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This will be our first year selling eggs and yes we will def wash them.

One of my pullets started doing exactly like your post said, I will leave her in the brooder tonight and hope she gets better

I came home tonight and was checking on my 5 week old barred rocks. I noticed one of them curling in her head under her neck and it looked like she was pecking at herself. After pulling her out and observing her alone, I noticed she wasn't pecking at herself, but it looks more like a nervous...

From Carlsbad NM, just started off myself and I love it. Congrats on getting started with your chickens.

yes, I was asking about keeping the eggs for myself to incubate. thanks so far its 7 days

How long do you have to start incubating, after your hen lays the first egg.

The coop looks great. We finally started building our coop this past weekend, I'll post some pics of it soon, since I used yours as a model to build ours. I am not a carpenter but with all the great pics u have posted it has helped a lot. The difference being that I am building it for 70...

Uh oh, with these six guineas it puts you at 21 better start planning your next coop lol. How much land do u have out there?

I am female...ChrystalMtz, my husband, male,lol... is AdanMtz. We share the same forum id. lol

mandylovespets wrote: I am a new chicken owner... Well, currently I only have one chick, but would like to get a couple more, hopefully Buff Orpington's... I was wondering if chickens and ducks would do ok living with each other???... I have a Mallard duck and a Pekin duck and my yard isn't very...

Thats what I'll work on this weekend, making them a little run outside maybe a 10x10. These birds are spoiled they get some lettuce in the mornings and some bread in the evenings, I will throw in some hamburger meat and see how they react to that. today they did not peck at each other (what a...

Sprayed them with something called blue lotion. I looked and asked for bluekote but didn't find it. Seems that the blue lotion is doing the job so far I'll keep an eye out. Didn't find the red heat lamp, but if the problem persist I'll make sure I get it. thanks again for quick responses.

from Carlsbad

I will use both the bluekote and the red heat lamp, as far as water and feed, they have more than enough(I think, I just added one of each when I put them in the new brooder), I have 2 large feeders and 2 water buckets. Thanks guys I'll keep you posted on how it is going.

NIce work man, Its looking great. Can't wait to see how u go about building your laying boxes and roosts.

I was hoping to never post in this part of the forums but today when I checked on our 19 chicks and 2 ducks I noticed about 9 of them bleeding from having their tailfeathers pecked off. I've read about chicks and cannibalism being a prob when they are/feel too crowded. Which is the most...

Quote: Well your the lucky one I love it down there. Thats where I grew up my whole life and really enjoyed it, it was close enough to the city yet far enough to have yourself a nice chunk of land. But I got a good job offer down here so here I am. We are just outside the city where we found...

Hello NM, I am new here on BYC. I presently live in Carlsbad. Moved down here from way south in a beautiful little town named Chaparral, Grew up there. I am new to chickens as well, and I absolutely love it. So hello to you everyone from NM............ Oh and just remembered I have been...

Quote: Well I am gonna look to buy us some true americauna eggs and concentrate on breeding them but thats for the future once we get everything setup for our current chicks. but yes my wife wants some color in her egg basket so maybe a few of them just for that

thanks texas star