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The rain has brought mud and my chickens have mud on their feathers, and on their feet. The mom in me wants to wash them, but i do not know how it would effect them putting them outside all wet. it looks the worst on my white leghorns, and delawares, and the tops of my black crested polish. If...

3 seramas and 2 pullet eggs hatched out and are doing great. I know my temps are right where i want them, but they are early anyway. I have 15 more eggs to go

I removed the other eggs and bleached the turner and the bottom of my bator. green slime got on a few eggs, but i washed them. Is there anything else i should do?

I went out to collect eggs, got to the ornamental pen and there was sally with more than half her body inside a milk jug. (We use 3 milk jugs with hole cut out for watering in the Ornamental pen). I dropped the barred rock eggs i was holding in my shirt and started crying. I didnt pick her body...

I have such good memories of the years he fathered me. Such a fun person. He and my Mom married when I was 2 yrs old and I grew up believing he was my real Dad. maybe it wouldnt have been so bad on me and my siblings to lose him in the divorce when I was 13 (his new wife wanted nothing to do...

I have a chance to get this trailer thats been completely gutted out except for the propane furnace. I have 70 chickens. does anyone have any suggestions? is an old trailer a good idea? should i do anything to the floor? I hope I am not making a huge mistake. will my chickens do well in a...

I was told that you could safely freeze extra eggs, so i cracked 30 and put them in containers and froze them. during the freezing process they turned sorta orange colored. Is this normal?

I have one silkie who is 4 months old. I want to put her in the ornamental coop with my sultan, and white crested polish. I tried putting her in there today and they attacked her so i swoopws kiwi up and took her back in the house and there she is in a cage in the chick room. She needs to be...

the little one is a serama, the rest are dalaware/ BR cross. The serama was amazing because i looked in on them and he was maybe 20% zipped and within 10 min he was OUT!!! such a cutie pie. I was worried that the crosses born the previous day would hurt the lil serama, but no they just...

I just stitched a brand new chick up so its yolk wouldnt keep coming out. i used polysorb 2-0 CL -616. yes i know the needle is a lil big, but since i just lost a chick a few days ago to this same thing, i wanted to do something before the whole sac came out of its belly and I would again have...

The little white one is the one I dropped on the small end , but i put it is the steamerbater anyway. helped it hatch out, but it is not doing as well as the 2 black ones who hatched on their own. I sure hope it will be OK. putting 8 more eggs into lockdown tomorrow. For sure I will take...

My roo (henry) is a delaware, the hens are barred rocks. it there was way to sex by color?

my 9/7 babies hatched and made quite a mess in the bator. I know it is important to clean it up before i put the second bunch in there and I am unsure if what I have done is enough. I made a bleach and dish soap mix scrubbed the heck out of it with a brush. then boiled 3 gallons of water...

i hatched 4 chicks out of 5 eggs set 9/7/2011 4 black and one lil white one. one of the black ones never hatched but was fully grown with the whole yolk sac absorbed. While candeling I dropped one egg on the small end. I put it in the steam incubator anyway and just watched it. 3 lil black...

My Henry ( a delaware roo roo) has a harem of Barred rock girls, so what do you call the chicks? mutts? or is there a name?

I put my americana in the bard rock pen so henry could fertilize her eggs. , but i guess they didnt like her too much. i heard a commotion and went out to investigate, The poor lil thing was hunkered down taking a beating by most of the bard rocks (10 in the pen). I ran for the pen and was...

When Henry was a baby he used to get to go everywhere with me. He even went to my daughters house and everyone held him. He lives with his own harem of barred rock girls, and remains a sweet boy this is henry yesterday. the first pic is Henry when he was days old (he is the yellow fluff fluff...

I got Sally in trade for a serama plus she paid me 15 dollars. I had never experienced chicken lice before and didnt check her for anything. This has soured me to trade for live chickens again for sure. I thank God I didnt put her with my other chickens right away. an hour after i got her i...

I bought this mini coop to keep a few of my seramas in. The girl said it housed a rabbit before. what is the very best thing to clean it so it wont make my babies sick

I really hated my 10 leg horns so much I nearly got rid of them. They bloodied each other up so badly it really upset me, and did I ever go thru blue cote. They have been laying eggs for about 3 weeks. I can count on 12 to 14 eggs a day, though they only gave me 8 today. one of the eggs was...