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Hello, I had a friend contact me wondering if I would take her hyline brown hens. Up until now I hadn't even heard of them. I've done some research on them, what does everyone on here think of them?

Hello, I'm new to incubating eggs, and so far I've had my hovabator going for a couple days to get everything settled down. I got the temp steady, but even with both vents opens my humidity is still running about 60-80%. Is there anything I can do to decrease the humidity more without decreasing...

Got my first goose babies saturday. I've got 2 little africans, at least thats what I think. They are either that or brown chinese.

I've got an australorp that I've been watching since it was prbly 2 months old. I had a shipment of 25 australorp pullets ordered from hoover hatchery back in november, but now I have one that I'm really not sure what it is. I was hoping that she was just an extremely fast maturing pullet, but...

So I figured I would add my thoughts on Hoover Hatchery. I ordered 25 austrolorp pullets last friday. My chicks were shipped wednesday and were at my post office thursday afternoon. None were dead and in fact I have 27. Being that they were ordered so late in the year when everybody else is...

My girls are all laying now and some have been starting to loose feathers around there neck and now the back of their heads is this normal for hens in production? Is it the insane heat here in central illinois?(heat index is high 90s-100s) any other guesses?

I'm looking into pigeons and was trying to think up a loft design so i was wondering if anybody here had pics of theres loft just for ideas.

So ive read that potato peels are for the most part no good and only are if they have no green on them so i was wondering can you feed any potato peel green or otherwise i u cook them?

Hey everyone. So my current flock is all hatchery quality birds but I'd like to eventually start some showing. I'm still not sure what I'd like to show yet so any breeders of any breed would much be appreaciated, but my breeds of high interest are dominiques, wyandottes, jersey giants, belgian...

So my 14 girls are now about 16 weeks so they are hopefully getting closer to that time. Today i noticed one of my barred rocks would squat down(almost in a egg laying position) and she would start breathing really heavey but not panting. Is this a sign of them starting to possibly begin...

Anybody have any show do's and dont's, stories, or general poultry showing advise for newbies attending there first show?

Hey I'm colton. I'm new to BYC and chickens really. I just got my girls in february. I finally got the go ahead last year around june last year. Ive wanted chickens for an extremely long time. I always wanted to share in my grandmas stories of her childhood of tending her chickens and guineas as...