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One of my chicks has splayed legs, I know it can be fixed using a band aid but the problem is my chick wont leave it on, Ive also tried using string but it also just comes loose. If I leave the chick with splayed legs will they fix on their own as it gets older?

What kind of vegetable/edible plants should I be planting in June and July?

Let's say I have 2 males and 1 female and they are all siblings, would i be able to mate one male and the female and breed their offsprings to the other male without any consequences? And for how long? Also what kind of consequences could there be?

Does anyone know of an automatic pellet feeder? I work for most of the day and I wish I could feed my chickens every few hours. One time I went to a catfish lake to fish, and I noticed they had some automatic feeders in the middle of the lake that released pellets at specific times. I couldn't...

I want to make a SBEL thread so I can get more info about them, and see some photos. If you have any please post them. I will be making some as soon as my chicks get to breeding age and I will posting the photos here.

So today a hawk got into the enclosure of my 8 week olds and killed one of them. Thanks to the laws of probability and murphy's laws it killed the ONLY pullet out of the 5. It scared the others out of the enclosure and one of them got into the rooster pen of mean roosters. The meanest rooster...

I've heard you can cross 2 breeds and line breed it back to breeding true after 8 generations. have you ever done it? and if you have what kind of breeds did you cross?

If I have a bunch of mixed breed ames (EEs) can i breed them to eventually become a recognized ame variety? assuming all my EEs are from ames and not other random chicken breeds?

the one sold for $231?

I have a pure white pullet with 5 toes. i thought only silkies and the like had 5 toes. I don't have a photo of her to post but she looks like a leghorn.

I'm treating a few birds with scaly mite and i was wondering if i could spray the roosts with orange guard to kill the mites.

Okay so i know the incubator has to go into lockdown 2 or 3 days before. But what do i do if some chicks hatch and pthers take longer. I dont want to open the incubator in case it kills the unhatched. Will they be okay in there with all the heat? I know they dont need to eat fir 24 hours after...

I have 5 eggs in my brinsea mini advance. They are from Roscoe (a red sexlink rooster) and two buff orpingtons. Those eggs have taken so much abuse, i would be happy if only one hatched. Right now i have hopes for 2 of them hatching. I will keep updating until hatch day, 20 days from now. Do...

I have a Brinsea mini advance that can only hatch 7 eggs. Is there any way i can hatch more from it?

I'm trying to start a new flock of only Salmon Faverolles. Ive fallen in love with that breed and i just now learned it's a threatened breed. Does anyone have any hatching eggs I could buy? I've checked out the buy sell trade page but the only ones available are literally across the country to...