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We have two flocks - one is Wyandotte's (about 8 birds) and the other Heritage Road Island Reds (about 35 birds). Recently one of the Wyandotte roosters got in with the hRIR hens and was partying. So, how long to we have to wait before we can hatch the hRiR eggs again and feel assure they are...

Well, we received our 18 Guinea Fowl eggs about 22 days from Stromberg Chickens and loaded them into our incubator. Yesterday we locked them down and at 12 noon one of the pipped. Today at 12:01AM our first ever guinea fowl keet was hatched - yeah! 17 more to go - I hope the hatch rate is good...

We had to rush our plans to hatch some chicks. We found our rooster laying dead in the coop 3 weeks ago. No idea why, there didn't appear to be anything wrong with him. But anyway, we decided to try to incubate some eggs to increase our flock and we had read that hens can continue to lay fertile...

I have a water line near where I am building my new coop, and I think I have decided on using water nipples to water the girls. My question is would it be better to plumb the nipple supply so it is fed directly from our well/pump or should I use a bucket to supply the water? Frank

I am about to build our coop and we have decided (we think) on an open air design - we live in Florida and don't have brutal winters and the idea of having as much fresh air as possible appeals to us. The coop is 6' x 6' x 8' will be placed in our pasture in the middle of a 4 paddock arrangement...

First to answer the newbie pop quiz (I would have studied if I had known there was going to be a test!) (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, we took possession of our 6 - 6 week old Heritage Road Island Reds this afternoon. (2) How many chickens do you have...