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Almost a month ago now, a friend gave us his Welsh Harlequin duck flock. Two drakes and seven hens. We put their 8'x8' A-frame coop down in our "lower field" and tamped down a path giving them access to our large swamp/marsh/pond area (approx 1 acre size). I put a pen up around their coop for...

Picked up our TSC's last eight bantams yesterday. One is definitely a silkie. But I can't seem to identify the rest...all of whom look like this: I should see if I can get a better picture...some of them have some barring on the wings.

Hi, I'm looking to purchase some Australorp hatching eggs, preferably within driving distance of upstate NY, but I will take shipped eggs, if I can't find them locally. I am looking for no more than a dozen, but would prefer a quantity of five. I am also looking for Orpingtons (I don't...

He is otherwise healthy, is eating, drinking, and not really being picked on. His feathers are coming in quite nicely. So why is he not growing? It doesn't look like he's grown at all since he was born! He's the same age as the chick pictured with him. Maybe this is important info to...

If my chicks are being raised inside (for now), do I still need to keep the heat lamp on them? They are about a week and a half old, and it's pretty warm in the house. The heat lamp is keeping the brood box really warm...90+, and there really isn't an easy way for us to lower the temp because...

I am a first time chicken owner (lol) and my chicks are a little over a week old. I picked up some grit for them today, at Walmart. When I got it home, I realized it has added calcium carbonate. I remember reading that too much calcium is bad for the chicks' kidneys. Should I not give them...

Our last chick to hatch this morning isn't doing well. He had a difficult hatch to begin with, and we're not sure what happened during the rest of the day, as we had to leave early and didn't return until late afternoon. When we returned, we found him in a corner of the brood box, struggling...

We had our very first hatch this yesterday and finished off this morning with our final chick. We had to leave for the day and just came home, to find this one chick in the corner of the brood box, away from the light, off balance and weak. He seems a bit "bottom heavy" and can't stay on his...

I need some advice STAT, lol. My newest hatchling has a small piece of membrane that is dried right over his eye. And another piece of membrane that is dried to one of his wings. I dabbed a warm wet paper towel, but that's not helping to loosen it. I'm more worried about the one over his...

I'm so excited!!! Our first chick has just pipped! I have my brood box turned on and am ready to go!

First of all, I'm sure this question has been asked ad nauseum. But I don't have a ton of time to go digging right now. Our chicks are set to hatch on Wednesday. My husband bought a 25 lb bag of Pen Pals chick feed. The guy at the feed store said that it can be fed to them straight through...

I set my eggs on Wednesday night, May the 15th. I just rotated them at 7pm and have my timer set to rotate them again at midnight (I'm always up at midnight...we're homeschoolers and I've always a ton to do). When do I add the extra water, and when do I stop rotating them? Tonight? Tomorrow...

We are expecting 9 eggs (out of an original 17....we had high turnover because the eggs had been sitting around for too long) to hatch on Wednesday into Thursday. We have actually hatched chickens once before, as part of a homeschool project when we lived in the suburbs. But we quickly...