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My papa poultry order 1 egg labeled cream crested legbar hatched a chick identical to an Easter egger egg and the Olive egger egg hatched a chick that doesn't match any of the descriptions of pictures. I had a terrible hatch rate (10%) compared to my six other hatched this year ( 80-100%) all...

I treated with blue kote and sprinkled diatomaceous earth food grade into corners of brooder. It's exactly one month later and you would never know... All feathers are grown back in. I don't know if it was from feather plucking or mites, the chick had never been outside and brooder was filled...

Did you ever hear back from him on olive egger? I also messaged with no reply and some hatched last night with 2 more to go?

I have a 3 week old Ameraucana that I hatched who started loosing the down around the neck within the last week and it looked red and inflamed , but I thought it was due to feathers coming in. I noticed a scab on the back of the head and thought maybe one of the other chicks pecked it. Now...

The humidity on the display says 37, I have it set to 60. I have water in 2 of the wells. I have had it running about 4 hours and the humidity pump never comes on by itself. When I manually turn it slightly it starts right up and runs for a short time and shuts off again and doesn't start...

Help... I am setting up a new brinsea 40 advance with humidity pump .... My problem is the pump will not turn on unless a turn it slightly and then it only runs for a few seconds or few minutes and then shuts off. I have raised and lowered limits to see it I can get it to trigger but no luck...

Yes, you can feed the beetles. My girls love pecking for them in the coop. They don't go as crazy for them as meal worms, but definitely eat them up.

Thanks HeritageGoose13, that's it exactly. I have never had that problem because twice a day I check pupa container for beetles and transfer, but I think this happened with a bunch when I left for 24hrs. I had been separating out pupa and putting no food or moisture in that container and have...

I have had problem with a recent batch of darkling beetles wing covers not developing? so far they are mostly all alive, the only thing I did differently is instead of the bedding rolled oats I used whole oats, anyone have a similar issue or any ideas?

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I have 23 week Wyandottes that are not laying yet. I started growing fodder and sprouting seeds. The chickens won't eat it!! I have tried wheat, barley, oats, and boss. I have kept layer feed and oyster shell available also, any suggestions