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I have a chicken egg hatching at 17 days. Heard it piping, thought it was a duckling coming 2 days early, nope chicken egg. 21 days is Friday, temp is 99.5 by two thermometers. Anyone ever had this happen?

My girlfriend's cousin is coming to stay with us for a bit. She was knicked named "duck butt" as a kid, and still called "ducky" "affectionately" by her family. Which she is real "fond" of being called. Me being me I just had to send a welcome text. Sometimes my animals just make the day. I...

Thought I had heard all of Ray Steven's songs, here's one I hadn't. It's no Mississippi Squirrel, but forum fitting. Be kind to your chickens, especially if you live near Oakridge Nat Labs :)

I have a few different breeds of chickens, some older existing flock, and some new blood hatched this spring. My intentions were to separate them into three breeding quartets, (three hens and a roo, if that's the term), in tractors, plus a yard flock. I culled, and sold, and had the numbers...

I inadvertently discovered this spectator sport when moving a chicken tractor over matted down garden growth last winter. There was a poor little mouse under one of the matted down veggie stalks. He was quickly set upon by a pack of ravenous velociraptors. The poor little thing was was dead...

I picked up five Cornish Crosses this spring. I have heard all the stories of how they will eat themselves right to death's door, and how they are a genetic mess and burn out. I raised these with the other chicks, tractor'd and moved to fresh grass daily, reasonable supplemental food. They...