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https://hatchingtime.com/collections/quail-cages/products/quail-cage-2-layer?variant=43028965359794 My husband is sick of helping me build bird enclosures (completely understandable) and I am a really crappy builder by myself. I was thinking about getting the Hatching Time fully ready to go...

The person I have ordered from in the past is no longer in the chicken business. Any recommendations for a good source of birds or hatching eggs? Thanks in advance 😁

10 weeks old. Suspect male but not as obvious as the other I have. Seems to have a 2 row pea comb. Large thick legs and suspicious watchful attitude. But no hackle or saddle feathers.

We are in VA and lost power due to a heavy snow, from Monday to Friday morning. This means that my supplemental lighting was off for 5 days, which artificially stretched the days to 16 hours. Are my hens going to get confused and molt? Has anyone else experience this before? What happened?

I am picking up an izegem cuckoo hen and her chick tomorrow. I am not familiar with this breed but being a cuckoo pattern, will I be able to tell if the chick is a pullet or roo by its head dot?

So I have a lot of birds and a busy life but only 3 white ducks. I may not immediately notice one black or red chicken amiss, but the ducks I only have 9 so it’s easier to keep track. Of the whites, I have one old fellow with a bum foot, one youngster and one call, all drakes. Today I noticed 2...

For sale are 4 purebred Americauna pullets (NOT Easter eggers!) and one French black copper marans roo, about 12 weeks old. The hens will lay lovely BLUE eggs and crossed with the marans rooster, will create gorgeous "olive eggers". There are 2 lavender and 2 splash colored, with lightly tufted...

For sale are 4 purebred Americauna pullets (NOT Easter eggers!) and one French black copper marans roo, about 12 weeks old. The hens will lay lovely BLUE eggs and crossed with the marans rooster, will create gorgeous "olive eggers". There are 2 lavender and 2 splash colored, with lightly tufted...

I have a white call duck male who lost his lady friend to a fox last year. He keeps trying to have relations with my full sized ducks which, although amusing to me to watch him ride around the yard on their backs, must be frustrating for him. The other drakes also do not take kindly to his...

I hatched 5 quail and bought 10 more at the end of October. I still have 13, but not a single egg yet. They get Purina Gamebird feed. Surely I don't have 13 males! My turkey has been laying since beginning of March so I figured the quail would start too but nada. They are in a fully enclosed pen...

I am getting 3-4 dozen eggs a day and I am looking for a labor saving way to wash the dirty ones. I sell almost all my eggs and with it being a muddy winter and many of my chickens having feathered feet, I have quite a few eggs that need at least a light washing. And of course duck eggs are...

I would like to incubate a clutch of quail eggs, preferable Coturnix or other large type. I'm in VA but shipped eggs are fine. Let me know, thank you!

I ordered a batch of chicks from Meyer Hatchery which arrived July 16. In this order were 5 "green queens" and 6 "rare assorted pullets". Since the green queens are mixes, like EEs, they can look like a lot of different things I think, and I'm not sure which are what. I picked 5 chicks to keep...

There was a post about this a while back - and maybe more since, but this was too ridiculous not to share. I mean, why not lay your egg in an almost empty bag of shavings? I have also had them lay in an almost full bag of shavings sitting up on its end. This one was particularly funny because...

This chick is a mixed breed likely olive egger (marans over EE or Americauna) and I keep going back and forth on whether it's roo or pullet. Comb seems redder than usual but it's awfully hot. No obvious pointed saddle or hackle feathers. Thoughts?

I started putting artificial lights on my ladies in December to stimulate an earlier ramp up in egg production, and it's working, but I also have 2 hens that are so convinced it's spring that they have gone broody. Sheesh. In January. I sell all the eggs I have (hence the lighting) so I don't...

Does anyone have a good solar powered light I can put on a timer in my coop, to fake my girls into thinking it's spring? I used to give them the winter off and let them come back into lay naturally, thinking it was prolonging their egg-laying lives and general health, but I lose so many to...

I had a call duck abandon a nest at around 3 weeks - ish. I don't know an exact hatching date because she hid the nest for a while before I found it. After I candled the eggs and pitched the 2 duds (while she was off getting a snack), she abandoned the nest and never went back. The eggs were...

A friend of mine has gone to collect eggs and found eggs sitting upright, like a bowl, with the "lid" off (like you'd do for a soft boiled egg in an egg cup) and some of the insides eaten but not all. What does that? No egg eating hen or skunk or possum I have experience with eats eggs that way...

I introduced 2 new ducks to my mixed chicken and duck flock 5 months ago (after a 30 day total quarantine in the shed) and since then have had repeated bouts of respiratory disease in my chickens (never the ducks though). Runny goopy eyes, sneezing, gurgly breathing and decreased laying. I...