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I read wrong about how to count my incubator days. I counted the first 24 hour period as day 1 so I have put this batch in lockdown on day 17 instead of day 18. Any thoughts? How bad did I mess up? Humidity and temp have been just right but it's now day 20 (2 1/2 days in lockdown) and the is no...

This is our second time incubating with a very UNsuccessful first attempt last year. Tell me please what you guys do when it's time to stop the egg turner. Do you take the turner out? Leave the eggs in? Put the eggs in cartons? Increase humidity and temp I know but how should the eggs be...

We have trimmed the wings of all our hens exactly as show on a page we found on BYC. Problem is, they are still flying out of their 4' fencing. I'm losing eggs because they are now laying wherever! :( We only cut one wing so I'm wondering if we should do the other as well? Even our huge...

Ok I saved 30 EE eggs over a weeks time. Kept them turned and the correct temp. Lockdown commenced on Friday and in the middle of the night we hatched 4 healthy and 4 not so much. It has now been over 16 hours since these hatched and there is NO sign of any others getting started. No...

He/She is about 9 weeks old and very docile. Any ideas what breed?

I got some misc. chicks from a friend and was very excited when I thought several of them were easter eggers. (We already have 4) They all have the fluff by their ears but they DO NOT have green/gray legs. 5 are normal color and 2 others are black. Soooo.....can they be EE? Or what other...

New to "meat birds" and have 10 Cornish Rocks that look ready to slaughter. How much should they weigh when it's time to do it??? Need to know b/c we thinking of doing it tomorrow.

I got 10 Cornish at one week old and am getting conflicting info. about feeding. I have supposedly the right kind of feed for their age (4weeks) but someone said that I need to stop free feeding. As of right now they are confined and don't free range. Hopefully this week I'll fix it so they can...

We just got home with 11 baby chicks. Should be about 2-3 days old. One is lethargic and not eating or drinking despite being shown where/how. She'll drink if I hold a drop on my finger above her beak. Mostly lays around and have never seen her eating. Any ideas how to get some food in her w/o a...

How do you protect your garden from free-ranging chickens? I need a cost effective way b/c mine are making a real mess of it and there's nothing even planted yet!

Our current situation is that we have two separate flocks in two separate coops with two huge separate runs. The first bunch were raised and it was several months later before we got the others. The first flock were all raised together and there is one roo. They will not let other hens join them...

In the water? On the skin? Injection? On the skin? I've heard all of the above....any comments on what's best for leg mites?

While we were gone yesterday, somehow our bantam roo got into the coop with the older chickens. Abraham, our full-grown EE Roo protected his ladies and beat up little Romeo. He was able to fly up and get on a high ledge and stayed there, probably most of the day. When we got home he was bloody...

My daughter was given this bantam for her birthday. Does anyone have an idea what kind it is? His name is Romeo and we want to find him a Juliet. LOL:) More photos below. I'm leaning towards the Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantam. I pulled up images of the Black Tail Buff Old English and it...

Settling a dispute with my MIL.....She says we have Dominique but I've read that pure Dom. have rose comb only. Ours have single combs....very large. Thoughts? This one is about 14 weeks old....obviously very well fed. LOL

I bought 2 young "White Leghorns" or so I thought. They are now 18 weeks. I have others (Barred Rock, Sex-Links, Gold Comets) All of these are only 14 weeks old. Yesterday we got our first egg and today another. They are brown not white, like I would have expected from White Leghorns. Anyway, I...

Good morning all, 1st egg ever here on Cedar Ridge Farm!!!! Laid by ??? Not the 18 week Leghorns because it's a brown one. Next chickens are only 14 weeks old! Yea! Didn't know chickens could be so exciting. LOL She was even smart enough to find her way into a nesting box that I had...

We saw our black snake entering our chicken run last week. He's been living here for many years.....way before we had chickens. He usually stays in our lumber pile then goes in our building when he sheds. Anyway, we heard the chickens squawking and looked in.....snake on the way! I don't want...

We saw our black snake entering our chicken run last week. He's been living here for many years.....way before we had chickens. He usually stays in our lumber pile then goes in our building when he sheds. Anyway, we heard the chickens squawking and looked in.....snake on the way! I don't want...

I have a mixed flock ranging 8 weeks old to 17 weeks old. They love treats of course and I use them to go where I want. Found some wild bird seed very cheap and a huge (50lb) of plain bread crumbs. Ok to feed both of these?