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My son and I are hugely conflicted on a little d'uccle pullet that we have in the house right now. She's about 3 - 4 months old. A little over a week ago, we noticed that she couldn't use one leg. We brought her in the house to try to help her. The next day, she couldn't use either of her...

I am struggling with incubator and wanted to set eggs tonight. My humidity shows only 33% with new accurate. And I think my vent adjustment is not working? Vent is open when I have it totally shut. That is wrong, right? And halfway looks like it's really open! I have not used incubator in...

I have hatched before, but it's been a long time. I decided to start my flock up again after a few years break. I bought some d'uccle and silkie eggs. Now, I'm second guessing myself that they shouldn't be incubated together? Ugh... Did I make a mistake? I have the eggs as of today, and...

We've had our coop and run for years. The walls are like 6 or 7 feet. Unfortunately, we left the coop door open for awhile as we forgot one night, and then after finding safe chickens, we thought we were golden and left the coop door open with the run door shut thereafter. Well, after...

I have 4 silkie eggs in my Brinsea from shipped eggs (along with 2 of my own mixed cochin bantams). When should I start lockdown? I have read to start lockdown one day early with silkies? Or best to wait? Also when I candled it appeared that one of the air cells was opposite of the others on...

I have a bantam barred rock who seemed to have went from normal to curled toes. I separated him and started giving him some polyvisol right away. This was about a week ago, maybe a bit more. Anyway, I'm thrilled to report, he's making huge progress. He's actually walking a bit now. He's not...

OK, so I had a chick that was drying up. Very weak and no progress all day. I could see there was not going to be progress. So, I hatched the chick. Which took me forever, and I was a nervous wreck. However, now the yolk is attached just by a tiny little piece of...looks like snot.. (sorry...

Unfortunately, we lost a broody hen last night that was sitting on several eggs. Do the eggs still have a chance? We lost most of our flock last night and I'm devastated. I have one broody sitting on other eggs, and I wasn't sure if there was a chance for the cold ones? I could candle, of...

I have a chiken who went from falling down to pretty much crippled, just her, and nobody else in the flock is acting ill. I thought she got injured until researching, and it sounds like it might be a vitamin deficiency? With that said, I went to Wal-Mart, and the only poly-vi-sol they had was...

Typically I have let the babies stay in the coop, and they are just fine. This time I have two broodies sitting on eggs (which I could careless if they hatch), and I'm pretty certain they are killing my other hens' babies! :( I wasn't sure who was doing it, but yesterday I caught two of them...

Our chickens have mites, not terribly bad, but they are certainly there. I was thinking about hanging a stocking (or something similar) of Seven Dust in their coop door. So, each time they go in and out they bump into it and get some dust on their back. We have treated them doing one at a...

We have several baby chicks that were hatched out in our coop by our hens. With that said, we just recently found out they must have some sort of mite or lice because when handling the chicks / chickens we have found tiny bugs on our hands or arms! A tiny thing, but it is a bug of some sort...

This is a lame question, because I probably should just do it, but I have ten million things to do and if I don't have to, I'm not going to! Okay, so question is, I just had a 0% hatch Not one of my shipped silkies hatched. I'm giving it one more whirl. Do I need to sanitize and clean...

This may be a dumb question, but I have a broody hen and don't need anymore barnyard chicks! If I take her eggs out from underneath her, will she just sit on "nothing", or would she lay more to sit on more? I'm a bit confused. I know that once they are broody, they are hard to break. But, I...

I thought all bantams maybe hatched a day earlier than the typical 21 days? Does that go for silkies too? I am bummed because today is day 20, and no pips on my TWO shipped silkie eggs that made it to lockdow I'm probably being impatient as I just had some d'uccles all hatch a day or two...

My roosters have been waking up at 4:30 crowing away....GRRR.... We have a couple of large windows in the coop. I'm wondering if I put something over them to make it dark in there, would that help?? Thanks!

I think I figured it out why when my chickens are out, the gnats leave the babies alone. Apparently, they go to the highest point?? The chics are too close to the ground. Does that make sense? I noticed the other day when the gnats were swarming around the adults that the babies seemed to...

I just hatched some eggs out a week ago, and am doing another batch here. I'm assuming i don't have to mess with the temp again, and it should be right where I need it?? Or, is it more likely, I'll have to change it? i can't find my 2nd thermometer, and it would be reassuring to know that...

This was posted in the d'uccle thead too..sorry, hope that's okay!! ___ I would LOVE to hear what colors these d'uccles are! I hatched them out 6 days ago. I have a 9th too, but he/she looks just like the chicks in the first pic. Can you help me w/ what their colors will be?? Thank you...

I'm so excited and have to share.. I just ordered some silkie eggs - OOPS!!! I have now hatched twice since I said "this will be my last". However, I lost two out of three of my silkies this past weekend, and I HAVE to have more of those. I love silkies.. I ordered a variety of colors too, I...