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I've been keeping chickens for about 6 years and, until recently, never had a broody hen. I was so excited when one of my blue laced red wyandottes set a clutch of eggs back in June. And then... ... another BLRW went broody, and then my Buff Orpington, and then the first BLRW finished raising...

My first broody hatched 8 chicks about 3 weeks ago. So far she has been a great momma... fiercely protective and attentive. I moved her and her brood to an empty coop where she stayed with them for the first few weeks but where she had access to the overall flock. In the past 3 days she has...

I had a broody hen hatch some chicks, abandon the nest while some eggs were still pipped to move her new chicks elsewhere, and I finished hatching those eggs out in an incubator. In all, I had three incubator-hatched chicks. The first two hatched the day of and were transferred under the hen...

For the first time in 4 years of chicken keeping, I've had a broody hatch her own clutch. She did abandon her nesting box on a higher level and move down to ground level with her chicks pretty quickly after the first few hatched. She abandoned several eggs, including at least 3 that were...

I suspect a BLRW pullet in one of my flocks of having canker... she has a greyish sore/hole on the side of her beak. I grabbed some Fish Zole on the way home and intend to start administering this evening. I'd like to also treat the entire flock she is with and found this information on...

10 week old Ayam Cemanis. 3 pullets, 1 cockerel. Black, black, black. Not a speck of white: black combs, black beaks, black waddles, black feet, black feathers. Mouths are grey-black. Greenfire lines, a couple generations removed. Note that picture is from a couple weeks ago (can get...

I have 3 blue laced red wyandottes that are about 6 weeks old. I am unfamiliar with rose-combed breeds and I am having a hard time making heads or tails out of what these guys are shaping out to be. Any thoughts? They are the three light-colored birds on the right side of the photos...

Hello All! I never really intended to keep a rooster, but last year I hatched one and I love him so he has stayed. To-date I have had a pretty small flock of the one rooster and 4 hens and he has been a gentleman. This past month I started seeing signs of over mating with first one, then a...

Hello All, I have a couple pullets have been laying for just over a month now. For the past 3 weeks I've been getting about 6 eggs from each a week with great shell quality. This morning I checked on their coop and found that both had passed soft shelled eggs while roosting at night. If it...

Hello All, Yesterday was Day 21 for my ten Ayam Cemani eggs. From them, I have two robust chicks that hatched last night and in the wee hours of the morning. My concern is that there has been no signs of life in the remaining 8 eggs... no pips, no peeps. When do you typically throw in the...

I just wanted to say how pleased I am with my little Barred Rock girl. She laid her first egg on Monday, and since then she has given us three eggs. Her first egg was predictably somewhat small, but not nearly as small as I expected. She didn't lay on Tuesday, but gave us a nice, large egg on...

Hello All, I have three 5-month-ish pullets (2 cream legbars, 1 barred rock) that are free range in my backyard. Two of them have been squatting for about a month and I anticipate eggs from them any day (or that they are hiding a nest somewhere). The third pullet (a cream legbar) despite...

A couple of my 5+ month old pullets (1 Cream Legbar, 1 Barred Rock) started doing the submissive squat a bit over a month ago, but I haven't had any eggs. How long does it typically take from they time they start squatting to first egg? They are somewhat free range as they have free access to...

Hello, I have 2 cream legbar and 1 barred plymouth rock pullets that will be 4 months old around July 1st. I was surprised to get an unquestionable squat from one of the creamed legbars today. I thought cream legbars were a breed that started laying a little later and had assumed my BPR...

Hello All, I am preparing to switch my 3-4 month old pullets off their starter food and onto a grower/pullet feed. I have only a few girls living in coop right next to my house and haven't had a problem keeping their space clean and stink-free except for their feed area. The starter feed...

Hey guys, We have about a dozen California quail eggs that have been laid over the past couple weeks. They are likely fertilized, but we aren't going to incubate them. How long are they good for when refrigerated? Do you have any recipes for them? Or conversions rates to a chicken egg if...

Hello, My bf, amaurer, posted frequently back in May after we hatched our first quail ever. I followed along and sometimes posted under his name but decided to sign up for myself. Anyways, I wanted to post the most recent pics of our quail. We have 2 male California, 8 female California, and...