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Is that normal or are they doomed? Everyone was jumping around in their shells a few days ago when I mass candled and I wanted to get a peek before I locked it up and bumped the humidity. I didn't see any movement at all in the six I checked. I'm sitting here wondering right now if my chicks...

All the stuff to build one more coop! DH will be gone for the day and it is going to be nice outside. So here's the plan: I have four pallats, one good window, three sets of hinges, slat wood, two pressure treated 2x4's, a box of drywall screws, a box of finish nails and two pieces of tin...

Murphy's law strikes. My silkie has been sitting in the same spot on no eggs for four days now. Until recently she laid eggs in the nesting box right along with the others then 2wks ago started leaving them on the floor of the coop. Good or bad I have been collecting them. The only roo I have is...

My hens are JG, BO, Hubbards, and the roo I am concidering using is a RIR. I am going to try to hatch some eggs and have been checking for signs of fertility every time I crack an egg and it appears that my roo has been doing a good job. The question I pose to anyone with experience in this is...

O'kay, for some people the first egg is a huge occasion...but I have a ee who has been laying in different and might I add, strange, places for weeks. Yesterday I had what I thought was a fluke...she actually used the nesting box. Today I have hope...she did it again! I'm sure it's her because...

My DH dug a hand opperated grinder out of the barn a week ago and showed the neighborhood kids how to use. Scoop a coffee can of corn into the hopper then turn the wheel by hand, the ground corn goes into a bucket then into a bin. I figured it was a novelty that would wear off quickly and we...