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Hi BYC, There are some great pre-existing threads regarding hen integration that I am just trying to absorb like crazy. Definitely like the sound of the 'introduce them at night, accepted in the morning' and thinking we might try that but also going to do some exposure in a "can see but can't...

Hi all, Our flock currently has about 23 hens and 3 roosters. We ordered pullets but never got rid of the 3 roosters. There are two RIR and one Colombia rock. We believe this is a fairly decent rooster to hen ratio (I think 7:1 is generally cited). Anyhow, our roosters have had ongoing problems...

We are on our 3rd round of hatching, for 1 and 2 we had about a 50% hatch rate. Read some posts about dry hatches and decided to give it a try. We just entered lock down and upon candling every. single. egg seems to have some activity. Normally we would expect to remove atleast 10/41 with...

Hi all, just completed our first ever round of egg incubating and we ended up with 7 chicks. Did our best to follow all the advice on the internet, much of it from posts here (so thank you!) and we feel like we did not too bad. We have learned a lot about more carefully selecting eggs etc., and...