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Desperately looking for 2 Silkie or Showgirl hens for my daughter. Her beloved birds were killed by a coon and then the dog got in her pen last night and killed her last silkie. She is devastated and I must find replacements for her asap! Pen has been redone and is secure. She is silkie...

Ok experienced chicken folks....I would like to know the largest number of chicks your hens have been able to raise successfully. I have broodies everywhere and would like to just go ahead and take the hatchlings from the bator and give to them to raise for me but I am uncertain of how many I...

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So excited!!!! Thought I would share.......went to Atwoods to get chicken starter and of course they had the bins out FULL of baby birds....had to look....pocketbook screamed NOOOOOO but couldn't resist!!! On a whim I bought 5.....they were on SALE how could I not? They were BBB oh turkeys...

after you can see that the ducks have internally pipped and are filling up the air cell how long is actual hatch or pip and zip after that? normally?

When ducks are hatching are they supposed to be extra gooey and gunk covered like slimey? I have some duck eggs trying to hatch and they look just over slimey compared to a chick hatching.

I hatched some eggs from a friend....she has hatchery production red hens with a production red roo.....all of the chicks have come out with white feathering and a couple of black spots on back or wing on a couple. Anyone have an explanation or comment on what I may have here? She only has...

Really tried hard on this set and have some shipped eggs in there. Candled day 18 and all in lockdown looked good...movement, etc. had some fluctuations in temp with the lockdown bator on the high side but for the most part it has been pretty good. Humidity around 50% checked with flashlight...

ok I want to do the swaps but I can't find the old "member" page to make a link of items I have. I don't understand how to do it or find what I am looking for. I want to make a new page with new pics and personal info but under my profile I dont see anywhere to do it. Am I just stupid or...

How about putting eggs in egg cartons inside the bator if you dont use a turner? instead of opening and hand turning eggs and losing your temps each time how about propping up each corner of the bator and rotate 4x a day each corner for the "turning"? Anyone had any success or tried this...

Can someone please post pictures and show me the difference between vaulted heads and non vaulted in Silkies? Which is preferred and why? Also what does the "beard" factor matter in silkies? Does a beard or non beard determine the difference between a show quality and not show quality? Can...

OK so after waiting 2 years for barn renovation to become honey's man cave he has decided to let me have barn for my chickens!!!! Said it would cost too much to build my dream pen from scratch. So after losing around 30 chickens throughout the year last year to every predator under the sun I...

Looking for some Speckled Sussex Eggs to purchase for hatching. The louder the parents coloring the better. We are located in East Texas zip code 75494. Thanks

Everything was slowly begining to die from drought here. 18 inches below average rainfall here.....this morning right now finally some much needed RAIN!!!! The Lord is good!!!! Thank you!!!

O.k. so the kids and I decided to try and hatch some chickies out!!! BAtor is set and ready and we added 4 white yard egg mixes of our own and 4 brown mixes. We also have 9 lavender ameraucana bantam eggs sent from a very sweet byc'er to whom we are very thankful!!! She also sent us one...

The kids and I are building a whole new pen.....coop part is already constructed pretty much. We are using the whole side of the barn which was 2 stalls and now will be 2 coops. So the dilemma is we want a big run for the chickens......not finding many ideas for huge runs. So the whole side...

The kiddos want to try to hatch some eggs since we cannot find any chicks locally to purchase. They want to sell the eggs so breed is not important other than they LOVE "funky" chickens. Here are some they have seen online and sparked an interest in: Standard Silkies would be awesome they...