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Holy Cow, Anne! How did you get my avatar?!? I'm in SW WA - just outside of Vancouver. And I'm desperately looking for bantam Araucana eggs. Might you have any?

I've always used an egg turner and have had generally excellent success. The one time it didn't work was on a batch of nine hatching eggs I purchased online a few years ago - only one egg hatched, but I strongly suspect that was due more to the eggs than the incubator/turner.

I lost the last of my sweet, pet bantam Araucanas this summer. I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction to buy hatching eggs. Any advice or suggestions will be VERY much appreciated. Thanks, everyone!

Recently, something started eating away at the lower edge of the little chicken door of my coop (a wooden sliding door which gets closed every night). One morning, when I went out to open the coop, I saw the varmint - a big gray squirrel with about four hairs on its tail. Gross. While I was in...

I've been told by an oldtimer neighbor that "the only real cure" is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed, tie it around the dog's neck, and leave it there until it rots off (usually takes less than a week, he said). Supposedly, the dog will have such an aversion to chickens after that...

I live in the woods and have just about every predator on your list - haven't seen any bears around here yet! My penned birds are generally safe, despite not having a terribly secure set-up right now (every few years I have to replace chicken fencing because it rusts/rots up here in the Pacific...