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I have just purchased a new incubator 'the RCOM50' I put eggs in it on the 8th and was going to candle tonight. BUT woke up this morning to the most incredibly awful stench through out the whole house! One of the eggs had exploded.....YUK!! There are another 49 eggs in there and its only day...

These 3 are isa brown x gold laced wyandottes and they are 16 weeks old. These ones are a silkie cross and are 16 weeks and wont stay still for a photo These are doing my head in! I just don't know

Hi all, please help This chook is roughly 16 weeks old and started gasping for breath late yesterday. I first thought because i had just after I had fed them and it had eaten too much and was being a pig! Still doing it today and I have separated it from the rest of the flock. Could this be...

Ok, so i have a paddock which will eventually house all my chickens. It is about 40 meters x 30 meters and I was going to build a 5m x 5m coop in the middle then divide it all into 4 separate coops with runs so each will ens up as a 20m x 15m run with a 2.5m x 2.5 m coop. hope that makes...

Hi all, I would love some guidance for my new coops and runs. At the moment i have fences and chickens with little runs ect everywhere, LOL So I have a roughly 40meter x 40 meter paddock (probably more) that will eventually house all my chickens. I am planning on building a 5 meter x 5...

Hi all, I have this very cute silver gray Silkie. 14 weeks old and I just don't know if it is a boy or girl?? Any Idea on how to tell?

I live on 10 acres in Melbourne, Australia. 3 years ago I started with three big black australorp x new hampshire chooks. Today as i sat in the grass in the backyard breaking up bits of bread for the mums and chicks....I started to count them...OMG. There are 4 broodys that are in the...

Hi all, Can anyone tell me if these are roosters? 1) or this one? I know these are not good photos but any assistance is appreciated. 2) 3) Thank you!

I purchased some bantam pekin eggs from a woman who was not surprised when I told her none of them were fertile. She then gave me some isa brown x goldlaced wyandotte eggs to hatch. Well out of 12 I got 4 hatch, can't say I will ever buy eggs from her again! This is what hatched...... They...

What colour would you call my rooster? Not the best photo for color but he is mostly blue splash with lemon / yellow coming through on his head. Do I call him a lemon blue?

I have a beautiful little silkie who went broodie three weeks ago. I checked on her eggs and could see one had pipped. The next morning I let all the chickens out and got to her pen opened it up and she jumped off her nest to eat drink poo..... and I saw that she had crushed 2 eggs. Every egg...

Hi I am about to give my chickens some ivermectin which has a withholding period of up to 14 days for egg consumption. Is it possible to hatch those eggs or should I just throw them out??

I bought pure breed light sussex fertile eggs and hatched them. I have 3 that have rose combs and I am not sure if they are roosters or hens? They are about 7 weeks old. Not a very good photo but it is the only one I have at the moment. Please let me know if you think it may be pure breed...

OK So i have a little white wyandotte roo, Well all the signs say roo and I even caught him trying to crow, i love that pathetic stage where they are trying to crow! BUT I have also seen the other big roo on top of him, and check out the dirty patch on his back!! So it is a he........isn't it?

As a rule: Mate a Black Wyandotte Bantam male to White Wyandotte bantam hens, and cuckoo offspring will be produced Does this work is I have White wyandotte Bantam male to black wyandotte hens? Also Will mating a White Wyandotte bantam male to any other color wyandotte hen produce what...

I have two black or black mottled bantam pekins and a frizzle chick. Sooo Cute What colour will this frizzle end up?? Could it be splash or just a dirty white?? Her mum is white and dad is multi colored, could I get splash from that mix?

The electricity went out again, these eggs are about on day 4. Can you see a blood ring or does this look normal? I can see the embryo and a faint circle surrounding it. the photo is the best my camera can manage....

Hi All, I moved three of my chickens this morning to a new coop with Roofus the rooster, these same chickens have been in with Roofus before and I have never had any problems. A few hours after I moved them i saw 'Honey' just standing there straining trying to lay and egg and out came this...

I have purchased some pekin eggs and they are at day 5 in the incubator. Most of them look clear when I candled, Does this mean they were not fertile of just did not start developing? & for what reason would they not start developing if they were fertile? I have a home made incubator fan...

So my clutch of eggs hatched from the incubator 2 days ago and there are still 4 eggs left....all others have hatched. the 4 eggs showed promise when i candled them on day 18 and they went into lockdown. today is day 24 and i wondered whet went wrong with them? So decided to eggtopsy one of them...