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Thanks Arizona Desert Chicks for confirming a black sex link. I've heard lots of good things about them, so I'm not disappointed - I was just a bit surprised when this one that I thought was supposed to be all black started getting brown feathers!

Quote: Possibly...? Except mine has black legs and a black comb... One of the other pix looks like the black sex link pullet might have black legs, though in the photo they look more slate. Mine has definite black legs. I've never heard of a hen with a black comb - so it must change as she...

Quote: Sex link hen is good. Tell me how you know that. What are the clues? (I've looked all over for a picture of a bird that looks like this one with no luck at all - that's why I thought maybe a mutt...) Thanks!

We got this chick at a few days old from a feed store. They had a bunch of babies all together and weren't totally sure which breed was which. We thought we got an australorp, which I have never had before - but aren't they all black??? The person at the feed store said they got the chicks from...

Quote: Thanks for your comments, Basic Living - Obviously some modifications to where the mama and baby are need to be made so they can't escape. I think that would help a lot. I will try again tonight and keep my fingers crossed...

Quote: Makes ya wonder how they ever did it without us, doesn't it? Since my earlier post, one of the babies in with mama slipped out of the nest box, got out of the coop, out of the run (the door was open cuz my girls free range in my yard during the day) and was crying lost in the yard...

Quote: We don't have a rooster, so no, it wasn't fertile. (Do twin chicks ever hatch? I hadn't heard/thought of that before.) After I took the picture I fryed it for DH. Very tasty double yolker. When I first saw the egg I kinda walked funny - sympathy pains for whoever laid it. I suspect...

In another thread I got suggestions on what to do with my broody hen, and decided to get some babies to put under her. Last night we tucked the 3 babies under mama (I felt like Santa for chickens - waiting 'til it was dark and quiet and leaving surprises for the morning ) The broody seems to...

One of our ladies laid this MONSTER egg and I wanted to share pix with you. It measured 3 inches long. And was HUGE around its girth. Here it's surrounded by normal-sized eggs:

Quote: Yup, unless you have fertile eggs to put under her immediately available. Set up the wire cage so there is air flow under it, like up on blocks, and put no nesting material in there. This cools her underside. Takes a few days. Do give food and water, of course, just no nesting...

Quote: I just imagine myself being dunked in the equivalent of a 5 gallon bucket of cold water and couldn't do it to one of my hens. Rather than shocking her out of it I'm more interested in helping her satisfy her need to do the broody thing. I may see about getting a fertile egg...

One of my golden sebrights is broody. We don't have a rooster. I left an egg in the nest box for her to sit on yesterday, but am unsure of what to do... Would it be a good idea to get a fertile egg for her to sit on? Is it wise for me to leave an unfertile egg for her to sit on? golf balls...

Quote: Fascinating. I love knowing the background/story on it. I will use that ratio when I'm ready to sell my eggs. Look up the Fibonacci sequence and the concepts associated with it. Here's one example: Take a playing card and divide its surface into a square and a rectangle. You will...

Quote: Fascinating. I love knowing the background/story on it. I will use that ratio when I'm ready to sell my eggs.

Hi Davaroo Thank you for your very informative post about calculating what to sell eggs for. I'm curious to know where the 1.618 markup figure came from?

Welcome! You couldn't have come to a better place for getting started with your chickens. What kind do you have? We love to see pictures.

This one was definitely a step beyond the nasty goopy diapers I changed that I thought would prepare me for just about anything.... Our chickens have sure opened up a whole new world for us !

Thanks for the cheers b.hromada - this was our first experience with anything other than healthy and happy birds. Chickadeedle, I hope you have similar success with the honey. (It is truly an amazing product.) Let us know how your quail is.

A few weeks ago we noticed one of our BR's had poop stuck to her rear feathers. My husband held her and I hosed her off - and discovered a nasty icky mess under the poop and feathers. I did a search on the forum and learned it was a prolapsed vent - she must have been the one that gave us...

It's been waaaay too long since I jumped on the forum, and I thought this was a fun share to get me back in the game. After mowing our lawn today I stood back and admired how lush and green it was. It's never looked better. I know our chickens are the reason. We haven't used any fertilizers...