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How do I figure out when my golden feather membership is running out? Will I get an email when it is getting close?

I am studying and learning tons about pattern genes. I think it is my newest obsession. lol I have this easter egger bird and am wondering if she is carrying any pattern genes? Would any chicken genetics peoples like to take a guess at what is going on in this bird? She lays a pale blue...

I have two cockerels in with a pen of 11 hens. One of them will NOT stay out of the nest boxes. He constantly bugs any hen that might be in there trying to lay an egg. I have been getting more and more broken and eaten eggs. I thought it was the hens breaking them but when I watch closely...

I hatched backyard mix of chicks and one of them has constant shakes. It can walk but prefers to rest on its belly. It seems like when the chick exerts effort to stand and walk is when it shakes all over. It's wings and legs tremor. If the chick is totally relaxed it will stop shaking...

I came home this afternoon to find a 1 1/2 year old hen dead in the pen. Her neck does not seem broken and there are no wounds. She did not behave like she was sick and everyone else is acting fine. She is in a large pen with 11 other hens and two 6 month old cockerels. The two cockerels are not...

I know what a not fertile egg looks like and thought when I saw a fertile one I would know it for sure. But this one looks different to me. I put a rooster with some hens a few days ago.

Edit by nifty: See update to this problem here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/624838/help-stopped-getting-email-subscription-notifications-unsubscribing/230#post_8388425 I posted messages about not receiving email notifications in over a week. The message thread I posted on seems to be...

I am not getting emails when someone posts in a thread I am subscribed to. I checked my spam folder and they are not there. When I check the site there are new posts to my subscribed threads but I did not get notified. Help?

I watched the video and am having fun exploring the new site. But I think I accidentally flagged someone's post to be reviewed by a moderator. I just thought....hmmm what does this flag do...click. Later I realized it was to report a post and now I do not remember what post I flagged! oops...

I hatched chicks 12 days ago. One is really having a hard time. It started to get a messy bottom the first couple days. I know all about pasty butt so I kept it really clean. After a few days of cleaning it up I realized it's poor vent is just totally packed and clogged. I keep applying...

I have had hens for a while but this is my first year with roosters. My two cockerels are 5 1/2 months old. And all I can say is "oh brother!!" I have a pen that a group of 4 chicks were growing up in. They are all about 5 1/2 months old. Two cockerels and two pullets. The two cockerels...

I have a really sticky gooey chick that I had to help out today. (long story) I wonder if I should give it a bath? It's poor feathers are just glued to itself. There where globs of egg white that I removed but it is just so sticky. I wonder what I can do to help it out? Any ideas?

Our first coop we built I modeled after half a dozen coop pics that I printed off from this site. We have the little hen house part with the gang plank, installed windows and 8 nest boxes. A year later when half the hens would not sleep inside I realized that those cute little hen houses are...

How crazy is it that Hawaii, who is so strict about importing birds, does not participate in the NPIP program? I was thinking..."ok I am gonna get all legit and find out about this NPIP thing". It looks like you are a serious person when the NPIP cert if proudly displayed. I called the...

Has anyone noticed another phenomenon besides "chicken math"? I am dubbing it "chicken snob". Not in a terrible bad way...it just cannot be helped. I have been doing chickens for a couple years now. I started with hatchery hens then became interested in the Ameraucana and Marans breeds.. When...

I hatched a group of 15 chicks 3 months ago. Their brooder was huge but I think they got bored 2 days before I had their outdoor coop ready. I put them out of the brooder at 3 weeks with a heat lamp. (we live in Hawaii so pretty mild weather) Well, 2 days before I moved them outside where...

Let me set the stage... This is my second year with chickens and my first time with cockerels... Today I decided to do some more chicken coop shuffling. I have a big garden pen that had 6 hens in it. I removed all but 2 EE hens. I have a group of 5 five month old chicks (3 cockerels and...

I have only ever had hens. I have read about how roosters protect their girls but also I have read a lot about what a pain in the butt roosters can be. So since I only wanted eggs I decided to not have roosters. Well this summer I have decided to begin breeding my own chickens. I have...

I started out this summer determined to begin a small flock of marans and ameraucanas. I knew I would have to use shipped eggs because no one here in Hawaii has these breeds that I want. I knew hatch rates are low on shipped eggs. And I swore I was not even gonna keep track of what I spent...

seriously... I stare at my eggs in the hatcher and can swear I see them moving. No one else can but me. I think I am willing them to move. Or I have lost my mind!