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My daughter is raising Rouen ducks at noon today I made the rounds before running to town, everyone and everything was good. An hour and a half later, we get home and find Ron down and not moving. He is completely limp, but with some tremors. We brought him inside and my daughter is offering...

I ordered some blue laced red wyandotte hatching eggs. Paid alot for someone who has shipped alot of eggs around the country. They hatched and are now 7 weeks and 3 days old. I don't think a one is a wyandotte. 1) has 5 toes, feathered legs, and black skin. I messaged thinking a silkie egg...

4 weeks ago we picked up 3 Maran chicks from a well respected local breeder. NPIP certified. The chicks were 1 and 2 weeks old. About 3 weeks ago, we received 9 day old chicks through the mail. Within 3 days one of them died. Some of the symptoms seemed a little like Avian...

I have a couple of daughters and nieces that are wanting to show chickens this year for 4H in our county fair in February. Of course, none of them want the type of birds that we already have. Also, we just discovered that our incubator is no longer working, so while we are working on a...

So hubby wants to design some new nesting boxes for our hens, and I'm looking for some ideas. The first big problem is that the girls are cracking their eggs. We are selling the eggs locally for eating, so every egg cracked is coming out of our pocket. We are losing almost a dozen eggs a...

So, we had some friends that live deep in a very strict community/neighborhood/whatever. They cannot keep chickens there. They told us last week that a little hen had made a home in their backyard, and that she was wandering some of the neighbor's yards as well. No one would claim her, and...

So, I'm setting some eggs tomorrow. This is going to be my first hatch in 3 years, so I'm a little rusty at this. We had a horrible time of it the last two hatches, as spring storms caused first a 24 hour power loss and then a 7 hour power lose. We had four chicks out of 36 eggs hatch and...

So one of our chicks was just about unzipped when I headed to bed last night around 11, and hubby said it was out when he came to bed. This morning around 10, I removed him from the incubator to go into the brooder with his buddies and noticed that he had a red/swollen looking area. At first I...

So I have a few questions, this is the first time we've tried incubating Marans eggs. We have roughly a dozen that were due to hatch Wed. and roughly 18 due to hatch Thurs. I have heard that they tend to be a little longer than average on incubating. The temp has been a steady 101 the entire...

Miracle Chick was a week old on Sunday, but for some reason that we can't determine he died in the middle of the night. Miracle came out of the hatch where everything went wrong. Complete with a 10 hour power outage. When we did our egg-topseys, there were 9 full formed chicks that must have...

We have a miracle chick, one out of 13 that made it through the power outages of yesterday and managed to hatch early this morning. Right now it sits and somewhat walks on it's hocks instead of up on it's feet. I've been searching the site and looking through pictures and it's not spraddle...

We had a few extenuating circumstances that lead to a few temp fluxuations, that dropped our live chicks down to 25%, then after storms came through and we lost power for 10 hrs over night, only one of our chicks hatched. We have a desk lamp over our itty biddy temp brooder box and a towel to...

So this is our first hatch. We had done our studying up, lots of reading, set up the bator, blah, blah, blah. Then after a week, we got a call that hubby was needed to do some work down south and we had to load up and drive down. I was a little worried, but we had the eggs in a turner, hooked...

We picked up these three RIRs down at the local feed store, and they were all suppose to be pullets. One is most definately not, since he has started crowing and has the most massive comb ever! Ok, maybe not ever. Anyway, now I'm wondering are my other two definately pullets who are just a...

I bought these at our local feed store, listed as Americuana pullets. From the word go I didn't really think that they were. I though from comparing some of their chick pictures that they really looked more like just EEs. They are now over 6 months old, and I was wondering if anyone could...

Ok, so I was sure that I had three lovely ladies. However, I've been gone to Alabama for nearly a month and my hubby has been taking care of our chickens. Low and behold when I get back this morning, there is WAY less black barring than we had before, their pins seem a little more pointed than...

Ok, so we got 5 chickies out of a hatching down at our local feed store (almost 3 months ago). I went back up there a few days ago, and they still had a few from the same hatching, in those tiny little chick pens. I couldn't believe it. They couldn't stand up all the way, and half of their...

Ok, hubby and I want to try hatching a few eggs around the first of the year (ok I confess just me). Problem is that we are looking for an incubator but we aren't quite sure what kind we need. Hubby is down with just a small one (for now... hahahahahaha) provided we can find one that doesn't...

Hey, I'm new. I've been lurking alittle while now. After talking about it for several months, my husband and I have finally gotten some chickens. A few weeks ago the local feed store gave five chicks away to the first 40 folks there. We believe that they are Orpington Buffs and Plymouth...