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This is my first time with baby quail and 25/36 hatched from eggs I bought at an auction. There are a couple that seemed healthy when I took them out of the bator, but last night one started chirping loudly and had it's head tucked down under it's breast and kept walking backwards. This morning...

Last year I decided I needed to have a clay oven to keep the heat out of the kitchen during the summer so this year I went ahead and built one. I started out by building a portable waist high stand for the oven. This is not recommended because the clay is so heavy a permanent base made out of...

I've got a broody that has sat on a previous clutch and started pecking the babies as soon as they hatched so I took them away from her and gave her another clutch to sit on. She's the perfect broody..... gets off the nest a couple times a day to eat/poop and has maintained her health and...

I have my red silkies (7) out in a 1/2 covered tractor now for the past month and they free range during the day so they are not cooped up with lots of litter and amonia. Now I see one of the hens has cloudy eyes and when I motion she does not react so I'm pretty sure she's totally blind...

I let my broody hen get beat up and her clutch robbed by a surly roo I've been keeping my two main standard breeds (marans and ameraucanas) separate to get purebred hatching eggs, and my last hatch for the year is in the incubator so I decided to amalgamate the flocks. I started slowly...

Would about 4 weeks after switching them to grower be long enough before I butcher them ?

This is my biggest set ever at 85 eggs. I set 70 silkie, black australorp, ameraucana, olive eggers and cuckoo marans in my incubator and another 15 of the standard eggs under a broody marans today to hatch on May 18. This will be my last hatch in the bator for this year, but if the ladies...

I've hatched about 4 doz red silkies out already this year, and even tho the parents are from hatchery stock I'm happy with their looks as I just want a flock for broodies. Now I just hatched out a light colored one with white skin and legs. There is absolutely no chance of it being cross bred...

I've been wondering why all of my black australorps have quit laying. I have one EE in with the marans and australorps so I can hatch olive eggers and yesterday I noticed her looking into the nests and jumping in them even after she had laid her egg. There was an australorp sitting on a nest...

After 2 failed attempts because of temperature spikes with my new homemade incubator I finally hatched out 8/10 chicks, 4 cuckoo marans and 4 olive eggers on Friday. I fixed all the glinches now and filled up the incubator with a fresh load of eggs for Easter chicks, so I moved these eggs into...

I have had a run of bad luck this year with trying to hatch some chicks. It started end of January when a silkie hatched chicks right during the -30 weather. The first 3 chicks hatched were taken away from her so I could feed them, but the later ones all died - they got out of the nest and...

What would be the best age to process marans cockerals? What about maransXaustralorps? Thanks for any advice.

This is my first time incubating marans eggs so I have some stupid questions. I think I've already made a mistake because I've got them incubating with silkie eggs. Reading some posts I come to the conclusion that bantam eggs hatch a day earlier usually and marans a day later...Is this...

Yesterday I set 36 silkie eggs and 14 cuckoo marans eggs. Anyone else set eggs too? This is in my homemade incubator that can hold up to 12 dozen eggs. I added a fan to it and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that hopefully everything works ok and the temp stays even with the eggs inside.

After reading a post from a newbie that wants to incubate an egg I got to thinking about the strange places you can incubate eggs in. Let's give him some ideas.... I've heard of: Beside or under a wood stove On top of a fridge On top of a computer Inside your bra Where else can you...

This is the very first silkie to hatch here, and I'm hoping for at least one more to keep it company . Mama went broody the beginning of January for the second time so I felt sorry for her and gave her some eggs. Of course we're going into another cold snap here......

I'm not new to chickens but I'm a newbie when it comes to silkies having got my first ones just 8 months ago. Well last month one decided to go broody but after sitting on the eggs for 5 days she abandoned them and so she went back in with the rest. Last week she went broody again so I've...

After setting for a couple days on 1 egg I slipped more under my broody silkie pullet and moved her and the nest to a private cage closest to the heat lamp. After 4 days of sitting I go into the coop to find her pacing up and down and the eggs all cold and dirty. I didn't think anything short...

How many eggs can a silkie hen cover successfully? Both silkie eggs and standard size. How many can a standard size hen cover ? Another question is how many different colors can the silkie eggs be? I have the standard cream color but I also have one laying a pinkish egg - this is coming from...

Is it safe to add an unvaccinated chicken to a flock of vaccinated ones?