Recent content by ACGM

Hello everyone, I am about to start building my flock a new coop and need some help deciding what to put in their run for the ground. They are completely free range but if I ever have to stay somewhere overnight or sleep in a little longer, they would be locked in their coop with a run to...

I can’t say I’ve heard too much about the weight loss method. When I was researching, what was mostly discussed was temperature and humidity. Could you explain it a little more? I know the weight itself will vary between the breed of chicken but, overall, what should be happening to the weight...

I didn’t take it that way at all! I try to give as much detail as I can to give a clear picture of what’s going on.

So to answer this question might take some back story to explain why I think those animal are the perpetrators as I did not actually see the attack happen. This past Friday (10/11) I walked my dog at 9am and all my chickens were alive. By the time I went back outside at 10am, there were feathers...

Thank you! I never had that happen the last time so it worried me a bit.

The hens have jumped on top of their brooder so they have seen each other but my coop is not set up so the younger chicks can hide. My hens are free range so I am entertaining the idea of moving the chicks in at night and during the day, taking the older hens out to roam so the chicks have their...

This will be day 2. It just concerned me because it dropped from 50-55% to 37% over night and thought that swing was a too much for just one night. I have 12 chicken eggs. The rooster is a dark Cornish and the hens are: Rhodes island reds, Easter egger, Delaware cross, wheaten old English...

Hello everyone! So I was originally going to move my chicks into a separate coop at first as I had five mature hens and one rooster. Unfortunately, my rooster and three of my hens were killed by what looks like a combination of dogs and bobcats. Now that I only have two mature hens, I was...

Hello everyone! I am letting my daughters preschool class incubate some of my eggs and there are already issues with keeping humidity. I have hatched once before at the end of August and did not have any issues with maintaining a constant humidity so I was hoping to draw on everyone else’s...

Here is the link to previous post: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/is-it-worth-saving.1329904/#post-21705627

I first want to thank everyone that has answered my incessant questions! I have completed my first incubation and wanted to update on my previous post, as well as, share with you what I feel about this experience after going through all this to hopefully help others in my position. The update...

I know, just sad. I think I had another one die to now. I’m going to take hatched chicks out now and see if I lost the two in the eggs.

Probably dumb question but how will I tell if it’s alive or dead? This is my first hatch so I don’t know that it would be that obvious without me opening it.

Last night I posted because one of me eggs seemed to have stalled breaking out of its shell. I had five other eggs trying to hatch and had already pipped and was wondering if I should try to save it. After my own mental battle and listening to sound advice, I made the decision to wait until...

Ok, I will wait for the other chicks and if I don’t see any progress by morning, I’ll figure out what to do then. Thank you for your help!