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They started hatching Thursday morning. I have the brooder house all ready for them. With all the storms going through our area today. I decided to keep them in a make shift brooder. Down in the basement for another day.

I bought this old brooder from an online classified listing. I have already dismantled it. So I can straighten up the little bitsheet metal damage there is. I am going to leave the faded paint and patina as is. I have a replacement heating unit for it. I am going to rework the wiring. So the...

I usually don’t hatch chicks this late in the year. When the breeder I have been trying to get eggs from for almost three years. Finally agreed to sell me some eggs. I didn’t care what time of year it was. I got some great genetics to add to my flock

I have no idea where this little guy came from. He was scratching around in the cow lot at the farm. When I went out to do the daily head count and look over of my small herd. I snapped a picture of him. To post on the local lost pet site. Which no one responded to. To my surprise. He walked...

I hatched out a dozen shipped eggs. I also had a silkie hen. That was broody at the time they hatched. She is a small silkie and the chicks are standard sized barnevelders. So I decided to give her six of the chicks. It had been awhile since a broody raised chicks of the same hatch, that I was...

I have two Roll-X incubators that the water bottle goes through the top. Which work great. I was given a third one that has the external water bottle. A Roll-X RX-2. I adjusted the nut on the water bottle to form a puddle the size that is required in my other two incubators. When I put the top...

I live on a small acerge in eastern missouri. We have vegetable gardens, berries and an orchard. We also have a few horses and quite a few chickens. We have a flock of double laced golden Barnevelders. We also raise American gamefowl bantams, Old English game bantams and Dutch bantams. I am...