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I was just looking at this online, wondering the same thing. 🤔

I had three blue and three splash Cochin babies. They are three months now. I have lost two of the blue Cochins and a splash is not looking very good today. I do not understand the problem? They all did well from the start. I lost a blue at about two months old. I realized it felt rather...

I am not going to wash anymore. I only did it this one time because there was a huge thread on washing vs non-washing. It was really a tie on the number of people for and against so I decided that I would just try for myself to see how it worked out. I had a lot of questions regarding my...

I have two Polish right now that I am hoping are a male and female. There has been no crowing yet, but one has a more pronounced V shape to its head feathering so I am hoping it is a male. I bought the incubator for the Polish and Cochins that I more recently purchased. I also just bought...

My incubator restores temperature and humidity quickly, as well. So much so that my husband suggested I candle the eggs every day. I told him that I was trying not to because I am new to incubating, and I was following the advice of others, who have more experience than I do. I did experiment...

From the pics I have seen for fowl pox, that does not look like fowl pox. To me, it looks like insect bites. My chickens have had mites before, and it looked a lot like that. This year was the first year that we had mites on all of the hens in one coop. Some had more than the others. In...

People were talking about candling the eggs all the time, but you don't want to do that because it releases too much heat and moisture from the incubator so you should really only candle on certain dates. I do candle, but it is just not all the time. This was a huge effort on my part because I...

We get more eggs than we can use so if the eggs are really dirty, I break them on the trees so the critters can eat them. I do give some eggs away, but I like to give the clean eggs away. I keep the in-betweens, lol. I keep my eggs on the counter until I have time to move them into cartons in...

I don't know about cherry trees. I do have oak trees in the yard, and I have never had a problem with a chicken eating an acorn and dying. I can't say I have actually seen them eat one either. Three of my coops are under Chinaberry trees. I was very worried about this when I found out they...

I am new to incubating, and it took all I had in me not to candle them.

My husband had a tarp up over the roosting area, not to keep predators out, but to block the sun while they are roosting. It was tied to the cage so a predator would have to rip it off to get to them. We are not too worried about predators because they are right next to a dog that is a serious...

The neck didn't seem broken, but it was bent when I collected him so it was hard to tell. I felt it, but I couldn't feel anything obvious. I also thought that maybe he jumped up and banged the top of his head, but if he did that, there was no blood or obvious contusion. It is really odd. I...

Hi. I have 4 two-month-old turkeys, standard bronze. They were in a hard bottom cage, and one started to hobble, has swollen feet now. I moved them over into a 10 x 10 chain link dog cage with a top on it so they could be on the ground. We put in a roost, across one of the corners, a little...

I am glad your ducks are okay. I have had three issues with one of my female Pekin ducks. She acted weird one day, then fine the next. I thought my son had chased her, and she slipped and hurt her leg. Then last week she started doing it again. She was standing in an odd position with her...

My BBB were pretty big. I even tried to feed them a low weight diet, but nope, it did not help. I had two males, who both started to pant. I am pretty sure it was their weight. One died one year at about 2, and then the other one a year later. My female lived to be 4. The cold weather did...

My small yard coop sits under 2 china berry trees for shade. I have never lost a chicken to anything but a predator. My 3 year old kept feeding them the leaves through the side of their pen before they were big enough to let out. I explained to him why he should not do that, but he kept it up...

I used to get a lot of eggs from my first female broad breasted bronze. I think it was about 40, one each day, then she would stop for awhile and start up again later. I had so many eggs at one point. The second female had weak-shelled eggs that broke more than not, and she did not lay daily...

My turkey would never be able to get in a kiddie pool. We thought of that first, but he could not step in. Plus, he is way to big to pick up. I wonder if he would like getting sprayed with the hose? I have never intentionally tried that. Good way to keep everyone cool though.