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We are just not in a good time/place for this. We are overwhelmed trying to get our house built and can barely keep up with things, and we are badly managing our eggs. It's too hot here, and I have cracked eggs to plop out a developing embryo and I am not going to take the chance of accidentally...

Love dung beetles. They are cleaner-uppers!

thanks!

We are new to breeding. We had a broody Australorp and let her raise some day old chicks last year. Then this year we had a couple roosters in with 20 hens, and 2 Australorps went broody and raised 3 batches of chicks. Each time, the moms seemed to teach the chicks that we are Big Bad...

We just separated our roosters from our brood coop, and are done with chicks for this year (our first year of just letting our flock replenish itself... A little too successful!) We don't want to share fertile eggs (we have a separate production coop). So we will be eating the brood coop eggs...

Wow, thank you so much for this and the previous detailed analysis! I love finding someone who likes to nerd out on detail as much as I do, and in this case, especially someone who has some knowledge about chicken feed, since I am pretty much ignorant in this area. This is exactly the type of...

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Thanks for your reply! Is there a problem with the CaCO3? I thought I heard somewhere that those are two different types of calcium and act differently... We're still building our layer coop, so now we have our pullets and hens mixed together. I do have oyster shell out free choice and am...

Can you share details on that wider feeder? We are also in the market for our 30 girls who waste a $lot of food...

I am gearing up to try homemade food. I am attempting to lower my costs. We use 200 lbs of feed per month, so I think I can buy ingredients in bulk. Here is my first attempt, below. I have been buying organic corn-free, soy-free whole grain food from Scratch & Peck. I have this spreadsheet...

That makes sense, because brown eggs are white eggs with a coating on it. The thickness of the coating can change with nutrition and with time (darker when first laying or after a break in laying, lighter after regular laying)

Sweet pics! Yes, I love our EEs. We've had 9 so far, and they are all so different from each other, but every one is beautiful and they seem so cheeky, we just have a soft spot for them. We actually have 2 chicks that are the most similar and both mostly white with touches of grey, but one has...

Wow, that first link is a great thread! I went down a rabbit hole with that one! I'm surprised it didn't come up in my earlier searches. I had found the BO x BA thread before; looks like a really pretty mix and we really like both breeds, so that's why we had them high on our list. Thanks for...

Haha, good point! I mainly wanted to see if there were any interesting things that would happen re: genetics which I don't know much about with chickens. So it was a pretty open-ended question. But my ideal would be productive egg-laying dual-purpose birds with an interesting array of egg...

We have a mixed flock of 36, all purchased as day-olds at various times. We had our first successful adoption of 15 chicks by a broody Australorp. We have eaten 12 roosters. Next spring we'd like to try breeding. We have a lovely Buff Orpington roo who will be the lucky dad. Here are his...

i know this is an old post, but do you have any pictures of what this cross looked like growing up or as an adult?

I use scratch and peck organic soy-free feed. This is why I am spending $7 per dozen for eggs I can only sell for $4 per dozen in our impoverished area! That's another story; we are working at lowering our feed costs... Scratch and peck includes probiotics which will kick-start fermentation...

? That link tells how to use feather meal but I didn't see anything that said how to make it...?

We don't know how old! So we'll file your thought, and I guess we'll see when their feathers come in! :)