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I hatched four babies and I have no idea what breed they'll be. The rooster is a big beautiful black Araucana with gold lace and the hen choices are: BR, Columbian Rock, black or red sexlink. I couldn't keep track of which eggs came from whom because they all lay in the same nest and I didn't...

Well, 24 hours after 3/9 of my eggs hatched successfully, 2 more decided to hatch much to my surprise! I was so excited, but after several hours of no more movement being seen through the (bloody-looking) hole in the one I decided it hadn't survived. The second one, however, was very active...

Two of my eggs just pipped and the humidity in the incubator has jumped to almost 100%. It is a stupid styrofoam hovabator. What can I do? It's pretty humid outside right now, too.

My BSL hen has been progressively getting more and more bald over the past few months (I believe she's about 2). She is the favourite hen of my roo, but her feathers did not seem to start to grow back when I separated her from him for a couple weeks. She is bald on the back of her neck, her...

I have 10 potential layers and I pretty much know what the standard sized rocks and sexlinks are laying. I also have a banty leghorn hen who is laying tiny white eggs (I witnessed that). The problem is that I have a baby barred rock (maybe 5 or 6 months old- not really sure), a banty White...

I have a leghorn bantam who has started limping on one leg. She seems to be fine in every other way....not really low on the "pecking" order, still laying eggs, etc. She seems to be limping worse over the last couple days. Any ideas? Think it's just an injury that'll heal? There are no...

I've only had chickens (and one Japanese Blacktail rooster) for about a month. My rooster is only about six months old and has started trying to "mate" with every other chicken in the hen house. I have 8 hens and 5 of them are WAY bigger than him. I've only seen him mount the big hens. Is it...