowl, make a note of the overnight temperature and other conditions. Inexplicably, half my flock (of nineteen) roost in a bare tree near the house - only thing I can think of might be the limited heat emanating from the wood fired...