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Thank you! From reading discussions here last fall, I saw a guy say he crossed a BCM w/a blue easter egger and got olive green eggs. Since I had a BCM rooster, we gave it a whirl. Later thought for sure they'd be chocolate, since all the hens are black just like BCM hens (homogenous I later...

Hi! It's a bit early, but one of my 4 month old hens laid an egg today! Can you tell me what I've got here? Is it an olive egger? It looks more like a mushroom color, kinda taupe. Is there a color name for this egg? The mix is an Araucana hen x Black Copper Murans rooster. Thank you, Marsha

Here's an update: The fumes did dissipate after about 3-4 weeks. It's Poly-Styrene, not sure if it still gives of VOC's just because there's no more smell, though. Looking up poly-styrene it does say that it gives off VOC when heated.... but the smell is gone, so...... I am thinking this is...

Yes, just got mine and we've been running it since Wednesday continuously and it still smells. To think anyone would put this over their chicks is beyond belief. Feel sorry for the chicks. It's so bad I'd think it'd def hurt their lungs. I bought it for adding some safe warmth to the coop. I...

I first spotted this unit at My Pet Chicken. It looked ideal. It advertises it as having a 'new plastic smell' at first, run it for a while to dissipate it. I ended up buying the unit from the Mfr because it was cheaper and in stock. When it arrived I plugged it in to see how well it...

You mean just put a pen in the garage? That is what we did with our first flock. It was just a pen about 8 ft long and 3 feet high. I was thinking they might like having a little covered coop up high.

Oh THANK YOU for that breakdown! I was just sitting here with my wheels turning wondering if this and that were appropriate. Geez. I tell you, these little chicks are going to be glad I asked about feather dust!!! Here's my plan.... going to order the relatively cheap coop/pen from...

Wow! Now I really feel wimpy! HeeHeeHee! Geez, my goodness - you are so right! mama hen has no room a chick this size under her wing. not even one! They are surprisingly big. I had forgotten how fast they grow. Yes, the dust was incredible, had no idea and don't remember that with the...

Thank you for helping me to feel more at ease in putting them out. I am def having an issue with them getting cold and/or sick. I sure took their brooder heater away and they are just fine. I opened the window a few days and they were fine too. I did think to take them outside when we were...

I do clean their pen daily mostly twice a day so there's never ammonia building up. I've gotten two large furnace filters laid on top and it is working amazingly well! Noticed a big difference since then. The sides are still open, though. They're 6 weeks old, so I'm afraid to move them just...

Thank you for that tip. Last night I laid a couple beach towels over their pen. I think this is definitely going to help in the interim. I saw many sheds to choose from but they were closed. I'm really nervous about acclimating them because they're are pretty healthy and have not dealt with...

Good to know they're old enough. Thank you. No, I don't have an outdoor coop ready for them. : \ We are planning to build an entirely new chicken area in March and I thought this would be the time to put them out. But the discovery of this feather dust by my husband has him ****** and he's...

Hi, I'm raising 5 chicks indoors. I put them in one of our bathrooms and they live inside a portable cage I bought online. I thought this would be ok, and I would just keep the bathroom cleaned and vacuumed. For the past couple weeks I've noticed a lot of black dust which obviously is coming...

UPDATE:....it's now 1 month later, and yep, the two chicks with the thinner/sparse tail feathers are roosters. They even try to crow. Their tail feathers were very distinct and different within the first week, but by week 2 they all began to look the same. So there must be a small window of...

Is there a way to get email notification when a thread is updated? Thank you.

What is IB? I'm skimming the posts but don't see it.

That is pretty awesome

you definitively are NOT an idiot. love has no price! I couldn't agree more! I will just wait and see how her eggs come along. Still watery. (i did not mean for you to look through the thread history though, i did mention it in my OP. but no biggie, just thought I'd tell ya where I...

Thank you. Well, what's strange is she is the only one with this chalky shell, that's one way to know it is her egg. But it's not consistently like that, maybe every other egg. I was very hesitant about using anything, but we had one hen die last January and my daughter was really sad about...

Look at the first post for antibiotics And the wormers was liquid Wazine. A very tiny dose, with a follow up in 16 days. It was never clear what she had. At first the thought it might be Mareks (sp) but he told me to just keep an eye on her legs/feet. She did have what looked like symptoms...