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Hi Guys, i have 13 chicks from a Rhode Island Red cock x Light Sussex, been told that the bronzy / coppery ones are females and the silver white ones are males, however i seem to have produced an entire colour chart ranging from very pale to very dark! any ideas whats what and whos who...

Had a chick that i had to help out as he had been going for a day but hadnt hatched and was struggling, his foot is clubbed and has not straightened out yet unlike the others, he hobbles about a bit and can move ok but walks on it as it is in the image above (click to make it bigger) is there...

should be..... Should be hatching Sussex buffs and Ixworths in the next 48 hours, dont forget to check back! webcam http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chick-hatch-cam

Hi guys, My humidity is around the 56% mark at the moment, is this ok for hatching or should i take it up a little? thanks

On the back of a few others i am setting up an Incubator cam, it will begin THIS SATURDAY 9:00 AM GMT Showing the hatching of 4 light Sussex, 5 Indian game and one random Indian game hybrid. tune in ! Also, just looking now and i can see the eggs rocking around- ever so slightly dead...

Is there a general time line of what and for how long to feed types of feed for table birds from chick to "the end" i haven't done it before so am totally new to it! thanks

(meat birds - Indian Game and Light Sussex,) for example, If i had 6 hens / cocks at 15 weeks and i added 6 hens / cocks that were 6 weeks old what would happen? would i have to mix them later or not at all? Cheers!

How much in total weight will a chicken lose after processing, i.e. losing its head, legs, feathers and innards? as a fraction or a % of course....

Is there a formula to work out the surface area of water needed to humidify a specific cubic area in volume at "usual" bator temperatures? this would allow accurate humidity adjustment to be made. OR is it easier just to add a bit more til' its right?

I am hatching chicks at the moment for table purposes, as we live in an urban area we cant have cocks crowing! Is there a way to prevent this? i know i cant go removing vocal chords i was just wandering if there is a way to chemically / manually castrate them, however i am unsure even if you...

I have just candled a random 3 eggs from 11 in my bator and all 3 have a very small amount of veining on the top centre of the yolk! They went in the bator 73 hours ago. just thought i would share that with you woo hoo!

Just getting this strait in my head, My eggs went in to the incubator at 9pm Saturday 2nd, these should then hatch on the 23rd i believe? Now when do i make my last turn of the eggs, would this be night of the 20th or the night of the 21st? kind regards! Dan

Many birds i see are Layers or Dual purpose, can anyone recommend a fast growing but traditional Meat bird that is bread mainly for meat?

Are going in the Incubator tonight! first time i have hatched chicks, had hens for years though, I am hatching 5 Indian Game and 5 light sussex, could i have some opinions on the birds i have picked ? Also what sort of age am i looking at for a 4.5 - 5 lb bird before it meets the freezer...

incubating for the first time so need a bit of advice. When i check the temp in my incubator (every 10 minutes or so) its always somewhere in between 37 and 38! I was thinking would it be a good idea to take the temperature every 5 minutes for an hour then work out an average, i know i should be...

Hi folks, i have 4 ex bats living in a house with a 4m x 1 m cage, they are fed layers pellets in the morning which they do not really eat that well, they used to eat it ok but seem to have gone off it (any suggestions?) they also eat crushed maize each day (they love that) and cabbage, they...

Hi there, i have 4 ex battery hens, i have had them for almost 3 weeks and am having trouble getting them to perch, one does it ok by herself but i have to manually put the others on each night or they sleep in the nest box and it fills up with muck! Once they are on they do stay there so they...

i hope this is in the right place! I have adopted battery hens each year since i was about 10 and stopped when i left home, now i am back in it and i adopted 4 3 weeks ago on Sunday, now due to me forgetting how long it takes, only 2 of the hens have started growing new feathers, the other 2...