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I am curious to have the low down on the pattern of behaviours you can expect from roosters as they grow. I have more than a dozen roosters at the moment of varying ages and the only mature roo is a bantam silkie who although a gentleman is overwhelmed. It seems to me cockrels are rather like...

There are two of them, they are absolutely wild, they hold their bodies very upright and tails straight up, weird beards and wild nostrils. I can't get near them till they come in for the night so I had to try hard to get these pictures today ( except last two taken as chicks).

I have just had some hatching eggs arrive with each egg wrapped in bubble wrap. When I tried to unwrap them each egg has scotch taped holding the bubble wrap on the egg perhaps as a way to start the wrapping process more easily. Up to 25% of the surface of the egg is covered in glue. I...

I have five Greenfire Farms Swedish Flower Hen male chicks about 7 weeks old available for pick up only. None are crested but all very pretty. Will not be able to hold on to them much longer due to space limitations and need them off to their new homes ASAP.

I just discovered a horrible rotten egg smell coming from the incubator. It came from one tray,( day 10) from one breeder. Of the twenty two eggs half were smelling and some had started to develop oozing spots on the outside of the eggs. Of course I tossed them but what do I do now?? Do...

I was 7 days in and the snow hit and we lost power. Thinking it might be short I spent the first night heating water on the stove and trying to keep the eggs warm. I kept them at 80 degrees for 24hours and then had to give up. The temperature dropped to about 40 to 50 degrees in the Bator for...