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That happens.. I've had chickens lay big double yolk eggs...eggs inside eggs...eggs with only a membrane, no shell .I found one once in the run that looked like the biggest duck egg ever! I thought my brother was playing a trick on me. They do some weird stuff. I've got some now that lay tiny...

The ones with the huge wattles are trying to crow now. Now I have to figure out what the americuanas are. Thanks.

I hatched some WCBP 10 weeks ago. The first week I could tell their sex by the shape of their crest, now I can't. Half have huge wattles and half don't. Crest look mostly the same. Any ideas which is which? I need to thin them out. Thanks for any advice.

I have some BCM's that had those black spots once. Rooster and hens. The rooster also had like a white mold growing on his comb too. Whatever it was it cleared up. I don't know why he would be bleeding though.

I caught a snake killing my 4 week old chicks last Friday night, lost 3. Sunday I lost 3 more during the daytime. Something pulled their heads off through the 1"x 2" wire.I put 2 feet of hardware cloth around the bottom of the run. Someone told me to put a light and radio on a timer in my...

I guess the snake came through the 1"x2" welded wire and went up the ramp and into the coop. I have concrete poured around all six of my coop/runs on the outside with the wire in the concrete to keep stuff from digging in. HW cloth would be too expensive. A snake could come through the ripples...

I caught a 5 foot black snake in the act at 1 am this morning. It had already killed 3 of my 4 week old chicks. It had swallowed the head and neck until the they smothered and the acid kicked in then spit it out and started on another. I killed it with a hatchet. It went after the big chicks...

It took 4 shots with a 22 rifle to kill the last coon I caught. The first 2 shots were in the head. They're hard to kill.

Can turned toes be corrected when a chick is almost 4 weeks old? Thanks for any help.

Thanks. Yeah, I've got a run. The whole run is 6 1/2' x 12' with a 4' x 6 1/2' coop on top. They have about 30" height underneath the coop for run space. This is my 6th coop/run. I have 44 chickens. I'll have to get rid on some of these. I got the polish and ameraucana eggs from my brother. I...

I've got some chicks that will be 4 weeks old this weekend. I've always heard you should wait until they're 5 weeks old and all feathered up before you put them out. I have 20 in several 50 gallon plastic totes in the spare bedroom. I'm almost finished with my new coop/run, just have to make the...

I too have BCM's. Roo is from Bev Davis line. Hen looks just like the pics online. Lays really dark eggs. Both are feather legged. Now this is my first time ever using an incubator. I watched today as they hatched. All black with a little white on the breast. THEN comes out a yellow,beige chick...

How many chicks could I keep in a 50 gallon plastic tote? And for how long It's about 38"x21" and 17" deep.They will be hatching on 5/29/16. I just candled some today and all seem healthy. I didn't realize so many would be doing so well. I have amerucana,black copper maran,silver seabright...

I just bought and put together a chicken coop/run that was on Craig's List. Really nice. It's T-shaped with a 8x4 run and 5x6 half run and half coop. The 6 nest box are on the outside. It has 6" ceiling with a shingled roof. All treated lumber, heavy duty. It was less than a year old and hardly...

I had a rat that was digging into one of my runs and eating the remaining crumbles every night. I feed mine usually twice a day, if I'm not working 12+ hours a day. I put just enough in there so they will get plenty to eat but not have much left over. I put some rat poison out, big green balls...