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    Yoga mat or shelf liner for bottom of incubator?

    My incubator delivered and I’ve set it up. I’ve been reading as much as I can since this will be my first time incubating eggs. I have an order for 60 quail eggs from MyShire that’s pending shipment. My question is can I use this foam yoga mat if I cut a piece to size to protect the...
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    The rats where I live are getting really big….

    He didn’t manage to break into the run to eat the chicken food in the hanging buckets at least.
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    Cornish cross hatching eggs?

    I can’t seem to find out why Cornish cross hatching eggs aren’t available for the back yard flock keeper to buy. Is it just that the big hatcheries that keep the parent flocks don’t want to deal with small orders?
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    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    I’ve been reading this forum and some of the articles here about quail since I think I’d like to have a small covey. 1. I read here to not keep chickens and quail together. From seeing predatory tendencies first hand I know chickens would definitely try to catch and eat any quail kept within...
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    Adult hens getting into medicated chick crumbles?

    I dumped the dregs of a bag of medicated chick feed in the run for the chickens to scratch around for. It was maybe about 1-2 cups worth. I didn’t think about it being medicated feed until after I had done it. It shouldn’t cause any issues with the adult hens getting it if it’s a one off treat?
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    Chocolate Orp gender?

    Chick is 6 weeks old today. Too soon to tell? The flush of pink in the comb and wattles is making me nervous.
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    Welsummer or Brown Leghorn?

    This chick is 5 weeks old and is supposed to be a Welsummer pullet. I had brown leghorns with my last batch of chicks and at this stage I honestly can’t tell the difference. Do I have to wait and see if she gets white earlobes? Or is there another way to tell?
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    Yet another heat question!

    My first couple batches of chicks were spring hatches so they were feathering up as the weather was warming up. That made it a no brainer on when to remove the heat plate. This years batch was hatched Oct 14th...so 5 weeks old tomorrow. Their tiny 12" x 12" heat plate worked fine for the first...
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    Chick not adjusting to wearing a leg band?

    This is Gimpy. Gimpy hatched Oct 14th and seemed fine on arrival on Oct 16. The next day she seemed to have a bit of pasty butt so that was cleaned up. When I put her back in the brooder just after that she was favoring her left leg. I gave it 24 hrs and checked her again, seemed fine on...
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    Who is who and which is which?

    I received 12 chicks yesterday and am having a hard time figuring out which is which. A couple look very similar. Here's my order list and numbered pics of everyone, except what I think is the splash ameraucana. I got home from work today and went to check on them and found her barely alive...
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    Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

    I started 2025 with 9 hens, close to the max my run will support as I'm limited on flat usable land and cant free range. I swore to myself no more chickens in 2025. I'm currently down to 3 of my OG hens due to rehoming chickens I didnt like/didnt fit with the flock. I made the bad choice to...
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    Brooding outside in the coop in October

    Soooo....its late but chick fever has finally beat me down. I was just cruising my favorite hatchery's website and 90% of the breeds I want are available and hatching on Oct 14th. I prefer to brood out in the coop on the floor in a dog crate with a heat plate from day 1. October high temps are...
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    Broody??

    Can a hen go broody with out camping on a nest? I have a wheaten marans hen that stopped laying, her comb got pale, and she started making the ticking timebomb (or so I like to call them) broody clucks when walking around. But she has not picked a nest to monopolize. She's still out in the...
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    Egg glitches and egg laying question…

    I have only one dark brown egg layer (a wheaten marans) so I know for a fact both of these came from one hen in a less than 24 hr period. The egg on the left was laid last night around 1am while they were on the roost. When I got home from work I picked it up out of the poop tray and looked on...
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    Hoop height calculator?

    I know I saw a calculator or maybe a infographic on how tall/short a hoop coop could be made depending on how wide you make the base. I'm drawing blanks trying to search the forums for it tho. Anyone got it bookmarked?
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    Mites or a feather eater?

    I have 7 hens, no roo. Two of the hens have very raggedy or bare patches around the base of their tail. One or two others seem like they are starting to head that way with the tips of their feathers around their tail looking broken off. I don’t see mites on them or the egg cases on their...
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    Vent Gleet

    My salmon faverolles has had a messy butt the last couple weeks. She’s just come into lay and this seems to coincide. She’s also the lowest on the pecking order and very much easily stressed. I originally just thought it was stress and coming into lay. So three days ago I gave her a butt bath...
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    White Speckled Brown Egg

    This is my black sex link pullet's first egg. I understand the white speckles are just the way the bloom has been deposited. My question is, will she likely continue to lay eggs with the bloom speckled like that? I think it's pretty and hope she continues to lay eggs like that, that...
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    Aging of chicken poop question

    I have two new raised beds I’m putting in next to my garden. One was finished being built in the fall and I filled the bottom with all the spent plants I cleared out of my garden, some wood chips, two 5 gallon buckets of chicken poop that I’d scooped from my poop boards then topped with the soil...
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    Humidity and frostbite

    I posted this at the tag end of an old topic, but wanted to bring this back up as we have another cold snap coming. How to mitigate frost bite with out adding heat? I have temp/humidity sensors inside the run (which is roofed and blocked from prevailing winds by the coop/shed but with no other...
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