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Good news. The Love worked, so fast (+ a little common sense) Got chickie out of the incubator with it's now high humidity, dried her off and used a paint brush to fluff her down up, all under a warm lamp. She opened her eyes, did some healthful thrashing about and moving, and peeping, became...

...Ok... We messed up on our first run and have a staggered clutch. Hen left the nest with her two chicks leaving behind several eggs... which we candled and float tested. Seems like they're ok so made makeshift incubator out of soup pot with lid, desk lamp, thermometer and water spritzer...

Thank you for responding, CTKen! One chick hatched on Sunday. Made a special brooding pen on the ground with food/water close, been giving MamaHen drinks daily. Will put in nest as suggested. Candled again. So many eggs look to be 60% clear and only %40 dark, with a distinct "ring" (these are...

Today marks 33 days. Silkie has been on nest of mixed eggs (leghorn, silkie, Americauna). At some point the kids mixed up the eggs, so we locked the coop... the eggs then piled up in the other nests and the hen got confused and may have spent a night off the nest. We found a green stink...

I have had a silkie hen successfully hatch a healthy chick at 30 days incubation - her hatch started at 26 days and she hatched a single chick every day through the day 30. 21 days is usual for most chickens, but sometimes silkies can take longer. If there is competition for food or harassment...

Our silkie sat on guinea eggs 28 days now. This morning the nest was vacant & cold, with one egg open and a dead chick-- it probably needed another 2 or so days. Silkie gave up!? Now I have cold eggs in my shirt! Will they be OK or should I quit now? Not sure if they went alone thru night... but...

Our silkie sat on guinea eggs 28 days now. This morning the nest was vacant & cold, with one egg open and a dead chick-- it probably needed another 2 or so days. Couple hours later, nest still lonely. Silkie gave up!? Now I have cold eggs in my shirt! Will they be OK or should I quit now...

It sometimes gets around 5 degrees F here (or so, give or take is always possible) how do you think that would work with these naked necks (and somtimes largish wattles)? We don't often sustain such low temps, but at night it can get cold! ...Don't know where NN is...?

Where to find breeders/chicks of these Large, Black meat birds? Thanks!

What kind of dogs do you two ladies have? We have to watch our American Bulldog around the baby's diapers (Eiw!) but she doesn't touch the fowl poop on the porch. It would be nice or the peacocks gotta go! We've been talking new farm dog/puppy for awhile now!

Same, North America, early fall. They began laying around this time last year and all through the winter until they moulted in July (high summer). The seasons here are rather mild, as in we only get an inch or two of snow at the most, lows of 17F... Summers are short and hot. Fall and Spring...

Hello, We are pretty new to raising poultry and love, love, love it. We started with Golden Laced Wyondotts (have 4 hens), one cuckoo marans (her sister/brother met a sad, early demise) and two barred rock hens who I've noticed to be excellent foragers. We used to have 6 Rhode Island Reds...

Hello, Our ducks moulted in July and we've yet to find any eggs. We've looked and looked and kept 'em in the run (vs. free range) and, well... no eggs! So, we're going on three plus months and we miss our duck eggs :-) 3 female Welsh Harlequins and 1 drake-- seem very healthy, fully...

Hello, Ok, the low down, if you have any ideas please let me know. One chicken in the flock isn't acting herself. She had her feathers all puffed out at one point, is kind of just keeping to herself and just, well, standing there. All the others are happily scratching about for food and...

I just read about this, sorry, no personal exp. But it did say to keep him alone with plenty of dry, clean bedding/straw and that it happens due to not enough water for breeding on.

Hello, I am a fellow flockster raising chickens and ducks for our little homestead, loving the birds and rather new to it, I'll admit. My passion is art and of course I've been collecting feathers as I find them. My partner forbids the notion of aquiring more birds, especially...

Some of our ducks (5 months old) seem to 'heave' as they breath, they aren't too tame so it is only a visual observation... Their chests and back sort of... well, heave, looks like they're about to poop or lay an egg or... but it just seems to be how it is with a good portion of them. One...