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Over the past couple of months I have visited 4 different local feed stores, and called several more. All of them have the same story - "They can not get chicks." So I decided to call Murray McMurray Hatchery to get first hand information. Why Murray McMurray Hatchery? Because they are the...

Title: The Biggle Poultry Book Author: Jacob Biggle Published in 1895 as part of the Biggle Farm Library. Reprinted in 2013 by Skyhorse Publishing (skyhorsepublishing.com) . ISBN 978-1-62636-1147-8 (Disclaimer: of historic / hobby interest & some treatments are out-dated and / or...

This is posted in the Disaster Preparedness General Discussion because this article is for people who may flee to the countryside, or who bug out to the wilderness. Let's say there is some kind of event, such as a new plague and there is a replay of the Black Death. Someone happens upon a farm...

I'm a newbie to this forum and also a newbie to preparedness and homesteading. This is the first year we have had chickens and I'm learning a lot on another site called backyardchickens.com But, I was wondering, what do you do if for some reason you cannot obtain or cannot afford chicken feed...

Over the past 2 days I have given away 2 dozen eggs. Some people might be saying “so what”? To give food away means that my wife and I have an excess food supply. Think about that for a minute. My wife and I bought our first chicks February 25, 2012. In all we ended up with 13 chickens...

Here's a question that I've wondered if folks have asked themselves... How would you feed your chickens through the winter, if there wasn't a feed store? I've often wondered about this...especially now that we are looking for feeds that do not contain roxarsone, or nitrofuran as additives...

A while back I posted a question on whether or not Rhode Island Red chickens from Murray-McMurray were good breeders, well I am here to vouch for them! My chickens are around 4 months old and have already started laying daily and one is already sitting on 10 eggs! WOOO! :thumb:

On another thread here, the question was asked about encouraging wild chicken populations as supplemental food and it was suggested that the poster use turkeys instead as they are hardier. That gave me the idea of raising turkeys instead of chickens, as I understand it, are prone to physical...