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We had great success with hatching some EE chicks, but this one ended up with scissor beak. It's gotten worse over the last few days. It was my daughter's favorite of the bunch (which hatched on her 8th birthday), but I've been letting her know it's probably going to have to be put down...

Help! I think my incubator stinks, because my other incubator produced the healthiest, strongest chicks I've ever seen, but this one is taking forever and the chicks are having a tough time pipping. Specifically, though, does this chick need help? He's been able to get this far and is still...

Hatched six chicks via incubator, and from comparison to other chicks we've purchased, they look great, except that the youngest one seems to be breathing about twice as rapidly as the others. Normal? Or concerning? Thanks!

I had 7 eggs in my incubator, and six of them hatched out, but with the remaining egg, shells, and rambunctious chicks, I was worried that the youngest hatched one would get trampled or suffocated because there wasn't much space left in the incubator. I reached under the lid for just a second...

We built a new run off our new coop, which was built within an existing steel shed. We haven't yet cut the door in the building to let the chickens out into the run because we want to make sure it's predator-proof first. We used heavy-duty playground fencing for the walls and buried some of it...

Breed: Easter Egger From: Hatchery, picked up at local Farm and Fleet Mix: Pullets only Age: Day-old chicks, picked up on May 7th Behavior: Kind of spazzy? None of my other Easter Eggers have this sort of comb structure. They all have little peachy bumps, but nothing like this, which leads...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? With the exception of an attempt tragically cut short by an enterprising pine marten, this is my first time raising chickens. Our neighbors have successfully kept a small flock in a fenced area in their yard for some time now, and...