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I have 9 barred rocks that are the oldest of my 33 chicks/chickens. The BRs are 16 months old. Last week I noticed one of the BRs (Merida) in the nest box at night. Her comb was kind of pale and she seemed a little thin but otherwise okay. The next day when I was on my way home from work my...

I have five 2 1/2 week old silkie chicks hatched and brooded by a Wyandotte. I noticed yesterday that one of them was not as vigorous acting. Collected him up and noticed he had some pasting but vent was not obstructed. It's really hot here so I thought that he might not be getting to the water...

I have a 13 week old Black Java chick that I found sleeping in the nest box last evening. When I picked her up I noticed she was very thin. This morning when I put out food for the flock and opened the door /she was the last to come out and she walked very slowly and didn't even try to eat...

Found this in the run. I have some twelve week olds. Two are reddened up so I thought they were cockerels. Even if they were pullets I shouldn't think they would lay white eggs. Maybe it fell out of a tree. Any wild birds lay white eggs? I have some white leghorn/cream leg bars. Sometimes...

I'm in Tennessee. My neighbor found a dirt nest in the ground in her garden area. It had three white eggs in it about the size of a small chicken pullet egg. I believe they were white, the one I saw was pretty dirty and rotten. The other two either hatched or were eaten. We have not seen any...

Thought this might be a good place to tell some of my observations that might be of interest to others. I started with my first chicks(10 barred rock pullets) almost exactly a year ago. Five weeks later I got 14 more chicks (2 BLRW, trio of CCL, 9 white leghorn X CCL) built a nice 9x9 coop with...

I had had eggs in the incubator for almost a week when I had a pullet go broody. I was quite excited to her have raise my incubator chicks. She was sitting on two eggs. Before I got her moved she had gotten up and returned to the wrong nest box twice. I never thought they would continue to...

I have been using these two thermometers in my incubator. Removed them for the picture. The digital one has started showing lower and lower temps but the other has stayed consistent and at 99-100. The thermostat temp on the incubator itself shows 38*C when not disturbed. So I'm assuming that the...

I just hatched some chicks in my new little incubator for the first time. I don't have my chickens separated by breed and I have two roosters. I just collected some eggs and put them in the incubator. My hens are 2 Crested Cream Legbar , 4 Half CCL/Half white leghorn, I have one blue laced red...

I'm on day 15. If the air cells look too small and with no water added at all the humidity is 10-20 % should I do that or continue to try to stay around 40%? Here are pics with the air cells drawn on days 8 and 14.

I had a my first broody gal a few weeks back and was excited because I preferred to hatch that way and let her do all the work. But as I read up on BYC about broodies I decided I needed an incubator in case my girl quit with some expensive eggs under her. She ended up quitting before that point...

I had read that white eggs are, of course, white and that brown eggs are white eggs with a brown coating and that blue(or blue/green) eggs are blue all the way through and that olive eggs are blue with a brown coating. I have some pullets that are half CCL and half white leghorn and some of...

Is this chicken, BLRW, male or female? It will be 20 weeks old tomorrow. It is very tall, taller than my 25 week old barred rocks and bigger than my 20 week old cockerels that are a different breed. Started getting red comb and wattles early but then they never got really big. I have never...

Got out first egg out of 10 BR pullets last week. They are my oldest at 21 weeks today. Then over the next 4 days we got two more. None of those were laid in the nest box but they were perfect little 33-34 gm brown eggs. This morning one was laid in the nest box I left it to encourage...

I have 10 Barred Rock pullets that are almost 20 weeks old and 14 chicks that are a combination of CCL, BLRW and SBELs that are 15 weeks old. Five of those are cockrels and the rest pullets. I notice that there are feathers here and there all the time but none of them ever appears to be...

Read on BYC about putting different age chicks together. I have 10 Barred Rock pullets at 8 1/2 weeks and 14 other (different breeds) at 3 1/2-4 1/2 weeks. I have taken them out to the run a few times recently. They were fast outgrowing their brooder. So I took them out mid day today and they...

Went out when it was nearly dark to close the chicken coop. Checked inside to see that everything looked okay. Of course it was even darker in the coop and I could not see all 10 of my 8 week old Barred Rock pullets at first and was about to have a heart attack, but then I looked a little...

The lowest roost in my coop is about 3 feet off the ground. I had discovered my Barred Rock chicks could get up there but they continued to sleep in a pile in the corner. I had read several folks say it was 10-12 weeks before theirs had started using the roost. But when I went to close up the...

Went to the garage to check on the chicks ( two weeks old tomorrow) and several were standing around an area looking at something. As I got closer I saw one peck at the something. Then I saw a chick half buried in the pine shaving. Thought they were attacking it because it had gotten injured...

I was on here 4 years ago, asking questions and designing my coop. The building of it was going to be more of an undertaking than we could manage at the time. But..I wanted it the way I wanted it and I would rather wait than go with something less. Well, we are finally building our coop. I...