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Hello everyone, I am about to start building my flock a new coop and need some help deciding what to put in their run for the ground. They are completely free range but if I ever have to stay somewhere overnight or sleep in a little longer, they would be locked in their coop with a run to...

Hello everyone! So I was originally going to move my chicks into a separate coop at first as I had five mature hens and one rooster. Unfortunately, my rooster and three of my hens were killed by what looks like a combination of dogs and bobcats. Now that I only have two mature hens, I was...

Hello everyone! I am letting my daughters preschool class incubate some of my eggs and there are already issues with keeping humidity. I have hatched once before at the end of August and did not have any issues with maintaining a constant humidity so I was hoping to draw on everyone else’s...

I first want to thank everyone that has answered my incessant questions! I have completed my first incubation and wanted to update on my previous post, as well as, share with you what I feel about this experience after going through all this to hopefully help others in my position. The update...

Last night I posted because one of me eggs seemed to have stalled breaking out of its shell. I had five other eggs trying to hatch and had already pipped and was wondering if I should try to save it. After my own mental battle and listening to sound advice, I made the decision to wait until...

It looks like the remainder of my chicks have pipped and are trying to hatch. I had six out of eleven hatch yesterday (day 20, two pipped on day 19) and they are very wild in the incubator. I am worried about one of the chicks that is trying to hatch. It has half way “unzipped” the egg but has...

I have chicks hatching now (six hatched, waiting/hoping the other five hatch soon). I have not opened the incubator but my husband has brought up a good point about the chicks suffocating because it doesn’t appear or mention anything about new air getting circulated in. This is the incubator I...

I received my five hens from one of my moms coworkers and he was not sure of all the breeds. I was hoping you all would be able to help. The two red ones I believe are Rhode Island reds and the red headed one with the cream body might be a cinnamon queen (or something like that) I have no clue...

Hello everyone! I have been stalking the forums since I got my chickens at the end of June. It has been a whirlwind trying to learn everything while expanding my flock. I was given five hens (not sure of breeds but fairly certain two are Rhode Island reds and the other a cinnamon queen?, have...

I have a very important question. I am on day 19 of incubation and was adding more surface area for humidity by placing paper towels in the water and adding more water because my humidity was only at 65%. I had to remove all my eggs to do this to access the bottom of the incubator. What I did...