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Hello! I'm not actually entirely sure how hatch-alongs work. I'm just going to put updates in about the eggs as frequently as I can. I'm hatching four chocolate easter eggers and I am so excited! I haven't hatched in a while- I haven't even been on BYC in a while. So I am really happy...

My family recently moved to a house with a koi pond in the backyard. There were nine koi in it, although we only realized that exact number yesterday. The koi pond was really dirty and hard to see in, and you couldn't see the koi unless they came up to eat, so yesterday, my family and I cleaned...

My two-day-old chick, Dove, is already doing well with socialization. But I'd like to know more strategic ways to socialize her. She has no other chicks with her right now, and I don't want her to turn out like Marshy, who was raised alone and turned out crazy. I think socialization will stop...

21 days ago, I put three chicken eggs in in the incubator. One was fertilized (we call her Dove, AKA Little D) and developing well. Now it's day 21, and there's been no cracks, and my dad thinks he thought a chirp but it might just have been the machine. No movement from the egg, no outside...

Today, I put two ducklings into the coop for the second time (they'd gotten cold last time and returned to the brooder). I was sure they'd be okay this time, because they're almost two-three months old now. But we went to check on them, and Jumbo was battered. Really muddy, and shivering. Some...

Hi! I have a developing chicken egg in the incubator. Can I put her in the coop when she hatches, to be raised by the hens? The problem is, we have two roosters, and a duck that's a little snappish. Will they hurt her? And would the cold be too much for her? If the other eggs don't hatch, we...

Hi. I'm not sure if this is actually something to worry about, but one of the pair of old hens of my flock is looking weird. Her head looks like the neck is barely there, and her face is grayish, her tail feathers look messy and there's a bit of blood on her comb. She's also been in the coop for...

I am putting three chicken eggs into the incubator today. This thread is for all my questions on them. Thank you so much! I don't have any questions right now, but I can guess I'll be coming to this thread soon.

I'm going to continue to put my questions about quail in here, so that I don't clog BYC up too much. I'd really appreciate responses. I'll be new to keeping quail once we get our first batch. Can quail fly away? If so, how do I let them free range? Even when we let the older girls out to free...

Monti was nearly a year old, female Blue Swedish duck, perfectly healthy, laying a LOT. (We thought Danni was a female, because she laid enough for two ducks.) But suddenly, when her eggs were in the incubator, she died. This happened a while ago. My dad found her body in the coop. When I got...

I have three baby chicks right now. We already checked their genders (one seemed like a male and later seemed to lean to the hen side) but we just checked the wings. There's a lot of pressure on gender for me, because we have to give a male chick away, since our two roosters are already a...

My hen has a bit of a bottom issue- I don't know if this is natural or an injury, but I really want a way to help my hen. She's very special. My hen, Rockett, has a weird bottom issue where her feathers stick out and look like they're ripped. I can see her bottom- some of it doesn't even have...

I'm having a bit of a problem with ducklings moving to the coop. A while ago, my family got four ducks. A long time after they started laying eggs (well, the one female who laid a ton), my dad and I bought an incubator and put two duck eggs in. While they were in the incubator, their mother...

I don't think I can get pictures onto this computer- the computer doesn't like me much- but I can tell you the interesting story of Gnomestead Farm. One year ago, my family moved to our new 5-acre property, Gnomestead Farm. The first day we were there, we got pigs- two of them, both very...

Dawnwing is one of my three chicks, the other two being Breezewing and Moonwing. Together, they're the Winglets. But anyway, Dawnwing is really adventurous. The other two aren't so bad- Moonwing is really shy- but, inspired by Dawnwing, they've been jumping out whenever I take the cover off...

I have a young chick (Dawnwing) in the brooder right now, with her buddies Moonwing and Breezewing. I'm delighted to have her, but I really don't know how I have her. I put her egg in the incubator with five other eggs and then waited. I don't know how, but I lost count of the days and didn't...

I have a Silkie Rooster called Marshmallow (my username is MarshyRooster) and he's a little bit of a weirdo. I thought that Silkies were supposed to be so sweet and gentle and Marshy is a blazing ball of fury. He fights with the hens, with Max, even with the humans. He keeps needing to have...

We have several chickens, and we have two eggs, but one hatched a few hours ago and we're not sure the other will. How do we raise a single chick, to be happy and healthy? When it gets older, it will go in the coop with the rest of the chickens but we don't want it to be lonely, aggressive or...