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This weekend, everyone! 5-7 FEB 2021 After two years, California can show birds again! It looks like they'll be selling purebreed birds there also. Wear your mask and come out. https://www.facebook.com/pacificpoultrybreedersassn

Greetings everyone and welcome to 2021. This new year I've returned to chicken breeding. This time, more educated and smarter - I hope. Why aren't there Silver laced Silkies; Smooth Sizzles, or Modern Game Bantams? Why aren't the most popular colour patterns existing in the most popular and...

Dear BYC'ers, Greetings from Los Angeles. I'm a new transplant with my small flock from the Bay Area. These lesions began showing up in my flock about 2 weeks ago. Some of the hens' eyes have also shut. I used warm water to wash their faces to open their eyes again, but to no avail. I...

Hello Everyone, I received two Malay Pullets in the mail a couple of weeks ago. They've begun to lay. I was out of town for their first week here - however, one of them came down with a really dirty and pasty butt. Upon further inspection the anus and whole area seems to have abscess. I...

Hello Everyone, I hatched my first and second batch of chicks. 6 went in, 3 hatched, 1 was fully formed and dead in the shell. Second batch 5 went in, 2 hatched, 2 were fully formed and dead in the shell (one of these eggs actually pipped but then nothing). The last pic appears as if their...

Hello All, I'm a new dad - it's my first time incubating anything!! I woke up to TWO CHICKS bouncing all over the place and one PiPin' n Zippin'. HOWEVER, they are MORE THAN 24hrs EARLY. Any insight on sides effects (etc) on premature hatches? And any reason for such an early hatch? Here...

Hello Everyone! I've got bantam and standard size eggs in a HOVABATOR 1588 Genesis and they've been in for 6 days at 10% humidity. Is that too low if I'm using Worrell's Dry Incubation method? I read the article and it's a little misleading as to what the actual hygrometer reading should be...

Meet "Gallo" and "The Blue Gallina" This was the couple the first day I brought them home. I bought them from a breeder in Lincoln, Northern California. She's an 8th generation (smooth) Bearded Blue sizzle. He's a White Bearded Silkie. Will I get any more blues with this couple if I line...

HI ALL! I bought TWO (2) 1588s. One with turner for the first 18 days. The second w/ no turner for lockdown, but I will be putting the eggs on egg cartons with the bottoms cut out. This is to allow the eggs ventilation and keep them from rolling around - so the birds don't get exhausted...

HELLO EVERYONE! Greetings from Helmand Province, SW Afghanistan! I'm Chad - I'm a U.S. Air Force Captain deployed on a Marine Base in the middle of the desert. I bought my first two chickens ever from a breeder up here in Northern California specializing in Silkies and Sizzles (January of...

Hello Everyone! I was hoping you would help me identify the mix for one of my girls. I was told she's a Black Tailed Japanese Bantam X Leghorn. BUT I don't understand where her blue ears and blue legs come from? -She lays a small med/light brown egg everyday -She makes this sound like a low...