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Double Yolk Eggs: All You Need To KnowMy wife generally buys cartons of 18 eggs. Over the last two weeks out of two cartons purchased at the same time there were 11 double yoke eggs...
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Easy Brace For Splay Leg ChicksThank you so much! My first little slayed leg showed up today and now I’ll use this on her. So appreciated!
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How To Tame Chickens from the StartI've learned that the tamest ones are the ones that get picked off by predators, so I no longer set out to make lap chickens. Funny that Black...- Vicker
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How To Tame Chickens from the StartI really wish I'd read this before I got my chicks! Of the ones on the list, I have Barred Rocks, Black Australorps, and Easter Eggers. My...
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How To Tame Chickens from the StartNice article and helpful for those with baby chicks. A step further would be to discuss how to 'tame' started pullets. For some of us, the only...- Bawkbok
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Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken Eggsthank you so much this was very helpful!!!- Turd bird
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All PoultryThanks for sharing this informative article with us. As a new quail-keeper I found this incredibly insightful when the chicks were hatching. We...- Esc_Quaily
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APA Silkie Chicken ColorsThis is really informative. So my little guy or gal has a lighter undercoat. Is it more likely to be a dark blue? @Noraaaaa unfortunately, I...- ChickenChick46
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Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!As a once young, and now to soon olt and too late shmott math student. It suddenly occurred to me that the author of this truly incredible piece...- BigBird 2025
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.
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 will walk you through how to incubate and hatch most common types of poultry, such as chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, etc.
Choosing an Incubator...
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Brooding Chicks: The First 6 Weeks
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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... -
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... -
Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching
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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... -
Broody Management - From the First Turkey Strut to Weaning the Chicks
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Sterilizing hatching eggs
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Proving soaking hatching eggs in an Odoban solution won't kill a chicken embryo.