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Hello everyone! I am thinking of getting a new farmdog for the farm and need some advice. The family has always wanted a husky, but the facts of their high prey drive have put that notion away since we have chickens and goats. But, I have seen members of BYC that have full-bred huskies around...

Hello everyone! looking for advice... all the eggs that made it to lockdown had hatched EXCEPT for one egg. It is day 21, and this one has not pipped, but I cant tell if it has internally pipped. I candled it, and it is still moving, but i'm worried if something is wrong with it. Is this normal...

Hello everyone! I am about to put 2 dozen eggs in my incubator tmrw, a dozen of them are going to be some cream, lavender, and opal legbars. The other dozen are mixed breeds from my flock. I have not had good luck with incubating lately. I put 20 eggs in a month ago, and only 10 hatched. I'm not...

Hello! I am just about to hatch a 2 dozen batch of chicken eggs using dry hatch. I was previously doing wet hatch, with so-so hatch results, but decided to try dry hatch. My results was a 90% hatch rate, and I love doing this type of hatch. I'm wanting to do everything that can be done to...

Hello everyone! I have had a broody hen that hatched out 2 chicks from her eggs, then 2 more were added, in place of 2 dud eggs. She hatched/adopted the chicks little more than a week ago, and she hasn't walked out with them or moved out of her cage she brooded in. I thought that after they...

Please help anyone! I am incubating a few duck eggs, and I am, today, on day 27. I Have a duck who hatched yesterday, at noon, after pipping the morning before. As she pipped, there was another egg that was rocking and peeping a little. That was about 48 hours ago. I am real worried, as I have 2...

Hello everyone, I am incubating some duck eggs in the Nurture Right 360 incubator, and I need to change the temp... I know it says on instructions to hold menu down for 3 - or 5- seconds and you can change temp, but i don't want to change the days left countdown. If the countdown shows day...

Okay everyone PLZ help me out here! I just finished candling all 10 of my duck eggs and a few of them have huge air sacs covering little less than half of the egg! It almost looks like it is a saddle air sac that can be in shipped eggs, but these are my ducks eggs... The eggs are alive though...

My hatch in the incubator just ended and there is this one chick that is walking on it's... knees, I guess? It's not walking on it's feet, but on her leg all the way to the "bend" on her leg - I don't know the word for it - but she doesn't look good. She's walking around, just not as much as the...

I don't know if posters will use this new branch-off from the the 2012 post, "What did you do in the garden today?". That post has A MILLION reply's since then on the makings of everyone's garden, and I thought it would be a refresher for a new garden going-on's. And so that anybody that has...

I had gotten my first batch of 4 Silkie chickens about 10 weeks now, and I gotta say, I thought some people said that bantams are smaller than regular chickens but man, they are small! They still look like they are 5 weeks old in regular chicken size! They have even been through one batch of...

I have a MAJOR problem with one of my pullets (chicken) and i'm hoping yall can help me with it... So, this chick has been having this problem for about a week, where her bottom half of her foot can't move. she can kindof move her leg to try to walk but her toes are curled and she hobbles as...

I just found one of my chickens had fallen into the water barrel for our cow and he is shivering, hackle feathers rose up, and he is just a little bit breathing heavy, a little like Darth Vader. I don't mean alot, but when I first found him, he was pretty bad - breathing heavily I mean. Now his...

CALLING ALL CHICKEN VETS (Even if you aren't a vet)!!!! My BO hen has been sitting in the same spot in the barn for a few days now and only moves around a little. I mean, she still moves around, but shes not out walking with the flock. Her feathers are looking a little ruffled and her comb is...

So, a few weeks ago ( I think:( ) my Buff orp hen went broody. It surprised me because she had just started laying about 2 months before, so I waited 3 days and she still was broody and only getting out once a day for a/b 3 min. I was still researching about broody hens and it didn't dawn on me...

I am currently on day 19 (almost day 20) of my incubating chicken eggs. One has externally pipped, but only pushed up the shell a little as a pip, so no beak that I can see. It's been about 9 hours since it pipped, so I may be getting a little anxious. Should I be worried? Also, I have one egg...

I am incubating 11 eggs in my incubator, 2 of them are turkey eggs. I didn't research enough when I found that they incubate for 28 days and most people, when putting the eggs together, put turkey eggs in first for 7 days then put the chicken eggs in, so they would hatch around the same time...

Ok, so I just put in my 11 eggs to hatch in my incubator, and i've got the humidity to 60%. The thing is, the fan in the room is turned on low, so it messes up the humidity by fluctuating it. Like, it'll be at 58% one check, then the next will be 60%, then 61, etc. Is that bad for the eggs...

Major dillema here friends!!! I may sound dumb, but this is one ques. i've had for a while. I have 16 hens currently laying, and I KNOW they are laying only in the 3 nesting areas in the barn. But every day, i'll get a different number of eggs. 2 days ago, I got 10 eggs. Yesterday I got 9 eggs...

I posted about this yesterday, but my polish hen had all the signs of broodiness, walking around puffing her feathers, staying in her nest box VERY long, and pecked at me while I was looking at her. Today, she is not broody. I've had this same problem with my other hen, and she didn't commit...