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Hi I had a barred rock go broody so I figured what the heck, I'll see if my Bantu roo can bread standards. He did. She has one hatched so far, looks a day old or 2. She is very protective and the chick sticks close to her and the nest. My concern is it's 60 out now and will be 40 tonight and...

Ok might be a silly question, but when I get the eggs out of the turner and lay on the wire mesh, how do I know who h way to lay the egg so the chicks head is facing up? Or is this not much of a concern?

Got 42 in the LG. A mix of red stars along with rir and nhr mix from my flock. The rir roo is a beautiful bird. Might have a few mixed breed old english banty's in there as well. Anyone with me?

14 red stars, 8 nhr and rir cross, and 3 banty eggs in the bater. all the info on this site helps a lot. i hope they do good. anyone else with me today?

I've read on here that you are supposed to keep eggs in a 60 degree or so area till you are ready till hatch. I have been keeping them im my back bedroom since sunday and gathering every day to.add to my hatch. I have a wood stove in the basement and got a little carried away before work and...

i got 17 eggs, crap make that 16 eggs now, oops now i feel bad. total of 9 red stars, 5 nhr and rir cross and i believe one banty egg. going tonight to pick up the bator at tractor supply. now i have left these eggs out in the coop starting sunday. sunday was a warmer day. monday was ok...

I have leghorns and new hampshire reds in my coop with a rid rooster and a few banty layers and roos. I really want to hatch some eggs the natural way with my girls. I understand the leghorns are not a really good chicken for this, but my nhr's will not go broody. Os there anything I can do?

we have 8 standard laying hens (leghorns and nhr's) mixed in with 3 pekin ducks. one of the ducks is female. All were hatched the end of March of this year. Also in the mix are 7 old english bantams. i have a few questions...... 1. when will the bantams start laying? the woman i got them from...

i am really puzzled with my flock, even a little worried. have 4 leghorns and 4 nhr's. i also have 7 bantams that are not yet laying eggs, im not worried about them. im worried about the standards. I used to get 4 or 5 eggs a day from all of them. once i even got 6. now the past few weeks its...

I have a flock of 4 leghorns and 4 nhr's. i just acquired 7 bantam chickens. they are about 2 months old. the problem is the nhr's (more than the leghorns) are chasing the poor little things around . what could i do? will they kill them? i just dont wanna see them get hurt. any input is much...

hi, i have a flock of 4 leghorns and 4 new hampshires. the leghorns lay great, all giving me 1 egg a day. the nhr's dont even come close, probably 1 nhr egg to the leghorns 4 or 6 eggs. what gives?

please forgive me if im asking a question already answered, but i've searched all around and cant find the answers. this chicken thing is really new and neat to me i wanna try and raise a clutch or 2 with my hens. so here goes: 1. at what age will a hen go broody? does age make a big...

hi my name is john. I am a self employed carpenter and my fiance works for verizon wireless (wedding is in a month) we have 4 new hampshire red hens, 4 leghorn hens, 1 rir roo, and 3 pekin ducks. years ago when we had a dairy farm we would raise cornish rocks. farm has been gone for 4 years and...