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I had a broody hen that hatched out babies and I got rid of all but 1 which is 6 weeks old now. In that span of time I got 3 new chickens that are now residing where the broody hen used to be before she hatched her chicks. The momma hen is going stir crazy with the one baby she has left. She is...

I have 2 swedish flower hen chicks roughly 5 weeks old can anyone tell me if they look like Roos or pullets? [/IMG]

I'm new to this and just hatched a call duck last night. His 3 brothers seem to be content halfway in their shells sleeping for the past 16 hours. Little "goose" as we are calling him is still not dried out all the way only his underside is fluffed. How much longer can he stay in the incubator...

I purchased some French copper maran eggs on eBay and I candled them at day 6 and noticed all of them have saddle shaped air cells, they are dark eggs so I could just make out the weird shaped air cell and can't see any veining at all. Will they still hatch with this deformed air cell? Or was my...

My call duck eggs finally arrived today! I'm letting them sit and settle for 12 hours before putting them into the incubator. Hopefully I get some ducklings out of these 16 eggs!

I have 2 young barred rock pullets around 11 weeks old they are outside in the coop all day and night but I still have a heat lamp inside the coop at night, I'm not quite sure when they won't need one anymore. I recently regimes my 2 Ameraucana pullets bc they were aggressive and flighty. I am...

I purchased my first batch of call ducks and I have heard they are awfully hard to incubate and hatch successfully....eeeeekk! That makes me nervous. I have a good incubator and am prepared to defy the odds. Any suggestions would be awesome!

Hello all! I'm new to chickens and have tried incubating a few batches with no luck. I have since then got a new incubator and am expecting it soon, along with my first batch of call duck eggs. Any suggestions to incubating these little guys would be greatly appreciated. I have 4 10 week old...