I hatched 8 orpington chicks that are a week old now. They came from a mix of lavender, lavender mottled, porcelain, and Isabel hatching eggs that I purchased online. Out of the eight I got 6 Mottled lav, one solid lav, and one mystery chick. I cannot decide if she is a porcelain or Isabel and I...
Are you able to take a picture of the droppings? That will definitely help others decide if it's a parasite of bacterial infection. Also make sure they are they are drinking enough water because they could become dehydrated from having so much diarrhea. Good luck!
My Pet Chicken is selling hatching eggs of cream legbar X isbars that they are calling Ice Cream Bars. The color of the eggs they have posted on the website is gorgeous but there's no picture of what the offspring will look like and I can't find anything online. Has anyone tried hatching this...
Are you in Northern California? Alchemist farm has some beautiful breeds including cream legbars but they won't start hatching again until early next year. Papa's poultry has Speckeled Sussex and I believe they are still hatching chicks. I also just put a dozen olive egger eggs in my incubator...
I have 10 Coturnix females mixed with 2 males that are 10 weeks old now and I still do not have one. single. egg. They live in a 50 square foot aviary in our yard, love digging in the dirt and flying across the run, are being fed 26% natural Turkey grower (the quail grower at the feed store only...
So glad you had a happy ending! I'm putting my first batch of eggs in the incubator later this week and I don't know what I'd do without all of the helpful information on BYC!
The coop I have for my egg layers is a 10x10 run with a 4x10 house so I have enough room to keep 2 more birds. Plus they get to free range in the yard when we are home.
I also do not have a problem culling birds. We have a separate flock of broilers that we've raised and have already had two...
I have a beautiful 12 week old olive egger cockerel names Pickles who is very respectful of humans, is great protecting his girls, and keeping the peace. He is 2 weeks older than his 7 girls and when they first moved out to the coop and were too small to roost, they would all snuggle up in a...
I just bought my first incubator that is a hovabator 1602n :ya I got it used for $15 and it came with no additional accessories. You can tell it was well loved because there are a few dents and scratches here and there. But it is not in too poor of shap and I just did a test run yesterday and...
I got a mix of different breeds from Meyer Hatchery and my Production Red and White Leghorn are two peas in a pod. They have very similar personalities, are always together, and neither of them are flighty. Both of them are my friendliest birds as well, they come running to the run door even...
My chicks are 8 weeks old and I have just begun thinking about breeding and raising a few chicks for the enjoyment of it. I have a splash F1 Olive Egger cockerel and a self blue true Ameraucana pullet. I looked it up in a genetics calculator and I believe this would give me all blue chicks. As...