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Hi! So, I have 3 four week old ducklings that I hatched in my incubator. I bought the eggs on eBay from a seller that advertised Indian Runner eggs. This is my first time with ducks, so I really didn't know what the ducklings were supposed to look like. I'm now starting to doubt that they are...

I want to see your duck coops! I've been researching for weeks, and I'm trying to see what works best for ducks as far as housing. Google isn't helping much. I've been raising chickens for a few years, and I'm planning on setting some Welsh Harlequin and Saxony duck eggs in March. My chickens...

Well, I know what breed I have and I know the gender. But I'm not super familiar with silkie colors, so I want to make sure I keep the right ones for my god daughters who would like to show silkies in 4H next spring. I had their eggshells DNA sexed and these are the females that I hatched. I...

I just wanted to whine a little bit about the male to female ratio on the chicks I just hatched. Almost all of the chicks that I wanted to keep are - you guessed it - males. I hatched 6 serama chicks - 5 are male. Out of the 14 silver & gold laced orpingtons - all but 2 are male. I only managed...

I'm currently hatching serama eggs in one incubator, and I have silkie and orpington eggs in another, all hatching within a day or so of each other. I've hatched/brooded silkies with large fowl before with no issues, but I've never hatched seramas. I know they can be really tiny, would it be a...

So, my Orpington pullets are 9 months old. 4 out of 5 have been laying for several months now. We hatched chicks that are several weeks old from most of them. But I have one black orpington hen that's just an oddball. She's HUGE. I'll have to get an updated picture of her tomorrow, but she's...

This week I tried expanding my 80 sq ft run with some omelet fencing covered with aviary netting. I spent a while trying to make this work (more hours than I'd like to count) and when my husband came over to help, he suggested that we just build a larger, permanent run. I'm obviously not going...

I will preface this by saying that my husband and I have just about no skill or talent when it comes to carpentry. The biggest thing we've built together is a shelf from Ikea. Okay, maybe that's a little dramatic, but you get my point. So what did we decide to do? Try to build a chicken coop...

So, I’m still new when it comes to chicken genetics and I just hatched 6 chicks from my current flock of hens in the incubator. 5 of the eggs were the exact same color/size, and the chicks from those eggs all look the same. The 6th egg was a different color, and that chick is the only one that...

I used to have The Chicken Fountain, and LOVED it. When we moved to an HOA, my mother in law inherited our old coop since we knew the style wouldn't be approved in our new neighborhood. We eventually moved our new coop to our acreage and I have a waterer that I don't love. Lo and behold, they...

Okay, so I need to see if I can come up with some creative way to provide heat that I'm not thinking of... or someone to tell me I'm out of luck and there isn't a crazy scheme that will work for what I'd like to do. Either way. So, I already have an established flock of 5 orpington hens and an...

Last week, my husband built a couple of 4 inch PVC pipe feeders and installed them in our coop. Our chicks are 4 weeks old, so I'm not sure if this will still be an issue as they get bigger, but within a few hours of installation, our 7 chicks managed to kick out ALL of the food that was in the...

Okay, so I'm going into day 19 of my first egg hatching extraordinaire. So far I think I'm failing epically, but that's beyond the point. In incubator #1 I had 6 buff Orpington eggs (shipped.) I'm down to one lone egg. It was moving yesterday when I started lockdown on day 18. I marked the air...

Hi all! I don't really come here seeking advice or work-arounds, but I have an interesting HOA situation that I figured some might find entertaining, or at least view it as a cautionary tale before buying into an HOA, hah! Sorry it's so long, apparently I'm in a story telling mood. I live in a...

First time hatcher here! I currently have two Brinsea Maxi II (one EX model and one Advance) incubators full of chicken eggs. They are currently in cardboard egg cartons because all eggs were shipped (MyPetChicken and Meyer.) Everything is going well so far but I got to thinking... can I really...

My friend has two Polish chickens that are 18 weeks. All of her other chickens are definitely pullets (sex links and RIRs) but she said that she's been hearing crowing in the morning, so my best guess is that it's one of the straight run polish. She sent me pictures of the suspected crow master...

So, my chickens are almost 13 weeks old now and I'm starting to think about the nesting boxes. When they were smaller, I had the area blocked off so they wouldn't get in the habit of laying in there but now that the hardware cloth has been removed, I'm clueless as to what comes next. Our entire...

This is my friend's polish chicken. It's about 11 weeks old. We can't find a whole lot of info on how to sex these birds, so we're hoping someone is more skilled with this breed. She has two, and this comb is more "spiky" than the other polish that she has. There isn't any color to the comb...

I have three 6 week old EEs and I'm dying to know if they're pullets or cockerels. Bought at the feed store as pullets, but after giving away our Welsummer "pullet" yesterday due to it's rooster status (we're not allowed to have roosters here), I'm really hoping these three get to stay. First...

So I posted previously about one of my three Easter Egger chicks feathering out way more slowly than the other two. This is still the case. While the others now have good sized tail feathers and are starting to get chest feathers, this chick still has no tail feathers and is very slowly getting...