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I have two 5-gallon buckets, one inside and one outside, each with 3 nipple waterers. I had a 5-gallon galvanized waterer inside the coop, but it was a hassle for me to fill and pack inside, so we replaced it with a 5-gallon bucket with 3 nipple waterers. My egg production has dropped from an...

I have a 4 month old White Crested Black Polish. The poor bird has an identity crisis. We refer to it as a "he" sometimes, a "she" other times. We named it Einstein (anyone who knows what WCBPs look like can understand). It's "she" name is Phyllis Diller. I have read that it takes 5 to 10...

Just want to share some information about the little egg business we've started... A couple of months ago, much to my surprise my DH suggested that we try selling our extra eggs. Just to the neighbors, he said. Okay, I ordered a couple of signs from Vistaprint.com, my DH found a small...

Yesterday I had a chick born with what I believe is a prolapsed vent: I put antibiotic ointment on it until I was able to get to the store to get Preparation H without painkiller. I have applied that twice now. I tried pushing it back in with the Q-tip I was applying the ointment with, but...

Having been a chicken addict for just under a year, I did not think I would experience a broody hen so soon. Boy, was I wrong! Renamed "The Velociraptor", my Ameraucana broody has so far taught me: 1. Ameraucanas DO go broody, unlike some chicken charts imply. 2. When you're trying to...

Meet Einstein, my White Crested Black Polish impulse buy from the local feed store: At what point will I know if Einstein is a pullet or a roo? I'll keep him even if he is a him, but I don't recall seeing anyone ask about the sex of their Polish. I'm hoping that raising Einstein with the...

I just put 15 of my 24 Marans eggs into lockdown for a Monday hatch. One of the eggs is an egg with a "hole" in it. My BCM hen occasionally lays an egg with a shell defect. It looks like the shell didn't set up, and it results in a soft section about the size of a pea. With this particular...

My Black Copper Marans hen occasionally lays an egg with a "divot" in it. Has anyone else experienced this type of flaw? Can anyone tell me what the problem is? They have free-choice oyster shell, so I don't think that's the problem... The spot is soft, like the shell disintegrated and...

This is the only RIR I've ever had, so I have nothing to compare to. My gut says it's a roo, but I'd hate to sell it if I was wrong. I bought it as a pullet (of course), but my guess would be that the sexer at the hatchery missed on this one... He/she is 8 weeks old. The comb looks pretty...

So, it was looking on Sunday like only 1, maybe 2, of my 3 eggs was going to hatch. I had started with 7 Wade Jeane x Bev Davis Black Copper Marans eggs, and only 3 made it to lock down. My DH and I agreed that we didn't want to have a lonely chick, so I went to the feed store to see if...

My DH called from work and asked me to come by and look at something he thought might work as a brooder. His boss was getting rid of it and was offering it to my DH for FREE. I like "Free"! "Free" is good! So, I drove over to his work to have a look-see. I took one look at it and said...

I upgraded the version of Firefox I was using, and now the buttons for replying and posting don't work. They don't even show the text. The "Post reply" box will turn yellow when I hover over it, but there is no functionality. Can anyone tell me what setting I need to change to make these work...

After throwing out 5 of 7 BCM eggs (they were my own -- I have an overworked rooster so only two were fertile), my remaining 2 eggs are pipping as I type. My question is: Will two chicks (assuming they are both healthy and survive) be enough for companionship? I'm always looking for an...

I've been tossing these terms around and suddenly realized that I don't really know what they mean. So, what are the definitions of these terms? I candled my eggs at day 17 and several of them were very bright (these are BCM eggs) with just a small dark area. Would those be "clears"...

I have 21 hens and 1 roo. The last batch of eggs I incubated from my BCM hen (I only have one BCM hen) had 1 quitter out of 7. Okay, now I don't know if "quitter" is the right word. It looked like scrambled egg when I cracked it open. I'm guessing it wasn't fertile. I just candled my...

Recently, I had the brilliant idea to buy a used baby monitor on eBay so I could hear if anything was attacking my hens in the coop. Up 'til today, all I'd been using it for was eavesdropping on all of their clucks and coos and carrying-ons when they were laying and dust-bathing indoors...

I set 7 BCM eggs on 2/2. I only had 6 that I’d been saving up (the BCM pullet doesn’t lay every day, so it took me a while to accumulate eggs). I got impatient, so I went out to the refrigerator and found what I guessed was the latest of her eggs that were in there. That was #7. I put them...

I have 2 BCMs that just hatched. Not much room in the incubator for them, so I'd like to move them to the brooder. The other 5 eggs have not pipped yet. Can I safely remove the 2 hatchlings to the brooder without jeopardizing the other eggs??

I have 7 eggs in my Brinsea Mini Advance... Question 1: My Auto-Turn will stop at "Day 2", which will be this evening around 5pm PST. That will be the completion of incubation day 19. I see posts all over BYC talking about going into lockdown at day 18. Should I trust my incubator and wait...

I recently bought a used Sony BabyCall monitor on eBay and put it in my coop so I could eavesdrop on the girls. I have the receiver in the living room so I can listen to it as I work. I had no idea it would be so entertaining! Man, they are NOISY! They clunk, they bang, they coo and cluck...