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Thank you for posting your notes for those of us who couldn't go.

LOL! Yeah chicks are crazy. Good luck with your hatch! :)

If possible can I keep my current name ( JetsChickens)

A broody is a hen that wants chicks. It's determined by hormones. Some hens go broody and some never do. If your hen is broody she will go and sit in the nest box and usually only come off once a day or every other day. When she is off the nest they have a broody cluck that they make and...

These are from a few days ago of the Rainbow Rangers Meyers offers, they were hatched mid August 2015. This one is a female next to a Barred Plymouth Rock hen (Welp hatched in 2014) and the other two are a male and a female each next to Sophie (Black Langshan hen, McMurray 2014)...

I have some pictures of the birds I ordered last year. The white cochins were hatched in May '15. The first two pics are from when they were younger over the summer. The rest of the pictures of them were taken a few days ago.

I got my Speckled Sussex girls from Welp in April 2014. Here is all 4 of them two have a lot of white, two don't. The one in the middle that has the most white actually looked identical to her sister right below her until after her first adult molt. Then she gained a ton more white, mostly...

I have ordered from 4 different hatcheries. I really like McMurray and Meyer. I haven't had a chance to order yet from Ideal, but I would like to. I have also ordered from Welp and Sandhill. I have ordered twice from Meyer and my second order for McMurray should come in this summer. I...

Were you able to find a home for him?

Only one I have heard of in Springfield, IL is a silkie and polish breeder. The closest large capacity chick breeder with a variety of breeds that I am personally aware of is Duda Lang Farms in Missouri. They are about 2 hours one way from Springfield, IL. They have a facebook and update it...

Black Langshan father over a brown egg laying hen ( of my hens that were laying at the time it would have either been a Buckeye, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Black Langshan, Partridge Cochin or a Cherry Egger) He (or she) doesn't have a name yet, I just refer to it as the calico chick. It's...

I swear broodiness is a communicable disease, lol. The wire cage works really well. I have broken 3 and am attempting to break another 4, while 6 are sitting on eggs (some fake) and three more are finally back to being normal and have abandoned their chicks as old enough to take care of...

Thank you. It had already passed. I had wondered since I could see the beak, but no breathing or movement from the body.

My Partridge Plymouth Rock hen is my first hen to seriously attempt brooding and I heard 3 of the 5 eggs chirping yesterday and today one had pipped and taken a decent amount of shell off the egg. The broody got off the nest though to run around for about 20 minutes outside, I was a little...

I hate to say this, but I am thinking of replacing my 2nd in command rooster. I have 3, the top two are Black Langshans and the bottom one is a Phoenix. I caught my less dominant Langshan grabbing a hen and tossing her to the ground, she didn't want to be mated so she stood all the way up with...

Hmm, I have eggs, but I can't promise how fertilized they are. My roosters act like they know what they are doing, but my ratio for good fertility is I think a little too high. I have 15 hens to 1 rooster and I think for breeding purposes it is supposed to be 8-10 hens per rooster? At any...

Maize or however it is spelled, the original corn and Mendel's pea plants are hybrids. Crossing similar, but different plants to get a specific result. The GMO's that Roseyred is referring to are the ones where they splice genes from insects or animals into plant crop DNA or modifying the...

More truthful words were never spoken! I LOVE mine. Not only are they beautiful, they have wonderful personalities as well. I ordered 4 as straight run with my hatchery order last year to see if I would like them. They are some of the quietest and calmest birds in my flock (other than the...

No idea. Maybe it's an instinctive thing to keep the eggs warmer? More hens trafficking in and out of the box laying on the eggs? It's funny that you say that because as of a couple days ago mine have dropped down to using just two boxes (they have 10). On topic I track my eggs since I...