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Since this is apparently a point of huge interest and more than a little confusion, let’s shine some light. Generally, people think of genetics like mixing paint. A little of mom, a little of dad, stir it up and baby comes out a mix. Then, in basic biology we learn about Mendel, and Punnet...

I donated some eggs to a summer program and the chicks need to be picked up next week - I tore a muscle and can't drive. So 4 adorable little chicks are up for grabs! Father was a Cuckoo Maran, mothers varied, but I definitely packed up some green eggs so there could be Olive Eggers. These...

I don't want them. And the banner clutters up my page. So I click No, then, Never Ask Again. And yet, it does ask again. And again. And again. Every Single Time I open the site. It's especially annoying on my phone, since it takes up a big chunk of screen. Is there a way to make it actually...

I've been farm shopping for a while. I have a big operation, so this isn't a quick or easy task. A couple of weeks ago, I drove 2 hours to look at yet another place that, sadly, wouldn't work - pasture too wet, outbuildings need to much work, price too high, same old story. But we stayed and...

Hey, @Overo Mare , @MIAMI LEGHORN , and the peeps from @The Moonshiner 's thread, over here! Poor Bessie's hock was pretty swollen at the last check and for the first time since the first day, we had to really roll her instead of just encouraging her to her other side. She either banged it...

I wanted a copy of "Start Where You Are With What You Have", which is a small book, affordably priced at ten bucks. But then there's another 10 bucks shipping and handling!!! I'm not really willing to pay double for it ... then I got to thinking, I bet a lot of other people aren't, either. So...

Today at the local sale barn I bought pheasant eggs. That's all the tag said. I think they're all gorgeous, so I grabbed them, and it doesn't really matter except as curiosity, but is there a difference in the eggs of different species? Are ringneck eggs a different color from red-golden?

I also keep dairy goats and besides my own, I'm often the one that friends call for minor kidding help (I have small hands) Farm supply stores sell lubricant for such things, but the Dollar General has small containers that are cheaper per ounce, easier to handle than the big farm jug, and...

I just got 150 babies from Ideal on Friday. They should have come Thursday, but they seemed ok on arrival, 4 fading but the rest ok. Overnight we lost 11. Everyone had their beaks dipped and a good drink on arrival. They got grogel and Dumor feed out of the same bag that my 3 week old home bred...

Ideal Hatchery sells these, so I can't be the only one with them, but there aren't a lot of pictures around and it seems as if most people haven't heard of these. I have wanted some for a couple of years now for a cross-breeding project, and finally getting them, they were supposed to be a...

I know a guy who has pigeons in an old barn he'd like trapped and removed. If I were to do it, keeping in mind these are not any particular kind of pigeons, just "feral barn rats", if I cooped them until they had babies and then did the "release one parent for an hour before feeding" thing to...

We have a brooder with 2 goslings and 4 ducklings, all from the same place, all 2 weeks old. We just fed them, same bag of feed as before and now the goslings seem to be having siezures the ducklings are fine Help! Any ideas how to save our girls?

Long story short, thanks to a young goat one of my quail pens released it's inhabitants ( will not happen again) We are still finding stragglers and sadly so is the cat. My daughter had 2 fawn hens, one died, the other was caught by the cat, I got her away and didn't find any blood, but we all...

I have one incubator. Is it ok to incubate quail eggs and chicken eggs at the same time? The eggs are in baskets so even if any hatch early/late the chicks shouldn't be able to touch and the chicken eggs are from my own birds, all healthy, less then a year old and the first birds on the property...

My babies are 3 days old. There are two, a white and a brown, who will about once an hour, stretch really tall up on their toes and make a distinctive Peep Peep Peep. I am pretty sure it is always the same two. The brown is a pretty rich shade of brown and the white is one of the bigger ones and...

I also posted this in Ducks - I hope that's ok I'd like to split an order with someone within an hours drive of 72565. All we want is a sexed pair of geese. BTW, Yes, I do know that they will ship so few birds. I don't want to do that for 2 reasons. 1- I feel that even with a heat pack, it's...

I'd like to split an order with someone within an hours drive of 72565. All we want is a sexed pair of geese. BTW, Yes, I do know that they will ship so few birds. I don't want to do that for 2 reasons. 1- I feel that even with a heat pack, it's just not as safe. When they huddle they not only...

The incubator is on a desk in the bedroom. My DD had gone into one of the drawers and left it open. I went into the bedroom to do a check and transfer chicks to the brooder, I brought my 19 month old DS with me and hubby came as well. I didn't notice the open drawer. I turned away to say...

Is agony! I have pipped eggs, day 18. I had no temp spikes but it did drop down to 98 a couple of times (for no more then 3 - 4 hours at the longest) so I thought they might hatch late. My incubator has overall had good temp and humidity, and now in the past day it wants to have a hot spot and...

To candling Quail eggs? I cn see nothing, not even in the white egg. I've candled chicken eggs from light to really dark and duck eggs with this same light and could see at least a blob-which-is-yolk or the presence of veins even if there was no real detail but the quail eggs, nothing. The shell...