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Hello All :) Been a long time since I've been here. Moved back to Wisconsin and finally got our home in the country again. We had to sell all our chickens when we moved :( I've missed them dearly and ready to do some chicken math.

Ice, ice baby ;) our 1st 2 hour delay, but it's warming up nicely, 34 right now

That's so weird, my husband brought in one like that the other night (it was frozen). I was worried it was a calcium level issue? We don't do layer feed just because I read that the high calcium in the feed can be bad for the rooster, so had out oyster shells, but haven't filled that up since...

This is the school policy: "Administratively the “close school” decision would be triggered by a ‐40 F ambient temperature if there were little chance of moderation during the day. ". This is only our second winter up here, it was surprising with how cold it needs to be for school to be...

Car said -20 taking the kids to the bus. Hoping they are right though and we get up to 30s today. My chickens need some outside time.

We tried at first just cupping our hand around an LED flashlight, and it works, but it was kind of clumsy and I worried about hitting the egg on the lens. We purchased this one last year...

Our girls started laying a few days ago :-)

Where and when is Floodwood? Is it a bigger sale or just a little local get-together? Only poultry or selling other stuff? My sister goes to alot of different sales, flea markets and auctions (she also has a nursery business and sells alot of plants). Give me info and I'll pass it on, you never...

I was really lucky with my first hatching eggs from Meyer hatchery (had 90%) and got cocky I guess. The only ever real luck I had was with Guinea hen eggs. No more ebay eggs for me. They get here pretty fast and have been wrapped well/not broken but I just don't even think they were fertile. I...

I did not know that about the roosters, there is so so much to learn about chickens. I've just started trying to scratch the surface on genetics for raising lavender orps. I really appreciate any and all advice. I missed it too about the field time too at first. I was going back through trying...

I am so discouraged. Out of ten serama eggs one is developing (my small magic egg incubator) and we also candled tonight in our farm innovator 4250 (day 5) and seeing no veining what so ever. I have the humidity at 25% per the top reading panel on the incubator and our secondary probe. The...

Awe I hope not :/ I was reading reviews on the farm innovator incubators (the one we are trying too for our first time) and saw a lot of people mention a spike up to 105. I've got my top set at 98.0F because the thermometer we put inside is reading 38.0C with it set there. It was way to high for...

Thank you :) I tried a dry incubation on my last little batch and increased up to 65% during hatching, but they were kind of sticky (like they were shrink wrapping), so I'm a little more paranoid about it this time. You should be living up here, are feed mill was looking for a chick hatching...

I think our house is on it's way to becoming like yours. We have a small magic egg incubator on the counter (with my serama eggs) and we just broke out our farm innovator 4250 with egg turner for the first time. So I haven't used one like this before, my little one you just put water in the...

Ok silly question what are toads? What incubator do you have?

Happy frozen cracked egg day Our house chicks are happy and warm though :) Good news is next Monday shows low 30's!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend, mine was girl scout cookies and cleaning. We recieved our little serama eggs Saturday! Trying to tell the husband they can be little house chickens. I just got some lavender orphington eggs through the mail today. I always candle them to check...

I don't think we are going to show them. The kids are young and I don't know if they could handle them. I would love to know more about the SOP for them though. This is all very new for us, but something we would like to stay with.

You muscovys are beautiful. What are SQ lines? My muscovys aren't to messy either, they aren't a "in the water duck" like our magpies were. They go in the ponds but most of the time they just come lay up by the patio door in the summer. My husband wanted them to raise for meat, but that thought...