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Last year I lost almost my entire flock to Marek's (nercropy confirmed) So I vaccinated everything and hatched myself and kept them indoors or in the garage for 6 weeks plus. Everyone has been fine 9 mos later. However my amerucana hen I found stuck last week under a ladder and ever since seems...

Hi just me 2 cents hatching serama eggs in a incubator. I am currently getting 100% hatch rate in my cheap Chinese incubator. While some hatch dry and with full sized eggs it seems to work well my experience in dry California is a little more humidity with the small eggs really helps these guys...

Hi just me 2 cents hatching serama eggs in a incubator. I am currently getting 100% hatch rate in my cheap Chinese incubator. While some hatch dry and with full sized eggs it seems to work well my experience in dry California is a little more humidity with the small eggs really helps these guys...

Hello. What is it called when a new chick is not standing due to a fat bottom and what is it caused by. I have a chick that seems to have ok legs but it is butt heavy and cannot seem to stand upright yet. It hatched today earlier. It is a bantam golden campine. Seems to me that it hatched rather...

So my incubator cord came loose at some point this afternoon and when i checked my eggs they were cold. It was 78 in the incubator. It was on at noon. and I checked at 9. Will they all die? i changed the cord and now it has heated back up.

[/IMG][/IMG] I have a splash silkie from show quality lines. She is about 10 mos old. Would she be a good hen to show? I know nothing about showing them at all. I think she is pretty but I am not sure what exactly I should look for. She has the correct 5 toes. She survived a very bad fowl pox...

Ok so I have done a lot of rescue with dogs and after vaccinating adults with unknown history we vaccinate again at 2 to 3 weeks later just in case the vaccine was not viable. I have day old chicks and would it be wise to revaccinate again in a couple of weeks just in case my vaccine is a dud? I...

Hello I am hatching some eggs in a cheap chinese incubator.I am at the night of the 17th I have noticed that some of my eggs are completely dark and developed inside. but that I also have several that have some space at the pointy end but very much alive. I need to go into lockdown tomorrow...

So I have a cheap chinese incubator and am going to hatch my first set of eggs. Everything is working fine but the factory setting alarm for humidity goes off at 45%. I was thinking of keeping my humidity around 40% because of what I read on here about better hatches with humidity low until day...

Hello recently my flock of hens and my 4 silkies have gotten sick and are dying rapidly. I am worried that bug service came in a poisoned them. I lost 3 hens and a silkie. They get sick very quickly and start having trouble with their balance. I have treated the water now with antibiocs. I...

Ok so I have this mixed breed chicken Cheerio and leghorns are in the mix. Definately has a big red comb and red wattles coming in. I think about 9 to 10 weeks. But this one acts extremely "hen-like". Is not bossy does not puff up with other rooster chicks or stand upright much. I am giving back...

So my chicken math is quite crazy. I went from 6 tractor supply sex linked chicks to 25 chicks of different breeds including silkies. However the roosters cannot stay due to noise laws. I do have neighbors. My current set up is good for 15 full sized chickens plus chicken tunnels in the near...

So I have a chicken math issue went from 6 chickens to double that. I bought a really cute chicken coop from craigslist that is homemade out of pallets that is 4x5 coop I am elevating. The run is 14x14 on the long side and 7x7 on the short sides. An L shape. I live in Calfornia so cold isnt much...

Anyone want to take a stab sexing these and guessing breed mix at these? I have 1 easter egger-Nutmeg i think is a pullet, a dark grey one- Demon...he bites! (I think rooster not sure what breed mix) and Cheerio (not sure yet sex or breed mix). They came out of a mixed lot of chicks. Parent...

Just thought I would show my wire dog crate brooders. I lined them with plastic, easy to clean and can be thrown out if needed and thr babies can't escape. Already lost one that I thought was older and could not get through the wire. I am certain may cats got him. I had to make super secure due...

This is a barred rock/easter egger mix. About 4 to 6 weeks old. Rooster correct? Comb is coming in early and turning red. Or because he is a mix is it hard to tell? Also second barred mix 3 weeks old too earlu to tell in last pics[/IMG]

So I made a friend who gave me some extra easter egger chicks and other assortments. Which took my numbers up to currently 14 chicks. All roosters will go back and I have 5 older ones I am certain are hens. I was building a coop and run along with a little garden run as well. It is somewhat L...

Doing a little online research about silkies. I have heard mixes reviewed. The two people I know that have been around them have said they are loud and sometimea pick on others? But here the review says they are very docile and sweet and quiet. Besides the unusual looks what is good and bad...

I am thinking out my plan for my chickens and cleanability of coop spaces. I am planning on adding linolium to the inside of the coop to ease sanitation since wood is pourous and the poop would get difficult to scrub off of wood.(We use this with kenneling rescue dogs the linolium cleans much...

I have 3 barred rock chicks that are 4 weeks old I bought from a local organic chicken farm and 6 others from tractor supply. The barred rocks are currently seperate except for a small amount of time they spent in an enclosed space with the others on a warm day. I have fostered many dogs and the...