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So, I bought some marans and Welsummer eggs online, and they went through a very rough shippment. Most of them didn’t make it, however one did. Its a maran. Today is day 21, and the chick internally pipped about 24 hours ago. I was very worried about it, so I opened the blunt end of the egg a...

So, I just put some Marans and Welsummer eggs into the incubator last night. They were shipped and got stuck in a few towns along the way, so shipping took about a week. Along with this, they seem as if they had been dropped a few times during shipping as well. A few eggs were broken when they...

Hey guys! I’m looking for some Marans hatching eggs. I’m thinking 12 eggs would be a good amount because I just want a few to add to my flock. I would like some dark eggs to add to my egg basket and I would also hope to hatch a Marans rooster to breed to my Easter eggers for olive eggs. I live...

Hey guys! I recently got 3 Angora goats and they have been so much fun to raise. we are planning on shearing them in a few months. I was wondering if anyone has any shearing brand suggestions that could be used for angoras, or any shearing tips in general? thank you!

I have a group of 9 speckled Sussex mixes, and most of them are boys. 2 are girls, but there is one I’m not sure about. Any ideas? It’s the gray and red one They are 8 weeks old.

Hello! So I have incubated chicken eggs 2 times in the past. Today, a friend of mine gave me one of her duck eggs for me to try to hatch. She had 7 ducks, and unfortunately they were taken about a week ago, so she wants me to try and hatch the final egg that she has from them. Is hatching duck...

Hello! I am setting 16 eggs tomorrow from my own chickens. I just plugged in the incubator and it is currently stabilizing. This is my second ever hatch and I’m super excited! The chicks will be going to the farm that I work at after they have hatched. Any advice is greatly appreciated and I...

Hi! I and looking to buy some bantam hatching eggs. I have 28 chickens, 5 of them bantams. I am hoping to increase my bantams. I am open to any breeds, but I would prefer ones that are fairly cold hardy because I do live in the mountains where it can be snowy and cold. I have looked at many...

Just got my very first baby goat! He was born on January 31st (eta: this is also my birthday, so this was super cool.) and he is sooo precious. He is staying with his mom at the farm he is currently at until he and his brother (unborn) are old enough to come home with me. This little guy is...

Sooo... I made a major dumb rookie mistake. I have a broody hen that I was planning on breaking. I just hadn’t gotten around to it. She is broody in the box with barely any shavings left- all kicked out. Most of the other chickens don’t lay in those boxes, so I figured it would be ok to not even...

I just got this card from a friend of mine that bought eggs from me. She is so sweet! How do people show you their appreciation?

I have a bantam cochin hen that may have wry neck. I noticed 2 days ago but i didnt give it a second thought. Today its worse. I gave her some nutri drench, but im not sure what else to do. The other birds dont pick on her. She is about 8 months old and she eats dumor chick feed.

One of my friends raise ducks and she was asking me for help. 3 of her ducks have swollen feet-one ankle and the other 2 with swollen toes. She has looked at them and she doesn’t see any scratches or injuries on them. She thinks it is an infection of some sort because the area is warm and soft...

When I was checking everyone out on the earlier today, I noticed one of my favorite girls, nugget, had a very swollen bottom. I don’t know what it could be! I know she layed an egg yesterday because I got 19 LF eggs and I have 19 laying LF girls. None of the eggs were different than normal. I...

I got a silkie chick and he/she is almost 6 months old. I haven’t heard any crows and my current rooster hasn’t picked any fights at all with the silkie. He/she is very sweet and will run up and stand on my shoe while I’m working out in the coop. I have been told by many BYC peeps that he/she...

So, today my beautiful frizzled polish silkie passed. She was one of my favorites and she had the softest cutest feathers. I took it very hard. I don’t think it was a painful death, but I don’t know the cause. I had checked on them 30 minutes before and she was acting fine, so my guess would be...

My girls are about one year old now, and they have been egg laying machines! I have seen little smears of blood on the eggshell when they first began laying, but never this much. Are my girls ok? Nobody was acting off today and I got 17 eggs- about average.

This morning, I fed my chickens as normal, and they were all standing around eating. As I was about to turn around to leave, one started to flap like crazy, and the feeder was seemingly attached to her face. I panicked. I ran over to calm her down, and I saw that a wire on the bottom of the...

My little frizzle polish silkie mix, Harriet (or harry), is about 17.5 weeks old. When she/ he was about 14 weeks old, I posted and no one knew the gender. I’m hoping someone can help me out. She(I hope) hasn’t crowed, but that could be because I have an established rooster in their little...

Hello, I have 5 eggs that are on day 17 from my own flock. I decided to candle to see if they were on track. The tip of the egg was clear, apart from a few blood vessels. They were all moving around, and most of the eggs were dark, except for the air cell and the tip. Is this a problem? This is...