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Offering 6+ hatching Dominique Eggs out of show and egg production hens. Dominique's are one of the USA's heritage breeds, cold hearty and heat tolerant they make excellent layers or meat birds but the best part is when they hatch you can tell what you have since they are sex linked. Males are...

Ok, anyone know why a wild Turkey Hen(I think) would try and hang out by my chicken coop with my girls? It appears to be a mature but young bird..... Kind of cool but I thought they usually hung out with their own kind???? Stephenie

Hello, If anyone is interested in icelandic roosters I have 2, 7week old ones that I am trying to give away. Too many roos and not enough hens I seem to only be able to hatch roos around here . I'm in Bixby and if you pick them up you can have them. They are very beautiful when grown...

Ok, I just had one of my Icelandic pullets killed last night. It means I only have a roo and one other pullet left(Icelandics that is). We have several other chickens that do not appear to have been attacked and though I think we figured out what it was but wanted to run it past some experts...

Ok, looking for some advice from all you experienced Chicken People in regards to Chicken habitats. 1.What do you guys think would be best for my backyard chickies? A permenant run or a tractor set up? (I'm so confused!) I plan on only keeping 3 at my house then the others(4) will go out...

When would be a good time to add my other chicks2 (4 weeks older then my new ones) to my new group of chicks 5 (4 days old) ? I would like to get the group together so it would make taking care of them easier and they will be hanging out together later anyway.

What do we do?? Our BO broody that has been sitting on my eggs is infested with mites or at least the eggs were covered with little black crawling bugs. I thought at first they were just dirt but when I tried to brush them off they started crawling all over the place, me included! :o Anyway...

If you can incubate the eggs in an egg carton the whole time who is it done? Thanks, Stephenie

I read somewhere that the hen determines the sex of the chicks..... is this true? If it is true does that mean she will have only pullets or roos or can it change per broody cycle? I hope this isn't to dumb of a question but, I never know what too believe on the internet. Thought this might...

Can you clean a LG with PineSol or will it ruin it? I am of course asking after the fact and now that I have some eggs on the way I am worried the PineSol might lower my hatch rate even lower then it was last time. ahhhhh, Help!

How many eggs can a Buff Orpington hatch? If I was to order eggs what are the chances of her hatching them? How many could I put under her? I am a hatchoholic I think!!!! Thanks, Stephenie

ok, my eggs are done hatching now, 5 hatched 3 lived). I decided to check to see what might have happened to the others today and cracked them all open(kind of grose and sad). I figured if I was to learn from this I needed to see explore what I might have done wrong. So, here are how they...

Ok, I have 5 chicks hatched of my 16(day 20) so far but I have a question. 1st One looks like it did not absorb the yoke( is that possible?) It has something dark in the shell still. I put it back in the shell hoping maybe it would absorb it???? 2nd one has been hatched and is just...

I am so excited!!! I woke up to 4 of my 16 eggs pipped. It is only day 20 what an exciting day it will be if they can hatch. This is are first hatch and I can't stand it......... Everybody please send the good hatch vibes to my place for my little peeps Stephenie

Is there a problem if the little chicks have pipped and are not peeping? My friend has some hatching today and we are both newbies. One pipped more at the top the other has pipped more on the side(she has them in a egg carton). We are so excited and she is calling me with updates on their...

Oh my gosh! This morning I woke up(day 18 of my hatch) and found my LG had lowered its temp to 98.2 overnight! This is just becoming to much for me :o So, my next question to the list...... How low can my temp go before I have problems? I know at 11pm the temp was 101.6F . Poor chicks...

I am having humidity issues with my LG. I can't seem to get it past 40% and yes, I have checked batteries on my hydrometer and bought a new hydrometer so now I have two and a water wiggler in the LG. The hydrometers both read around the same. I have a cool mist humidifier in the room with...

Hi all, I have had a horrible thing happen. My LG got up to 102.9 last night at some point. I came down this morning and my water wiggler also said the temp had gotten up to 102. So, did I kill the little peeps inside? I had just candled them last night and had 8 confirmed. Man am I bummed...

Hi all, I am still new here and was wondering if I could get some help with my LG. I can't get my humidity past 28% in my bator?? I have water in the wells and a sponge what else can I do? Also, am I going to damage my eggs by opening it to turn them? I am wonering because the temp...

Has anyone ever started incubating eggs then had a hen go broody? Can I move my eggs from my little giant and put them under the hen and let her finish the job? Stephenie