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I have a rooster who is a cross but I cant figure out what he may be crossed with. His mom was sold to me as a brown leghorn. I dont think she was a brown leghorn. 1. She laid brown eggs (the other one laid white eggs) and 2. She had a poof on top of her head. I think she was a crested cream...

Strange how things work out. I had a chick that was 11 weeks old out in the run. I thought it had gotten too cold and so i brought inside to the grow out brooder. and hour later it wasn't doing well. So I figured, well I could do my first cull and butcher on a bird that was clearly not going to...

I am getting my first set of cornish X in on Thursday. I have read you can start to butcher the birds around week 3 but I was wondering if they were any reasonable size at that point? I am not wanting to go the full 8ish weeks since that would be a bit too big for my personal needs. I was...

These were hatched. All but this one coincides with my order from Meyer. I had two of my own eggs in there. They were tiny light brown eggs. I don't have Rhode Island reds in my flock. It looks red in the second pictures but you can really see the grey on it's wings in the first picture. I...

ETA: Better pictures I recieved black sumatras, blue andalusians, white Cochins, partridge rocks, and partridge Cochins. There were two suspected Mille Fleur d'Uccles from my own flock in there. This little one is an odd man out. Any ideas? No feathered feet, yellow beak and legs and light...

Meyer Hatchery. I had a lot of chicks ordered in multiple shipments and a lot of "adopt me," and assortments. I lost a lot of chicks recently to a weasel attack. This is one that I was wondering what kind of breed it is.

I have this chick, among others, that I do not know its breed. This one is so pretty that I was wondering what it will become? Its down is light yellow, legs are medium yellow, and the wings are bluish black/grey and white.

i had a malpositioned one and a slightly shrink wrapped one. I saved the slight shrink-wrap (it was dry on its wings/back but everywhere else was still very moist. The malpositioned one had its head over the wing looking away from the air cell.

I ended up putting a wet paper towel in there about 30 min ahead of time. It rose the humidity up quite a bit. I then got the fluffed littles out (there were two not ready just yet so I left them in there). When I replaced the top the humidity stayed at 50% and went to 60% within a minute. I got...

I had most of my bantams hatch on Day 20 and now we are 24 hours later and A LOT of my standards haven't pipped yet but some actually have started. I know its bad to open the incubator with pips and they can survive 48 hours but one standard just hatched and they pecked at him quite a lot. I was...

I read that bantams may hatch as early as Day 19. When should I put the eggs in lockdown? I set them in the morning of March 16

Mine actually have longer feathers then that on the tips of their wings about 3/4in. They aren't as white though. I love them all, my husband just loves ducks so he doesn't care what breed they are lol.

Yup, they have 2 Tupperware deep dishes so they can do just that. Yeah I thought they may be a bit older then 2 weeks. Is it normal to have a redder band on their wings? It may be just skin under the feathers, they weren't being so cooperative.

I got these ducklings at TSC a week ago. She said they were a week older then the other ducklings in the tank. I have a sneaky suspicion these ducklings are a bit older then 2 weeks... They have feathers growing on their wings and they are absolutely massive. I know they are pekins. Yes they...

Milk soaked on a paper towel will get your oil off. Then rub with water. Milk binds with oil, think about oil from hot peppers in your throat, you drink milk not water because water makes it spread worse. Just clean the milk off after you do it with some water so it doesn't smell.

I sell my eggs to a store, 1.50 for medium to x-large, the 1.00 for small-peewee. I am raising chicks and hatching eggs for selling as pullets to neighbors who have asked me for some. The more the word gets round the more people approach me. Once they figured out I had incubators or ducks man oh...

Lol. I hope they all hatch for you! Thankfully I have lighter shells to curb my curiosity until then!

Should I cull a bantam egg (its a partridge cochin bantam) that I received in the mail. I didn't notice at the time but it has multiple crack spots with hairline crack going to them. Is it savable (there is a little chickie in there growing like nothing is happening)? If so what is the best...

I have two incubators running already. My addiction is very new. I had 4 non-starters in the first that was on day 7 so I put 4 new ones in there along with 42 in the other incubator. I figured if I had non-starters in there I would just migrate the 4 over whenever there was space lol. Mad...

When do you make a verdict on dark eggs? I am on Day 7 and to be honest on either side of the egg I can't see any veins in the eggs. I can't even see the air cell from the smaller side but I can see it if I shine the light on the fat end. I don't flip the eggs I just shine it from the top down...