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I went to put my eggs in lockdown and found someone already pipped!! I had the lid off for a minute or two. I put him in my backup bator and cranked the humidity. He squeaked a lot when I picked him up but now that he is in the new bator he isn't making any noise and now I'm freaking out...

PVC with 12"×24" Sunbeam Heating pad. None of the PVC is glued so I can switch the legs out for longer legs Any feed back? Still debating how to cover the top. Going back and forth between different things to put on top.

Hi I'm planning on hatching in a couple months. Wanted to know if anyone has experience with this sort of set up. Want to keep them in my spare room to age 8 weeks. Will hopefully have approx 20 birds. My main question is, how do you clean it? I have a few ideas but I want to know what other...

Hi everyone I have a black australorpe that went broody maybe 4 or 5 times this year. She was hatched June 2017. Going into her 2nd year of laying, will her broodiness decrease or will she just continue on? I kept her in the broody buster (rabbit cage on top of bricks in the run) for 3 days...

Hi everyone, I wanted to share with you today about the bumble foot I just attempted to treat. I don't have any pictures but it wouldn't be anything you haven't seen before on the forums about bumblefoot. My 1.5 yr old silver laced wyandotte started showing signs of swelling in the webbing...

Please tell me where you would place windows in this coop. Desperately need ventilation, not sure where to cut the wood. I'm thinking the narrow, long, top section of the wall that meets the roof. I think all of that could come out on each side (left and right from the front door). Thanks in...

She does this a lot. Sometimes I see just her beak and her legs right behind his. It's pretty cute...

Hey thanks for looking. This hen is approx 5 years old. She has thicker legs than her flock mates of a similar age. She stands shorter, too. Now that I think about it, I've never seen her in the nest boxes. Don't know if she lays so I couldn't tell you egg color. We get pale brown eggs from her...

This spring around February I decided to try to hatch some of our eggs from our flock. I thought it would be fun and at the time figured we could use more layers. We only got about a dozen eggs a day! Besides, our roo is an Easter Egger and we wanted more than just brown eggs. Olive eggs sounded...

Hatched these wheaten/blue wheaten cross ameraucanas just about 5 weeks ago. Breeder had mostly wheaten hens with a wheaten and a blue wheaten cockerel swapped in and out of pen. Some may be from blue wheaten hens. I have a couple black ameraucanas from a BBS pen but the sex is not guessable I...

I usually dump my old shavings in the woods... But with the Coop Dust I'm afraid I'm going to poison the land and animals. What do I do with this bedding?? What have you done with coop dusted bedding? Bag it and trash it....?

I have a chick that won't fully extend its right leg. It keeps it close to its body and the toes are not curled. It tries to stand but the leg stays in the folded position. Is there anyone that has seen this and has any idea what I could do to help?

Can I administer this vaccine if they are 12-24 hrs old? Edit: I decided against trying to vaccinate. I tried and just chickened out! They are just so little!

On day 19/currently in lockdown. Humidity was 50% so I went in to add some warm water. A few drops splashed on 2 eggs. Are they going to be okay? I'm thinking so but I wanted to see if anyone knows anything from experience. Thanks!

Hi everyone, wondering if anyone has experience with this issue. I have had room temp stable around 65 deg F. I am using an incutherm thermometer with extended probe situated between two eggs. The bator has a fan installed and I have the auto egg turner maxed out with 42 eggs. Set eggs on...

Hey guys (: Started seeing mites crawling on the eggs. Long story short I treated every chicken with 5-6 drops ivermectin pour-on (5% for cattle) 7 days ago. Now from what I've read about treating these little monsters (northern fowl mite is probably what I'm dealing with) you need to re-treat...

This is a RIR and speckled Sussex. 3 months old. I saw the RIR gnawing on her toe for a second yesterday and started panicking. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Hi there everyone. I am hoping someone out there has an idea of when I might get some eggs being laid. I have: Rhode Island Red, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Speckled Sussex, Welsummer, Salmon Faverolles, and a few black chickens of questionable breed (sold as black marans but 2 of the 3 have...

Just wanted to share with you all. They are 11 weeks old. I got them from the Chick Hatchery. One of my Welsummers has tufts of down between her toes.