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I know 2 of the three lavenders in the first pic have to be boys but what about the one circled? Any chance it’s a girl? Also please tell me there’s a chance the blue one in the solo pic could be a girl? They all hatched on Easter. I think that’s 5 weeks today.

I have a pretty specific question. I was thinking today that it would be nice if I planted some climbing vegetables outside the chicken run on the west side that could climb up the fence of the run and provide shade but that would also drop fruit for the chickens. But I don’t know which...

This chicks mom is a buff Orpington and its dad is half BLRW and half lavender Orpington. He is blue laced with a little red leakage in his wings. I assumed this cross would give me a buff chick with a little blue leakage but there seems to be more than leakage going on. Any idea what it will...

Today is day 21 and I have 4 that have externally pipped. Two look good. Two I’m worried about. Here are pics. This one pipped on wrong end. It was like this at 5:00 this morning and there has been almost zero progress. It does appear to have broken the membrane however. This one pipped...

My chicken eggs go into lockdown today or tomorrow. Last time i hatched i used shelf liner in the incubator to keep eggs from rolling around but I cant find it this time and I am not going to the store before Sunday. Will anything else work? I know some people say that it’s not necessary to...

We have had chickens for a few years but now they are begging for ducks and I’m close to giving in but don’t know anything about it. Here are my questions. 1. I have a 6x8 A-Frame coop that was made for chickens (it’s a 2-story). Would it be acceptable for maybe 3 ducks? I could put a dog...

I posted this in another thread but I don’t think I asked the question very clearly. As you can see from the picture, the incubator thermometer is reading 3 degrees higher than the thermometer I placed in there. How do I know which one is more accurate? If it really is 96 degrees at the bottom...

So I have a kebonnix that’s reading 99.5 and 51 percent and I placed a small goabroa mini inside and it’s reading 96 degrees and 46 percent. The incubator and the small thermostat are both a year or two old. Which one do I go with? I am setting eggs Saturday or Sunday and a new thermometer...

I would like to save seed, and I did save some okra seed from last year, but I have some questions. 1. It’s useless to save seed from a hybrid, correct? 2. Does “heirloom” mean it’s not a hybrid and you can save seed from it? 3. What do people do who plant, for instance 3 varieties of...

So I planted cover crop in our garden and now I’m thinking I might want to put down some fall bulbs—tulips and daffodils. I don’t have any experience with these bulbs. The cover crop is just coming up—probably an inch high right now. Can I just plant the bulbs into the rows now? Will cover crop...

I did a 375 square foot garden this year and I did it up in rows and planted directly in the ground. It worked really well for us—other than we got a little lazy with the weeding. Here’s my question: what suggestions do you have for over the winter? Does anyone try to use cardboard over winter...

They are brother and sister. Mom was lavender Orpington and dad was a BLRW. The cockerel is blue with slight incomplete red lacing in his wings and the pullet is all black with some sheen. I know they could throw some single combs. But what about colors?

So I might be getting a couple Cubalayas (one rooster one hen) from a neighbor who got his from Sandhill. I know nothing about that breeder and I know nothing about the breed. I have a two story a frame coop that is probably about 6x8. But I’m on 5 acres near woods so I could probably let them...

So we just hatched a chick. Mom is buff Orpington and dad is a BLRW. The chick is totally yellow except for a black/blue spot on the back of its head. Is this a “random” dot or is this cross a sex link somehow? I don’t know who are the best genetics people on the board in order to tag them.

This little guy hatched yesterday. Dad is a BLRW. I’m assuming mom is either another BLRW (if so I think the chick is splash) or it’s mom is a buff orpington. Any thoughts? @MysteryChicken @Overo Mare

It’s been like this for about 18 hours. Maybe a little longer

The one closest to camera

I have four chicks who were on good chick starter for about the first 2 months (it may have been a little longer than that) of their life but then I ran out and the two closest feed stores to me don’t sell all flock and so I just let them eat the 22 percent protein layer pellets with the big...