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Been looking for a university study on shipped egg mortality I saw through a link on a post in the last 6. years on BYC Anyone remember the study or a link to it?

For years i hear people say diseases can be passed through hatching eggs Id like to know which as not one person has said which .im not talking about eggs you eat only those that can affect your flock

Hi Looking for silkied or frizzled Serama eggs or show quality serama eggs. Particularly lighter colors Prefer no solid black if possible . Picky arent I ?

Have silkies 5 weeks or so that i think may have cocci but not sure now. This is day 3 of Corid treatment i see no improvement and 1 died...2 others very weak so while ago I added antibiotics because no bloody stool now brown and white but still very ill not eating or drinking These will...

Hi All ive incubated 4 yearsor so quite a few eggs but always dark eggs so seldom saw veins. Now im incubating silkies eggs so the veins are a new experience to me... Question If some of my eggs are late and i see shadowed forms and NO veins are they dead?...Would i be able to see veins at...

i hatched. Only one silkie baby out so far.Hes 4 days old.. Hes grey with a porcelain head poof. I neglected to mark this egg. What would you get if you cross a porcelain roo with a black hen? What would you get if you cross a porcelain hen with a cuckoo roo?. Those are my choices for parents

Need expert help.. Had 2 inkys going. put new large eggs into my turner where silkie eggs were. Other inky had a few silkies also. Turner jambs so i put all eggs in cartons in other inky fix turner put silkies back in and just 2 other eggs This was 2 days later. Lockdown comes. I keep all eggs...

Ive been hatching a few years now and understand humidity factor but i wonder if Anyone has read somewhere how long the humidity can be too high to drowned the chick..I somehow dont feel it could be minutes but more like hours. But then thats guessing.

I have a Lemon Cuckoo Orp Roo and a hen hatched from the same hatch..The hen is not cuckoo just Buff.. I read a cuckoo roo over a buff hen results in cuckoo .They are free ranging right now.. The egg I took was hers but there are other roosters free ranging also .A Lavender Orp a pure black...

Some of my hens were over mated by too many roos backs are bare.Put the 7 in with just one Not too zealous Roo but their backs seem really red almost rash like solid red.Its been 3 weeks.no feathers. Nor less red.What could this be. its molt with most of mine right now also.Rest of the hens...

Ive bee unsure on this black one in front boy or girl? .4 months old tomorrow I looked last night thought its comb was narrow like the other black in back but not as wide or rough as the porc in the second pick Same blk in 3rd pic. In this photo look wider than the girl in back IDK What do...

My Slikie babies 7 weeks old just went out in the run last week. I bring them in at night still. and check them once an hour. I go out 3 days ago and 2 are out escaped .. One fine put in one i see sitting head buried in feathers not moving. The yard has a lot of LF grown roos. I cant seen...

Thought id start a thread just on behavior of chicks or chickens that is either cute surprising or unusual. for any one who sees their chicken do something and wants to relate to chicken people what they saw...since nobody else cares. Ive hatched chicks for quite a few. years . had...

Hope you hatchers all come join me on the April hatch a long We will have some hatching excitetment. Set my own Silkie eggs March 11..April 1 st should hatch.Found a stinker already! Cant wait to see what colors i get Sonetimes its interesting to list what incubator your using. I have...

Wonder what is true definition of an EE A hen that lays a colored egg? a chicken hatched from Amercanana or Aruacana and another breed .colored egg layer or not? A chick born of an EE and another breed? Are they EE? Anybody know for sure? I have some EE hens that are crossing with a few...

I have 2 male lav amercauna roos and one that look just like my other 2 females .this morning a male and what i thought was a hen were jumping at each other with neck feathers up .Will hens do that too.?

My lavender orp hens have been without a LO roo since early winter.Lately a stray roo or 2 are coming in to visit them .They are not laying at this time due to some really cold weather. I am putting a new LO roo in with them very soon My questiion is if they do lay any eggs within a month of...

The feed bags pile up fast around here.I hate to throw them away as they seem to be waterproof and are extremely strong.So i try and reuse. I line the coops bottom with them I have a few 2 X4 coops Once they are dirty i can either pull them out shake or wash them off or throw them away Also...

Hey anyone within an hour or 2 from st louis have any Catdance Silkie chicks or eggs they will be selling about March or April?

My lavender orp hens have been male heavy on their hatchlings..I have a new roo..although the hen determines sex can a new roo possibly help change the gender of the eggs that hatch?