Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

What can I say. Sometimes happens!

7557 Large family dairy farm down road do meat birds like that but the top is flat , then keep some forself & sell rest as organic . 38424 Looking at this again: i think the "holding board" item 3 in the top pic is on a hinge so that it can be mounted lower locking the wheels up so one person can m...

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I'll echo the advise above about auctions. Be very careful what you get.

There are some disease problems out there and you don't want to be bringing any of them home to your chickens.

I must be blind but, I can't see where the "smileys" are for message replies...

Is it something to do with my profile settings?

41196 So basically, dont trust those digital readouts, get a few different hydrometers/thermometers and verify the readings independently. I use a combination of indoor/outdoor digital thermometers/hydrometers, reptile/fish digital thermometers/hydrometers as well as regular thermometer/hydrometers...

WLLady wrote:QR_BBPOST if she is eating and drinking fine and otherwise actuve i would not worry unless it continues for a few days and then suspect cocci

I know how to treat this in dogs and horses. How do you treat it in poultry?

Rooster Rick wrote:QR_BBPOST Well if it smells...I wouldn't taste it...

Reminds me of a Cheech & Chong skit... but it was dog .
Not chicken....

Good thing you didn't step in it.

Good news, indeed!

Thanks. After reading the bit in the humidity section of the Egg to Chick guide, and the part about the chick not being able to rotate in the shell to peck the cap off (if it's stuck to the shell/membrane) I realized it describes what happened to a lot of mine that pipped but never hatched. I actual...

We wanted to try incubating some of our eggs and bought a "Cheap Chinese Incubator". That was followed by a second one. The failures on these this are pretty bad. Out of two incubators, I've replaced one heater, and FOUR humidity sensors. (In less than a year.) I've never had even a 50% hatch rate o...