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Does any one have a picture of a fertilized egg? Meaning one that has been cracked open. I'm curious as to what they look like. I opened one of mine the other day and it was filled with blood. The white was tinted a reddish pink and there was what looked like blood clots in it. it was quite...

Does the rooster have to mate with the hen more than once to get a nest full of fertilized eggs? Meaning could you use a stud rooster like a stud dog? They mate and you hope your good to go? I'm probably answering my own question here. It's late, I'm tired and now that I have put it in print...

My nieces come to my house in the morning to catch the bus and they like to go out to let the chickens out and check for eggs. Yesterday morning they came in and no eggs but said a hen was in one of the boxes. I went out later and there was 5 eggs in one box and one in another. Let me back up...

Just sold my first dozen. I'm a little more excited about this than I thought I would be. lol

It never fails I fill the nesting box up with hay and when I go back later to check on them they have kicked it all out. It's only one of the nesting boxes that they do it to and I don't think I have ever had eggs in that box. Today I put the hay all back in and one of the hens jumped in and...

Does it mean your chickens are out running willy-nilly on the property (which I would love to do if not for the neighbors dogs and what not ) or can I consider mine that are cooped at night and in a run during the day free-range?

This is probably a stupid question but here goes. For homecoming we do a "kiss the goat" fundraiser. The basic gist is the kids paid to put votes towards who would have to kiss the goat. This year it ended up being the principal and vice principal. Pictures were posted on a FB page and...

So I have been working on this coop (forever). Some of you may have read my rant in the "Uggggg is this coop ever going to be finished" thread. Most of it is now done. The inside itself is done enough for them to move in. Some have started laying and I have no laying boxes in the makeshift one...

I have been building it for what seems like all summer every weekend. And every weekend we say this is going to be the weekend we move them in. Well it's the end of another weekend and still no go. I am getting burnt out! Sorry had to vent.

I just had to share because I don't think it's as exciting to anyone else as it is to me. Not sure what chicken it came from other than it was a brown egg so that eliminated my brown/white leghorns and lakenvelders. My others are black austrolorpes, white plymouth rocks, a barred rock, a...

I have a white leghorn rooster who is about 5 months old and his comb is enormous! I have never see one this big on a chicken. Does testosterone have anything to do with this. Like the more testosterone the bigger the comb? His spurs are just starting to get longer. Also I have noticed the...

Lets just say my dog didn't just get sprayed he attacked and killed a skunk that was in our yard tonight. So he has a face full of spray and smells like you wouldn't believe. I have had dogs for 15 years and have never dealt with this.

I'm trying to go as green as I can and cut back on waste that goes to the transfer station. We had dinner the other night and one of the kids had a small piece of chicken left over. I scrapped all the "green" stuff together for the compost and shredded the chicken up to give to the chickens. My...

I moved my chicks out to the temporary coop yesterday afternoon. I was really stressed about this. They are about 5.5 weeks old but look much bigger than that to me. They have outgrown 3 brooders and I have nothing bigger to put them in short of dividing them up. It seems like as soon as I put...

Not sure if this is the right forum or not but I have to share. Several weeks ago (seems like it anyway) my oldest was clearing brush where we were going to build a new coop. Well in the brush he found a nest with 4 little bright blue eggs. So onto plan b and thinking of a new spot to put the...

Just pick up a handy dandy new compost maker and now need to decide where to put it. I was thinking near where I am going to put my coop (if it ever gets built) would be pretty handy but am wondering if maybe that wouldn't be a good idea. Would it attract predators? Its a black plastic dome...

I know this question has probably been asked a million times. I have 16 5 week old pullets (I think) so I'm was thinking 8 nesting boxes. So how deep, wide should they be. Should the top be open or does that really matter. I have seen both ways.

I fostered greyhounds several years ago. One I kept and the other was adopted out and all was good. Well I started working with a rescue group last month and got my first foster memorial weekend. I got the news yesterday that she has been adopted. I was so sad, I cried! wow who would have...

So my dd had softball tournaments on Saturday and we were about an hour north of where we live. We were out of chick starter as of that morning and knew we would not get home in time to get it from the Aubuchon's in our town before they closed. There was a TSC on the way home so we stopped...

Are the white and brown leghorns suppose to look the same other than the color? I got my chicks all the same day and my brown leghorns are ginormous next to my white ones. So just curious.