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Oops! Hit the reply before I finished! I am older and don't get out much but would enjoy getting private messages from you to see how your little farm is doing out there in white hills, Maybe sharing some good tips. Feel free to private message me anytime! God bless your little venture! :-)

Hi Tracy! Glad to meet you too! I am sorry it took so long to get back to you but I had out of town company. I use an Organic, non-gmo feed that I get once a month from Azure standard. They drop it off at Calvary Chapel Kingman in town. If you are interested, go to the Azure Standard website and...

Hi Tracy! I live in Golden Valley and started raising chickens organically here last year. Sorry about your chicks! I ordered from Murray McMurray last winter and all arrived alive and healthy. I raise chicks but mine are mixed breeds. I like the variety. Glad to hear a fellow chicken lover is...

my chicks have hatched! I only got 4 total, but the one from the the legbar we have named Stealth because it had wings like a stealth bomber at first and is pure black! What a cutie! Hoping all four are hens! The rest of the eggs were pretty scrambled, but I am happy to have four healthy ones...

Thank you! She seems ok in the breeding pen with Mr. Buff for now, so I will leave her there.

We have 2 buff orpingtons who both went broody. The first hatched one egg, then the second went broody and we gave her 4 eggs we had in the incubator that were due to hatch in several days. We went out several days later and found the first chick huddled and shaking by the gate of the brooder...

Thank you so much! I will do that!

Thanks so much! We have a second first time broody hen that rejected her chick today from someone elses egg she hatched. Is it ok to put the chick in with 3 one week old chicks, even if they peck at it? It has already been kicked out of the nest, and these are incubator chicks. We do have about...

My broody BO hen successfully hatched a chick one month ago. We had separated her with three eggs in a brooder pen, visible but secure from the flock, and one egg never hatched, one died shortly after hatching, and one lived. They have been doing great, but she has been pacing and seems to want...

Thanks! :-)

Thanks for the advice! It's hard to figure out what to do and this is my first attempt to hatch so I am a little apprehensive... I only wiped the most soiled ones gently with the wipe so hopefully they will still hatch. I am trying some from my own pullets for a friend in the same incubator so I...

I received my eggs today and the packaging was great--air cells were all intact! But I had heard that you absolutely don't hatch soiled eggs, and over half the eggs were badly soiled. This is my first hatch and I read that disease can be spread this way. Am I supposed to wash them? I tried...

Thank you. We did end up separating the pen and putting the dominant roosters on one side with some of the more tolerant hens, and the little hens with the younger ones on the other with 3 of the sweeter roosters. There seems to be a temporary truce now. They seem more interested in what the...

Hello, we are new to raising chickens and have a dilemma. We ordered 32 chickens, 2 roosters and 30 hens, from a hatchery. Because it was cold, we received an additional 11 chickens for warmth. We have raised them all together, and now find ourselves in care of 15 roosters and 22 hens (5 didn't...

Oh, ok, that makes sense! Thanks so much! Don't know what to do with all these roosters who love to sit on my lap though! I have a feeling I may not get much sleep in the future!