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Thanks - I'm glad they look okay. I'm just concerned that their earlobes have turned white over the last 2 weeks - they used to be red.

So, I originally thought my one hen had vent gleet, then someone suggested that the the white residue around her vent feather shafts might be lice -aaack! I read lots of info about both and examined my flock carefully and now I think several of my my flock may actually have Favus, aka the...

Thanksf for the advice! I went with the "All Flock" feed with higher protein content and eveyone is doing fine. They're still figuring out who's who in the coop, but getting along pretty well.

One of my Buff Orpingtons has a couple of problems and I'm looking for advice. Sorry about the kind of gross chicken butt photo in advance. Problem #1 - Developed a white discharge from vent and redness under vent this summer. Continued laying till about a week ago Have treated with baths...

My 6 pullets are 14 wks, not laying yet. They are in a pretty open but rainproof coop with attached run & have 24 hr supplemental heat lamp as temps are below freezing at night. We're in south central Alaska, so we have just under 10hrs of daylight, losing 6 min/day. We've had snow, but we...

Thanks so much, this really helped with my confusion about what I was seeing when candling. Holding the egg big end up and shining the light down through the air cell is definitely the way to go. I just removed the auto turner and locked my incubator down for the 3 day period before hatch day...

I just wanted to put this out there as a first time incubater. Well, second time, but our first batch was 100% unsuccessful due to inexperience and faulty thermometers. We're trying again, not without a little trepidation. I just candled the whole batch last night at 7 days and was worried...

Thanks so much for the info! My EE is 7 months and had a very bloody egg this morning. She has also had trouble with laying a soft egg. I guess she's just figuring out her laying strategy.

I've been reading lots of "soft shell" info and I think you're right. This was her first soft egg, although some of her eggs have been slightly irregularly shaped. I was so afraid she would have a prolapse with all that straining, and then when it continued after the egg was laid I couldn't...

Thanks for posting this conversation gals, I've been going through something very simial with one of my Easter Eggers yesterday and today. She's 26 weeks and has been laying since about 22 wks, but lays greatly varying sizes of eggs and they sometimes have what appears to be a thinner shell on...

Hi, My husband and I just raised our first batch of 6 chicks over the summer and now we're turning our shed into a proper coop for winter. We live in Alaska, so standard temps run from 10F to -30F in winter. We've already had a couple of weeks between 32F - 20F at night and I'm anxious to get...