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hmmm. interesting you mention the temp... when i xfered them out of the turner, I checked them and the temp had gone up to 102. I'm not sure how long it was at 102, but I can only guess less than an hour. I adjusted it and it has been steady at 100 with 60+% humidity. I just had another one...

I put it in a mug and under a heat lamp. I'll watch it carefully. (Ol' mama hen!).So this is considered a large amount of sack to be left out? Why would a chick hatch if it wasn't totally ready? I've hatched many clutches in my incubator, (and still learning) this one hatched early (day 21 is...

Hello- I have a newly hatched chick with the yolk sack hanging out. I've read to just leave it alone and it will absorb back in, and I have read to cauterize it. I read a post where the sack burst. So considering the size...what would be the best route to save the chickee? thx so much- juleeque

yes, I have had those same thoughts. :hmm especially when I see him lying on the ground getting poop all over him. I so hate culling them, we had to cull another one from this clutch early on, due to cross beek. So would a deformed leg be caused in the shell? before they hatch?

Hello, I have a little RIR that had deformed legs. I think he had splay(?) legs, but I didn't notice it til it was too late. His one leg sticks out to the side and a little to the back. The knee (?) bone is large, and thick and his little toes just kinda jiggle. His other leg is kinda...

Hello all, as we are into another batch of hatching I keep coming up with the same questions, but always forget to ask. Today I remembered!:wee 1- When I take the eggs out of the turner, I have to take the lid off. Will the cooler temps kill the chicks? Especially when its full of eggs, it...

I live in SW Arkansas, not too terribly cold. I do have heat lamps in the coops. Right now they get a 16% laying pellets, I'd have to check if my farmers co-op has a higher protein content. I make flock blocks for them that has meal worms, eggs, sunflower seeds, flax and so forth. I give them...

Oh, also, the girls are plump and beautiful, no weight loss (except for the ones who are molting and look thinner b/c of feather loss), the only ones who have dull wattles and top are those who no longer lay due to age)

I don't understand why my hens (approx 35) are eating so much! My girls free range and get laying pellets. But I'm going through at least 2-3x as much food as I was. They have full crops and are still looking for more food. I don't want to overfeed them, but could this be a sign of worms? I have...

Wasn't sure how to post this title in this forum. This is one of my Delaware's and she has this growth?? just below her vent towards her stomach. It is very soft and spongy/jelly, like a soft squishy baggie. It has 3 ???...looks like fat globules(pic 1,3)??? on the side, and there is one small...

why don't cut feathers? (on their bottoms) what about cutting wing feathers????

Well I am sending in more questions asking for advice for my "kiddies"..... Can I bathe my chickens? Like, put them in a tub and wash them sort of like I bathe my dog? I have some white hens that look very dirty, and a couple hens that have poopy bottoms. Can I trim their nails too? For the...

he "looks" like he's touching -- ???

ok thanks y'all!

so just b/c they are in the same coop doesn't mean she will allow him to mate with her? ok...being new that kinda confuses me....he mates with other adult hens when he's free ranging, so how come (maybe) he's not while in the pen??? is it simply B/C he is in the pen?? or maybe it's simply I...

they have been in the breeding pen for about 3 weeks. the roo is only 4 mo old, however I had seen him actively mating with other hens. the bad roo is about 3 yo. I have tried time out, and it works for a short amount of time. there are 2 other young roos (both 4 mo old.) of which one is in...

Hello all, I have a question on breeding. I have a roo that I like his coloring and a hen I Ilke her laying and personality and I have them in a coop to breed. But as far as I can see (which isn't all the time) they have not bred. I'd like to use the coop now for other birds, is there anyway to...

If I have a solid black hen (which is a cross between an EE roo and barred rock hen) and a roo (which is a cross between an EE roo and Delaware), what would the chicks look like?

I'm far from an expert but looks like a pullet. but I've never seen a buff orpington that color. very pretty

I have two roosters, and I wanted to breed one of my hens to roo #2, but roo #1 got loose and got to her before I could isolate roo #2 & the hen. So I've read that the hens are fertile for approx 3 weeks. If I put this hen with roo #2 now and they do their business, will the offspring be from...