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If I pick large eggs to hatch, will the resulting chickens produce larger eggs? In other words, is there a way to select for hens that produce larger eggs other than picking breeds that lay larger eggs?

So I’m devastated. My recent hatch was awful. Only about 1/2 the eggs hatched. Quite a few were infertile and that’s ok, it is what it is. The truest sad part is that of the eggs that didn’t hatch many held fully formed chicks that filled the eggs. So they should have hatched. I’m so sad but...

Pullets or Roos? 7 week old silkies/frizzle cross chicks

It worked! All your great information helped me so much and I thought I’d share my cute chickies! Enjoy

Ok. So I ended up with a bunch of bantam frizzle Cochins this past winter. Longish story. Anyway. Cute as can be but I can see that I definitely have 1 hen and a bunch of Roos. Yes I have separated them. If I want to breed more frizzles does it work both ways—frizzle roo to a reg feathered any...

Hi all Looking to find others in the west-central area of Wisconsin. From Hudson to Eau Claire area. I have had chickens for several years but am new to BYC and would love to swap chickens, eggs, etc, or just geek out over each other's fun chicken stuff.

Can anyone give me information on sexing chicks at 1 day old? At 1 week? Older?

Somewhere on this site I had read an article that talked about how to check that my thermometer was reading accurately and also my hydrometer. Now I can’t find those articles. Can anyone help me find them or give me the information? I want to start incubating eggs this week

So how do I store or hold my eggs until I’m ready to start incubating them? Room temp? And how long can I keep an egg before I start incubation?

Hi all. Looking forward to learning more about chickens! Love my girls