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I have 15 black chicks and one yellow one. They are all a week old and share the same brooder pen. My yellow chick had pasty butt and in cleaning it off, some of the feathers came off leaving a bald spot. Next time I'll be way more careful Today I noticed two of her her pen mates peck at the...

...to try and incubate a paper shell egg? I got one from a nest box yesterday and marveled (as I always do) at how oddly cool they are. I bet it would leak and cause all kinds of problems. Probably hatch out a misshapen pancake chick...but still...I wonder... Candling sure would be easy...

I'm new to this. Just finished my first hatch...two eggs. One hatched, one didn't. I candled both at lock-down and saw movement. I'm assuming the incubator conditions were okay since one hatched. Maybe the conditions need to be different for the different breeds? I gave the non-hatcher several...

My first chick from my flock. A Cubalaya What I had to do to make it through lock-down

Are the LG still air incubators supposed to have drain holes on the bottom? I am using one I borrowed from a friend. There is no manual with it. There are two seemingly even spaced holes where the water is leaking out. Is it because I overfilled the reservoir? I have two eggs incubating in it...

I'm beginning to think maybe I'm raising a bunch of pirates. Argh! It started this Saturday. I found one of my roosters with his right eye held shut. No wheezing, no foam, just a small amount of gunk gluing the eye shut (like we get in the corners of our eyes). When I examined him, the whole...

I lifted the door on my nesting boxes and one of my RIR's peeked out at me. I watched her reach in into the nesting box and gobble down a short piece of straw. She then picked up a small pine wood shaving piece and gobbled it down...then another...then another... All told, she ate about 5 small...

Anyone up for a visual challege? I know some of you will be... (Boy Howdy it's hard to take a picture of an egg yolk without getting flash burns on your eyes ) Assessment needed: Is this a fertile egg? These images are of the same egg, and you might need to search the picture for the ring...

I've searched around the forum for info on this and haven't been able to find anything. Maybe I'm imagining things? I'm gonna call it, for lack of a better description, chicken coop morning breath... When I let my chickens out of the coop in the morning, there is a unique smell. It's not a bad...

Oh no, I'm falling in love. My Cubalaya hens are the sweetest little things! I happily acquired 2 roosters and 3 hens from a friend. I unfortunately lost one hen shortly after (I have no idea what happened to her---she just disappeared) but everybody mingles with my mixed group really well. In...

In my yard, it's my 4 Silver Lace Wyandottes. I bought them because of their beauty, but their personalities? Well I just don't know. I have 18 chickens from a mixture of breeds (RIRs, SLWs, BOs, GLWs, SLs, PBRs, etc...) all purchased at the same place at about a month old. They free range...

I found this clump of feathers in the goat shed where my hens are trying to lay eggs. All total, it's about the size of my fist, with ten short (what I would call "undercoat") feathers. From the color, I believe it is from one of my RIR hens. Maybe she was laying and a goat stepped on her...

This may sound like a silly question, but I haven't been able to find an answer. I have two Cubalaya roosters with average size hens (RR's SLW's BO's, etc...) . The roosters are mounting the hens, but I'm not sure if they are fertilizing the eggs. I've looked at the eggs to see if they are...