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has anybody used the Three Egg Full Auto Incubator? it holds only three eggs which (if i do hatch chicks) is all i really want to hatch right now? does anybody know the chances of anyof them hatching? or if the incubator works well? Plus, usually, if you order eggs it seems to have to order 12...

i was originaly going to order 3 bantam chicks. but one died in shipping and so i have to order three more or make up for the one i lost, but because they are soooo cute i am ordering 4... probalby. anyway, i needed to know how big a tractor and run i need to make for 6 bantam chickens. for...

one of my chickies died durring shipping so i am ordering three or four more. The sebrights are really pretty looking, but i'm not sure of their temperment. Does anybody have any that can tell me? or has anybody heard anything about this breed? While i'm here, i was also wondering about the...

My three chickies were supposed to arrive tomorrow, but when i got home from school i found a slip in the door saying that the post office had come to deliver a package but we werent there. We called the PO and they said that the chicks were there. we went to go get them, when we arrived they...

I was looking a website and they had tons of pictures of chicken tractors. One was of a rubbermaid box in a run: http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/c115.jpg and http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/c116.jpg and http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractor07.jpg I was...

I am looking at the Lowes web site right now, trying to approximate how much it is going to cost me to build a chicken tractor. So I found lumber, but there are TONS of diffrent types of woods, each with their own price range. So I was wondering if maybe some types of wood are better for...

someone else asked this, and now it is going to bug me: Do frizzle cochins come in standard, because the only ones they could find were bantam, and I have been looking on google and cant find any standards, but I feel like there should be, after all frizzle is just a mutation right? So it seems...

I am ordering my chicks from mypetchicken.com and in the e-mail i was sent they suggested getting in touch with the local post office. I was wondering though, what do you tell them when you get in touch with them? Do you just let them know that there will be chicks coming and to look out for...

I know it mostly depends on how much you handle them and how much attention you give them as chicks, but i was wondering in general if Japanese Bantams, Brahmas (bantam, i dont know if it being a bantam would affect its temperment), and silkies do well as pets?

would a medium sized bird caged (was used to house three budgies) sufice as a brooder for awhile? My thought as that a bird cage already has roosting poles, and i heard that chicks roost if they can, i wouldn't alow them to get all the way to the top, just a low roost for them to use. Plus it...

Does anyone know if Kaytee Natural Pine Bedding and Litter is good for brooders and later a chicken tractor?

I'm not sure if this post should be here but, here goes. I live in Southern Calif. And we have gardeners that come to our house maybe every other week, all they do is mow the lawn. But i don't know what i should do once the chickens are out there, i don't think they should be out while they...

Hello, I'm new to raising chickens, or i will be, i only just ordered my three chickens today. I think I have read everything there is about taking care of them, but experience always was better than just reading about something. So I was wondering if those of you with experience could help...