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I tend to go for theme names, my oriental birds got fun names : Miso, Moochi, Nori, Nigiri. The main layer flock got : Carol, Maggie, Michonne, Denise, Sasha, Morgan, Jeri, Jadis, Madison, Ofelia, and my newest rooster that I might keep, Negan. :oops: (Kinda keep track of who was original...

I live in NW Oregon and ordered from MyPetChicken in the bringing of April (2yrs ago), the chicks arrived the day after hatch in great shape. I have also order from Ideal hatchery located in Texas, and they arrived quickly as well around the same time of the year.

I use colored pencil after finding out my normal pencil started to rub off/wear off. I was scared to use a sharpie incase it would seep into the egg, good to know you guys do use them!

My BCM almost always lays eggs with blood spots, it is actually a rare experience if we have one without. 2/3 of her eggs hatched in April, her eggs are too dark for me to candle and ever see anything in them, but I am guessing they must of had blood spots in them, since its a very very rare...

Awesome thanks, I will do the freeing of the mamma and chicks this weekend. She is probably the most fierce of the hens and has always hogged treats...Hope she loves those chicks as much as her meal worms :P

My first hatch this year was from a double broody set up. The two girls would not split up, I was trying to break them, then gave up gave them 4 eggs to see if anything would come of it. Well they did hatch 5/6 eggs (looks like the silkie visited them) and they both are mothering the chicks...

I was worried about that as well, and thats another reason we decided to keep her and the chicks in the main coop, everyone can see them but not eat them :) Hoping they are use to them by now! There are some other threads with similar cornering off runs with chicken wire to give babies a safe...

Kind of hard to see, but inside the "cage" the brooder and her chicks, outside is in the main coop and brooder #2 is still hovering and calling the chicks. :( She is much better now (will be week 3 on Monday).

I put in a water and a feeder in her segregated area, the ones I used back when she was a chick. I will see if I can figure out how to upload a pic.

Can you close off the nest box she is in? What we just did for our brooders was we made a lite wood frame (think rectangle box shape) covered all sides with left over hardware cloth and nailed it to the opening area of the nest box (we actually covered two boxes due to the way the out side...

I started the way you are thinking of starting. I had 4 CX that I picked up at the feed store and it worked out well for me for a few reasons: 1)CX are nothing like my beloved egg laying hens who I spend way too much time with. 2)CX have a expiration date if you will...they are not meant to...

I have just gone through this very thing! 3 roosters, one was planned, two were mercy saves from the freezer camp..anyway, yes too many roosters for the amount of hens and since I can't free range atm, so the hens have a harder time getting away. What we did was build a bachelors pad for two...

VioletFeathers, I had ordered a silkie pullet last April from MPC and she turned out great (and a she). She is a little smaller than the ones I have gotten from McMurrey years ago, but she is healthy and actually lays quite well and has 5 nicely formed toes on each foot. This pic is when she...

Red light might be less intrusive, I have never tried one. I got my ecoglow on amazon, think there was a special for it so was a small bit cheaper (not much). There is also a thread on here about a Mama heat pad sounds like a home made ecoglow type of thing. Good luck :)

I have done both, this year I did the eco glow and have to say the eco glow worked out much better! Less worry about possible fire and the chicks seem to feather up quicker, and no deaths. I did have to show some of the chicks the way under before they seemed to understand it was nice and warm...