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My husband was out at the brooder this morning, chicks all good. I came home from work to find one dead. just laying there about a foot from the heat light. I keep an eye on their butts. Her Butt was fine. Lots of room in the brooder and the heat is good. She was a good size pullet. She had been...

I read someplace that some people do lock down with egg cartons. I like the idea of the eggs not rolling around. I would prefer something on its side not standing up. Was hoping people could show me what they do. Thanks!

I am sure its been asked, but I will do it again. We have our 1st incubator. It holds 42. We are down to 31. 1st one hatched last night at 1 am. I have 11 almost 12 right now. Its chaotic in the incubator. Chicks crashing eggs, chicks stepping on new borns. I am worried about the chicks. I know...

I got a few with this one. as much as I would like too, we still have not managed to off the rooster. My hens are NOT scared of him. He has bare back at least 3 of my 14 hens. 3 others have some feathers missing. The saddles I had did nothing! nor did they protect the wings. I have tried blue...

My rooster has been pulling the feathers from 2 hens. I got some of those saddle protectors, but its not helping. I do want to send him to the stew pot, we have not had the time. What can I do? their backs are almost bald. The only good thing with the saddles is they are keeping the backs from...

Today my almost 1 year old Rooster attacked me. He has always been friendly, it was completely out of the blue. He has never attacked the kids who almost never go to the coop. I am out there getting eggs 5 days a week. My husband dose the rest, most of the time. ( When needed I will feed and...

So I have my 1st Broody hen, I came home from a 10 day trip to a broody hen, my 1st one. I am thinking she may have started to show signs before we left. I am thinking she has been broody for at lest the hole 10 days..... So what I have been reading I need to put her in Hen Jail. So I blocked...

6 of our Chickens are a year old and we have 8 pullets all about to start laying. We came home from a week trip away to find a nice very little pullet eggs. I was so excited to eat it that I cracked it right into the pan. It has no Yolk. It does have to spots in it. Not sure what to make of this.

Ok I am calling them Easter egg but we were told they were Americana. Any way not worried about that. We currently do not have a rooster. ( 9 hens) We got a bunch of chicks and think a bunch are roosters. My question why do 2 of the roosters so different. One stands like a hen, but is bigger...

This is only our second batch of chicks. Last year we got all sexed ones. We currently have no rooster. I managed to get photos of the ones I am struggling the most with. My husband said the bedrocks where sexed. I think one is a rooster. The Ameraucana I am struggling with. I have a couple that...

Hope for some advice. We have 9 hens all but one lay us nice eggs. The one red hen lays eggs that are light and hard on the bottom and dark and soft on the top. We just dont understand why part of the egg would be soft and the rest hard.

Looking for advice. We notice today that one of our 13 chicks now about 4 weeks is smaller than the rest and defiantly malnourished. she cheeps all the time. We brought her into the house and we now think she is blind. She did have a little pop, but wont go the small feeder of water or food. She...

My husband should have only got 6 chicks. He came home with 13. Last year we kept the chicks in the house, but we only had 8. The extra chicks are making a huge dusty mess of my house. ( bad for allergies) Top it off they are a month old and getting too big for our brooder box. We don't think...

Hello, We got our 1st 8 hens last year. We lost 2 to hawks and bought 4 more to replace them. We lost one more to how knows what. That left us with 9. The store we got our hens from is not getting them this year. So we picked up 13 chicks off Facebook. They are 3 weeks and I believe we have 2...