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I just set 51 LF Cornish eggs in my incubator! 37 eggs from my LF Dark and Jubilee (white/dark cross) Cornish, and 14 shipped LF White Cornish eggs I bought. So excited to get back into hatching my own meat birds. First time hatching chickens in 4 years I think. I’ve done 2-3 batches of guineas...

I originally got my Cornish intending to raise them for meat birds. I did well at first, but now with three kids 6 and under, I don't have the time to have a batch of chicks hatching every 1-2 weeks to keep up with our need for meat and I haven't hatched in 2 years. So I'm looking to sell my...

One of my AGH sows had 7 babies last night! She majored on meat. Only one little female. One of the little males got stepped on though. He has a half inch cut on his side and his toes on that back right leg are rolling over a bit. I cleaned him up and put iodine on the cut and put him back...

We built Justin Rhodes' pigport pen with some modifications. It is 50% bigger and we made some improvements to the doorframe. Here are the first two walls we put up. Cattle panels zip tied to the posts/t-posts and remnant siding from different projects zip tied to the cattle panels. The end...

I remember a thread a while back where people where posting all the chicken knick-knacks that were so horrifically bad that they were awesome. But.... I couldn’t find the thread. Well, I came across this gem on Facebook and I couldn’t let it go to waste. The meme commentary makes it even better.

My best looking Cornish pullet so far this year. She's a Jubilee. A Dark over White Cornish combo. She can be used to breed to White or back to Dark.

My in-laws (who live in a house behind ours) looked out their back window onto our shared backyard and saw something next to one of our brooder pens. It wasn’t one of our adult guineas. It was the wrong color. They get a little closer and see it is a hawk trying to get at my replacement guineas...

I have 14 guinea eggs that are supposed to hatch tomorrow. I moved them to the hatch incubator last night and refilled the water dish I use for humidity. I just went to see if any had hatched early and/or how many pipped eggs I had. When I opened the bator the air that came up out of it was hot...

LF Dark Cornish hatching eggs. $50 a dozen + shipping ($15.05 for express, more for priorty).

I have a cute story. My brother is here for a week or so visiting with my parents (they live down the lane from me). He and my parents went to Weston (about 45 min from us) to go shopping this morning. In the middle of the road in the center of town, they found this little baby wandering about...

This 4.5 week old LF Cornish cockerel is really looking like a good contender for next year's breeding cock. Look at the shanks on him already!

My chick is doing this weird gaping thing after it eats/drinks. Is this normal?

Can you guys help? I was moving my day 19 eggs to my lockdown bator and I dropped one of the eggs. it s badly shattered. I'm wondering if I should put coconut oil on the exposed outer membrane. Any other suggestions would be welcome. There is some blood and I can't tell if there s movement.

I just had an unexpected hatch from my Bantam Cochin/Chocolate-Mauve Orp mixed chickens. The original hatch was from Splash/mottled Bantam Cochin Roosters over Chocolate and Mauve (blue/chocolate) Orp hens. So, my Rooster is splash but is split for chocolate (so the single chocolate gene doesn't...

One of my Bantam Cochin/Chocolate Orp girls hid something from me. Not sure how many babies have or will hatch. My FIL does the morning feed and found this little one. I don't have any starter on hand, fed it to my main flock after I was done hatching for the year. I guess DH is going to...

Update: I'm turning this into a story thread so people can follow my progress going forward. I got one LF White Cornish Pullet out of a batch of shipped eggs I got last year. Two chicks hatched but the cockerel that hatched with her died of suicidal stupidity. These are the best images I have...

I've been interested in getting birds from Greenfire Farms but they are SOOOOO expensive. I'm considering getting one or more of their "collections" (Rainbow Egg Layer Mix, Rare Breed Mix, or Table Bird Mix) because the price is greatly reduced. $249 for 12 + shipping instead of the normal $75+...

All my Squatch Watcher buddies know who the Milk Drinker is. For anyone reading this that doesn’t know, the Milk Drinker is my 2.5 year old son. He was given this nickname by either @staceyj or @Texas Kiki, I can’t remember which. Well, his milk drinking days are coming to an end and he needs a...

I have 4 guineas that are about 5 months old. I know I have two females and I believe the other two are males. The two confirmed females are smaller and I've seen them both making the "buckwheat" call. The other two are bigger and I've seen one of them making the single note male call. These...

I have 7 Bantam pullets (Bantam Cochin/Chocolate Orpington) and 1 cockerel, Tiny, that is even smaller than the pullets that I am keeping in the paddock with my main flock, but in their own PVC run. I am keeping them separate because they are itty-bitty and I think my LF Cochin cock will crush...