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Id like to purchase 16-20 giant cochin hatching eggs as soon as possible. I prefer BBS, chocolate, or gold-laced; but would consider other color varieties. I live in southern New Jersey.

I just set a batch of 24 BLRW eggs in my incubator. I have a Brinsea Octagon 20 ECO with the autoturn cradle, and have always had good hatches from it, btw. These eggs will be due to hatch on Friday, June 3rd or so. I was wondering if anyone else had set eggs that recently and would like to...

I bought this home-made wooden brooder box, with a built-in dimmer switch for the heat light, for only $40! My DH and I had to drive about an hour each way to pick it up, but it was obviously worth it.

I have 12 5½-week-old cochin chicks, hatched from eggs that I purchased from a local breeder. The parents were a black roo over a blue hen, so I expected to get only black or blue chicks. As luck would have it... Of the 12 eggs that hatched, only one chick is blue and most are black or mostly...

I purchased fertilized chicken eggs from a BYC member who also sells eggs on eBay, and was supposed to get Blue Andalusians and Blue Orpingtons. Anyway, one of the chicks that hatched out a bit late is having some difficulties... Its left leg and foot appeared to be a bit twisted, so I started...

I recently heard about a way to sex some baby chick breeds by the "layers" of flight feathers they have when they're just starting to feather in. It only works when the chicks are very young, like within a few days old. I even saw a video of someone showing how it's done on YouTube, that was...

We are finally getting enough eggs that we can think about selling some. Some of our neighbors and friends have asked about buying eggs from us, but I wasn't sure how much is fair to charge. We have both white and brown, large egg layers (Blue Andalusians and Blue Orpingtons). What price...

I just purchased a used Brinsea Octogon 20 Eco incubator, and would very much like to acquire an autoturn cradle for it. If anyone has one at a reasonable price, please email or message me!

Okay, here's the situation... I have had some TERRIBLE luck with all my attempts to hatch eggs to satisfy a severely broody hen! I've incubated eggs, as well as leaving some under her... but still have nothing to show for it. The last attempt was using hatching eggs purchased on eBay (from a...

Okay, I'm finally at my wit's end regarding this order from My Pet Chicken. I had ordered three female Blue Andalusian chicks with no substitutions, and received the following three chicks in the mail in September. Of course, I could tell right off that they had botched the order because...

Okay, I'm finally at my wit's end regarding this order from My Pet Chicken. I had ordered three female Blue Andalusian chicks with no substitutions, and received the following three chicks in the mail in September. Of course, I could tell right off that they had botched the order because...

I was wondering if anyone else had ever noticed their roosters exhibiting a kind of "head shake" maneuver, which seems to be some sort of dominance behavior? I only started noticing them doing this after introducing new "chicks" into the existing flock of adults. The chicks were brooded in the...

Today is Day 18 and our first chick just hatched!!! I thought we'd probably have late hatches since our homemade 'bator seemed to hold a lower-than-ideal temperature range. There seems to be a second chick attempting to pip already, as well. My DH and I actually had to do a bit of...

We took in a 6 or 7 month old Americauna rooster last week, and were in the process of introducing him gradually to our existing flock, by letting him free range nearby, so the rest of the flock could get used to his presence. This seemed to be going very well, until we found him lying dead in...

I have a hen who seems to be acting broody again. This is her third time trying. She always seems to stop setting early for some reason, so she hasn't hatched out any chicks yet. I brought our three new baby chicks down to the coop to meet the other chickens this morning, but the broody hen...

The gang's all here! These are all four of our Blue Orpington chickens, one rooster and three hens. In the front are Snow (white hen) and Shade (black hen), with Frost (splash rooster) and Sky (light blue hen) behind them. You can probably figure out which hen is which just by their names...

I ordered three female Blue Andalusian chicks from MyPetChicken.com, and chose "will not accept substitutions" and "will not accept hatch day substituions", to be sent on the "first available" date. They were due to arrive this week between Tuesday and Thursday, and they arrived today. So far...

I've been wondering for the last few weeks why we seem to be getting so few eggs from our three Blue Orpington hens. We used to get 2-3 eggs a day, but now we're lucky to find one egg from all three hens. On two occasions this week, we've gotten no eggs from the girls at all! Now, this could...

Our blue andalusian rooster has been acting lethargic since yesterday morning. He still seems to be drinking and pecking at his food, but he hasn't been crowing or strutting around at all. I had him confined to a dog cage for most of the day and he spent the night in my foyer, so he could rest...

My son has seven chickens he is raising for the 4-H and they all just recently passed the blood test for good health. Since then, just in the last day or so, I've noticed that the smaller rooster (a Blue Andalusian) hasn't been crowing and he seems to be acting kind of depressed. He seems...