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My embden goose started laying 2 weeks ago. She laid 3 hard shell eggs then only soft shell after that. Maybe 3 or 4 soft eggs. She hasn’t laid an egg at all in 3 days and she seems to wanna sit around a lot more than she used to. I walked out to her today when she got up it looked like maybe a...

Quick summary I have porters fall fire variety ordered. I think I may have gotten ahead of myself by doing this but it may work out in the end. I wanted to produce 100% fall fire poults which I see now will not happen I will produce the parent sweetgrass and red sweetgrass which breeding back...

Duck eggs been in 2weeks lost heat for 9 hours. Any chance they’re alive got heat back on at 4 am. They got down to 70s.

I’ve always raised bourbon reds because they are what most people around my area have. I’m selling my last 2 hens in the morning and will be Turkey free until May. I’m trying the tiger bronze and the fall fire from porters. I wanted the sweet grass color and saw that fall fire will produce this...

I’ve been trying to figure out when she will start laying it seems every article says something different about when they start laying anywhere from 9 months to 3 years and the male sexually mature at 3 years. Looking for some real world knowledge on them if anyone has some. I think they’re...

Starting another batch of meat birds I’ve always used crumbled feed but found pellet feed a lot cheaper this time. Has anyone used both any pros or cons to crumble over pellet?

I have 2 leghorns I know ones a hen but I swear I had 2 white eggs last week but ones really looking rooish with a larger red comb. Hen on the wooden plank roo standing in dirt?

We have 5 silver appleyard hens and a drake. 4 of the hens have been laying consistently for several months we get 3 to 4 eggs a day. I dunno which hen isn’t laying and she’s never laid an egg how can I find out which one it is other than mounting a camera. Anyone else ever had a duck hen that...

Tom was walking wobbly kinda falling over leaning against things. He would stand and act like he had wry neck or gazing. Sometimes he would stand wings dropped head down. I finally able to catch him he was so weak his left ear was capped with yellow scab. We pulled that off puss came out of ear...

Is the silver laced wyandotte a roo?

Last time we processed our birds we used some heavy duty scissors that worked but I’d like to get my wife something easier for her to use than the straight handled scissors for this next batch. I don’t want anything cheap I want something good that will last. I’m a buy once cry once person that...

I hatched 18 quail they were 11 weeks old I brought them to my farm and put them in a 300 sq ft pen wrapped in chicken wire with a 10 inch skirt all around except for one 4 inch wide spot. I came back today 2 weeks later I have 3 quail left. 👏👏👏👏

I bought from Meyer last year didn’t lose any birds. I want to buy 80 chicks this year so far tractor supply is best price at 1.87 each unsexed. I’m in Alabama does anyone know of a place to buy the chicks cheaper that 1.87?

My 3 hens have always laid what I call regular colored eggs just cream color with spots. Recently one is laying pure white eggs they look like duck eggs no spots and elongated instead of the usual tear drop shape. She’s also trying to go broody but only laying every 3 days or so but she’s...

I have 2 other roosters that act like roosters but this one doesn’t crow or try to mount. Not sure if it’s a he or not the coloring looking like a boy.

It’s a male and female. She has the grey feathers on her back end. They both have the prettiest blue eyes guy I got the eggs from said he wasn’t sure what breed they were.

I’ve been having a issue recently when my poults pip the shell it looks like yellow great stuff foam surrounding their beak and they’re suffocating and dying. I’ve hatched out a lot of turkeys and never had this problem other than the last 2 batches. I have a humidikit hooked to the incubator...

Feels liquid inside not sure if I should pop it and put something on it?

Porters calculator says breeding my bourbon tom to my blue/red hen can give me slated bourbon reds. I can’t find a picture of this anywhere what would that look like.

Trying to find some better pictures of known full blooded bourbon red poults. I don’t trust these googled internet pictures. I’m trying to figure out which ones of mine may be bourbon and which ones red bronze. I think I have it figured out the red bronze has a pattern on its head and the...