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It's time to start preparing for the 6th Annual Cinco de Mayo Hatch-a-long! All fowl are welcome! A list of respective set dates is below(thanks to Chookschick). The set date for Chicken eggs is April 14th! Many people have used this hatch to start growing out Turkeys for...

It's time to start preparing for the most important Cinco de Mayo hatchathon yet, the 5th annual! All fowl are welcome! A list of respective set dates is below(thanks to Chookschick). The set date for Chicken eggs is April 14th! Many people have used this hatch to start growing out...

Seeing that there has not yet been a thread started, lets get to it! I have yet to miss a Cinco de Mayo Hatchathon since my very first hatch and I don't plan to start now. Set date for chickens in April 14th! All poultry are welcome! I plan to hatch chickens myself. In years past many...

So I inadvertently stumbled into this with my last hatch and I want to know if you guys think this is possible or it was just luck on my part that it worked out the way it did. I am cross breeding mixed Ameraucanas with my White Leghorn hen who I have confirmed has the barring gene with a F2...

I have been dealing with this problem since I moved into my house last August. Increasing the children have been terrorizing chickens i keep in the backyard and damaging my property (3 families living in a single house next door - no the house isn't THAT big to support 3 families). I have a...

I have a single hen that is about 9 months old mixed Ameraucana/Leghorn/Australorp now with both eyes showing cataracts, there is no haziness or discoloration of the iris so I do not suspect Marek's as the cause, also she is neurologically intact including PERRL. 2) What is the behavior...

Out of the 20+ chicks I have hatched some a similar cross breed, this one stands out with a very different feather pattern. He was hatched out May 5th so is a little over 6 weeks old and as more feathers grow in, he is gaining more and more white coloring. These are the parents, the...

I have 8 mix breed chicks that I would like your input on whether or not they are what I suspect they are. I have included the ones that I am quite confident in their gender just for comparison. Hens are White Leghorn and Red Star, rooster was a mix breed of Blue Am/WLeghorn/Australorp -...

Hello everyone! Looking for a new home for 5 chicks hatched Cinco de Mayo (May 5th), free to fellow BYCers! They are mixed breed and straight run. Most are from my White Leghorn hen, 1 or possibly 2 are from my Red Star hen. The Rooster was a mixed breed of Ameraucana/Leghorn/Australorp -...

I wanted to share my version of an automatically closing and opening chicken coop door that does not require a power outlet. A friend of mine brought up the concept which is what got me started on how to design something similar for my coop. The principal is quite basic and could be...

These are more mixed breed than "Easter Eggers" so they wont really follow the color pattern of hatchery EEs. Mostly they are Australorp/leghorn/Red sex link with Ameraucana for the comb and egg color. They were hatched November 18th, so they are now roughly 9 weeks old. I believe I have 2...

I am debating crossing my White Leghorn hen with a Blue English Orpington. I was wondering if the chicks that inherit the diluting gene from the Orpington will have splotches of blue feathers similar to a single dominant white gene chicken has occasional black feathers? If so I would do the...

I noticed my hen has started to walk backwards particularly after eating. She walks, runs and flies great and is still just as coordinated as far as I can tell other than this odd behavior after/while eating. My first thought was some sort of crop issue because it starts after she eats but...

I am about to set eggs in the incubator and wanted to put in today's eggs as well because I needed a couple more. Should I let them cool down to room temperature first or can I toss them directly into the bator still slightly warm from being laid? I searched the forum but couldn't find this...

I have two hens and 1 rooster that has been covering both. The mixed easter egger type hen I know is laying fertile eggs but the Red Star hen's first few eggs didn't look fertile to me and I am still on the fence about whether her most recent eggs are fertile. Pictured is one of her double...

We have a 2.5 year old Redstar that slowed down then quit laying eggs over the last month. We have also noted that her crop is massive, we had noticed a bulge from the front a few weeks ago but today I caught her and several other chickens to compare. Her crop is probably just under the size...

These 10 chicks are mixes between White Leghorn, Black Australorp, Americauna(White Leghorn/Amercauna Roo over Austra-whites primarily). They each should have 1 pea comb gene and 1 single comb gene and with the Leghorn genes their pea combs will be quite large especially on the boys... #1...

Checking to see if any of you have Austra-whites and have bred them together directly. I was wondering the dominant white in this cross breeds like I presume it does. I would assume than the offspring would be 25% pure white, 50% white with occasional black feather (like the parents) and...

Well we had our very first HUGE egg this week, presumed double yolker. Our Red Star who has now laid an egg 49/50 days since her very first egg somehow managed to squeeze this egg out. I am not entirely sure how she did it as small as she is compared to others in the flock. Here is the egg...

We purchased a group of assorted brown egg layers and so far we have been able to figure out the breeds but this one still is confusing us. The first picture is the pullet in question. She is much much lighter than our other Rhode Island and looks much less mature despite having the same hatch...