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I have a small Cream Legbar group that has integrated to a small group of red hens & a grey hen. Not really paying attention to the colors of last weekends hatch I now wonder if the lighter red peeps are sex links. I know which ones are the purebred Cream Legbar peeps. Thinking the pale reds...

Wow! My candy Easter egg Whoppers get a little fart egg in the box :)

Over the past number of years I’ve had about 45 chickens running around. No predictor issues for years. I was hit with a trifecta over a year ago with 2 female raccoons that moved into the barn and had kits, new home builder cleared brush and displaced his coyote pack and a Bald Eagle hit me and...

I am looking for pickled eggs recipes. Do you prefer them sweet or sour? I see some online that are made with beet juice too.. I have standard size eggs to pickle but was wondering if anyone has tried to pickled the smaller bantam or Serama eggs?

Have had the Kindle Fire since Wednesday but not a lot of free time to do much until now. I'm on the wifi at home. Page load time is acceptible. Living out in the country I don't really have options for lightening fast speeds from the phone company & cable is not an option. Book reading has...

I have a Chantecler pullet that has always followed me during feeding time and watches all that I do closely. I figured I would see if I could get he to be more friendly since I have never tried to make a pet of her or handle her much. Bought the crinkle package of those ugly dried worms they...

I was doing fine until this afternoon. Stopped into get a bale of hay and bam! A brooder full of Buckeye chicks and I brought home 6. All settled in and streaming live from their brooder. A little shy and not sure how to use the Ecoglo brooder I have them streaming live online Buckeye Chicks...

The front page of today's Oregonian is an article about legislation changes that have passed on commercial operations. Colony cages that require 116.3 square inches per hen with perches, nest boxes and scratch pad by 2026. I know that's so far into the future but there is pending legislation...

The group was hatched in April and doing just fine.... until this weekend. These birds are not little babies, they are getting some size to them now. Found two with bloody toes on Saturday being chased and attacked. The BLRW were obsessed about chasing and pecking the white toes of Lily...

The incubator is the Brinsea Octagon 20 ECO with turner. It has the standard glass thermometer so I added a Hygrometer/ thermometer from Walmart and I find with it being digital and dark I can't really read it easily. A flashlight just washes it out. My temps are good. Besides the glass...

Being the loving DW I am, I gave DH a Dewalt Compound Miter saw for Fathers Day This weekend he tested it out building this frame and I then attached the webbing while he took a nap. Its intended use is for the chicks in the brooder to have outside time in the grass. It is very light...

Back in April I was picking up peeps at the feed store and I found this little bright yellow peep in the feeder while helping sort some other chicks out for a special order pickup. This was the lone mystery chick that matched no others in their shipment. So to lessen the confusion at check...

I have been having too much fun with my peeps I am now even thinking of designing a brooder that has places to hang the camera for best streaming angle Visit the latest peeps at Peeps are broadcasting 7 LF Salmon Faverolles, 2 mystery chicks & 2 Brabanters. Do you have a link to share...

I have two Serama chickens in the house in a bunny/ferret cage at the moment but want to build them a setup that is either outside with the other chickens or still inside but Serama friendly since they are so small.. Looking for picture examples. Tell me why you chose what you did and what you...

I have the plans for the Whizbang version but saw a video of basically the same thing but it was a washing machine that was "modified". Anyone know where I can get plans for this type of chicken plucker?

Could not stop myself and added these to the brooder today. I liked the facts regarding the two breeds: Partridge Chantecler - Bears cold weather, good winter layer and nice lacing on the feathers Egyptian Fayoumi - Good free rangers, foragers, disease resistant. Anyone have these...

I need more peeps like a hole in my head Stopped to get hay and came home with Partridge Chantecler & Egyptian Fayoumi peeps. I liked the idea of the lacing on the Chantecler and the Fayoumi breed is known to be good free rangers. So, setup another brooder to watch them and make sure...

On Wednesday evening while I was out feeding my horses and sheep I heard voices out by the driveway and as I look out the barn I see cows running up my driveway and people in hot pursuit... I am thinking UGH! The 2 cows ran around the house and into the back where it's more wooded. Spent a...

EcoGlo arrived today and I just finished setting it up and moving the week old chicks to the larger brooder tote. The instructions stated chicks prefer the lowest setting for height. Since they were a week old I went with that. Now looking at them all snuggling next to the outside edge and not...

Last summer I hatched about a dozen eggs in the IncuCube Incubator and there was not much of a mess to clean up so I did not give it much thought this time around with the Brinsea ECO 20. My mistake, this hatch did not look messy but when I took out the tray there was all this icky stuff in...