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I have been gone on vacation for 8 days, my neighbor who was watching my chickens said 1 died. When I got home today I noticed they ALL seem sick and I found another hen dead and 1 almost dead (I don't think she's gonna make it throught the night) I am extremely upset and need to find out fast...

I'm wondering how long I should wait before I call this hatch a complete failure? Today is the start of day 38 and with only 4 eggs that went into lockdown, none have even pipped yet. I started with 7...1 was and early quitter and 2 were late quitters (right before lockdown) I've only ever...

Sorry for any misspellings....trying to type fast.. My daughter just broke open one of the eggs in the incubator, What do I do??? There's blood filling the sac around the chick and it's still alive. We're on day 18 about to go into lockdown tonight. Do I break it out or put it back in the...

I have an LG w/air, the temps have been steady no major changes throughout (dropped to 96.4 once but only for less than 1 hour). I started with a higher humidity, 55-65% for the first 2 days, then read about the dry method and kept it between 30-45% up until day 18. Then I upped it to 60% (it's...

I have the best sister and sister-in-law in the world...they bought me an LG 10200 with fan kit incubator for my birthday AND gave it to me 2 weeks early. I have a few questions though...(chicken eggs here btw) 1. I've read to have the humidity at 60-65% for the first 18 days then up it to...

About 8 days ago my BO went broody. She was sitting on 2 eggs but when I went to candle them on day 7 they're all gone. So I just put 4 more new eggs under her tonight but am worried the same thing may happen again. One of our hens is an egg eater, so my guess is while the BO was out of her...

I just went out tonight to candle the eggs under my broody BO and they're gone!!! My husband swears he saw 2 eggs on day 2, but he never touched them, he just lifted her wing. Then I went out on day 4 to candle them but only saw 1 (agian, I only lifted her wing). Tonight is day 7 and I...

I have a BO that has gone broody on me. I started to notice on Mon. the 4th of Jan., but I've been sick so my husband's been going out for me, she could have been like this since the 31st of Dec. This is my first time so I've been reading a lot about it but I can't find anywhere that says if I...

I went out the other day to give the girls a treat and found an egg in the run that looked like it was missing the shell. I felt like a water balloon and looked like an egg that the shell had been removed from. I've heard of soft shells but never imagined them to look or feel like this one...

We were playing poker last night when my friend showed up with a Rooster?!? He had heard me saying I want one...and decided to get me one. I think he's a RIR but I'm really not sure. Does anyone have any have any ideas on what breed he is or maybe he's a mutt? Thanks in advance. Rachel

Okay, so I know everyone has their "first" egg story. Nothing big here, I'm just really excited that we got eggs earlier than expected and had to share with everyone on BYC. The only funny part was I came running out of the coop yelling "we've got an egg" and my husband thought I was yelling...

Up to a few days ago we thought all our chickens were hens. Our neighbor who has 11 hens and 2 roos said other wise. Can anyone help me determine if theses are hens or not? They're almost 4 months and the comb and wattles are really getting big compared to the others. Also it looks like the...

Hope I put this posting in the right place, I'm still new so sorry if it's in the wrong area. I need help please. I tried using the upload button, under my profile, personality, but it doesn't have a place to resize the pic (like when you upload pics to a BYC page) so what should I do now? I...

I want to start by thanking BYC for this wonderful website...so much info, it's the only place I go now. I'm really new to raising chickens and am wondering if I'm missing anything. My 5 pullets are all 10 weeks old and the guinea fowl is 9 weeks. I feeding them a mixture of chick feed and...