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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksWe recently raised 3 Plymouth Rock X chicks down one the kitchen table. Now at 7 weeks, it appears we have 2 roosters and one hen. It was... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksSure fire way to know if you have a hen. If it lays eggs it's a hen. If it crows it's likely a rooster. Although I had a hen once that crowed. I...
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksGood article! I find the wing sexing method at 2 days old to be very accurate and it helps not letting you get too attached to that little... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksThanks a lot for this comprehensive and useful article, particularly about colour-sexing. In my experience, however, 10 weeks is too young to... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksThis article was very helpful! I have found that the shape of the feathers is a great way to figure it out. We believed one of our chickens was a...
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks:thumbsup Thank you for such a great article!! I’ve heard of the wing sexing before and tried...
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksYour posting’s and tips are very helpful .I’d like to see more post about quail eggs and guinea...
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The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up a Chick BrooderThere is a ton of good info here, but I can't rate it higher at the moment because you have a...- 3KillerBs
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How to Stay Sane During Incubationgreat article lemon-drop! thank you for taking the time to write this. it is funny, clever and...- SummerTheAnimalGirl
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All PoultryThank you so much for this article. I just incubated 10 eggs. Only 5 hatched on their own. I...- freevet
Hatching Eggs & Raising Chickens
Hatching baby chicks from eggs is an exciting and rewarding process. Learn how to incubate eggs, take care of hatchlings, and properly care for brand new fluffy chicks.
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry
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Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions... -
Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!
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Dear esteemed colleagues, there is a well-known and documented phenomenon known as “Chicken Math” effecting our coops, though there is little... -
Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors
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My early brooders Six years ago when I got my second batch of day-old baby chicks, I thought I had arrived at the ultimate solution for a... -
Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken Eggs
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CANDLING PICS: Progression Through Incubation Thanks to ZooMummzy, I am doing a test run of my little plywood bator and her little rooster... -
Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day
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This is an explanation of what is happening each day as a chicken embryo develops, complete with candling pictures. The egg I am using is a silver... -
Integrating new birds at 4 weeks old
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Integrating as young chicks is much much easier than older birds, setting the space up to facilitate might not be so easy but well worth the... -
Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise Chicks
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Using a Broody Hen to Hatch and Raise Chicks A broody hen is a great way to hatch chicks for you and your flock. She will do all the work... -
Incubation Humidity
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Relative Humidity (RH) “humidity” – simplified, is the amount of moisture present, relative to the amount that would be present if the air were... -
The Beginner's Guide to Incubation
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The Beginner's Guide to Incubation This guide is intended to help people new to incubation learn how to properly incubate and hatch eggs. It... -
Adventures in Hatching - When Things Don't Go Quite as Planned
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Hi there. I'm long-time chicken keeper with a lot of experience, but even I can get so caught up in making sure humidity is perfect and the... -
How To Tame Chickens from the Start
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How To Tame Chickens from the Start Many chicken keepers these days have friendly, tame flocks of birds they consider to be their pets. People... -
How To Raise Baby Chicks: The First 60 Days Of Raising Baby Chickens
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Raising Baby Chickens—The First 60 Days Getting and raising chicks is exciting and may even be a little nerve-wracking time for backyard... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks Well, it’s that time of year. The chicks are in, we’ve fallen in love with their adorable appearances... -
A Viewpoint on Managing Roosters
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Introduction The content in this article is not intended as a definitive guide to the stewardship of roosters. It is an account of my personal... -
Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching
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Brooding Chicks: The First 6 Weeks
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Whether you've just hatched your own chicks in your incubator, an ordered batch of chicks from the hatchery has just arrived, or you brought home... -
Aggressive Baby Chicks and How to Stop the Behavior
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Each spring I see countless cries for help from people with a day-old baby chick who is terrorizing the other chicks in the brooder, pecking at... -
Yes, You Certainly Can Brood Chicks Outdoors
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I brooded my first chicks the way most of us learned to brood chicks...in the house, in a big box, with a heat lamp. It was a hoot at first...