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I ordered these thinking I was going to plumb them directly in, but forgot about needing to reduce the pressure. I've got four separate coops and four separate water supplies, so four pressure valves reducing valves are gonna be expensive.... Has anyone used this...

I'm having a lot of yolks that look like the eggs are "old", but....they aren't. I'm getting a dozen or two eggs a day and I cook most of them within a day or two and feed the scrambled eggs back to the chickens. When I started doing this I cut their feed back from the 20% to the 16%. Is that...

I don't know quite how to ask this question, but it came up in my thinking about a local offering of Black Copper Marans eggs which the offerer suggested might produce some Blue and/or Splash offspring. Isn't a visually black bird that is carrying the blue gene really the Easter Egger of the...

I am incubating in an older Hova and when I went to the website and downloaded the directions, the description of the clear plastic tray that holds the water doesn't match with mine. The directions say to fill the inner trough for incubating and then both troughs for hatching. But...mine has...

If an auction has $1.00 increments stated and the winning bid is $20 higher than the next highest bid, does the winner pay the amount s/he bid or just $1.00 more than the next highest bid? Thanks

My Hova was in storage for a couple of years, and although I thought I had tested it before the eggs arrived, I guess I wasn't quite diligent enough. My eggs are here and have been in the bator for 24 hours now and the temp won't get above 98.? I have read the manual and looked at the...

Hi folks. I've been off the board since about April of last year. Time flies when you've got too many chickens. But here I am again and I'm curious what the status is and who's working on Lavender Ameraucanas. I got a dozen eggs from Schaeffer last year and hatched out a batch of birds...

Anyone had good luck determining the sexes of these guys early on? When I got my first BSFs last spring, the seller was confident that she had knew the sexes of the three she gave me, but in fact they turned out to be a trio of roos. She very nicely gave me two adolescent girls when she had...

On Monday I started picking up eggs that I am planning on sticking into the 'bator in 7-10 days. I've been putting them into the turner, but....I have this deep suspicion that it really isn't turning. Even when it turns it turns so slowly that I can't "see" it turning, and I was fooling myself...

Last year I think I saw some at the feed store. I have been thinking about them ever since.....gorgeous !!!! Does anyone have them? Does anyone have information on them? Does anyone have pictures? Is anyone going to be selling hatching eggs? Yup, I've already got too many chickens, but....I...

So, Charlie, my Bantam Salmon Faverolle, and his 5 angels (2 bantams and 3 standards) are now in their breeding pen. Until now they have been free ranging all day with the other flock members, including way too many roosters. Can you please remind me how long it will be before I can safely...

A month or so ago I finished the breeding pens that I am planning on using in the Spring. Now I'm wondering about putting some birds in there early. For example, I have a nice Bantam Salmon Favorelle roo, 3 Salmon Fav hens, and 2 Bantam Salmon Fav hens that I am planning on breeding. I also...

Okay, I'm not altogether sure this is happening, but I think it may be. I've been finding broken eggs in with the others in the nests. As soon as I found the first ones, I put out more oyster shell, but that was just a wild a** guess as to what the problem might be. I have a neighbor who told...

This morning when I went out to check on the chickens, one of my newest hatchlings (5 silkies), four weeks old today, was with the other four, near the door of the coop. When I moved towards them, the other four moved away quickly, but this particular one drooped his/her head (sort of twisted...

Seems to me that Blue has a wide variety of manifestations -- from light to dark. I have some Blue Ameraucanas developing now (hatched mid-June), and they seem to vary from a very pale grey-blue with very little contrast between the mid-section and the edges of the feathers, to some that are...

In mid-June I hatched some of Jean's eggs (Pips n Peeps). I've decided against continuing with the Silver Ameraucanas, and two of my hatchlings are just that. So....if anyone in this area is interested in picking them up, I'll sell them for $12. each. Just in case you wonder, I am definitely...

Last week one of my feed store EE's (sold as Americana....harumph) started laying a nice but slightly muddy blue green egg. Today when I peeled one that I had hardboiled, I got to understand much more clearly about how pigment from whatever the other breeds involved might be over the blue...

So, this morning I was at the feed store browsing the cages of chickens that were available for purchase. I was looking at a very pretty EE hen. She look for all the world like a Salmon Faverolle with a dusty colored muff and slate colored legs; I forget what her comb was. Anyway, I said to...

I haven't felt the need to use this, but it occurs to me that sometimes it might be nice for the person who starts a discussion to be able to decide when it's life should be ended. It is always possible for someone else to start another similar thread, and even add a link to the original...

So, as you can see from my post a few minutes ago, I now have had to throw out two eggs of the 12 Bantam Salmon Faverolles that I received on Friday. Now everything smells bad, and I think I should just throw out the rest of them and save the 'bator. Any other suggestions? Now that the...