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We have a great maternity ward for our broody hens to hatch in. Its a 8X6 run and there is a dog igloo in there for them to feel safe. Plenty of room. We had a broody hatch five chicks last week and now we have 2 more broody hens. One (Black Betty) has been sitting for a week or two and the...

We have had a wonderful broody who decided to hatch. We just let her go on whatever eggs were underneath her. There were 7 eventually but I think they accumulated over a day or two. We often have hens who will set in the same box as a broody. About 3 weeks ago I marked the 7 eggs that were under...

So we have more eggs than we can eat and have been approached by friends who want to buy our eggs for $5 a dozen... umm ok, sure thing! So we are having fun with it and with more laying hens on the way we MIGHT someday have enough to sell at he local farmers market. I have a few questions about...

I feel like I should be able to tell by this age. The size of his/her peacomb is larger than the rest though and the neck feathers seem more pointy? What are your thoughts?

We woke up yesterday to find two dead chickens. We have had a flock of 6 hens and added 2 more in the spring and 2 more this past summer. The youngest 2 were about 6 mo old and they were the 2 found dead. No sigh of intruder, other chickens did not seem distressed. One was found dead on the coop...

We do not have a broody right now but we finally have fertile eggs. We live in West Texas and we usually get our first freeze around Halloween. (Hatching time if we started incubating now) In the past we have kicked them out of the house pretty young, and we have NEVER had one die from this. If...

I already posted this in the genetics board with ZERO response. I suppose the "mutt" part of my question threw people off? This board has always been very helpful, so I thought I would try here. We have a wonderful Rooster, Leroy, who is a White Marans. He is 6-7 mo old and performing his...

We have a wonderful Rooster, Leroy, who is a White Marans. He is 6-7 mo old and performing his duties well. We thought about hatching some of the eggs from his flock for fun. No real goal in mind, just hoping to produce darker brown egg layers as well as some Olive Eggers. I am curious as to...

Our broody hatched out 6 baby chicks almost 8 weeks ago. At the time we did not have a rooster so we had to buy her fertile eggs from a neighboring farm. So we have not clue on their parentage. They are a lil skiddish, being broody raised which is why it was hard to get these pics. We have 3...

We have had a broody who has been a fantastic sitter. We woke up this morning to find 3 new baby chicks and some still hatching. After careful inspection, we found 1 dead. when I removed it, it was smash and had one leg missing, clearly chewed off. You could tell it died right after hatching. It...

We bought some eggs from a breeder in OH, we hatched our 2 "white Marans". There were clear differences in the two very early on. We had one pegged as a girl and the other was very obviously a boy. As they grew, (now 14-15) weeks we noticed our "girl" was looking very "boyish". I took this to...

We hatched some chicks in the spring who are 13 weeks old now. We have 7 beautiful and sweet cockerels who need to re-homed as we can only keep one. If you are in the Lubbock area and would be interested in picking one up for free, please let me know and I would be happy to send you pictures of...

12 weeks. We have quite a few this age. It is pretty hard for us to tell the black EE's apart. But maybe you can take a stab at it. The Olive Egger... #1 and #2- look identical to me This one has a yellow tip on its beak. The only way we can tell it apart. Please let me...

So wouldn't you know that after 2-3 months of hatching dozens of eggs in a incubator our 14 month old speckled sussex has gone broody! YAY! Now what? 1.) Our eggs are not fertile. But I have access to some. How many should we try to place under her? Also will it mess up her hatch timing if she...

OK so this has been going on for quite some time. Here is the background... There is a mixed breed flock of 7 hens. There is NO rooster in with them (That we know of... oddly we have only ever gotten 6 eggs in one day). They have a 8X6 run and a 4X6 coop. They roost outside at night if that...

Pretty sure we have chicken mites. Feathers are missing on the girls backs. And I can't seem to find any other reason for it. I bought prozap Permetherine - insectrine dust for livestock and poultry. Will this work on mites? Does anyone have experience with it? And is it safe to eat the eggs...

Most of these birds are mutts that are 5 weeks. Please let me know your opinions on my guesses so we can decide who to keep. The description is at the top of the picture groups. Thank you! #1- Gold Laced Wyandotte - 6 weeks old- guessing Roo but Wyandottes seem to throw curve balls...

We hatched out 2 olive eggers. I have been under the impression that the black and white one was a cockerel but now I am thinking the blonde one is too after seeing 3 rows on the pea comb. I am aware they are very young but I would love your thoughts? The Black and White one...

I have never seen this before! I googled it and could find nothing on it. It looks very odd to me. Please tell me what it is and why it is there! Here is a side view of the bird--- looks like a cockeral from the side. It is a black orpington/Ameracuana mix. Here is the spike.. at the...

We have pretty much figured out all of our birds on sexing. But these wyandottes! We hatched a gold laced and then rescued two silver laced (who were sold from hatcheries as girls from the person we got them from). They are the same age, 5 weeks and few days. But they all looks like boys to me...