Redwood Incubator - Leahy Favorite ARTICLE with Pic I have been doing extensive research on the Leahy Manufacturing Company and an article will be coming out shortly Here are the model numbers they manufactured Company went out of business in 1983 after 100 Years No 65 Oil or Elect 1 tray 62 chicken eggs 19"x17"x10" No 150 O Elect 1 tray
Best age to cull a rooster - BackYard Chickens Well If you cull at 18 weeks they will be fairly good size If you let them get much older they do tend to get tougher with age Those rooster don't reach their full potential in size untill at least a year old thought I would personally butcher around 16 to 18 weeks
trampoline chicken coop - update - BackYard Chickens We are starting our first flock (since I was 8 anyway) and our 15 little ones are going on 3 weeks So I am starting a coop and have the general idea of what I want and have just a few sticking points I need help with I have taken an old trampoline that had the surface melted (careless yard
Cayenne Pepper It Really Gets Those Hens Laying I saw a post that said to give your hens cayenne pepper to start them laying and it really works!!!! Went from 1 to 2 eggs aday to 12 to 14 in one and a half weeks I put one bottle of pepper to two pounds of cornmeal then added water to make moist they loved it
My Lg Fowl breeding pens - BackYard Chickens Last year I was looking around for some pics of breeding pens and had a hard time finding what I wanted I plan on doing single matings (breeding one male to one female) and built a pen that's over all dimensions are 6' x 12' divided up into 3 separate (4' x 6') pens Well I liked the first one
definition of zipping and pipping? - BackYard Chickens Pipping comes first It's when the chick starts becoming active and chirping, then zipping which is when they actually rotate inside the egg while seemingly "unzipping" the top of the egg Zipping may take up to 24hours
Got empty wire spools? Heres an idea! - BackYard Chickens Here is a picture of it without the doors installed These are recycled wire spools (FREE!) from the electric company We used 5 foot biddy wire, but I think it would work out better if you can find the 6 foot wire That way, the middle section will be larger If interested, I will post
Feeding laying hens game bird feed - BackYard Chickens I saw this bag of feed from a company called big v feeds for game birds It looks like a mix of grains and pellet If I were a chicken it would look good to me Can you feed a laying hen game bird feed? Has anyone done this Only difference I see is the high protein :D
Mixing cement with dirt - does it work well? - BackYard Chickens One of the books I have (I think it's the Chickens in Your Backyard book - but I can't find it at the moment to be sure) mentions the possibilities of mixing cement powder with dirt, and then misting it and letting it harden When it dries, it is supposedly a hard surface and much less