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Hey everyone, after my lifelong dream of getting a home in the country, and getting chickens, I've had Nothing but issues keeping them alive!! First it was raccoons. Finally caught two in the act of raiding my coop and turned them into vulture chow. Then weeks later, my neighbors miniature...

So we have this trio of lavender orps. They runn around together and two of them always spar with each other. No spurs on any of them, and they all look the same to me.

Just thought Id share a picture of my proud bf showing off one of our young appleyard drakes. At only 8 weeks old, hes huge! Looking forward to his adult plumage, hes going to be amazing!

So i have three midget whites, 2 hens and a tom. When i got thrm the lady I bought them from said they were 4 months old. Now, the tom hasnt posed for the ladies, nor does he have much of a wattle yet. I was reading that heritage turkey are about ready for butcher at 28 weeks, and since i...

I know this title seems weird, but i have 7 silver appleyard ducks, and they live in a large, 9x9 foot hoop house. They are given a fresh bucket of water everyday, but lord, all they do is stand next to it and poop! Im using the deep litter method best I can, but they stand by the water all...

AHHHH!! I went out this morning to refill their feed, and during the night they must have run low. It was horrible! They ate each other!! I found my lavender orpington with a big hole in her head, my buff polish was equally pecked to death and my wheaten armerucana was just plain GONE. I...

Hello everyone! My babies hatched May 7th and I started a Chick Cam streaming live! Hope to have it up and running as much as possible! You can view it here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chip-chick-cam Enjoy!

Hi guys, So I made anew impulse buy and bought a single araucana roo chicken from my local farm supply store. Figured he'd make olive Eggers for me later. Anyhow, I've got eggs in the incubator not due to hatch until May 6th or so. By that time my roo will be 4 weeks old and pretty big. He's...

Hey everyone! I just moved into a new house and the yard came with this fantastic playhouse for kids, but to me it's prime chicken housing! Question is, how should I go about converting it? I want to do chickens in the top, and take the space in the bottom and turn it into a duck pen. I'm...

As the title says. My little birds are now about 3.5 weeks old, and look like mini adults. I was curious to know when I should expect them to molt. Is this something triggered by light cycles, temperature, age, all three? Ideally I'd like to move their pen outside until the feather...

Like the title says, I'm trying to find out the best way to move quail outdoor after they have been brooded indoors. Right now the babies are 2 weeks old, so clearly not ready to go outside yet. I've heard they would be ready to go outside around 4 weeks, however since I live in Maine, and we...

Took a video of my chicks romping about the brooder. Thought I'd share the love <3

So if the way to get a Tux is to breed A Tibetan with a white, then what will happen if you did Tuxedo to Tuxedo? Since Tux is partial dominate, does that mean some will be Tux, some will be Tibetan and some White?

Omg as if I hadn't already had enough issues with this eggs, with the first shipment being frozen, I finally have a good batch of eggs and the power went out. They are on day ten. We have no power and there's no way to warm them. Are they going to die???

After finally getting some eggs, I have them set up in my brinsea 20. One of my questions and concerns is that I'm having a heck of a time maintaining constant humidity. It ranges about 50% to 60%. The Brinsea is designed to be rotated on it's side, base and other side for the process of...

I'm so sad today. I ordered some quail eggs off Ebay and the seller didn't even have the post office require a signature to deliver. I live in Central Maine. It was 10 degrees last night and the postman, not knowing any better, stuffed my unhatched babies in the mailbox. Every single one of...

Yay! My lone female quail finally laid her first egg this morning! I was a tad worried since I had to cull the three males that lived with the poor girl. I'd had her for almost three weeks and I figured being alone would affect her laying rate. But turns out, spoiling her as an only child...

My Eco 20 incubator is due to arrive this friday and I'm looking for a good place to get eggs. After my last experience with a guy that sold me three standard male coturnix quail claiming they were all both "jumbo" and "female", I've decided I can now confidently sex and process quail myself...

I am thinking about getting the Octagon Eco 20 incubator, but it comes in both manual, and automatic turning. The difference in price is like 50-70 dollars though, and I'd really like to do this as cost effectively as I can. My problem with a manual turner is that since I work 12 hour evening...

Hi again everyone! Happy Holidays! (for those in the States) Thought I would share a delicious recipe for Quail on this typical Turkey Day! Balsamic Broiled Quail For super moist and delicious quail, I find leaving the skin on, and brining the quail before cooking works wonderfully. Here...