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So I had a really horrible hatch of coturnix quail. I did a couple things different and I'm trying to figure out how to prevent in the future and what to do now. This is a cheap little giant incubator with fan and egg turner. Temp was right around 100 degrees. I only set 16 eggs. I used a...

How much head room do you think they need? I could put one 1.5 feet up and give them ~1.5 feet of head room. They wouldn't be able to stretch their necks much, but could sit.

I was hopeing we could leave our three hens in a tractor most of the summer, moved around the yard. We don't have much in the way of preditors, due to our residental location, 6-foot high wood fence, and fenced in dogs on most sides. We were going to use a heavier wire (not chicken wire). But...

I wouldn't dispare too soon. Our Easter Eggers started with a light brown egg (only one was laying), then we got an olive green egg. I was so bummed because other people got the pretty "minty green eggs", and I was sure all three of my hens were laying. A week later I got one a minty green...

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My three hens go through about a quart (mason jar) of layer crumbles a day. Some of it is waisted though, kicked around. And they are currently getting no free range.

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I collected the three little eggs my three little hens so faithfull laid for me and placed them on the back porch while I cleaned out their box and water. As I was picking them some extra greens I noticed that the dogs were rooting around in the straw I cleaned out, but just figured they were...

Our hens tend to sleep in their nest box, so the eggs get a bit "poopy". I wash them and stick them in the fridge. We only have three hens, so we always eat their eggs within a couple days of laying.

We have not yet finished our chicken tractor and our hens have eaten all the grass in their pen. I scatter scratch to give them something to do (in addition to free choice layer pellets). But today I decided to give them a couple of handfulls of grass and oxolas. They scarfed it down. Is it...

Don't get me wrong, I would love to have property and the room to really raise my own food. But I'm finding it difficult to not become attached to my hens when they are 15 feet from my back door. Hence the question about the older hens. Our budget can afford the $10 for a bag of layer...

How old is your oldest hen that still lays? How many eggs a week do you get from your older hens? I'm curiouse as to what people with small backyard flocks do when their older hens slow down? If you are limited on space, so you can't just add more hens, but are too attached to cull your...

Well shoot Chicken woman, that is my fault. I had read that you should package seeds in bubble wrap as the automatic mail reader would crush the seeds. I didn't realize they would charge extra for a little peice of bubble wrap in a standard envelope. $1.17 is a rip off for a standard sized...

I'm not sure what you mean by loud, but I think my 3 EE hens are pretty quite. They have a decent vocabulary, and do coo, cluck, and squak. But they are in our residential backyard, 20 feet from our kitchen/backdoor, and you can not hear them when you are in the kitchen (at all). They mostly...

I would like the Tenderette greenbeans, and have ... acorn squash butternut squash spagetti squash red bell pepper morning glory (annual)