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I have a flock of 12 or 13 hens and a roo in a coop and I want to know if anyone has any advice on having a flock and not being home that much. My husband got a new job with road construction crew and we will be staying with him at the hotels. I want to keep my flock but I have concerns about...

So we had a broody hen that we think was killing her chicks as they hatched. She was setting on 8 eggs and after 6 of them hatched with none alive we decided to take the last two away from her. We dont have an incubator so my hubby kept them warm with an electric heater until we found our...

Ok .. Heres our setup... two 8x4 wire triangle shaped tractors with tin on one end for shelter and one 6x7 coop ... we had 17 smaller (12 weeks) hens and roos that we hatched in one of the tractors, one roo in the other and 7 hens and one roo in the coop. My dilemma, two hens are broody and we...

Our first every incubator eggs are hatching right now and I am worried about every little thing. Can someone tell me what to watch for as an indication of a problem just so I am prepared.

We have three hatched and quite a few pips and the temp just spiked to 104 degrees, is this normal when you get chicks in there giving off body temp ??? How do you cool it off some without letting out humidity, the humidity is 65

I am on day 18 and I am so crazy with anticipation and nervousness. Just curious what day most people get their first pip?

Okay, I had 24 eggs in the incubator, a Little Giant with a fan and a turner. Today we took them out of the turner, candled them and put them in on the grate thingy. We filled all troughs in the bottom with water and put two baby washcloths in there, one we wet through and the other we put in a...

What characteristics do the road island red have that would distinguish them from the sex links? My sister in law has chickens that look like my sex links kind of but also resemble a rir.

How hard is it to find these breeds. I really would like to eventually get the lavender orps, but I know they are extremely hard to find. For now I just want to get another color, I just have the traditional buffs and would like to expand with some less common colors. Any info on how to go about...

Do they have to go in a certain way as far as bigger end up or down?? I have an old style turner with the snap in holders and I am just not sure how the egg is suppose to go in??

Where do I find a wiggler, may seem like a silly question, but I have no idea where to even look!

I am wondering how you are suppose to keep a constant temp in the incubator when you have to open it and turn eggs three times a day and everything I am reading says that the Little Giants are really temperature finicky. I thought maybe it would be easier to do the turning fast like ifI used the...

My husband has been collecting eggs for me to incubate, but it is spring here and some of them are pretty dirty, how do I handle that. He is collecting them all throughout the day, but the get dirty so fast. Any suggestions or does it even matter?

I just ordered one from my local feed store, the price was $31 plus shipping to get it to me tomorrow. He said he would guarantee it won't be more than 40 total. That is over 10 cheaper than I could get it online anywhere and it is next day shipping. But now I am worried about how well they...

Okay, so I have 7 hens (was 8) and two roosters and I know this isn't the recommended ratio but they were fine all summer together and still seem fine except a couple of the hens are both roos favorites and so they are getting quite bare backs due to being cooped up all day every day. We have...

We found our Barred Rock hen dead in the coop this morning. She was fine last night. We had really low temps, -20 degrees and there water has been freezing so they haven't had a constant supply. Could it be just these conditions or should I be worried about my other chickens? She is about 7 or...

I have a gold sex link (Goldie, even though she is really red colored) anyway, she is my absolute best layer. I get an egg from her almost every day even though I am in Minnesota and the weather is crummy and there is less daylight now. Today and yesterday it was colder than blazes and I fully...

We got two hens given to us a few months ago and one of them got away when we went to put them in the coop. They were both free range before so she scavengered for food and has survived so far. She disappeared for a couple weeks but is back now and is venturing into the yard more and more even...

I have two roos who seem to get along very well with eachother, but the older more dominant roo, a barred rock, can get a little rough with us. They are in a pretty small coop while there new one is being built and he wants out so he will attack your leg when you go in to collect eggs or water...

My hens started laying last saturday and then layed monday, tuesday, friday and hasn't layed yet and it is monday. Is it normal for them to go two days without laying then lay one then go two days without laying when they first start? And will she lay more than that later or only that many? I...