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My peahen started laying on 5/16/16. She has 10 eggs now and still isn't sitting. How long can eggs stay in the nest without being incubated by the hen before they are no longer viable?

Hello all ... I am totally new to peafowl. I have a young pair and the hen had laid 6 eggs, 2 days apart until 5/20. She didn't lay yesterday (5/22) and is not sitting on the eggs. Does this mean that she probably isn't going to hatch the eggs herself? How long should I wait to see if she will...

Since a lot of you out there like experimenting with different breeding crosses, I thought this might be fun. If you have a unique or unusual cross, what would you call it? Or if you have a cross you'd like help naming; for example ... I have crossed my Light Brown Leghorn roo with an...

What color eggs would you get if you breed a white egg breed rooster with hens who lay colored eggs (brown, blue, green, etc.)? Is the egg color gene predominent, does it dilute the egg color, or does it just revert to all white eggs?

Does anyone here know what you might get if you crossed a light brown leghorn roo with a blue andalusian hen???

I am still trying to decide whether or not to use supplemental lighting this winter ... my girls (brown leghorns) quit laying completely for about 3 months this past winter. My question is, if I add lighting, would it be better to put it in the run to simulate real daytime light or does it need...

I have an Ameraucana hen who has stopped laying. She is one of six hens. The others are laying normally. When she started laying she laid an egg every other day for about 2 weeks, then stopped laying for about 6 weeks. She started laying again, an egg every other day for about 2 weeks and...

I just rescued these 2 beauties and know next to nothing about peafowl. I'm pretty sure that I have a hen and a cock (if I'm wrong, Please let me know), but I have no idea of the age or the breed. Can someone here help me out? I don't know why part of the pics are cut off, but if you click, it...

Does anyone know what a Tetra Link is? I've seen Tetra Tint, but not Tetra Link ...

This subject may have already beed discussed, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I have several old boxes of whole grain pasta that have gotten bugs in them. The pasta has also gotten crumbly. Does anyone know if it would be safe to feed this to my chickens if it is cooked?

I have 3 brown leghorn hens that started molting and stopped laying about 2 months ago. They have always laid the bright white eggs they are supposed to. Finally, 3 days ago I got an egg and have gotten 2 more since then ... but they aren't white, they are tan. Is this normal???