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Hey guys! I had a few geese in my order of chicks this year - was hoping maybe would help as guard geese, if I was lucky. One is a white chinese and the other is an african. No idea on gender, but I am reasonably sure the african is male (nose pointing up allll the time, heavy build). The...

It's on my very limited bucket list to hatch an Emu - I live in upstate NY and haven't managed to find any eggs locally. Likelihood of hatching if I ordered a shipped egg or two? (and does anyone have any? :P).. I never have a ton of luck with shipped chicken eggs...

GQF Sportsman 1502? I am trying to find a decent cabinet incubator with auto-turning, humidity control and a decent non-touchy thermostat. Something I can set and forget for the most part with a hatching tray. I doubt I would hatch more than 50 eggs at a time, but would like the capacity to...

Have a baby NN chick (just three days old) that somehow ended up with both eyes injured and bloody. He was under a broody, so either the broody herself did it (unlikely) or another hen in the coop did it (more likely), or he caught his little head somewhere and pulled it out (my guess)...

My chickens are now confined to a run due to heavy fox attacks. The run is plenty large (about 400sf right now) and is about 6' high covered with knotted netting. Even if I am in the yard, the fox will come around, so they are 100% confined for at least until kit raising season is over. Of...

DH and I are first timers at running an electric fence, so forgive if these seem like noob questions.. After having a fox chowing down on the free range chickens, they have been confined to their coop and run for a few weeks with only supervised outings. Main predators here are foxes, coons...

Just had a fox make another run through the free range flock. Had thought I had a hawk, but nope, this time it was a HUGE fox. My coops are secure enough but the runs have just flight netting as a roof. I doubt I can roof the runs due to the size and shape so I think I need to think about an...

Have a 2 year old Production red (hatchery) that I noticed standing around like a penguin today (head up tail down waddling slowly) refusing to get out of the rain. She's still eating and drinking and I know she laid an egg at least two days ago (since I have four reds and had four brown eggs...

My game cam has been picking up a fox near my largest coop, which unfortunately is the furthest away from my house and is on dirt (it's made from a large horse run-in, maybe 14x16). The run itself and the front of the coop is pretty safe with a HW cloth skirt and HW cloth/Welded wire fencing...

Not getting any emails about subscribed topics for two days now, nor am I getting PM notifications. Tried setting all to site only then setting back to 'immediate' but that didn't seem to fix it. Any ideas?

Hatched out a bunch of 'blue-egg assortment' eggs. Very nice blue eggs - some were marked as EE, some as araucana, some as 'americauna'. I did get three tailless araucanas, one with tufts, out of this batch. I am reasonably sure these are all female, as they are 15 weeks old and are showing no...

These are from my NYD hatch.. I hatched out 'pure and mixed' araucanas, several of which if you go by the egg could be pure and rumpless/tufted. Also hatched out 6 barred rocks. The barred rocks are going to a new home whether male or female - two are for sure male with very light coloring...

These chicks are about 12 weeks old. So far I think they are girls, but that can change on a dime as we all well know. Any idea what would make up this mutt combo? I am thinking Leghorn X EE? One has a beard, the other does not. Both are white with black spots, with straight combs. I rehomed...

Have four 'coops' at the moment - one is a growout coop that was pressed into service for adult birds. ALL of these birds free range together and hang out together and go back to their respective coops at night. One roo in each of the two larger coops, although when let out the two roos pull a...

Just hatched out three buff orpington chicks under a very good and reliable broody. She was just sitting there clucking and when I checked the chicks, one had been scalped into a mohawk! I assumed she did it, but she didn't finish killing or eating him, so it strikes me as odd. What would cause...

We've co-existed with skunks on our property for years, and they have actually never bothered chicks, chickens,eggs or any of our cats. However, we have a large coop made out of a horse run-in with a dirt floor and a baby skunk (have never seen mama) is IN THE COOP every night. My chickens free...

Have an 18 week old Light Brahma cockerel who hasn't been 'right' for some time. I don't honestly know if he's ill, abused by another chicken, or just not too bright. He lost the sight in one eye about two months ago due to a peck injury so he's always been a little quirky, but I do believe...

Was going to try a pullet shut door on one of our coops, as it was the first one we built when we had NO clue what we were doing. Was built out of an old kids playhouse, and it had nowhere near enough room to do a guillotine style door, which is what the add-a-motor would require to put in an...

These are 15 weeks old. I believe them to be girls, but I may be rehoming a few and want to make sure I get the names right. They were from 'mystery' eggs. This one looks like a wyandotte, but does not look like my GLW or BLRW. Gold laced blue or? It's a very pretty color, whatever it is...

Have a 12 week old lt. brahma cockerel that I isolated the other day when I noticed him standing alone with one eye shut. Thought it might be a respiratory ailment so I of course took him out of the coop, but no sneezing at all that I could see and the sinuses were not swollen. He's not...