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I lost more than half of my flock yesterday evening when a a really bad T-storm with hail rolled in. The thing is my rooster and girls free range and the rooster did not bring the girls back to the coop, they were beat to death by the hail!! I have two parts to my flock, the 3 year old girls...

Just as the title states I got a really weird MM order Friday Morning. I had ordered the 25 Brown Egg layer assortment. I recieved birds that are not listed on the website for this assortment ie..27 total birds recieved ...3 are EE;s and 4 are Dominiques....the rest that I did get are what...

I am having a major Broody thing going around my coop!! I have 3 girls just the last 7 days, 2 cochins bantys and my big ol BO girl Pammie (named after Pamela Anderson due to the breast area LOL) I am very leary letting them set with winter comming on. I already got an awesome group of...

Ok I fought it for years. I broke down and hatched some Silkies. You all need to put a big FAT warning label on all Silkies/eggs!!! I have 3 new buff babies this morning and they have to be the most endearing things ever! And here I though Orps and EE's were awesome, oh they still are but...

I just hacthed my first Silkie babies, my first shipped eggs and first time having Silkies period. I ended up with 3 out of 12 from shipped eggs, hey but I am happy!! The 3 that are here are healthy and currently drying off and then I will get pics put up. They sure are some little things...

I candled today- day 6, I set 12 silkie eggs 7-23. I had 6 eggs that were absoloutly no starters, of the remaining they all have fluid in the air sac, what are my odds of them not going ahead and drowning when they pip, if they even get to that stage. I really don't understand the fluid in the...

1) What type of bird , age and weight. EE Pullet-5 months old on 7/23. She is 4 lbs. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Noticed she was walking funny this evening and her comb is pale. 3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? Comb has been pale for about 6-7 days, thought it may be...

I recieved Silkie eggs early morning 7/23 and set them that night, they sat for over 12 hours to settle. I just candled today and am seeing viening in 2 eggs, just kind of dark in the tops of the rest and almost clear in 1. I am not seeing the air sac at all in any of them? I did have...

I have a coop that is probably 25 years old or older that was on the property when we bought it. I had what I thought was a dirt floor until yesterday evening (we just got the coop going this spring). I was trying to dig some wet stinky dirt out due to torential rains a couple of days ago...

Who says JRT's can't be good chicken dogs, she is sharing scratch with her friends. She has truly been the easiest dog I have ever had to train to do anything, smart little gal she is! And she has NO fear of anything!

My girl is 5 months old today and has not layed yet although the rest of her EE sisters are laying here and there. I was out at the coop at noon and she was fine and energetic, then at 4pm this afternoon I went back out to the coop and she is making a really strange noise, sounds like a cross...

I had only had 1 rooster in my life and it was an EVIL RIR, I was a young Mom and had no clue how to deal with roos at all. I hatched my own barnyard mix of eggs and the very first chick to hatch was dubbed Dinochicken, because it looked VERY prehistoric lol. Anyway as the clan grew i...

This is from one of my EE girls that I hatched out Jan 2011. I can't wait to see more. The egg is pictured next to a grocery store XL brown egg. Soon I won't have to buy my eggs anymore!!! This is also my first EE experience, and those girls are the sweetest natured things, I didn't think...

I got some pics today of my new little girls I had shipped from Cackle.

I ordered 10 Buff Orpington pullets in the City/Town small order special and was really impressed with the shipping!! They had a heat pack, Gro gel and crumbles in the packing the 10 girls all are very spunky and show no signs of shipping stress! When I unpacked the box they were very nice and...

I finally broke down after going to all the feed stores in the area and not seeing any BO's I finally just placed an order with Cackle a little bit ago and I will have my Buffs next week!!!! I have been wanting them so bad!

I wanted to hear back from folks who feed the MFA feeds long term. I am wanting to know how you like the feed long term and have you noticed any problems feeding this?

I am so excited and can't believe they all hatched!!! I got a quick shot when I moved the group to the brooder a little bit a go. I will get better pics later, just didn't want to stress the babies.

My homemade bator works well! I have 19 barnyard mixed eggs due today and I woke up to 1 chick and 12 pips, so it will be an eggciting day for sure!! I will post pictures later as this old lady needs much more coffee to work the camera lol I have one egg that the cat knocked out of my hand...

I am on day 17 today and when I checked the eggs this morning I notice wiggling and roccking in the turner, my gut told me to get the turner out, the eggs are rocking like crazy once layed on thier side. My question is should I go ahead and do lock down or continue and turn the eggs by hand...