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We originally got chickens so we could have eggs for ourselves and maybe sell a few on the side. The money we get is put back into keeping the birds and pays for their food, treats, bedding etc. (I charge $4 a dozen. My neighbours have a huge flock and take their eggs to the city market where...

Interesting, but we may take one more try with this one with another thermometer. Alternately, a friend's daughter got a new incubator and has had several batches with a 100% hatch rate, they said they'd do a batch of our eggs for us if we wanted. Thanks for the idea though!

Thanks for the response. I think we just ended up with a lemon incubator. Considering I had to wrap it in bubble insulation and keep a towel over the top to get it to come up to temp according to the thermometer. Oh, well, live and learn

Thanks! It's pretty much what I thought. My incubator was a pain in the neck, had to wrap bubble insulation around it and leave a towel over the top to keep the temperature up

I've had some eggs in the incubator (first time). On day 20, one hatched, and a following one the following day. Today is day 22. No sign of life on any of the others, no pipping, chirping etc. The two that hatched I've put under a heat lamp, they were very happy to see food and water. I...

LOL, talk about good timing for an article! Between the cats, one of the dogs, and the chickens, I've lost a number of perennials and have ended up putting down wire fencing so none of them can dig. The chickens then discovered we'd filled in the potholes in the driveway with tailings (very...

Thanks....that was all the things I was thinking over and worrying about. Couldn't reintegrate her into the flock, so it was a pretty lonely existence. I'd actually just asked my son to put her down :-(

Permethrin, I haven't heard of that but will check it out. Yes, it's lice, I looked it up online. *sigh* I was planning on completely cleaning and disinfecting the coop before putting any other chickens in there, but it was the only place I had for her at the time. I'd cleaned out all bedding...

No, she was having problems walking after being injured by a fox. I can't help but wonder if there was an injury to her spine

A number of weeks ago (it must be going on for 6 weeks), I had a pair of foxes go through our yard and took out our rooster and 4 hens, injuring a 5th. We have 2 coops, both with their own rooster, but had lost our other roo the week before to illness. After the foxes went through, we "circled...

Hmmm, I'd wondered.... if that's the case, one of my RIs is laying 2 eggs a day. There's only 12 hens in that coop, one of which is Dove, and almost every day I'm getting 12 eggs. Thanks for the feedback!

We have one Easter Egger, Dove (named because she's pure white, hardly any comb or wattle, looks more like a dove) who regularly laid a lovely blue-green egg. She's in with 11 Rhode Islands. She went through a molt a month or so ago. In the last week - 10 days, we've been getting 12 eggs a...

Have to ask -- what is the point of cooking the eggshells? I know I normally throw the used shells in the compost (aka chicken feeding station) and the chickens just gobble them down before looking at anything else. On the other hand, I have one hen that is laying very thin-shelled eggs, and...

We sell our extra eggs, $4 a dozen. (Our neighbours are farmers, they are selling their eggs at the farmer's market for $5 a dozen). My husband owns a small gas/variety store, but we're not allowed to sell the eggs there as they aren't graded (the eggs range in size from a little green Easter...

I have a friend in Sackville, NB. She got her silkies from a breeder specializing in the more unusual breeds. My friend recommended you try the co-op/feed mill stores. We originally got our day-old chicks from Shur-Gain in Windsor, NS. You can place orders for day old chicks now for pick up...

I'm in Centre Burlington, Nova Scotia. We're on the Bay of Fundy aka the muddy side of the province