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So i set some turkey eggs a few ago and i realized i would be going on a trip when they hatch. My mother will stay and watch the poults hatch but she has no experience with these type of birds. Is there any advice you could give me about hatching turkeys? Thanks

Hi i have splash silkies and partridge silkies, so i have decided to cross them and see what turns out! (they are all purebred silkies) i have an incubator already full and every single one has been fertile, will post pictures when they hatch! You will get how ever many you want! I am charging...

Ok so i am new to the hatching process, so there was an egg that had been peeping for around 18-20 hours, it started cheeping really loud so i candled it to see where the chicks head was in the air cell and i carefully poked a hole in the opposite side to ensure i didn't hit the chick. So i get...

Hi guys in 6 days i will have chicks that i can send in the mail! I will have around 15 chicks hatch in 6 days! If you want any reserve chicks you need to reserve now! These chicks will be 1/4 splash , 2/4 blue 1/4 black. I will only ship when they hatch. I am asking $2 per chick and $20...

I have just recently ordered from ideal hatchery and they are coming in a few days. I ordered 4 blue polish and 6 assorted silkies. Has anyone ordered any of these breeds? I want to see pictures of them! I am really excited but nervous that they will be low quality. I have been looking around...

Hi i am looking for some purebred silkies for my incubator. I have been raising silkies but i need to add some new genetics to my flock. I will pay up to 50 plus shipping. I am looking for around 1 to 2 dozen eggs. Please let me know if you have any, also i am going on a trip and can't receive...

I have 4 silkies in my coop right now, they are all around 4 to 5 months old. Two of them are pullets, not laying yet, but they are very skinny. They eat and drink like my two roosters and have bright shiny eyes. I am freaking out because this happened with some previous silkies i bought a few...

I recently bought two new roosters. One had a really raspy breathing sounds so i gave him some duracym from tractor supply for about a week, also was putting some vetrx down into his nose to help and the other was fine. An experienced chicken keeper told me to smell their nostrils and if there...

I have a 4 week old chick with pasty butt, she is smaller than our other chicks but gets to water and food fine. So when i brought her home she had major pasty butt, her whole bottom half was messed up, I dipped her in some warm water, got all the poop off and put some petroleum jelly on it and...

I purchased two silkies yesterday and the lady said they are AI and NPIP clean.(i guess thats a good thing). So i brought them home and on the way home i picked up the black sillkie and it wasnt skinny and isnt showing any signs of sickness(really healthy) and the blue silkie was a lot lighter...

my very small banty hen decided to set on 5 eggs. its bout 17 days into incubation and her eggs are starting to peck(you can hear them pecking) and when she cam off to eat some food her eggs had little black bugs crawling on them and in the bedding around it so i got another nest box spayed the...

hi so here's my story. i wanted to hatch eggs in a incubator for the first time so i borrow a incubator from a friend. i used egg cartons that were tilted using another egg cartons with eggs at the bottom to make it tilted. but anyway i have a small banty cochin hen who eggs are about the size...

hi i went to the farmers market last week and i noticed a poorly looking bird. the man said its a healthy polish , but it was very noticeable that it was in bad condition. i wanted to help it so i bought it and took it home. she was completely infested with mites on her head (and by the way she...

hey i have some news. i dont know if its healthy or not but about 16 weeks ago my serama hen had baby chicks (she is a class c bigger serama) and the rooster was a game rooster banty purebred and i sold the rest but one was very small and friendly so i kept it. and now it6s 16 weeks of age and...

hi i have a polish pullet. she is a couple of months old and i just noticed something. she is very bony and she eats a pretty good amount of feed (not a lot) and her nostrils are filled with fluid and when she sneezes she squirts out a lot of liquid. and she drank a little to much water and as...