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Anyone in the Dallas area have half a dozen hatching eggs they'd be willing to sell me? My little silkie has gone broody and, once she does that, her mind is set. I'd love to give her some eggs to hatch. Anyone??? I'd love anything but bantams (though I'm most partial to Marans, Naken Necks...

I think it's important to note the source of salmonella is bacteria inside the hen. If the chicks came from a hatchery where there are large numbers of chickens in confined spaces, you're more likely to have a chick carrying salmonella. The most important steps are to know your egg/chick...

Quote: Tink is right. Be gentle on yourself. We learn as we go and those fragile chicks put a person on a steep learning curve. The drafts are incomprehensibly dangerous. When our broody hen was allowed to incubate an egg she hovered over that little thing in the heat of Texas in May. We...

I gave my silkie four eggs a good three days after she made it clear she was broody. I candled them a week later and none were fertile so I switched them out for three different eggs. Including the three days she spent refusing to give up on the last egg, she sat there for over thirty days. I...

I had a silkie that did the same thing! She flattened out like a pancake and was so dead set on, well, setting that I gave her some fertile eggs to sit on. We had only a young roo at the time, so I wasn't sure how fertile they were, but one did hatch--the day after Easter and surrogate Mom was...

You will find every thing from high to dry on humidity recommendations on this forum. Too much humidity and the chick can drown in the shell (so I've heard), but you would see the incubator fogging up if it were too humid. If you read through all the posts on "Dry Hatch" they might give you...

I love this. And Quinn in Oregon who gave his lame banty roo a first middle and last name. Goes to show, I'm sure my grampa, who must have raised a thousand chickens over his life time, never named a one. But my grandpa never would have let my little leghorn Siff, bleeding on the coop floor...

Henderson's Handy-Dandy Chicken Chart has a wealth of information for classifying a bird ( http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html) He even notes if a breed is recognized by two different Poultry standards (American and UK, I believe). Other variants: skin color (did you say...

The little ones look like Rhode Island Reds with those yellow yellow legs. The big ones look a lot like the mystery chicks I posted yesterday, except that mine had feathered shanks. The conclusion there was Giant Cochins (totally cool!!!!). Wonder if they're the new Easter chick trend. . ...

Oh I agree--it's like the ancestry dot com for chickens. We all get curious about finding some great heritage in our blood (even the mutts). It would also be nice to have the same sort of search for chicken illnesses--except just about everything that happens to them seems to appear as runny...

Oooooh really? The teacher asked me this morning if I wanted to take them home. Ummm, yeah! Any guess on age? Gender? Quote:

I think you're on to something. When I went in this morning the teacher exclaimed "One of them has some BLUE on her feathers==real BLUE!" I looked and it sure appeared to be some sort of paint/dye. I asked if she had tried to wash it off and she looked a little shocked at the idea of getting...

Four toes. And I'm attaching two more pictures to show the legs. I couldn't find a soda can (kindergarten classroom, you know) but we found a ruler. Both chicks are around 8 inches long and maybe 6 inches tall (???) Sorry--I'm not good at directing Kindergarten teachers as models...

Tiger/Tiger Lily (love the cautious duel purpose name) is adorable, and will obviously grow to be a loving chicken when treated with such warmth. Breeds are fun, but the chicken's unique personality is what makes her such a gift. Breed does not matter. I've had beautiful mutts that run to...

Naked necks, though I have to say if you're trying to ID a naked neck chick, you would have to be pretty clueless. (We're all pretty clueless on so many issues, no matter our expertise in others--so I'm not bashing:) So, are you designing this web page? Is this an actual happening? Sounds...

How old are they? Females usually have a lower tail angle, but also the males will usually have longer and pointier feathers in their tails.

Feathered shanks, especially down the outside like that, make me think Marans. Maybe a Black Copper Marans? They lay incredibly beautiful dark brown eggs, and the French Marans seem pretty sought after.

My daughter's kindergarten teacher found two of these chicks under her car in the preschool parking lot. This is not a rural area, but in the dead center of Dallas in a neighborhood where the median income is over $120,000. The two chicks were docile and allowed her to pick them up and put...

If you can pull them out one at a time this may be a quicker test than candling: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=383525 . I'm not sure you can see much if you candle past day 18 because the chicks take up so much space. Have you tried peeping to the eggs and listening...

Yes, being ripped apart by nature red in tooth and claw, or dying a lingering an painful death are both far worse then being swung around by your neck. I guess I need to develop my Grampa's "Farm Sensibilities" if I'm to survive in this omnivore's world. . .