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That is a lot of meat! Seems like we get 80+% cockerels from ours. This winter has been so brutal, we have lost most of the chicks hatched the past couple months, and I am not sure yet what the 4 we have left from January are yet, but it would not surprise me if all 4 are cockerels. I don't...

Beautiful variety! About a month ago I had a request for "only colored eggs". I had to go through a couple weeks worth of eggs and pull out all the different greens and blues. I did put a couple brown ones in also because there just weren't enough.

That is a good idea! I like your thinking! :-D

Yay for Daryl!!! Sorry about Rick, though. I actually did play chicken and chick sounds for my rescue eggs... I take a lot of videos of all my animals, and so when the one chick started hatching, I would just stand there playing a video of a chick chirping, and he was responding to it. He...

Yay!!! Wow, that is a beautiful egg!

Oh, got a surprise when I peeked at the eggs inside. A pip! And not just a pip, but a chick working on beginning to zip! It has been several hours, and it has a nice size hole and mas made it almost 1/4 of the way around the egg, and has been sitting there with no more progress for the past...

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And a couple more pictures from about half an hour ago. I am not sure if she is planning on sleeping outside with them tonight, or if she simple moved over to the fresh straw I dropped for some dry ground and will go inside soon, but I put a pile of feed in front of her to make sure the chicks...

No progress on the inside eggs or the Australorp's eggs. I am thinking the ones inside are gonners now. They have till tomorrow to prove me wrong. The Australorp's have until Saturday, but I think they may be gone also.

Here is Buffy and her chicks along with a Buff Brahma momma and her chicks, all eating together. Everyone else was steering clear!

Woohoo, go Buffy! 10/10 Hatched! One did not make it (might have been our fault for bothering her a couple days ago), so she has 9 to raise. So, starting with 12 eggs, 2 got smashed, 10 hatched. So exciting! This gives me great hope for the Black Australorp's clutch!

I have the same kind of setup. The feed made by my local feed store is the same as flock raiser, which is why I use it, but they do not make it in crumbles. I may have to put a bunch through a blender for the chick feeders. I have always preferred to have the chick starter available because...

Oh my goodness, it is getting down to the wire here with 3 clutches hatching just days apart, and no chick starter. I have three different feeders for the chickens. One for the adults, and two for the chicks (one for tiny chicks and one for larger chicks). We have broody hens all the time...

They are beautiful birds! Also very kind and docile.

Noisy may make it difficult to sleep (I seep during the day). I have migraines and a constant headache... But I suppose it is always worth a try. They can always be moved if they are too much for my head. I have been debating on how many button quail eggs to get for that exact reason! I...

I have 6 left from the abandoned eggs that have made it, they are on day 20 right now. The ones under Buffy started late (day 22) but she has at least 3 so far out of ten, and the Black Australorp is on day 19 with 10 eggs also.

Awe, I love them! Quail and rabbits are the next ones we will be adding here, and I am super excited to get started on the quail, but I have to wait at least another month. I would rather get them now and get going! I also decided to add a couple little button quail as indoor pets. I have come...

Yes!! First of Buffy's chicks is out! Okay, so I always get super excited about chicks hatching, but usually I just leave the mommas to it and sneak out every so often and try to catch little heads poking out or get a glimpse when the momma moves. With the weather having been so cold, I am a...

I am actually pretty amazed right now... I have dragged my feet about tossing the remaining 9 eggs in my pieced together incomplete incubator, and last night I finally gave them one more candling, and I have 8 active little chicks!! Well, I assume 8, but the olive green ones I cannot see well...

Oh, no! I am anxiously awaitibg the outcome! I have read and seen videos where people have hatched eggs without ever having turned them and no problems, so I am hoping for the best for yours!