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A bob cat came in and killed all but two of my chickens, tore through hardware cloth even. I have one chicken that seems ok, but she wont stand and one wing is floppy and she wont move the leg on the same side. There are no visible injuries. I have been keeping her inside in a dog rate and...

Ok this is new, we've always had a cat that never paid any attention to baby chicks. I just put our newly hatched babies in a dog crate in the kitchen and I slept on the couch just in case they needed anything. I just woke up to find them frantically peeping and both of my daughters new...

What do you do? I normally lay mine down befor elock down, but I am wondering if I would have a better hatch if I kept them in the rack?

Cross posting this because I thought some of you all would be interested in this as a brooder. We plan to use one shelf for brooding chicks and the rest for quail. In our city we are limited in our chicken family size to 10 chickens. There is however no limit to quail. I did a ton of research...

In our city we are limited in our chicken family size to 10 chickens. There is however, no limit to quail. I did a ton of research at https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/48/quail and decided that it was something I could handle. After a little begging and pleading and some amazing dinner and...

DH has finally given me the go ahead to have quail. We have this great old bookcase or a industrial gargle shelling unit that he said I could convert to quail quarters. Which would you use?

Ok so I went to put my eggs into lock down and take them out of the racks in my Brinsea. Two of the eggs were stuck together, so I gently pulled them apart. A piece of shell about the size of a small pea came off one of the eggs. I'm pretty sure the egg with the missing shell have a viable chick...

We have been making batches of these bad boys for Christmas gifts. They are fast and easy to make and taste leaps and bounds better than store bought. We are making Bacon Maple ones our next batch! http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/06/springy-fluffy-marshmallows/ Makes about 96 1-inch cubed...

The start of a short story series I am writing about my kids and our chickens. Its a rough draft and needs some clean up. James is my youngest little boy and Poco is his pet splash Silkie chicken that we hatched last New Years. I hope to write several books about their adventures together. I...

I have some silkie eggs in my Brinsea right now and two lone silkie hens that are about a year old. Neither are broody, nor have they ever gone broody. I wonder would it be a disaster to think about trying to get them to care for the new babies?

I have a chick that pipped last night around 5 pm. It is peeping, but it has gotten no further than the pip today. The membrane looks like paper and I fear its dried out because I had a humidity drop to 55% over night. Is it too early to help? I got my humidity back up to 75% and I have another...

Ok so I have been researching quail and I am really wanting to get started, but Dh is putting a damper on things. He keeps asking whats the point when the eggs are so tiny? Can you all tell me what benifits quail have over chickens?

My Husband is claiming that we need a license to raise quail in our state(Arizona) because quail are gamebirds. is this true? I want to raise Coturnix Quail for eggs to sell.

I have my Brinsea Eco heating up for eggs that are on their way. The thermometer (looks like a glass one) on my brinsea says 99, my digital one says 96% thats a big variance. i know I need to crank it up a tiny bit. But which one is more accurate?

Ok bear with me, this sounds a bit crazy, but we are looking at buying a property that is 3 hours away from where we currently live. We would not be living there for a while because we would need to remodel the home that is already there. The property has 10 acres compared to our tiny city lot...

Ok I officially suck at building chicken coops. all three I have built have fallen apart, or left spaces or gaps for escaping chickens. I have tried a hoop thing, but couldn't figure out the door, a pallet chicken house collapsed, the a frame the chickens escaped from it, I am just a failure...

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UPDATE #2 we have one chick who has sucessfully hatched! YeAY!!!!! UPDATE, OK I have a pip! Even after having no power for 8 hours! I am so excited I may just have one baby that makes it. Its peeping away. I am hatching in a brinsea. I am nervous because I have never hatched like this before...

I am a mom of 4 rambunctious boys and 2 girls. I have two boys involved in the Boy Scout program right now. We tried hatching for my oldest son and its was not as successful as I would like, we used a still air incubator last time and only got 3 chicks out of 20. My second son is wanting to do...

dose anyone have chicks for sale?