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Has anyone mixed larger breed hen's with a d'uccle roo? We have blue lace wyandotte, 2 easter eggers, australorps and Wyandotte s that are mature and laying. In a pandemic panic we got 5 white laced chicks, 2 australorps chicks and the lady gave us a porcelain d'uccle chick that is 99% a roo. He...

Our town schools incubate and hatch eggs every year. We have done it ourselves several times and are chicken owners. I was given two chicks to try and help. Both are a couple days old. One is a leg horn. It can not walk and the only water it has had is from a dropper from me today. The...

ok- 8week old barred rocks. Two are what we believe are buff orph/barred rock mix because the lady we got the eggs from also raised them. She claimed they are separated but obviously not! Oh well, we think they are beautiful! Any way, getting very overcrowded so we need to start weeding out...

This chick hatched bout 3 hours ago and I still have in in the bator. What are the red lumps that look like an organ? Can I do anything?

We are in the middle of a hatch that is supposed to be all barred rocks and one of them is almost all yellow with a little black-anyone out there seen this before? Hubby is convinced it is an oddball but the people said their chickens are separated so they do not mix. They just hatched last...

I am about to treat my 5 chickens for mites with sevin-after reading here that this is the best treatment. My question is can we eat the eggs or should we toss them for a few days? I did not see anyone mention this. I also got the spray that was metioned for cats/dogs but since it is fairy...

My daughter just woke me up because she heard a thumping noise from downstairs. We had brought a 10/11 month old red inbecause I thought she had injured her leg and might have had frost bite on her comb. she drank water and ate a little treat last night. I came down and she was on her back...

Here I go again! Ok, 11 month old red was in the corner of the run. I brought some treats out and she got up limping. I immediatley checked her butt because 3 months ago we lost a RIR that had vent gleet and was limping and stumbling and hadn't eaten. So her vent is clean and looks good but...

I noticed this this morning when I let the chickens out. It has been cold and snowy so they have not been out of the run much- we have a large area for our 6 chickens and we keep it and the coop very clean. This is one of our beloved barred rocks! what is going on ? Any one have any ideas...

I posted a couple days ago about my chicken with a picture and she has vent gleet. So I researched everybody's advice. We did a dose of epsom salt and water in a syringe - we maybe got 1/2 oz of the recomended 1 oz. into her. We also did the molasses and water for about 5 hours-not sure if she...

Today one of our eggs had blood on the outside. So I started inspecting chicken butts. This is what I found on one of my RIRs Can anyone tell me what the two red bumps are?

I havea RIR roo that I am trying to find a home for. I am not having much luck, anyone know someplace in CT that you can take a chicken for butcher? Will they do the whole thing? any info would be great, hate to do it but may have no choice.

13 1/2 week old RIR roo. Needs a home. Please contact me if you are interested! Can't have roos in my town. Hatched and raised by us.

I was searching for a list of plants that the chickens might not eat- I get they are going to scratch around but was wondering if there was a list somewhere of plants they tend not to like? The only thing I saw was some eat hostas and some don't. Mine do! Now we don't only have to worry about...

Here are my questions. We have 3 barred rock hens that started laying the beginning of March. We were getting 3 eggs a day with the couple days when we got 2 -for the days when one took the day off. Now for over a week and a half we are only getting 2 eggs a day. I don't know which of the...

Ok, my peeping egg finally pipped today about 6or 7 this morning. We ended up helping a bit. It is finally out of the shell 12 hours later- but still attatched I think. There is some green stuff by the cord- is that poop? Is it dangerous? A second egg pipped as well! Day 24! and nothing...

Hi- today is end of day 23 and if I hold the one egg that I have seen wiggle a little bit today I can hear it peep. At what point to I take some kind of action? None of the other 5 have hatched-one I candled and know is no good- way too much space in there. I do not want to lose the chick but...

Ok- end of day 23. No hatch. one egg I can hear a peep when I hold it up to my ear. Have seen slight wiggles from egg. How long do I leave it? 3 not sure- have not heard anything. Advice? Don't want it to die, don't want to harm it. HELP!

We have 3 eggs that were 21 days on the 3rd of March- that is it was the full 21 days that evening. (Sat) So, the eggs have still not hatched. We did the sink float test and they floated what we think is the right amount. We did not see them "rockin and rollin" like mentioned in a thread we...

Help- I need a quick reply! I just set my eggs this morning at 6 am. 5 of my eggs are weeping. Do I need to remove them because there is no chance for them? Please help!